Character and Comedy #254807

HE Essays that make up this volume have been collected by permission from various periodicals. My Cousin the Bookbinder ap peared in the Cornhill Magazine: the others in the Outlook, T. P.'s W eekly, the County Gentleman, and the Academy. In almost every case I have altered and expanded the text, I hope for the better. The second half of the book consists of a selection from an epistolary series that ran through Punch, which the proprietors kindly allow me to reprint here.