The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-06-29

lish Dictionary, besides the customary nuto.
graph Hnd book plate OF Henry Carmichael
sketches. one Of himself. as n boy In a FOOLS
cap cap, trembling before, an awful pedagogus
are six pencilings Illustrating the text. The The
last. representing the skelston Death attacking
nnmDer OF chubby Cnpids with his scythe. ox-
hihits remarkable ability.
or the books acquired in manhood. there are
but lew which do not contain illustrations by
their owner, generally comic, To copy Of
Joseph Andrews" he supplied sixteen in PEN
GU French Rollins History" in fourteen
volumes. has no less than thirty,nine. One OF
these. on the ily-leaf. represents Clio. tho Muse
Of History. In blue stockings. leaning on u pile
Of books the bottom one being lettered Mum
pencil sketches. the "TatleT" forty-one, the
Connoiss.ur nine. tho " Humourist " u725l
six the Mirror" tl7s7l twen,y-two. Several
handbooks to various countrrs are similarly
: One book. entitled "A Dialogue Between two
name for tho hero of The Gront Hoggnrty
Dm@SS n, ina as T. Pri9a'ed Tor Samuel IT'D,
Royal Exchange 1855" Another volume @S"t ttiiie
unimportanU was probably purchased because
np DcE PsD for w. Th@sseIsy a the Angel IL
from German Authors" may have furnished
the name for the husband OF Beatrlx Esmond
Statement OF Authenticated Facts Respecting
the Prevention and Removal OF Disense." two
passages relating to "a now Of blood to the
Thackoray In view Of the mode Of his death.
this circumstance has mournful interest.
Among his own productions and works with
which he was personally connected are the fol-
lowing: Eleven Svo, etch now first pub
lished from the original plates. illustrative Of
undergraduate life at Cambridge. all OF a highly
pabiis6edi Of the National standard Of Titcra,
ture, Science. Music Theatricals. and the Fine
Arts for 1888" Thackeray was editor and pro-
prietor OF this journal which cost twopenco
Weekly contains contain, numerous SFIcles from
Ihilippe. BrahAm. N Nj. Rothschild. Alfred
Bum. and Sir Peter Laurie, accompanied by
FoTe ct 2sp6yr H Ballet o S par
Theophile Magsta1 w, M, Thacgorayl: London
and Paris" small folio issued in 1886. This
book IL very scarce; u copy OF 1t Is not to be
found in the British Museum. 1t consists Of
nine characteristic pictorial satres by Thack-
the slavery ofthealrical life Whitley Brown
Paper Magazlne.p projected as q weekly in
nine caricatures Of DR.. Lardner OF cyclopedic
celebrity. over the head Of DIR. Dionysius Did
der" with preface and satirical descriptions
OF the scenes represented. The style recalls that
Of the - Yelowplush Papers" in which both the
Doctor and his friend, Sir Henry Pelham"
were. mercilessly burlesqued. A duplicate. in
proof. representa- Lardner on his way to the
visit Ind Games and Sports delineated
in twenty-five humorous colored drawings very
much after the queer style OF Hoods illustra-
lions to his Comic Annals" Together with
great variety OF pen-and-ink drawings and
made by Thackeray between 1927 and 1910 from
his Chnrterhouso days and upward.
draft Of the poem OF Lalla RooKh." including
tales not incorporated in the finished work.
written chiefly n ink. but occasionally in pencils
lair copy OF the complete poem written In n
holder and larger hand than was usual with
Moore; notes OF his reading for " Lalla Rookh -
the first draft OF his Life OF Lord Byron" with
many cancelled and Unpublished passages
some containing details OF much interest re-
speeding Byron's earlier career Wimot Hor-
tons Narrative OF the Circumstances Proceed
ing the Destruction OF tho Memoirs OF Lord
Byron" an Italian report Of his squabbe with
the Tuscan Government; Moore's autograph
preparations for - The Epicurean - the Ms. Of
that work and OF his Juvenile Poems" com
monDlace books letters. and Sheridnninna.
comprising more or less complete copies Of the
whole OF his literary remains. Il. Il. q.