[Some of the books listed in this section also include a few items in verse.]
73. My Haunts/ And/ Their Frequenters./ By/ Edmund H.Yates.// London: David Bogue, 1854. [Chapters entitled: ’Introductory’; ‘Of My Earliest Haunts’; ‘My Office’; ‘My Club’; ‘My Theatre’; ‘My Tavern’; ‘Pandemonium, etc.’; ‘My Loquacious Friend’; ‘My New-Year’s Eve’ (Rpt. from George Cruikshank’s Magazine, no. 2, Feb 1854, 62-4); ‘A Day Dream at My Club’; ‘My Old School’.]
74. Our Miscellany,/ (Which Ought to Have Come Out,But Didn’t);/ Containing Contributions by/W. Harassing Painsworth, M. Pupper,/ G.P.R. Jacobus, Charles Diggins,/ T.B. Macawley,Edgardo Pooh,/ Jonas Hanway, Samuel Warrink,/ A— T—, Professor Strongfellow,/ Albert Smiff,/ and Other Eminent Authors./ Edited by/ E.H. Yates and R.B. Brough.// London: Routledge, 1857. [Prose and verse parodies. The British Library copy has ‘New Edition’ on the title page but presumably is otherwise identical with the first edition. Yates’s contributions are not distinguished from Smedley’s in the list of contents.]
75. After Office-Hours/ By/ Edmund Yates/ Editor of ‘Memoirs of Charles Mathews the Elder,’ and Joint/ Author of ‘Mirth and Metre,’ ‘Our Miscellany,’/ etc. etc./ ‘The gentle reader loves the gentle muse,/ That little dares and little means,/ Who humbly sips her learning from Reviews,/ Or flutters in the Magazines.’ Garrick to Gray.// London: W. Kent and Co., [1861]. [Dedicated to Charles Dickens. Contents: ‘Out of the World’ (Rpt. from All the Year Round [‘AYR’], 21 May 1859); ‘In Charge’ (Rpt. from AYR, 23 and 30 July 1859); ‘Calumet Island’ (Rpt. from Household Words [‘HW’], 17 Jan 1857; ‘Two in a Legion’ (Rpt. from HW, 19 Dec 1857); ’A Fearful Night’ (Rpt. from HW, 17 May 1856); ’Gone Before’ (Poem. Rpt. from HW, 24 Jan 1859); ’My German Student’s Adventure’; ‘Out of Town’; ‘An Attempt at Elopement’; ‘Twenty and Thirty’; ’How I Won Her’; ‘Christmas in the Olden Time’; ‘The Night Attack’; ‘Preaching in Playhouses’ (Rpt. from The Welcome Guest [‘P/G’], 1, no. 21, 1860); ‘Spare Bed-Rooms’ (Rpt. from WG, 1, no. 15, 1860); ‘A Christmas Carol’ ([?] Rpt. from The Court Journal, 25 Dec 1852); ‘Moonlight’ (Rpt. from WG, 2, no. 30, 1860); ‘Where Shall We Dine?’ (Rpt. from WG, 13 Nov 1858); ‘A Skeleton in the House’ (Rpt. from WG, no. 44, 26 Feb 1859); ‘Staying with Noldwritt’ (Rpt. from WG, 1, no. 20, 1860); ‘Dolorida:- a Spanish Story’ (Poem. Rpt. from WG, 2, no. 35, 1860); ‘Sunday in London’. Yates’s preface implies that all the contents were reprinted from HW, AYR, and WG
76. New ed. London: Ward and Lock, 1863. [This edition omits ‘My German Student’s Adventure’, ‘How I Won Her’, ‘Christmas in the Olden Time’, ‘Preaching in Playhouses’, and ‘Sunday in London’, and adds ‘Ghosts in Brick’ (rpt. from The Welcome Guest, 1, no. 4, I860).]
77. The Business of Pleasure. London, 1865. [First edition, not sighted.]
78. New ed. London and N.Y.: Routledge, 1879. [[Contains 35 sketches, all but 5 of them reprinted from All the Year Round.]
79. Pages in Waiting./ By/ Edmund Yates,/ Author of’Broken to Harness etc.// London: Maxwell, 1865. [[Contains 18 sketches in prose and one poem, all reprinted from Temple Bar. For details, see Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, vol. 3.]