Publisher's Synopsis
1.Birth and Parentage - Characteristics of the Goldsmith Race - Poetical Birthplace - Goblin House - Scenes of Boyhood - Lissoy - Picture of a Country Parson - Goldsmith's Schoolmistress - Byrne, the Village Schoolmaster - Goldsmith's Hornpipe and Epigram - Uncle Contarine - School Studies and School Sports - Mistakes of a Night 2.Improvident Marriages in the Goldsmith Family - Goldsmith at the University - Situation of a Sizer - Tyranny of Wilder, the Tutor - Pecuniary Straits - Street Ballads - College Riot - Gallows Walsh - College Prize - A Dance Interrupted 3.Goldsmith rejected by the Bishop - Second Sally to see the World - Takes Passage for America - Ship sails without him - Return on Fiddleback - A Hospitable Friend - The Counselor 4.Sallies forth as a Law Student - Stumbles at the Outset - Cousin Jane and the Valentine - A Family Oracle - Sallies forth as a Student of Medicine - Hocus-pocus of a Boarding-house - Transformations of a Leg of Mutton - The Mock Ghost - Sketches of Scotland - Trials of Toryism - A Poet's Purse for a Continental Tour...
