NOTE 



The characters described in the fore- 

 going pages are entirely imaginary. 

 No reference is made or intended to 

 any living person. 



Many of the articles included in 

 this volume have appeared in Punch, 

 Pear soil's Magazine, The Pall Mall 

 Magazine, The Sphere, The Graphic, 

 and The Westminster Gazette, and are 

 republished (in an altered, amplified, 

 and extended form) by kind permission 

 of the editors and proprietors of those 

 periodicals. 



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