Contents

Preface

The Author

THE PARIS SKETCHBOOK

DEDICATORY LETTER

An Invasion of France

A Caution to Travellers

The Fêtes of July

On the French School of Painting

The Painter's Bargain

Cartouche.

On some French fashionable novels.

A Gambler's Death

Napoleon and his System

The Story of Mary Ancel

Beatrice Merger

Caricatures and Lithography in Paris

Little Poinsinet

The Devil's Wager

Madame Sand and the new Apocalypse

The Case of Peytel

Four Imitations of Béranger

Le roi d'Yvetot.

The king of Yvetot.

The king of Brentford.

Le grenier.

The garret.

Roger-Bontemps.

Jolly Jack.

French Dramas and Melodramas

Meditations at Versailles