OLLA PODRIDA
BY
CAPTAIN MARRYAT
LONDON
J. M. DENT AND CO.
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND CO.
MDCCCXCVI
Contents
The Monk of Seville1
Metropolitan Magazine, 1833.
The Gipsy85
Metropolitan Magazine, 1834.
Ill-Will159
New Monthly Magazine, 1837.
How to write a Fashionable Novel179
Metropolitan Magazine, 1833.
How to write a Book of Travels200
Metropolitan Magazine 1833, 1834.
How to write a Romance214
Metropolitan Magazine, 1835.
S.W. and by W. ¾ W.225
The Sky-Blue Domino243
New Monthly Magazine, 1837.
Modern Town Houses260
New Monthly Magazine, 1837.
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The Way to be Happy275
The Legend of the Bell Rock282
Moonshine293
The Fairy's Wand313
New Monthly Magazine, 1840.
A Rencontre328
Prefatory Note
This edition of Olla Podrida does not include the "Diary on theContinent" which appeared first in the Metropolitan Magazine 1835-1836as "The Diary of a Blasé" continued in the New Monthly Magazine1837, 1838, as "Confessions and opinions of Ralph the Restless." Marryathimself described the "Diary" as "very good magazine stuff," and it hasno fitting place in an edition of his novels, from which the "Diary inAmerica" is also excluded.
The space thus created is occupied by "The Gipsy," "The Fairy's Wa