CONTENTS
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.
ON THE FRENCH SCHOOL OF PAINTING:
CARICATURES AND LITHOGRAPHY IN PARIS.
MADAME SAND AND THE NEW APOCALYPSE.
THE KING OF BRENTFORD. ANOTHER VERSION.
TO
M. ARETZ, TAILOR, ETC.
27, RUE RICHELIEU, PARIS.
SIR,—It becomes every man in his station to acknowledge and praise virtuewheresoever he may find it, and to point it out for the admiration and exampleof his fellow-men.
Some months since, when you presented to the writer of these pages a smallaccount for coats and pantaloons manufactured by you, and when you were met bya statement from your creditor, that an immediate settlement of your bill wouldbe extremely inconvenient to him; your reply was, “Mon Dieu, Sir, let notthat annoy you; if you want money, as a gentleman often does in a strangecountry, I have a thousand-franc note at my house which is quite at yourservice.”
History or experience, Sir, makes us acquainted with so few actions that can becompared to yours,—an offer like this from a stranger and a tailor seemsto me so astonishing,—that you must pardon me for thus making your virtuepublic, and acquainting the English nation with your merit and your name. Letme add, Sir, that you live on the first floor; that your clothes and fit areexcellent, and your charges moderate and just; and, as a humble tribute of myadmiration, permit me to lay these volumes at your feet.
Your obliged, faithful servant,
M. A. TITMARSH.