viii PREFACE 



section of the work is included for a variety of 

 excellent reasons connected with the price of 

 the book, the number of pages required in order 

 to satisfy a rapacious public, and other purely 

 technical matters which are only of importance 

 to publishers and booksellers, and would not 

 interest the general reader. 



I must take this opportunity of thanking my 

 old friend Professor (late Mr.) Sandeman Bloggs, 

 M.V.O., for assistance in revising the proofs. 

 Mr. Lewis Baumer desires me to state that he 

 declines to be held in any way responsible for 

 the picture on p. 85, illustrating an elephant- 

 trap. This particular drawing is the work of 

 that rising young artist Miss Norah Biffin, who 

 achieved notoriety some years ago as the illus- 

 trator of an unpleasant book entitled Lord 

 Bellinger, now mercifully out of print. It 

 shows, if I may say so, unmistakable signs of 

 the influence of Mr. Tonks, Mr. John, Mr. 

 George Morrow, and Mr. Sickert, in whose 

 ateliers Miss Biffin has so patiently studied art 

 during the last fourteen years. 



