This is a collection of six essays including All Fools' Day, Dream-Children: A Reverie, A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People, A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago and Grace Before Meat. This is a Fools' Banquet—all sorts of real or fictitious figures in history are present, such as master Empedocles, Cleombrotus, Gebir...Lamb makes no attempt to conceal his preference for a fool in All Fools' Day—"he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition." Dream-Children: A Reverie tells about an unexpected dream of Lamb. A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People criticizes a series of married couples who ruthlessly offend bachelors. The roast pig is delicate and delicious. Do you ever try to learn anything about the art of roasting? A Dissertation upon Roast Pig will explain how the art of roasting is accidentally discovered. The interesting story recorded in the Chinese manuscript is certain to arouse your interest in roast pigs.

伊利亚随笔集（二）《愚人节》一文收罗了众多古往今来或真实或虚构的人物，兰姆在行文中阐明了他对"愚人"偏爱的态度。随笔《梦中的孩子：一场空想》通过梦境的形式讲述了外祖母、哥哥以及早年恋人的往事。经典随笔《一个单身者痛陈已婚人士之言行》，语言形象生动、情调亦庄亦谐、叙事贴近生活。在《烤猪论》中，兰姆的一位朋友向他介绍了一篇中国手抄本上记载的关于烤乳猪的起源记事。文中用高雅优美的语言描写选材、制作、享用的整个过程，赋予烤猪这粗俗之物以美学视角。