CHAPTER I.

I. Secular Music fashionable--II. Ballad-singers encouraged by the Populace--III. Music Houses--IV. Origin of Vauxhall--V. Ranelagh--VI. Sadler's Wells--VII. Marybone Gardens--Operas--Oratorios--VIII. Bell-ringing--IX. Its Antiquity--X. Hand-bells--XI. Burlesque Music--XII. Dancing--XIII. Its Antiquity, &c.--XIV. Shovel-board--XV. Anecdote of Prince Henry--XVI. Billiards--XVII. Mississippi--XVIII. The Rocks of Scilly--XIX. Shove-groat--XX. Swinging--XXI. Tetter-totter--XXII. Shuttle-cock 286