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A MESMERIC SÉANCE IN MRS. L.'S BACK PARLOUR 57

THE MIDNIGHT PRESENCE OF THE UNCANNY 60

FELIX LOOKS VERY SEEDY AFTER HIS BIRTHDAY 64

"RACHEL" AND FRIENDS CELEBRATE BOBTAIL'S BIRTHDAY 65

RAG 72

BOBTAIL 72

"WHAT THE DEUCE AM I TO DO WITH THIS CONFOUNDED ROPE? HANG MYSELF, I WONDER." 76

COFFEE AND BRASSIN IN BOBTAIL'S ROOMS 80

CLARA MOSCHELES 83

"HERR RAG SCHICKT ZU FRÄULEIN MOSCHELES SEIN EMPFEHLUNG UND IHREN BRUDER." 87

CHER LIX 88

"AN INDISCREET FELLOW LOOKING OVER MY ——" 89

DU MAURIER AT WORK AGAIN 90

"CLAUDIUS FELIX ET PUBLIUS BUSSO, CUM CENTURIONE GUIDORUM, AUDIENTES JUVENES CONSERVATORIONI" 91

DOUBLE-BEDDED ROOM IN BRUSSELS 93

THE HEIGHT OF ENJOYMENT 95

YE CELEBRATED RAG TREATETH HIMSELF TO A PRIVATE PERFORMANCE OF YE PADRE FURIOSO E FIGLIA INFELICE 97

AT THE HOFRATH'S DOOR 99

"I SAY, GOVERNOR, MIND YOU DON'T GASH HIS THROAT AS YOU DID THAT POOR OLD SPANIARD'S" 100

MR KENNEDY, WHO IS QUITE BLIND, DISCREETLY INFORMS THE PROFESSOR THAT CAPTAIN MARIUS BLUEBLAST "IS NA BUT A SINFU' BLACKGUARD" 101

MEETING IN DÜSSELDORF 103

SCENE FROM MACPHERSON'S OSSIAN 106

PORTRAIT OF PICCIOLA 115

"ON THEIR HONEYMOON" 116

Also Illustration on pages 37, 88, 98, 102, 108, 109, 110, 112, 114, 119, 123, 135, 144, 145.

I.

"TUMBLINGS"

WITH DU MAURIER AND FRIENDS.

"I well remember" my first meeting with du Maurier in the class-rooms of the famous Antwerp Academy.

I was painting and blagueing, as one paints and blagues in the storm and stress period of one's artistic development.

It had been my good fortune to commence my studies in Paris; it was there, in the atelier Gleyre, I had cultivated, I think I may say, very successfully, the essentially French art of chaffing, known by the name of "La blague parisienne," and I now was able to give my less lively Flemish friends and fellow-students the full benefit of my experience. Many pleasant recollections bound me to Paris; so, when I heard one day that a "Nouveau" had arrived, straight from my old