THE

EVERY-DAY BOOK

AND

TABLE

BOOK;

OR,

Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements,

SPORTS, PASTIMES, CEREMONIES, MANNERS,

CUSTOMS, AND EVENTS,

INCIDENT TO

Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days,

IN PAST AND PRESENT TIMES;

FORMING A

COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE YEAR, MONTHS, AND SEASONS,

AND A

PERPETUAL KEY TO THE ALMANAC;

INCLUDING

ACCOUNTS OF THE WEATHER, RULES FOR HEALTU AND CONDUCT, REMARKABLE

AND IMPORTANT ANECDOTES, FACTS, AND NOTICES, IN CHRONOLOGY, ANTI
QUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, NATURAL HISTORY, ART, SCIENCE, AND
GENERAL LITERATURE; DERIVED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, AND
VALUABLE ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS, WITH POETICAL ELUCIDATIONS,

For Daily Use and Diversion.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG AND SON, 73, CHEAPSIDE;
AND SOLD BY R. GRIFFIN AND CO., GLASGOW ; T. T. AND H. TEGG, DUBLIN : ALSO BY

J. AND S, A, TEGG, SIDNEY AND HOBART TOWN.

1838.

GRq3o.
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NDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Landon : Printed by J. Bladdon, Croda Sisust, Marbury

Your letter to me, within the first two months from the

commencement of the present work, approving my notice of St. Chad's Well, and your afterwards daring to publish me your '" friend,” with your “ proper name” annexed, I shall never forget.

” I Nor can I forget your and Miss Lamb's sympathy and kindness when glooms outmastered me; and that your pen spontaneously sparkled in the bcok, when my mind was in clouds and darkness. These “ trifles,” as each of you would call them, are benefits scored