Post 8vo, cloth limp, 2s. 6d. per volume. THE MAYFAIR LIBRARY. THE NEW REPUBLIC. By W. H. Mallock. THE NEW PAUL AND VIRGINIA. By W. H. MALLOCK. THE TRUE HISTORY OF JOSHUA DAVIDSON. LYNN LINTON. OLD STORIES RE-TOLD. BY WALTER THORNBURY. MORE PUNIANA. By the Hon. HUGH ROWLEY. By H. A. PAGE. By E. BY STREAM AND SEA. By WILLIAM Senior. PUCK ON PEGASUS. By H. CHOLMONDELEy Pennell. ORIGINAL PLAYS. By W. S. GILBERT. CAROLS OF COCKAYNE. BY HEnry S. Leigh. LITERARY FRIVOLITIES, FANCIES, FOLLIES, AND FROLICS. By W. T. DOBSON. PENCIL AND PALETTE. BY ROBERt Kempt. *Other Volumes are in preparation. CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY, W. BEING BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES CHIEFLY OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS WITH GOSSIP ABOUT PICTURES LOST, STOLEN, "Blest be the art that can immortalise, the art That baffles Time's tyrannic claim to quench it." Cowper. OUTLINES. M. SAINTE-BEUVE, in a sketch of the French painter, Horace Vernet, complains that "anecdotes are no longer in fashion. It almost seems as if, in amusing one's self with them, one does something derogatory to the dignity of a biographical critic. Nevertheless," continues Sainte-Beuve, "there are instances in which the portrait would be absolutely incomplete unless it were accompanied with anecdotes. All these nothings which at first everybody is familiar with, which everybody neglects to write as too well known, then, at a second moment of reaction disdains or despises, are subsequently sought in vain, and become precious again with time.” Believing with Sainte-Beuve in the value of anecdotes to the biographer, as well as in their interest for the general reader-provided always that they are anecdotes worth the telling-the compiler offers the present collection to the public. He is desirous to make known that while the Volume |