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Notes and Anecdotes. Illustrated by a profusion of Sketches by 

 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, depicting Humorous Inci- 

 dents in his School-life, and Favourite Characters in the books of 

 his everyday reading. With Hundreds of Wood Engravings and 

 Five Coloured Plates, from Mr. Thackeray's Original Drawings. 

 " // would have been a real loss to bibliographical literature had copyright 

 difficulties deprived the general public of this very amusing collection. One of 

 Thackeray's habits, from his schoolboy days, was to ornament the margins and 

 blank pages of the books he had in use "with caricature illustrations of. their 

 contents. This gave special value to the sale of his library, and is almost cause 

 for regret that it could not have been preserved in its integrity. Thackeray's 

 place in literature is eminent enough to have made this an interest to future 

 generations. TJte anonymous editor has done the best that he could to compen- 

 sate for the lack of this. He has obtained access to tlie principal works thus 

 dispersed, and he speaks, not only of the readiness with -which their possessors 

 complied with his request, but of the abundance of the material spontaneously 

 proffered to him. He has thus been able to reproduce in facsimile the five or 

 six hundred sketches of this zohime. They differ, of course, not only in 

 cleverness, but in finish ; but they unquestionably establish Thackeray's capability 

 of becoming, if not an eminent artist, yet a great caricaturist. A grotesque 

 fancy, an artistic touch, and a power of reproducing unmistakable portraits in 

 comic exaggerations, as -well as of embodying ludicrous ideas pictorially, make 

 the book very amusing. Still more valuable is the descriptive, biographical, and 

 anecdotal letterpress, which gives us a great accumulation of biographical infor- 

 mation concerning Thackeray's works, reading, history, and habits. Without 

 being a formal biography, it tells us scores of things that could scarcely ha^e 

 come into any biography. We have no clue to the sources of information possessed 

 by the editor. Apparently he has been a most diligent student of his hero, and 

 an indefatigable collector of scraps of information concerning his entire literary 

 career. We can testify only to the great interest of the book, and -to the vast 

 amount of curious information which it contains. We regret that it has been published 

 without the sanction of his family, but no admirer of Thackeray should be with- 

 out it. It is an admirable addendum, not only^ to his collected works, but also to 

 any memoir of Jiim that has been, or that is likely to be written." BRITISH 

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