The first edition of this book is dated 1840. The publisher was George Routledge and Sons. The number of pages is 334.

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General information

Captain Frederick Marryat was born July 10 1792, and died August 8 1848. He retired from the British navy in 1828 in order to devote himself to writing. In the following 20 years he wrote 26 books, many of which are among the very best of English literature, and some of which are still in print.

Marryat had an extraordinary gift for the invention of episodes in his stories. He says somewhere that when he sat down for the day’s work, he never knew what he was going to write. He certainly was a literary genius.

“Olla Podrida” was published in 1840, the fifteenth book to flow from Marryat’s pen. It consists of short stories, articles, his Diary on the Continent, (as opposed to his Diary in America), short plays. Except for “The Modern Town House” there is very little of great importance in the book.

This e-text was transcribed in 1998 by Nick Hodson, and was re- formatted in 2003, and again in 2005.

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Contents

Chapter I.
April 3, 1835.

Chapter II.
Well, as I said in my last chapter, I planned—and planned—but I might as well conjugate it, as many others assisted—it was I planned, thou plannedst, he planned, we planned, ye planned, and they planned—and what annoyed me was, that I could not help considering that “the whole house was in a committee,” and without being able “to report progress.

Chapter III.
Paddle, paddle—splash, splash—bump, thump, bump. What a leveller is sea-sickness—almost as great a radical as death.

Chapter IV.
Ostend, April 18, 1835.

Chapter V.
April 22.

Chapter VI.
Brussels, May 5.

Chapter VII.
Antwerp.

Chapter VIII.
Brussels.

Chapter IX.
Brussels.

Chapter X.
Brussels, May 22.

Chapter XI.
May 23.

Chapter XII.
May 25.

Chapter XIII.
En route, May 26.

Chapter XIV.
Liege.

Chapter XV.
Liege, May 30th.

Chapter XVI.
Liege, June 2.

Chapter XVII.
June 3.

Chapter XVIII.
Spa, June 10.

Chapter XIX.
Spa, July 15.

Chapter XX.
Ostend.

Chapter XXI.
London, November.

Chapter XXII.
Spa, June 30.

Chapter XXIII.
I have been reading Jesse’s “Gleanings.” Is he quite correct? I have my doubts.

Chapter XXIV.
Spa.

Chapter XXV.
February, 1836.

Chapter XXVI.
It was not until many months after the war had been carried on, that Sir Archibald Campbell found himself in a position to penetrate into the heart of the Burmah territory, and attempt the capital.

Chapter XXVII.
Expedition to Bassein continued.

Chapter XXVIII.
London, June, 1837.

Chapter XXIX.
June, Steam-boat Princess Victoria.

Chapter XXX.
Brussels.

Chapter XXXI.
I am grave to-day; it is the birth-day of one of my children—a day so joyful in youth, in more advanced life so teeming with thought and serious reflections.

Chapter XXXII.
En route, August, 1837.

Chapter XXXIII.
To continue.—Should travellers think it advisable to proceed upon the Rhine, so far as Mayence, let them be careful how they venture to proceed farther.

Chapter XXXIV.
Strasbourg.

Chapter XXXV.
Strasbourg is full of the pomp and circumstance of war. Being one of the keys of France, it has a garrison of ten thousand men, and the drums and bands play from morning to evening, much to the delight of the children, at all events.

Chapter XXXVI.
Geneva.

Chapter XXXVII.
The Hôtel des Bergues is certainly a splendid establishment; many people winter at this hotel in preference to going to a pension, which is, with the best arrangements, disagreeable, for you are obliged to conform to the usages and customs, and to take your meals at certain hours, hungry or not hungry, as if it were a pension of school-boys and girls, and not grown up people.

Chapter XXXVIII.
In this world we are so jealous of any discovery being made, that innovation is immediately stigmatised as quackery.

Chapter XXXIX.
Lausanne.

Chapter XL.
Lausanne.

Chapter XLI.
Lausanne.

Chapter XLII.
South West and by West three-quarters West.

Chapter XLIII.
Ill-Will.

Chapter XLIV.
The Sky-Blue Domino.

Chapter XLV.
Modern Town Houses.

Chapter XLVI.
The Way To Be Happy.

Chapter XLVII.
How to Write a Fashionable Novel.

Chapter XLVIII.
How to Write a Book of Travels.

Chapter XLIX.
How to Write a Romance.

Chapter L.
The Legend Of The Bell Rock.

Chapter LI.
Moonshine.

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