A while back, starting with "The Book of Lists", books of lists have become popular and entered into human pop culture (as can be seen by too numerous to mention websites). This entry, "Brewer's Cabinet of Curiosities" is a decent enough result, with entries like "Double Entendres" (which showed that Charles Dickens wouldn't have been out of place writing "Carry On" movies; "She touched his organ" [from "Martin Chuzzlewit"] or for that matter, Thomas Hardy, as can be seen from the following line from "Tess of th D'Urbervilles": "Clare became conscious of some vast erection in his front" [which turned out to be Stonehenge]).

The book has lots of interesting tidbits, like the fact the people of Denby Dale, Yorkshire, created a giant pie to celebrate the recovery of King George III's sanity. But I still finished the book feeling that I had read the book before; and that's partly true, as I've read so many books of lists and related websites that very little was new to me. ( )