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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Trilbyana, by 
+Joseph Benson Gilder & Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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+Title: Trilbyana
+       The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel
+
+Author: Joseph Benson Gilder & Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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+Editor: Joseph Benson Gilder
+        Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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+TRILBYANA
+
+[Illustration: MR. DU MAURIER'S FIRST DRAWING IN "PUNCH"
+
+_Showing himself (smooth face) and Mr. Whistler (with eyeglass)._ (_See
+page 14._)
+
+PHOTOGRAPHER.--"_No smoking here, Sir!_"
+
+DICK TINTO.--"_Oh! A thousand pardons! I was not aware that---- _"
+
+PHOTOGRAPHER [interrupting with dignity]."--_Please to remember,
+Gentlemen, that this is not a Common Hartist's studio!_" [N. B.--Dick
+and his friends, who _are_ Common Artists, feel shut up by this little
+aristocratic distinction, which had not occurred to them.]]
+
+
+
+
+TRILBYANA
+
+The Rise and Progress of a
+Popular Novel
+
+NEW YORK
+THE CRITIC CO.
+
+MDCCCXCV
+
+COPYRIGHT 1895
+BY
+THE CRITIC CO.
+
+_This edition is limited to
+250 copies, of which this
+is No._ 194.
+
+_It is many a year since a book has attained the popularity of Mr. du
+Maurier's second novel, "Trilby" (printed as a serial in Harper's
+Monthly, from January to August, inclusive, and then issued in
+book-form, on Saturday, 8 September, 1894). Several others have sold as
+well--some even better; but neither "Looking Backward" nor "Ben Hur" (to
+name but these two) has captivated the public in the same manner or in
+the same degree as this romance, this fairy-tale of the three British
+artists, the blanchisseuse who posed for "the altogether," the Parisian
+masters of painting, and the trans-Rhenish masters of music, in the
+Latin Quarter of the early fifties. It is a story written out of the
+author's very heart, and it finds its way straight to the hearts of his
+readers. This is the secret of its unique success. Its charm is
+emotional rather than intellectual. With all its art, it impresses one
+as essentially ingenuous. It is a book to be loved, not merely to be
+liked or admired._
+
+_On 16 June, 1894, The Critic printed, with comment, a letter in which
+Mr. Whistler protested to the editor of an English newspaper against the
+libellous likeness of himself to be found in the character of Joe
+Sibley, one of the minor personages in the story of "Trilby." In the
+fall there were so many sporadic calls for this number of the paper as
+soon to exhaust the supply carried over from the summer. There seemed to
+be a general desire on the part of our readers to bind up the Whistler
+letters, etc., with the text and pictures of "Trilby" as printed in
+Harper's Monthly, the American artist's protest having led to a slight
+revision of the story before its appearance in book-form. The hint was
+acted upon; and two pages of "Trilbyana" were printed in The Critic of
+Nov. 17._
+
+_Though an extra edition was struck off, the call for this number has at
+last exhausted the supply; and the present pamphlet, containing among
+its many items of interest a majority of those that have found a place
+in the columns of The Critic, may fairly claim to be issued in response
+to a popular call._
+
+_J.B. & J.L. GILDER._
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS
+
+
+                                         PAGE
+
+"Trilby: a Novel"                           1
+
+Mr. du Maurier as a Draughtsman             4
+
+"Trilby" on the Stage                       8
+
+Personalia                                 11
+
+Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Whistler            15
+
+"Trilby" Entertainments                    19
+
+Miscellanea                                22
+
+Songs                                      30
+
+A Search for Sources                       35
+
+Nodier's "Trilby," le Lutin d'Argail       37
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+Mr. du Maurier's Monogram                          Title-page
+
+Mr. du Maurier's First Drawing for _Punch_       Frontispiece
+
+Portrait of Mr. du Maurier from a Photograph     Face      16
+
+Portrait of Mr. du Maurier by Himself                      11
+
+Portrait of Mr. Whistler                                   15
+
+"Platt, the New Svengali"                                  25
+
+Mr. du Maurier's House on Hampton Heath          Face      27
+
+
+
+
+"Trilby: a Novel"
+
+_By George du Maurier. With Illustrations by the Author. Harper &
+Brothers._
+
+
+When "TRILBY" began to appear as a serial in _Harper's Monthly_, January
+1894, Mr. Henry James prophesied that it would prove to be a
+glorification of "the long leg and the twentieth year." The prophecy was
+soon verified. At the outset, indeed, it seemed as if the glorification
+were to be, not so much of the long leg, as of the large and shapely
+foot. The whole story rested for a while on one of Trilby's feet. We say
+one, for it was only one of them--the left one--that Little Billee
+immortalized by drawing on the wall of the studio in the Place St.
+Anatole des Arts; but they were equally perfect. As the young woman who
+had the happiness of standing on this foot proclaims, kicking off one of
+the big slippers in which she is introduced to us, "It's the handsomest
+foot in all Paris: there's only one in all Paris to match it, and here
+it is"--and off goes the other slipper. The sketch of it that proves
+Little Billee already a master of his art is not shown till near the end
+of the book; and neither this nor Mr. du Maurier's own portrait of the
+_pieds nus_ on page 21 fully realizes one's notion of the thing's
+unapproached perfection.
+
+As we have said, the whole story rests for a while on one of these
+handsome feet; but the novelist manages at last to free his neck from
+the thraldom of the "slim, straight, rosy heel, clean-cut and smooth as
+the back of a razor," and proceeds to gratify our curiosity to know
+something about the strange being who poked about the studios in the
+Quartier Latin in the early fifties, bare-headed, and wearing a big,
+military coat with epaulets, which she could throw off when she posed
+for the _ensemble_ as easily as she could kick off the loose slippers
+when only her foot was desired as a model. It will be seen that Trilby
+was not a woman of any social standing. Her father was an educated
+Irishman, her mother (his wife) a pretty barmaid. They both were dead,
+and she herself was a professional model.
+
+Two things about her were equally marvellous: one was her foot, the
+other her voice--an organ of surprising power, range and sweetness. No
+less extraordinary, perhaps, was the trick that nature had played upon
+her, by coupling so glorious a voice with an ear that could not
+distinguish one note from another--could scarcely tell a bass from a
+treble, and permitted her to sing so badly that her hearers either
+stopped their ears, laughed in her face, or bolted from the room. The
+American song "Ben Bolt" was the one she liked the best to sing, and
+sang the worst. There was something else about her, almost as strange as
+her beautiful feet, her magnificent voice and her defective (or
+altogether lacking) ear for music; and that was the purity of her
+character. She had had affairs with half a dozen men in the studios,
+without really knowing that it wasn't the right thing to do. But her
+heart remained spotless (so Mr. du Maurier assures us); and it is a most
+unfortunate thing that Little Billee's mother comes tearing over to
+Paris, leaving the peaceful dales and dairies of Devonshire behind her,
+in her mad haste to break the engagement which Trilby has at last made
+with the young English painter, after having repeatedly refused to do
+so, notwithstanding her great love for him. Mrs. Bagot has no difficulty
+in convincing her that she is no worthy mate for Little Billee; and she
+accordingly runs away from Paris, heart-broken, and becomes a
+_blanchisseuse de fin_. Little Billee's heart is broken, too; or if not
+broken, benumbed; and henceforth, though he becomes a most successful
+artist, and the pet of all London, he takes his pleasures and successes
+sadly and listlessly, caring nothing for the wealth and fame that come
+to him.
+
+In the meantime a great _prima-donna_ appears upon the European stage,
+and all the world bows down before her. Happening to be in Paris, Little
+Billee is persuaded by his old chums, Taffy the Yorkshireman ex-soldier,
+and the "Laird of Cockpen"--painters both,--to go and hear the prodigy.
+Fancy their stupefaction at recognizing in the glorious singer the
+tuneless Trilby of five years gone! No longer Trilby O'Ferrall, but La
+Svengali, wife of their old acquaintance Svengali the Jew, who had
+recognized the possibilities of her voice when he first heard it in
+their Paris studio, and had afterwards captured her and cultivated it
+and by his mesmeric arts trained her as a singer and even made her love
+him as a dog loves his master. A day or two later, meeting him at a
+hotel, Svengali spits in Little Billee's face, and gets his nose pulled
+for his pains by Taffy. And then the great _prima-donna_ and her master
+go to London; and Trilby breaks down in trying to sing "Ben Bolt," and
+is hooted off the stage--Svengali's sudden death in a stage-box (unknown
+to anyone in the house) having broken the mesmeric influence that has
+made her a singer. She pines away, surrounded by her old friends the
+Englishmen, and an object of solicitude to all Christendom; and after
+her death Little Billee pines away, too, and no one is left but the big
+ex-officer Taffy--with the exception of Trilby, the most attractive
+character in the book. For Little Billee (whose sister he marries, after
+the death of Trilby, whom he, too, loved) is, truth to tell, somewhat of
+a prig, even after the sight of Trilby at the concert in Paris has
+roused him from the unemotional state to which her flight consigned him,
+years before; and Svengali is a beast, and Gecko is insignificant.
+
+The text of the book is the counterpart of its illustrations, for Mr. du
+Maurier writes as he draws--with infinite precision and detail. Nothing
+is omitted that could possibly heighten an effect. Instead of flashing a
+scene or a sensation upon you, he describes it and redescribes it,
+heaping up the adjectives in masses. His art is a different art from
+Kipling's, for instance, which never wastes a syllable. But the point to
+be decided is not one of methods but of results; and as a whole "Trilby"
+is delightful. It is a slow and laborious process by which the author
+creates an impression and surrounds his characters with the atmosphere
+he wishes us to see them in; but he does finally create the impression
+and the atmosphere, and in so doing justifies his means. He has steeped
+his mind in Thackeray, and so has had a noble master. Like "Peter
+Ibbetson," his new story is unique. It is a book that could have been
+written only by an artist--and illustrated only by the author; it is a
+book, moreover, in which the man and the style are one.
+
+In its present form the story contains certain passages not printed in
+the magazine--notably, a brief disquisition on sitting for the nude. On
+the other hand, certain passages have been altered in deference to the
+wishes of Mr. Whistler, who saw in Joe Sibley, as described and pictured
+by Mr. du Maurier, an unpleasant resemblance to himself. Not only has
+the text been altered, but our friend Sibley is now called Antony, and
+his hitherto unbearded face is adorned with a non-Whistlerian beard.
+(See "Trilby," opposite page 132.) One picture has been omitted
+altogether. It needed not the accidental advertising of Mr. Whistler's
+threatened libel suit to draw attention to the book. It is its own best
+advertisement, and has fairly earned the success implied in advance
+orders so numerous as to cause the postponement until to-day (8 Sept.
+1894) of the original date of publication.
+
+
+
+
+Mr. du Maurier as a Draughtsman
+
+
+It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. du Maurier's work as a novelist
+is in no way matched by his work as a draughtsman, as exemplified, for
+instance, in the 120 drawings for "Trilby," exhibited in December, 1894,
+at the Avery gallery. Until he began to write he was known merely as the
+author of innumerable caricatures, which had a certain vogue because
+they were at the same time pictures of fashionable society; but even of
+these the legend was often the best part. He had mastered many types,
+but they were nothing more than that; and one had seen his millionaires
+and swells and singing people and artists until one had grown rather
+tired of them. Then, suddenly, it was found, with the first chapters of
+his first novel, that in writing he could give to all these well-known
+figures individuality, could make flesh and blood of them. The drawings
+themselves, at least those done as illustrations for his two romances,
+seem to have gained by that discovery. These do not appear to be the
+same French blouses and English guardsmen. Something has got into them,
+a touch of life, which they did not have before. Yet no one will say
+that the Little Billee of the drawings now exhibited at Avery's gallery
+is even a shadow of the Little Billee of the text. Of Trilby there is
+not so much as the famous foot. Any schoolboy, almost, might have made
+as clever a travesty of the Venus de Milo. The best presentment of the
+gigantic Taffy is that in which he poses as the Ilyssus. The Laird o'
+Cockpen is much better, being frequently very like Mr. George W. Cable,
+particularly where he listens to Trilby's confession--an accidental
+likeness, no doubt, but one that increases our respect for the Laird.
+The intentional likeness of Frederick Walker, who is said to be the real
+original of Little Billee, is vastly superior to the ideal one; and the
+many unnamed figures in the more crowded compositions that appear to
+have been sketched from the life or from a particularly vivid memory are
+among the most amusing and enjoyable things in the drawings.
+
+But it must not be denied that there is here and there a bit of _chic_
+that approaches the ideal--something not easily to be discovered in the
+artist's former work. Svengali is throughout a creation of this sort. He
+is as grotesquely romantic, as Mephistophelian a figure in the
+illustration as in the printed page. The only failure is the head (on
+page 59 of the book) which is in more senses than one "as bad as they
+make them." He is excellent where he laughs over the two Englishmen
+cleaning themselves; he is delightful where he examines the roof of
+Trilby's mouth, "like the dome of the Panthéon," "room in it for 'toutes
+les gloires de la France.'" Where he stands in the midst of the crowded
+studio, "All as it Used to Be," he looks every inch the artist, more so
+than the "idle apprentice," lounging against the door-jamb. If there
+were such a man, one who had sunk his whole soul in his art, he might
+look like this, or like the same figure in the hussar uniform, a Semitic
+conqueror "out of the mysterious East." There is a touch of the spirit
+of the illustrators of the romantic period in the pictures of the
+Christmas festivities, especially in the two that illustrate the
+peculiar interchange of rôles between Little Billee and the festive
+Ribot, and in the sketch of Zouzou as the "Ducal French Fighting-Cock."
+The scenes of common life, too, are admirable, the free-and-easy, the
+"Happy Dinner," the bargaining of the Laird with Mme. Vinard--"Je
+prong!"--and the scene at the rehearsal where "The First Violin Loses
+his Temper." The art of the drawings is all in expression and action,
+and Du Maurier, in spite of all that is French in him, is thoroughly
+British in this, and a descendant in the right line of Hogarth,
+Cruikshank and Leech.
+
+The "Trilby" drawings were bought _en bloc_ by some one in England. They
+had been sent here to be engraved for _Harper's Monthly_ and the book;
+the sale occurred before they were placed on exhibition in New York. A
+representative of _The Critic_ asked Mr. Avery, who said that a number
+of people had expressed a desire to buy some of them, what he thought
+they would have brought, if sold over here. He replied that he could not
+tell with any degree of accuracy, but he thought they would have
+averaged at least $50 apiece. As there are 120 drawings, this would have
+meant $6,000 more for Mr. du Maurier. _En bloc_, no doubt, they brought
+a smaller sum.
+
+A painting of "Trilby," by Mr. Constant Mayer, was shown at Knoedler's
+gallery, in December, along with half a dozen other and more
+satisfactory paintings by the same artist. The hypnotic condition of the
+subject was declared by Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton to be admirably
+suggested in this fancy portrait.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+Those who express surprise at the sudden literary development of du
+Maurier's genius do not apparently recognize the fact that the whole
+series of his drawings has included the literary element. His thoughts
+as expressed in art have always shown a close and philosophical
+observation of life, an understanding of the actions and motives of men.
+Every one of his illustrations tells not only an individual story, but a
+story of surroundings and times, of tendencies, fads and foibles. And
+the text is always as important as the picture; sometimes it is far more
+so. Who can have forgotten the history and culmination of the "old
+china" craze given by du Maurier in a four-inch-square illustration of
+the young husband and wife examining an old teapot, with the exquisite
+text, "Oh, Algernon, do you think we can ever live up to it?" Certainly
+the man who could invent the application of that phrase must have stores
+of wit and sense equal to the writing of many "Peter Ibbetsons" and
+"Trilbys." And those stores were bound to find their larger expression
+in literature.
+
+NEW YORK, 22 NOV., 1894.
+
+CANDACE WHEELER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The New York _Tribune_ has printed the following protest against the
+insinuation that the author of the book was not its illustrator also:--
+
+"It ought not to be necessary for any formal contradiction to be made of
+that absurd rumor which has just been set adrift concerning the
+illustrations to 'Trilby.' On the face of it, it is impossible for
+either Mrs. du Maurier or her daughter to have given the pictures the
+character they possess. They have du Maurier's style, du Maurier's
+technique, du Maurier's peculiar little touches of humor, not merely in
+the broad idea but in that minute turn of the pen which makes all the
+difference in the world between an empty profile and a funny one. It is
+true that there is a dissimilarity between Trilby in one illustration
+and Trilby in another, but it should be remembered that du Maurier's
+eyesight has been failing him, that he has been compelled to be prolific
+at a time when he has most needed to lie fallow as an artist; and, in
+brief, the shortcomings of the 'Trilby' designs, if serious shortcomings
+they have, are to be explained on the most natural and logical of
+grounds. The intrinsic character of the drawings proclaims their
+authorship. Only George du Maurier could have done them, and not any of
+the trifling assistance which he may have received from his family in
+matters of posing, costume, etc., could deprive him of his
+responsibility or his honor. The recent tendency to criticise these
+designs with some severity will soon be counteracted. As a matter of
+fact, they present some of the cleverest work du Maurier has ever done."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The New York _Sun_ printed a letter, not long ago, in which the drawings
+were declared to be anachronistic. "Why," it was asked, "should Mr. du
+Maurier deny to his characters the crinolines, waterfalls, surtouts,
+cravats, chignons, peg-top trousers and hoop-skirts of the early
+sixties, and make them, despite Taffy's whiskers, of the _monde_ of
+to-day? Is it that his artistic instincts have reverted to that fine
+school of old masters who delighted to portray, saving Taffy's grace,
+Hector fighting in the armor of the Black Prince, or turned out Madonnas
+by the score in Margaret of Anjou skirts?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In "Trilby" every stroke of pen or pencil seems to be significant. Is
+there special meaning in the fact that, in the dainty tail-piece, one
+glass in the spectacles appears to be heavily shaded, while the other is
+clear? Is Mr. du Maurier, like so many literary people, afflicted with
+partial loss of sight or other visual difficulty?
+
+AMHERST COLLEGE LIBRARY.
+
+W. I. FLETCHER.
+
+[Unhappily he is, and has been for many years. It is only with the
+greatest difficulty that he is able to work with either pen or pencil.]
+
+[Illustration: From "Trilby." Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers.]
+
+
+
+
+"Trilby" on the Stage
+
+
+Mr. Paul M. Potter's dramatization of "Trilby" was produced by Mr. A. M.
+Palmer's company at the Boston Museum on Monday, 4 March, 1895, and
+achieved so great a success that several companies were immediately put
+upon the road to play it throughout the country. Its first production in
+New York, with the original cast, occurred at the Garden Theatre, on
+April 15. Hundreds of people were turned away from the door for want of
+room to accommodate them; and an offer was received from Mr. Beerbohm
+Tree, the eminent English actor, for the privilege of producing the play
+in England, where he himself wished to impersonate Svengali. It would be
+a pity if the Lyceum company did not secure the English rights; for Mr.
+Irving would make an inimitable Svengali, and Ellen Terry would be
+Trilby without trying.
+
+As nobody has ever succeeded, or is likely to succeed, in really
+dramatizing a novel, it is not surprising that the stage version of
+"Trilby" should prove in some respects unsatisfactory. It might be
+thought that the book would lend itself readily to dramatic treatment;
+but a little consideration will show that it offers peculiar
+difficulties to the playwright, inasmuch as its chief charm is one of
+manner, which cannot be transferred to the stage, while its story,
+although it contains some striking situations, such as Trilby's collapse
+upon the death of Svengali, consists chiefly of a series of episodes,
+largely independent of each other and strung together very loosely. All
+things considered, Mr. Potter ought not, perhaps, to be held to too
+strict an account for the liberties he has taken with the text and some
+of the personages, but he has certainly lowered the tone of the work,
+and been guilty of various crudities of construction. There is some
+excuse for his employment of Svengali as the evil influence which wrecks
+the happiness of Little Billee and Trilby, but he leaves nothing of the
+author's original intention, and infinitely belittles the character of
+the girl, when he attributes her flight from her lover to mesmeric
+suggestion, instead of her own noble and unselfish devotion. In many
+other similar ways the spiritual side of the book suffers at his hands.
+His persistent references to Trilby's posing for the figure, his
+selection of that particular incident for her first introduction, and
+the joking references to it which he puts into the mouths of other
+personages, are in bad taste, while his travesty of the character of
+Dr. Bagot is entirely without justification. Mrs. Bagot he treats with
+more consideration, but he reduces her to the level of the dullest stage
+conventionality. Trilby herself preserves a good many of her
+characteristics, but is degraded even more than in the book by her
+subserviency to Svengali.
+
+The play is in four acts, and the whole story up to the flight of Trilby
+is compressed into the first two. This feat is accomplished with no
+small ingenuity, but at great cost of probability. In this brief space
+Trilby is wooed and won, Svengali asserts his mesmeric power, the
+marriage of Little Billee is arranged and interrupted by the arrival of
+his mother, and an elopement is planned and frustrated. In the third act
+Trilby is to sing in the Cirque des Bashibazouck, and all the characters
+reassemble as if by magic in the foyer of that temple of art, which is
+abandoned of all other persons for their sole benefit. The proceedings
+which are supposed to occur in this retired spot are intrinsically
+absurd, but they are effective enough from a scenic and theatrical point
+of view, and were accepted by the audience, on the first night, as
+eminently natural and satisfactory. They culminate in the ghastly death
+of Svengali and the restoration of Trilby in a dazed and exhausted
+condition to the three faithful friends. In the fourth act there is
+another reunion of characters, and Trilby, who has agreed once more to
+marry Little Billee, and is supposed to be on the road to recovery, dies
+suddenly, upon the unexpected apparition of Svengali's photograph.
+
+As it stands, the play is not much superior, if at all, to ordinary
+melodrama, being almost wholly void of the literary, humorous and
+personal charm of the book, but it is very well played, has a number of
+effective scenes, and is unquestionably popular. Miss Harned's Trilby,
+though rather a faint reflection of the original, has the merit of being
+attractive and womanly, as well as free and frank, and exhibits true
+pathos in the mesmeric scenes. On the whole, it is a very creditable
+impersonation. Mr. Lackaye's Svengali is overwrought but indisputably
+strong; and Burr McIntosh, John Glendenning and Alfred Hickman represent
+the three friends cleverly, and furnish excellent living pictures of du
+Maurier's sketches. Mr. Dietrichstein makes an admirable Zouzou, and all
+the minor parts are performed competently. A feature of the
+representation which is received with special favor is the Christmas
+merrymaking in the Latin Quarter, which is as vivacious and realistic as
+could be wished.
+
+A matter of considerable interest to authors and publishers, for the
+copyright question involved, occurred in connection with the Boston
+performances. Elmer Chickering, the well-known photographer of Boston,
+took some pictures of Mr. A. M. Palmer's company, which naturally came
+into demand at once. But rushing over the wires came a message from
+Harper & Bros., saying that, as the characters were made up after du
+Maurier's drawings, they should regard the sale of any such pictures as
+an infringement of their copyright. To this, Mr. Chickering disagreed,
+on the ground that the photographs were not copies of any drawings, but
+of actual scenes on the stage, which any man might sketch. Telegrams
+flew back and forth, for the Messrs. Harper would not yield. Meanwhile,
+the papers sought for the photographs, and Mr. Palmer was apparently
+willing to receive the advertisement their publication would ensure; but
+the publishers still held off. At last Mr. Chickering decided to fight
+it out on his own line, for two of the New York papers printed some of
+the 160 "Trilby" pictures taken by him; and--as indicating an amicable
+adjustment of the dispute--a number of them appeared in _Harper's
+Weekly_.
+
+The morning papers of April 30 contained this despatch:--"DENVER, COL.,
+April 29. Did du Maurier write 'Trilby'? This novel question was
+propounded to-day in the United States Court in good faith, when the
+suit of Harper & Bros. and A. M. Palmer for an injunction against the
+Lyceum Stock Company to restrain them from producing 'Trilby' at their
+theatre was called. The defendants allege that the book entitled
+'Trilby' was not originated, invented or written by du Maurier. They
+assert that the original title and book of 'Trilby' were first published
+in France in 1820, and afterwards translated and published in English in
+1847, and that the title and book have been common property for
+seventy-five years. The attorneys for the plaintiffs asked for time to
+communicate with their clients in New York as to the course they should
+pursue, and the Court postponed the hearing until Wednesday morning.
+Should the allegations of the Lyceum Company be true, a sensation will
+be caused all over the two continents. This is the first public
+intimation of an attack on the authenticity of the work, and if it is
+successful every company in the world will have as much right to play
+'Trilby' as the Boston Organization."
+
+The Lounger reprinted the telegram with this comment:--"Charles Nodier's
+'Trilby, le Lutin d'Argail,' was published in Paris in 1822. It has just
+one thing in common with du Maurier's book--the first word in its
+title." The Sunday papers of May 12 printed this paragraph:--"DENVER,
+May 11. Judge Hallet, in the United States District Court to-day,
+granted an injunction restraining the Lyceum Theatre from producing
+'Trilby' hereafter, deciding that it infringed on the rights of Harper &
+Bros., and others. To-day's performance was stopped."
+
+[Illustration: GEORGE DU MAURIER]
+
+
+
+
+Personalia
+
+
+A London correspondent of the Philadelphia _Press_ furnishes some
+interesting notes of a talk with Mr. du Maurier. Concerning literary
+practice, the artist-novelist said that "Peter Ibbetson" was absolutely
+the first story he ever wrote. "And yet," he added, "I have in one sense
+been writing stories all my life. Every one of my pictures, for example,
+has had under it a story condensed to the smallest possible space. The
+necessity of condensing my description and dialogue has been of great
+benefit to me in writing my two novels." As for "Trilby," Mr. du Maurier
+said that his earliest conception of the story was quite different from
+the one he finally worked out. "I had first thought of Trilby as a girl
+of very low birth--a servant, or something like that. Then it occurred
+to me that it would be much better to make her interesting--to create a
+person who would be liked by readers. As a good many people seem to be
+fond of 'Trilby' now, I am very glad, indeed, that I made the change."
+And he declared further that the character of Trilby was not a study
+from life, but wholly imaginary. It was Henry James who suggested to the
+artist that he should write novels.
+
+[Illustration: _BY HIMSELF_
+
+FROM HARRY FURNISS'S "LIKA-JOKO"]
+
+"It was one day while we were walking together on Hampstead Heath. We
+were talking about storywriting, and I said to him:--'If I were a
+writer, it seems to me that I should have no difficulty about plots. I
+have in my head now plots for fifty stories. I'm always working them out
+for my own amusement.' 'Well,' he said, 'it seems to me that you are a
+very fortunate person; I wish you'd tell me one of those plots.' Then I
+told him the story of 'Trilby.'" "Yes, he praised it very generously.
+'Well,' I said, 'you may have the idea and work it out to your own
+satisfaction.' But he refused to accept it. 'You must write it
+yourself,' he said: 'I'm sure you can do it, if you'll only try.' But I
+insisted that I couldn't, and so we left the matter. But that night
+after going home it occurred to me that it would be worth while trying
+to write, after all. So on the impulse I sat down and began to work. It
+was not on 'Trilby,' however, but on 'Peter Ibbetson.' I kept at it for
+a time, but after doing several chapters I became utterly discouraged,
+and said to myself one evening:--'Oh, I can't do anything with this.
+It's a mad story. It's utter rubbish.' Then I took up the sheets and was
+just about to throw them into the fire when I thought I'd keep them for
+another day and think the thing over. That night in bed, while I was
+worrying about the impossibility of going on with the tale, the solution
+of my difficulty suddenly occurred to me. 'I'll make the hero mad,' I
+cried to myself, 'that will put everything right.' So the next day I
+wrote the introduction, explaining Peter's madness, and after that I
+went on with the work to the end without any more trouble."
+
+"Trilby's" American publishers have sent out the following note:--"A
+letter from Mr. du Maurier to the late James R. Osgood is given
+herewith. Possibly the hint it contains as to the secret of an exquisite
+literary style will interest the greater number of readers; or perhaps
+his saying (in 1890) that he has 'several good ideas,' which would seem
+to be an answer to those who have maintained that 'Trilby' was written
+many years ago. * * *
+
+'MY DEAR OSGOOD:--Of course I remembered my promise, and as soon as my
+book--"Peter Ibbetson"--was finished and typewritten, I wrote to
+you--last week, as it happens--at 50 Fleet Street, but behold! you were
+in America; so I sent them the copy, and I believe it starts by to-day's
+mail for Harper in New York. I don't know how it got into the papers
+that I was coming out in this new line, but I have already offers to
+come to an arrangement. I have no notion whether it is suited to a
+periodical or not--you will see; probably _not_,--but if it is I want to
+be well paid for it; first [illegible], as far as my _first_ book is
+concerned, whatever its merits; secondly, because the only people to
+whom I have told the story (H. James, Canon Ainger, poor Allingham and a
+few others) thought so well of it--or said so--as an _idea_; and I have
+taken great pains in the carrying out thereof. If Harper's doesn't see
+its way to it, I shall offer it elsewhere; and after that, I shall put
+it in the hands of an agent. And if I don't get what I think I ought to,
+I shall keep it and write another, as I have several good ideas, and
+writing this has taught me a lot. All of which sounds very cheeky and
+grand; but I am in no hurry to come before the public as a novelist
+before I'm ripe, and to ripen myself duly I am actually rewriting it in
+French, and you've no idea what a lesson _that_ is! * * *
+
+'Yours ever, G. DU MAURIER.
+
+'15 BAYSWATER TERRACE, LONDON, April 18, 1890.'"
+
+It is said that when the Messrs. Harper were negotiating with Mr. du
+Maurier for "Trilby," he declined their offer of a royalty on the sales
+of the book and decided in favor of a "lump sum." We do not know how
+large this sum was, but we are pretty sure that it was not so much as he
+would have made by the royalty plan. That would have earned at least
+$30,000 for him on a sale of about 100,000 copies to 31 Dec., 1894. The
+Messrs. Harper have, however, done a more than generous thing by him:
+they have informed him that they will pay him a royalty, and a good big
+one, too, on all sales after 1 Jan., 1895, on both "Trilby" and "Peter
+Ibbetson." The 600 copies of the _édition de luxe_ of "Trilby," at $10 a
+copy, were sold outright to the Syndicate Trading Co.
+
+Our London correspondent, Mr. Arthur Waugh, wrote to us on 16 April,
+1895:--"The English reading public is to have its illustrated 'Trilby'
+in one volume in June. Hitherto the three-volume edition has alone been
+in circulation, and that without the illustrations. There are to be no
+sketches in all, and arrangements are also in progress for a large-paper
+edition of 250 copies, with six facsimile reproductions of original
+drawings, unbound." Advance orders were received for 15,000 copies of
+the six-shilling edition.
+
+In an interview reported in the _Tribune_ of June 14, Mr. J. Henry
+Harper was quoted as saying, apropos of a cablegram to the effect that
+the writing of "The Martians" was completed:--
+
+"He assures me that his new story will not be ready for the publishers
+until December, 1896. I cannot tell you much about the book itself yet,
+but it will not be in any sense a sequel to 'Trilby' except so far as it
+will succeed that book. The new story will deal in its opening chapters
+with French school life, and then with English life, both fashionable
+and rowdy; then the artistic world of Antwerp and Dusseldorf is
+exploited, while the closing stages occur in England. There will be love
+in the tale, of course, and du Maurier also brings in the supernatural
+again. There will be plenty of liveliness and some tragedy. The book, I
+am given to understand, will be capable of illustration; but I am sorry
+to say there is some doubt as to whether du Maurier himself will
+illustrate it. It will depend entirely upon the state of his health,
+which of late has not been of the best. The length of the story will be
+greater than 'Trilby' and will run through about twelve numbers of
+_Harper's Magazine_, in which it will first be published in serial
+form."
+
+As a matter of course, Mr. du Maurier has had no end of invitations to
+read and lecture in this country, but to all these invitations he has
+turned a deaf ear. In a recent letter to _The Critic's_ Lounger, he
+expressed himself as flattered by these overtures, but added that his
+health would not permit of his accepting any of the tempting
+propositions. He might be more in the way of temptation, if it were not
+for the play of "Trilby." This brings him in almost as much money as
+readings would. We are told that he is in receipt of several hundred
+dollars a week from this source--not ten hundred, but very near it.
+This, surely, is a much easier way of earning money than travelling from
+one end of a big country to the other, for it costs him no greater
+exertion than the signing of his name to a check.
+
+No one who loves "Trilby" should fail to read the "autobiographic
+interview" with du Maurier which Mr. Robert H. Sherard contributed, with
+illustrations, to _McClure's Magazine_ for April, 1895. From this
+singularly intimate and interesting article, one learns that the
+author's first picture in _Punch_ represented himself and his chum
+Whistler[A]; also, that the studio in the Latin Quarter where Trilby
+visited the three English artists was drawn from that of his master,
+Gleyre.
+
+Mr. du Maurier's monogram, which appears on the title-page of this
+pamphlet, is reproduced from a carving on the table at which the staff
+contributors to _Punch_ dine once a week, and on which many of them have
+made similar inscriptions. We are indebted for it to _McClure's
+Magazine_.
+
+
+
+
+Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Whistler
+
+
+The first two or three of the following paragraphs appeared on the
+Lounger's page in _The Critic_ of 16 June, 1894, and were reprinted,
+with most of the Whistler-du Maurier items that succeed them, in the
+issue of Nov. 17.
+
+[Illustration: (From _The Westminster Budget_)
+
+MR. WHISTLER]
+
+Mr. Whistler has mastered two arts besides painting and sketching. One
+he has immortalized in that unique brochure, "The Gentle Art of Making
+Enemies"; the other is the Gentle Art of Advertising Oneself. These two
+generalities are not always to be distinguished from each other. It is
+quite possible to make an enemy in advertising oneself; and nothing is
+easier than to draw general attention to oneself, by the same act that
+incurs the enmity of individual--especially if the individual be
+eminent. At the present moment M. du Maurier happens to be one of the
+most conspicuous figures in the field jointly occupied by Art and
+Letters. In choosing him as an object of clamorous attack, Mr. Whistler
+has shown himself a past-master of the art of advertising oneself. By
+identifying himself with one of the characters in a story that everyone
+is reading, he brings himself more conspicuously before the public than
+by painting a new picture. Moreover, in sending to an English newspaper
+a letter in which he vituperates his quondam friend and fellow-artist,
+he interrupts himself for but a moment in the pursuit of his legitimate
+calling as a painter.
+
+In America, at least, few readers of "Trilby" would have known that, in
+Joe Sibley, Mr. du Maurier had hit off some of the most salient
+"peculiarities" of the immensely talented etcher, who, when he takes the
+newspapers into his confidence, dips his pen in the corrosive acid with
+which he bites his plates. Joe Sibley is not an engaging character; he
+is a Bohemian of the Bohemians, clever, witty, penniless and presuming.
+In taking his sibilant surname as a pseudonym for Whistler, we have the
+endorsement of the artist himself, though he does not expressly declare
+himself to be the archetype of this particular character. Sibley is the
+only man in the book who _could_ have been drawn from Whistler--the
+Whistler of a generation ago; and no one but Sibley could have written
+the following letter, in which the creator of the character is so
+wittily vilified:--
+
+"TO THE EDITOR--SIR: It would seem, notwithstanding; my boastful
+declaration, that, after all, I had not, before leaving England,
+completely rid myself of the abomination--the 'friend '! One solitary,
+unheeded one--Mr. George du Maurier--still remained, hidden in
+Hampstead. On that healthy heath he has been harboring, for nearly half
+a life, every villainy of good fellowship that could be perfected by the
+careless frequentation of our early intimacy and my unsuspecting
+_camaraderie_. Of this pent-up envy, malice and furtive intent he never
+at any moment during all that time allowed me, while affectionately
+grasping his honest Anglo-French fist, to detect the faintest
+indication. Now that my back is turned, the old _marmite_ of our
+_pot-au-feu_ he fills with the picric acid of 30 years' spite, and, in
+an American magazine, fires off his bomb of mendacious recollection and
+poisoned rancour. The lie with which it is loaded _à mon intention_ he
+proposes for my possible 'future biographer'--but I fancy it explodes,
+as is usual, in his own waistcoat, and he furnishes, in his present
+unseemly state, an excellent example of all those others who, like
+himself, have thought a foul friend a finer fellow than an open enemy.
+
+"PARIS.
+
+J. M'NEILL WHISTLER.
+
+"Reflection: The _compagnon_ of the _pétard_ we guillotine. Guineas are
+given to the popular companion who prepares his infernal machine for the
+distinguished associates in whose friendship he has successfully
+speculated."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following card appeared in _Harper's_ for October:--
+
+"Pursuant to an arrangement made with Mr. J. McNeill Whistler by our
+London agents, Messrs. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., the publishers of the
+English edition of _Harper's Magazine_, the following letter is
+published:--
+
+August 31, 1894.
+
+"'DEAR SIR--Our attention has been called to the attack made upon you by
+Mr. du Maurier in the novel "Trilby," which appeared in our magazine. If
+we had had any knowledge of personal reference to yourself being
+intended, we should not have permitted the publication of such passages
+as could be offensive to you. As it is, we have freely made such
+reparation as is in our power. We have agreed to stop future sales of
+the March number of _Harper's Magazine_,[B] and we undertake that, when
+the story appears in the form of a book, the March number shall be so
+rewritten as to omit every mention of the offensive character, and that
+the illustration which represents the Idle Apprentice shall be excised,
+and that the portraits of Joe Sibley in the general scene shall be
+altered so as to give no clue to your identity. Moreover, we engage to
+print and insert in our magazine for the month of October this letter of
+apology addressed to you. Assuring you again of our sincere regret that
+you should have sustained the least annoyance in any publication of
+ours, we are,
+
+"'Yours respectfully,
+
+HARPER & BROTHERS.
+
+"'J. MCNEILL WHISTLER, ESQ.'"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+One of the humors of the controversy was a letter that appeared in the
+first number of Harry Furniss's _Lika-Joko_. It was supposed to have
+been written by Whistler to express his indignation at having been cut
+out of the book. The English as well as the American papers fell into
+the trap, and discussed the letter as a genuine expression of Mr.
+Whistler's outraged feelings. It was only a joke, however--and is said
+to have been the only joke in Mr. Furniss's comic paper. To an
+interviewer for _The Westminster Budget_, Mr. Whistler expressed his
+surprise that anyone should have been taken in by the parody. "There was
+no harm in the appearance of the article," he said, "but what caused my
+merriment, though not surprise, is that anyone would have thought for a
+moment that I had written it. But then, it was in England, and in
+England anything is possible!" That the parody was a clever one will be
+seen from the following extract:--
+
+"In the fascinating numbers of 'Trilby,' as they appeared in _Harper's
+Magazine_, I read with delight of one Joe Sibley, idle apprentice, king
+of Bohemia, _roi des truands_, always in debt, vain, witty, exquisite
+and original in art, eccentric in dress, genial, caressing, scrupulously
+clean, sympathetic, charming; an irresistible but unreliable friend, a
+jester of infinite humor, a man now perched upon a pinnacle of fame (and
+notoriety), a worshipper of himself; a white-haired, tall, slim,
+graceful person with pretty manners and an unimpeachable moral tone. My
+only regret was that too little was said about so charming a creation. I
+looked to see more of him in the published three volumes. But no! I
+found the addition of some thoughtful excursuses by Mr. du Maurier upon
+nudity, agnosticism, and other more hazardous subjects, which had,
+presumably, been judged too strong for the ice-watered, ice-creamed
+constitution of the American Philistine; but I looked in vain for the
+delightful Joseph Sibley. In his place I find a yellow-haired Switzer,
+one Antony, son of a respectable burgher of Lausanne, who is now tall,
+stout, strikingly handsome and rather bald, but who in his youth had all
+the characteristics of the lost Joseph Sibley--his idleness, his debts,
+his humor, his art, his eccentricity, his charm. I rubbed my eye-glass.
+_Je me suis demandé pourquoi._"
+
+Displeased with _The Speaker's_ comments on his connection with
+"Trilby," Mr. Whistler compelled that paper to print a letter from his
+solicitors, from which it appears that the revised MS. of the novel was
+sent to him to be passed. And apropos of this, he remarks in a letter to
+the editor:--"I question if it be not without precedent that a writer
+ever before so abjectly regorged his spleen as to submit his Bowdlerized
+work to his victim for his approval."
+
+In the Chicago _Tribune_ of Sunday, 2 Dec., 1894, were reprinted from
+_Harper's_ the pictures of, and passages about, Joe Sibley which
+provoked Mr. Whistler's threatened libel-suit. The revised passages, as
+they appear in the book, were also given.
+
+
+
+
+"Trilby" Entertainments
+
+
+OF ENTERTAINMENTS founded upon Mr. du Maurier's book, the name is
+legion. The most pretentious, and at the same time the most successful,
+was the series of "Scenes and Songs from 'Trilby,'" given at Sherry's in
+the afternoon and again in the evening of Saturday, February 9, for the
+benefit of that admirable institution, the New York Kindergarten
+Association. The affair, which had the advantage of distinguished
+patronage, was given under the special management of Mrs. Charles H.
+Ditson; Mr. E. Hamilton Bell arranged the details of scenery and
+costume; and among those who personated the various characters were
+several well-known artists.
+
+The audience was a large one, which was excellent for the little ones
+who were to be benefited; and it was enthusiastic, which was only a just
+and fit tribute to managers, performers and singers. Every detail of the
+tableaux had been thought out with infinite care, and posing, grouping
+and make-up were as near perfection as du Maurier himself could have
+wished. The program included the singing of "Ben Bolt," "Bonjour,
+Suzon," "Au Clair de la Lune" and several other songs, and the following
+tableaux:--"The Three Musketeers of the Brush"; "Wistful and Sweet";
+"Svengali"; "I will Not!"; "All As it Used to Be"; "Answer Me, Trilby!";
+"The Soft Eyes"; "The Sweet Melodic Phrase"; "Dors, Ma Mignonne"; "The
+Nightingale's First Song"; "Malbrouck" and "It was Trilby." The
+entertainment opened most effectively with a quartet by Messrs. Devoll,
+Moore, Bracewell and Devoll. The first tableau, "Three Musketeers of the
+Brush," received the admiration it deserved, as did, also, the singing
+of Miss Akers and Mr. Mackenzie Gordon interspersed with the different
+tableaux. The first appearance of Trilby was awaited with impatient
+expectancy, and when she came, she proved to be "wistful and sweet,"
+indeed, in the person of Mrs. Eric Pape, the wife of the well-known
+young artist. The last tableau of the second part, "It was Trilby," was
+most effectively arranged by Mr. Pape. The full cast of characters was
+as follows:--Trilby, Mrs. Eric Pape; Taffy, W. Harris Roome; The Laird,
+Evert Jansen Wendell; Little Billee, J. Gerald Benkard; Svengali, Robert
+Reid; Gecko, Eric Pape; Dodor, William Abbott; Zouzou, Franklin C.
+Butler; Mrs. Bagot, Mrs. J. Wells Champney; Miss Bagot, Miss Lilian
+Wing; Mme. Malbrouck, Mme. Bettini; Durien, Leslie G. Cauldwell;
+Blanchisseuse, Miss Lou-lou Noel; Fencer, Lieut. Gianni Bettini.
+
+During the intermission between the first and second parts of the
+program, Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin sold a copy of "Trilby" presented by
+the Messrs. Harper. To this Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Henry James (who
+persuaded the author to write the book) had contributed their
+autographs, and Dr. English a manuscript copy of his song "Ben Bolt."
+The volume fetched $100, making the net addition to the Kindergarten
+Association's treasury about $2500.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+AT MR. MANSFIELD'S Garrick Theatre, "Trilby" has been burlesqued. It had
+already been parodied in book-form, produced as a melodrama, read aloud
+in drawing-rooms, with music, and put on the platform in "scenes and
+songs," so that nothing was left to do with it but to make an "operatic
+burlesque" of it; and this was duly accomplished by Messrs. Joseph W.
+Herbert and Charles Puerner, the latter being responsible for the music
+and the former for the words. The piece is called "Thrilby." As in the
+serious play founded upon the novel, the villain (rechristened
+"Spaghetti") is the principal figure; and mesmerism is carried to a
+ridiculous excess, even inanimate objects succumbing to its influence.
+There is a farce within this farce; for "Mme. Sans-Gêne" is parodied in
+a sub-play introduced under the name of "Mme. Sans Ra-Gêne." The
+burlesque is by no means free from horse-play, but it unquestionably
+accomplishes its purpose, which is merely to amuse.
+
+At the Casino, as well as at the Garrick, "Trilby" and "Mme. Sans Gêne"
+have both been travestied.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_Harper's Weekly_)
+
+"THE _Weekly_ has received a copy of the programme of a novel and
+decidedly interesting literary and musical entertainment that was given
+on Oct. 17, at Omaha. It was called 'An Evening with Trilby.' The
+participants were all gentlemen. The subjects of the papers read were
+'The Story of Trilby,' 'Du Maurier, his Life and Work,' 'The French of
+Trilby,' 'The Identity of the Artists in Trilby,' 'Trilby's Voice and
+Method,' 'Trilby as a Hypnotic Subject,' 'Could Trilby be Successfully
+Dramatized?' After each paper there was Trilby music, which included
+'Ben Bolt,' 'Au Clair de la Lune,' 'Malbrouck s'en va-t-en Guerre' and
+other songs and instrumental pieces. At the end of the programme comes
+the inquiry, What shall we 'ave the pleasure of drinkin' after that
+werry nice 'armony?' and then the page turns over to the farewell
+couplet:--
+
+    'A little warmth, a little light
+    Of love's bestowing--and so, good-night.'
+
+"It is a pretty far cry from Paris to Omaha, but Trilby's voice seems to
+have carried that distance without the least trouble. It is worth
+remarking that these Omaha gentlemen made seven 'papers' about her
+without finding it necessary to discuss her morals."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OF THE MANY "Trilby" entertainments in New York one of the most
+successful was given in May, at the house of Postmaster Dayton, for the
+benefit of St. Luke's Home for Indigent Christian Females. A literary
+criticism of the book was read, and one of the chapters of the story;
+and the songs that are oftenest alluded to were sung. The affair was
+given under the auspices of the Daughters of the Revolution.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"TRILBY'S" WIDE POPULARITY--in the sense that many people who are not,
+ordinarily, novel-readers take a lively interest in it--is evidenced by
+many indications, not the least significant being the concerts made up
+from the music mentioned in the novel. One such was given in San
+Francisco last December, under the management of the ladies of the
+Mercantile Library Auxiliary and for the benefit of the Library's
+unfortunately slender exchequer. According to _The Argonaut_, a very
+interesting program was presented, including Schubert's "Rosamonde,"
+Adam's "Cantique de Noël," Chopin's Impromptu in A flat, "Bonjour
+Suzon," "Le Capitaine Roquefinette" and the much-discussed "Ben Bolt."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"TRILBY" REPRESENTATIONS have broken out in all sorts of strange places.
+At the Eden Musée, New York, Miss Ganthony has been restrained from
+impersonating du Maurier's heroine; and at "The Greatest Show on Earth,"
+Miss Marie Meers, who has not been restrained, appears nightly in Trilby
+costume, riding bareback (not barefoot) around the tan-bark to the
+snapping of ringmaster Svengali's whip.
+
+
+
+
+Miscellanea
+
+
+MR. DU MAURIER and Mr. James took a walk together, one day, and the
+artist unfolded to the novelist the plot of "Trilby," suggesting that he
+should use it in a novel. Mr. James persuaded him to write the story
+himself. He did so; and what has been the result? Think of the time and
+skill, the money and material that have been employed in putting the
+thing in type, preparing its illustrations, printing it as a serial and
+reprinting it in book-form; in dramatizing it, burlesquing it in books
+and on the stage, in adapting its songs and illustrations for
+reproduction on lecture-platforms and in drawing-rooms, and in
+translating and publishing Nodier's tale, from which the author took his
+title! Its presentation has given employment, onerous or enjoyable,
+honorary or remunerative, to thousands; hundreds of thousands have read
+it, and hundreds of thousands seen it on the stage; and its leading
+characters--Trilby, Svengali and "the three musketeers of the
+brush"--have become household names and personalities. It has enriched
+its author, added to the wealth of its publishers, put money in the
+purses of playwright and manager and replenished the treasuries of more
+than one excellent charity. Directly or indirectly, no doubt, it has
+caused much more than a million dollars to change hands within the past
+eighteen months. And last but not least, it is responsible for this
+pamphlet, in which is chronicled the story of its rise and progress.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+AT THE Mercantile Library, New York, it was found necessary, at the time
+when "Trilby" was in greatest demand, to circulate a hundred copies of
+the book; at the beginning of June the number in circulation was
+seventy. Mr. Wingate wrote to _The Critic_ from Boston, in June, that
+there were six copies of the book in the main building of the Public
+Library, and one in each of its branches, but that this supply was
+inadequate, 72 demands for the book having come from the branch
+libraries in a single day. And Mr. Hild writes to us from Chicago that
+the Public Library of that city has 26 copies, but that they do not
+begin to supply the demand. "I believe we could use 260 and never find a
+copy on the shelves. Every one of our 54,000 card-holders seems
+determined to read the book."
+
+ON THE POINT of the morality or immorality of the book, _The
+Independent_ says:--
+
+"Mr. du Maurier, apparently in deference to the current craze for
+heroines that have been seduced, or are just going to be, bedaubs the
+first fifty pages of his otherwise clean story with telling how his pure
+heroine, Trilby, a _blanchisseuse de fin_, had been led astray, and so
+forth. That is to say, he unnecessarily goes behind the true door of his
+story to wash some dirty linen, and then he sets forth."
+
+On this point the San Francisco _Argonaut_ does not agree with its New
+York contemporary:--
+
+"With those who think these passages immoral, we cannot agree. Mr. du
+Maurier has treated with candor some facts belonging to the realm of
+things which are usually understood instead of being talked about; but
+he has done this with singular manliness and delicacy, and with entire
+absence of mawkish or other improper sentiment. The impression of
+Trilby's character left upon the reader is entirely that of a noble,
+generous woman, whose life is not a sin, but a tragedy."
+
+The same paper reproduces "a letter Mr. du Maurier wrote to a Paterson,
+N. J., man who contended that the relations of Trilby with her
+hypnotizer were chaste, so far as her consciousness of them went, and
+decided to find out if he were right by writing to the novelist":--
+
+"NEW GROVE HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD HEATH,
+
+"October 31, 1894.
+
+"DEAR SIR: In answer to your letter of September 24th, I beg to say that
+you are right about Trilby. When free from mesmeric influence, she lived
+with him as his daughter, and was quite innocent of any other relation.
+In haste, yours very truly,
+
+"G. DU MAURIER."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EARLY IN March, 1895, one of the Boston clergymen advertised Robert
+Grant's "Art of Living," as our Boston correspondent reported at the
+time, and on Sunday, March 17, another prominent minister took up
+"Trilby." So it is evident that, even if Boston authorship is on the
+decline, as so many New Yorkers enviously declare, the Boston clergy are
+going to keep alive the interest in literary matters by emphatic words
+to their congregations. "Have you read 'Trilby'?" was the theme of the
+Rev. George W. Bicknell's sermon, and the topic crowded the church. The
+Reverend Doctor declared that he had spent five hours reading the book,
+and had decided that it was a story of magnificent possibilities, but
+that its morality was "as one viewed it." He considered the tale
+far-fetched and over-drawn and lacking in healthful flavor, and placed
+it in the same class of art with the nude paintings at the World's
+Fair--a position to which, we presume, the author would not object. Then
+he launched out into an emphatic declaration that it was time for the
+pulpit to speak out against art of this kind.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DU MAURIER'S heroine has been heard of over in Brooklyn. A married
+woman, aged twenty-nine, got into a dispute with her husband, recently,
+as to the morals of the young model, and proved her point by "smashing
+him over the head with an earthenware jar." In the newspaper in which we
+read of this intemperate act, the husband's age is not given, nor the
+side he took in the argument, before he was shown to be wrong. The fact
+that he got his head broken proves little--except the folly of arguing
+with a woman; nor the additional fact that he refused to appear against
+his wife in court. But the case is one in which a good deal might be
+said on both sides--if earthenware jars were not introduced too early in
+the discussion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MR. DU MAURIER has worse offenses to atone for than the breaking of the
+Brooklyn man's silly head. But for his entertaining book we should have
+been spared the unreadable prose of "Biltry: a Parody on 'Trilby'" and
+the unspeakable verse of "Drilby Re-versed," the former by Mary Kyle
+Dallas, the latter by Leopold Jordan. In vulgarity and banality, these
+two precious productions run each other a close race. Of the two we
+think "Drilby" a trifle the less objectionable, merely because the
+proportion of text to white paper is somewhat smaller. Both are poorly
+illustrated, and printed on much better paper than they deserve.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+E. C. OF NEW ALBANY, IND., thinks that "Trilby's" possibilities as a
+vehicle of evil to the much-considered American "young person" are
+emphasized by a conversation recently overheard by her between two
+feminine "young persons" in Indiana. "What is this 'Trilby' everybody is
+talking about?" asked one of these. "Oh," replied the other, "it's a
+book--a novel." "They say it is awfully bad," said the first young
+person. "Yes, I've heard so; but it isn't so at all. I read it clear
+through, and there wasn't anything bad in it. I didn't like it either;
+there is too much French in it." "French?" commented the first young
+woman; "well that's it, then--all the bad part is in French." "I hadn't
+thought of that," mused the other one; "I suppose that's just the way of
+it. Anyway, it isn't nearly as good as 'Dally.'"
+
+[Illustration: PLATT. THE NEW SVENGALI.
+
+THE HYPNOTIZING OF MORTON.
+
+Have you read "Trilby?" Svengali was a bad, wicked man, who used to
+hypnotize poor, sweet little Trilby and make her sing and act as he
+pleased--With apologies to Du Maurier.]
+
+"Trilby" has even got into American politics. This shows better than
+anything else how wide an audience the story most have reached. How many
+allusions to a book of the current year would be comprehensible to the
+average reader of a New York daily paper? We reproduce the accompanying
+cartoon from the _World_ of Dec. 9 as a curiosity of literature and an
+interesting contribution to "Trilbyana." It is adapted from Mr. du
+Maurier's drawing entitled "Et Maintenant Dors, ma Mignonne!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A Broadway caterer now "molds his ice-cream in the shape of a model of
+Trilby's ever-famous foot." Mr. du Maurier can want no greater evidence
+of the popularity of his story in America. That there is not a "Trilby"
+shoe on the market reflects little credit upon the enterprise of our
+bootmakers. It is an opportunity that no soap-maker would neglect if it
+came his way. Possibly the fact that Trilby's foot was large (as well as
+shapely) has something to do with the shoemakers' backwardness. Hers
+were not Cinderella slippers. ("The Lounger," 30 March, 1895.)
+
+Mr. C. W. Coleman, Librarian of William and Mary College, writes from
+Williamsburg, Va., to say that I am in error in supposing that the
+bootmakers of this wide-wake country have not yet seized the name of du
+Maurier's heroine for advertising purposes. In his note of correction he
+encloses a clipping from the catalogue of a Chicago house, containing a
+picture of a high-heeled ladies' shoe, flanked by an advertisement of
+"'The Trilby,' price $3, postage 15 cts.--'an ornament to any foot,'"
+etc. And I hear that the shop-windows of Norfolk, Va., fairly bristle
+with shoes of this brand. Moreover, a bootmaker's advertisement in the
+Pittsburg _Post_ shows (as a punning Pennsylvania correspondent writes
+to me) that "Trilby has obtained a foothold even in the Iron City."
+According to the advertisement, "this enterprising firm offer to the
+lady sending in the most accurate dimensions according to the diagram
+above, together with a drawn outline of the nude foot on paper, a
+handsome pair of the highest grade 'Trilby' shoe, which they will have
+made up especially for the winner. This stylish foot adornment for
+Pittsburgh's model feet will be satin or silk lined throughout, of the
+finest quality kid and best workmanship. Bear in mind, ladies, it need
+not be the smallest feet that win, but the most perfect form of a foot
+from a standpoint of proportionate measurements." ("The Lounger," 13
+April, 1895.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+G. A. D. writes from Philadelphia to deplore the Quaker City's
+vulgarization of the name and fame of Trilby; and in justification of
+his plaint encloses a Chestnut Street dealer's advertisement of the
+"Trilby Sausage"! This, it is claimed, "is something new, and fills a
+long-felt want"; "they melt in your mouth." They don't melt in G. A.
+D.'s mouth, but they rankle in his æsthetic soul. "What next?" he
+exclaims; "an Ophelia tooth-wash, a Duchess of Towers garbage-pail!" Our
+correspondent has not yet heard of the "Trilby Ham." This, if anything,
+is worse than the Sausage. It has been heard of in this city; whether or
+no it originated here, I do not care to inquire. But in an Eighth Avenue
+dime-museum, there are "Twenty Trilbys," and visitors vote for the
+handsomest! Moreover, we have now the "Trilby Hearth-brush"; and huge
+posters on the East Side announce a picnic of the "Trilby Coterie and
+Chowder Club."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_The Evening Post_ reprints from James Braid's "Observations of Trance"
+(1850, page 43) the following paragraph, which is of singular interest
+in connection with the novel which has made such an extraordinary
+sensation in this country during the past year, and has become as great
+a success on the stage as in book-form. Svengali's transformation
+of a girl with no ear for music into a singer of marvellous powers seems
+to have been almost paralleled in real life, half a century ago:--
+
+[Illustration: DU MAURIER'S HOUSE.
+
+HAMPSTEAD HEATH.]
+
+"Many patients will thus repeat accurately what is spoken in _any_
+language; and they may be also able to sing correctly and simultaneously
+both words and music of songs in any language which they have never
+heard before--_i. e._, they catch the words as well as music so
+instantaneously as to accompany the other singer as if both had been
+previously equally familiar with both words and music. In this manner a
+patient of mine, who, when awake, knew not the grammar of even her own
+language, and who had very little knowledge of music, was enabled to
+follow Mlle. Jenny Lind correctly in songs in different languages,
+giving both words and music _so correctly and so simultaneously with
+Jenny Lind_, that two parties in the room could not for some time
+imagine that there were two voices, so perfectly did they accord, both
+in musical tone and vocal pronunciation of Swiss, German and Italian
+songs. She was equally successful in accompanying Mlle. Lind in one of
+her extemporaneous effusions, which was a long and extremely difficult
+elaborate chromatic exercise, which the celebrated cantatrice tried by
+way of taxing the powers of the somnambulist to the utmost. When awake
+the girl durst not even _attempt_ to do anything of the sort; and, after
+all, wonderful as it was, it was _only phonic imitation_, for she did
+not understand the meaning of a single word of the foreign language
+which she had uttered so correctly."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_Miss Frances Albert Doughty, in The Critic, 15 June, 1895._)
+
+"The strength of 'Trilby' as a novel lies in the exquisitely dear
+realization of the good in the girl's nature, which the fine art of the
+author has been able to give to the reader. The divine in the Laird, in
+Taffy and in Little Billee responded to the divine in that undeveloped
+girl, and to them the angel in her was the real Trilby in spite of all
+her past experience. But idealism and realism in this charming story are
+not quite happily balanced: the reader receives a blow on the spiritual
+side of his being from the manifestation of an agency in the universe
+that is endowed with an all-conquering malevolence, something extraneous
+from the individual and yet able to arrest in her the growth of the
+budding germ of holiness and moral beauty, a power triumphant even at
+the moment when her spirit was about to return to the God who gave it.
+Without Svengali there would be no novel of Trilby; nevertheless, he is
+the sole blot upon it."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_San Francisco Argonaut_)
+
+"Perhaps the most surprising circumstance connected with 'Trilby' in the
+eyes of American readers is the way the book has been received in
+England. At best it has been accorded lukewarm praise, and the tone of
+its reviews has run the gamut down to downright slating. Some have been
+spiteful enough to be exceptionally entertaining. Of these, that of _The
+Pall Mall Gazette_ is the most striking, the reviewer of that journal
+showing himself to be (as an exchange puts it) a master of vituperative
+diction. To this reviewer, 'Trilby's' three Englishmen are 'British
+prigs cut in pasteboard,' and their biographer is denied even the poor
+ability to express himself in grammatical English."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+If there yet remains a word to be said in criticism of this book, it
+may, perhaps, be in regard to the musical part of it. Whether
+intentionally or not, du Maurier has certainly added an instance, which
+tends to prove the theory true, that music in itself is neither
+elevating nor refining. Svengali is drawn with inimitable skill, and
+with so much realism that the reader feels that he must have been known
+and hated by du Maurier in all his repulsiveness. And yet this loathsome
+creature has the power of so seizing and expressing the noblest works of
+the great masters of harmony as to move his hearers to tears, to sway
+them at his will by the tenderness and feeling he puts into the notes.
+It is a hard thing for a music-lover to comprehend, that a man of low
+and vicious life, and utterly without aspirations, can so express the
+penetrating beauty that lies in music more than in any other art. It
+shows, too, that music gives us only what it finds in us, and proves the
+folly of "program music," or music with a translation.
+
+AUBURN, N. Y.
+
+S. M. COX.
+
+(_Mrs. Emma Carleton, in the Louisville Courier-Journal._)
+
+"A great deal has been said and written about 'Ben Bolt,'" said a woman
+who doesn't pretend to be musical, "and the other songs of the Trilby
+repertoire; but I have not yet seen or heard any comment on Trilby's
+'great and final performance'--the vocalization of Chopin's Impromptu, A
+flat. Du Maurier devotes two entire pages to most wonderful description
+of this wonderful musical achievement; two exquisite pages of music
+painted in words, in most masterly and matchless fashion. Who can forget
+the depiction of La Svengali's voice, 'as a light nymph catching the
+whirl of a double-skipping rope as she warbles that long, smooth,
+lilting, dancing laugh, that wondrous song without words.' This
+impromptu should be rechristened the 'Trilby Impromptu,' and musicians
+everywhere should now--while the Trilby wave is riding high--be charming
+their audiences by playing it."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Oliver Ditson Co. has published a pamphlet of "Trilby" songs, etc.,
+containing the words and music of "Ben Bolt," "Malbrouck," "Bonjour,
+Suzon," "Der Nussbaum" ("The Nut-tree") "Cantique de Noël" and "Au Clair
+de la Lune," and the music of Chopin's "Impromptu."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+On March 1, 1895, a postcard was sent from the office of _Life_, calling
+the attention of "exchange editors" throughout the country to "A
+'Trilby' Examination." We reprint the card in full:--
+
+"_Life's Monthly Calendar_ offers a series of cash prizes for the best
+sets of replies to the following questions on 'Trilby':
+
+1. What does the author claim as the king of all instruments? Who does
+he claim was the greatest violinist of his time? What does he call the
+most bourgeois piece of music he knows?
+
+2. What was Svengali's real name?
+
+3. Where does the author state that he is a social lion? Where does he
+deny that he is a snob?
+
+4. Where does he bring Little Billee in contact with Punch?
+
+5. What did the Laird call M. le général Comte de la Tour-aux-Loups?
+
+6. In what places does the author compare Gecko to a dog?
+
+7. How old was Trilby when she died?
+
+8. What was Little Billee's physical explanation of his inability to
+love?
+
+9. What verbal description of one of the heroes contradicts almost every
+one of the author's drawings of him?
+
+10. What incident of the story is inconsistent with the author's own
+argument in behalf of the nude in art?
+
+
+"Dear Sir: The above questions are covered by our copyright, but in view
+of the popular interest in 'Trilby,' you may wish to reproduce them. We
+should be more than pleased to have you do so, if you will give us
+credit.
+
+Yours very truly,
+
+JAMES S. METCALFE,
+
+Editor and Manager _Life's Monthly Calendar_."
+
+
+
+
+The Songs in "Trilby"
+
+
+Dr. Thomas Dunn English wrote the words of "Ben Bolt" in New York, in
+1842, when he was a young man of three-and-twenty. Mr. N. P. Willis had
+asked him to write a sea-song for _The New Mirror_, and so he wound up
+the last stanza with an allusion to "the salt-sea gale!" As a sea-song,
+"Ben Bolt" is not a success; but it has been sung on every sea and in
+every land where the English tongue is spoken. At Pittsburgh,
+Pennsylvania, in 1848, an English journalist named Hunt quoted the words
+(from a defective memory) to Nelson Kneass, who was attached to the
+local theatre; and, adapted by Kneass to a German melody, the song, in a
+somewhat garbled version, was introduced in a play called "The Battle of
+Buena Vista." In Helen Kendrick Johnson's "Our Familiar Songs, and Those
+Who Made Them" (Henry Holt & Co., 1881), the story of its vogue in
+England as well as in America is told effectively. Not only were ships
+and steam-boats named in its honor, but a play was built upon its
+suggestions, and as recently as in 1877 an English novelist made the
+memories evoked by the singing of the song a factor in the development
+of his catastrophe. Its revival at the hand of Mr. du Maurier is the
+latest and perhaps the most striking tribute to its hold upon the
+popular heart. To the author himself--in his ripe old age a member of
+the LIIId Congress--its fame is seemingly a bore, for he is quoted as
+saying:--"I am feeling very well and enjoying life as well as an old man
+can, but this eternal 'Ben Bolt' business makes me so infernally weary
+at times that existence becomes a burden. The other night, at a meeting
+of a medical association at my home in Newark, some one proposed that
+all hands join in singing 'Ben Bolt,' whereupon I made a rush for the
+door, and came very near forgetting the proprieties by straightway
+leaving home. However, I recovered my equilibrium and rejoined my
+friends. I don't think that General Sherman ever grew half so tired of
+'Marching Through Georgia' as I have of that creation of mine, and it
+will be a blessed relief to me when the public shall conclude to let it
+rest."
+
+Apropos of the use made of the song in "Trilby," _Harper's Bazar_
+published the words and music; whereupon the author sent this letter to
+the editor:--
+
+"It is very pleasing to an old man like myself to have the literary work
+of a half-century since dragged to light and commended, as has been the
+case with 'Ben Bolt' of late. I was flattered by seeing my likeness--or,
+rather, the likeness of a younger man than myself--in your pages; but I
+must protest against some errors which, in spite of careful editing,
+enter into your transcription of the song. The words of the original
+were:--
+
+    'Don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt,
+      With the master so cruel and grim,
+    And the shaded nook in the running brook,
+      Where the children went to swim?'
+
+"This has been changed in the song, as usually sung, to read:--
+
+    'With the master so kind and so true.
+    And the little nook by the clear-running brook,
+    Where we gathered the flowers as they grew?'
+
+"You have copied this, but in a better shape, with the exception of
+changing the rhythm. I must protest against this change, because the
+school-masters of between sixty and seventy years since were, to my
+memory, 'cruel and grim'; they were neither kind nor true. They seemed
+to think the only way to get learning into a boy's head was by the use
+of the rod. There may have been exceptions, but I never met them. At all
+events, 'what I have written I have written.'"
+
+BEN BOLT
+
+                        I
+
+    Oh, don't you remember, Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
+      Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown,
+    Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
+      And trembled with fear at your frown!
+    In the old churchyard, in the valley, Ben Bolt,
+      In a corner obscure and alone,
+    They have fitted a slab of the granite so gray.
+      And Alice lies under the stone!
+
+                         II
+
+    Under the hickory tree, Ben Bolt,
+      Which stood at the foot of the hill,
+    Together we've lain in the noon-day shade,
+      And listened to Appleton's mill.
+    The mill-wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben Bolt,
+      The rafters have tumbled in,
+    And a quiet that crawls round the walls as you gaze,
+      Has followed the olden din.
+
+                        III
+
+    Do you mind the cabin of logs, Ben Bolt,
+      At the edge of the pathless wood,
+    And the button-ball tree with its motley limbs,
+      Which nigh by the door-step stood?
+    The cabin to ruin has gone, Ben Bolt,
+      The tree you would seek in vain;
+    And where once the lords of the forest waved,
+      Grows grass and the golden grain.
+
+                         IV
+
+    And don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt,
+      With the master so cruel and grim,
+    And the shaded nook in the running brook,
+      Where the children went to swim?
+    Grass grows on the master's grave, Ben Bolt,
+      The spring of the brook is dry,
+    And of all the boys who were schoolmates then,
+      There are only you and I.
+
+                          V
+
+    There is change in the things I loved, Ben Bolt,
+      They have changed from the old to the new;
+    But I feel in the depths of my spirit the truth,
+      There never was change in you.
+    Twelve-months twenty have past, Ben Bolt,
+      Since first we were friends--yet I hail
+    Thy presence a blessing, thy friendship a truth,
+      Ben Bolt, of the salt-sea gale!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+In your columns of "Trilbyana" I have seen no mention of the fact that
+George W. Cable, in his "Dr. Sevier"--a thousand times better novel and
+better work, in every way, than "Trilby,"--has introduced the old song
+"Ben Bolt" with wonderful effect. It is strange that the old melody
+should have appealed to the two men, so widely apart, and it is but fair
+that the American's first, and most skilful, use of it should have due
+recognition.
+
+PHILADELPHIA.
+
+JOHN PATTERSON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+Du Maurier says that there is but one verse of the little French song,
+which Trilby sings with so much effect--"Au clair de la lune." He
+mistakes; there is another, running thus:--
+
+    "Je n'ouvrirai pas la porte,            J'ouvre bien la porte,
+      À un vieux savetier,                    À un pâtissier,
+    *   *   *   *   *                       Qui m'apporte des brioches
+      *   *   *   *                           Dans un tablier."
+
+The two missing lines have escaped the memory of the writer.
+
+AUBURN, N. Y.
+
+S. M. COX.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Your correspondent, S. M. Cox, offers some more verses of "Mon Ami
+Pierrot." They do not quite agree with those taught me, shortly after
+the Revolution of 1848, by an old French gentleman. You will notice that
+the French of the last verse is quite "eighteenth-century" in style and
+diction.
+
+              II                              III
+
+    Je n'ouvre pas ma porte         Mais j'ouvre bien ma porte
+      À des savetiers,                À des officiers,
+    Ils ont des alènes,             Ils ont des pistoles,
+      C'est pour me piquer.           C'est pour me les baîller.
+
+    PARIS, 1 Jan., 1895.      B. F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mr. du Maurier was correct in saying that there is only one verse of "Au
+Clair de la Lune"; yet there are possibly, and probably, a thousand made
+in imitation of it, which go to the same air. We quote from the San
+Francisco _Argonaut_:--
+
+"It is to be observed that these _amateurs de Trilby_ do not go the
+length of singing 'Au Clair de la Lune,' even repeating the first stanza
+twice, as Trilby did. But perhaps they are as ignorant concerning the
+song as is Mr. du Maurier, who declares there is but one verse. There
+are four. The first is given in 'Trilby' thus:--
+
+    'Au clair de la lune,        Ma chandelle est morte....
+       Mon ami Pierrot!            Je n'ai plus de feu!
+     Prête-moi ta plume          Ouvre-moi ta porte
+       Pour écrire un mot.         Pour l'amour de Dieu!'
+
+The second runs:--
+
+    'Au clair de la lune         Va chez la voisine--
+       Pierrot répondit:           Je crois qu'elle y est,
+     Je n'ai pas de plume,       Car, dans sa cuisine,
+       Je suis dans mon lit.       On bat le briquet.'
+
+The third stanza contains the point of the song:--
+
+    'Au clair de la lune           Qui frappe de la sorte?
+       S'en va Arléquin              Il dit à son tour:
+     Frapper chez la brune         Ouvre-moi ta porte
+       Qui répond soudain:           Pour le dieu d'amour.'
+
+The fourth stanza continues in the same strain, and it goes farther."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "MALBROUCK S'EN VA'T EN GUERRE"
+
+      Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+    Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre....
+      Ne sais quand reviendra!
+      Ne sais quand reviendra!
+      Ne sais quand reviendra!
+
+      Il reviendra-z-à Pâques--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Il reviendra-z-à Pâques....
+        Ou ... à la Trinit!
+
+      La Trinité se passe--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      La Trinité se passe....
+        Malbrouck ne revient pas!
+
+      Madame à sa tour monte--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Madame à sa tour monte,
+        Si haut qu'elle peut monter!
+
+      Elle voit de loin son page--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Elle voit de loin son page,
+        Tout de noire habillé!
+
+      "Mon page--mon beau page!--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Mon page--mon beau page!
+        Quelles nouvelles apportez?"
+
+      "Aux nouvelles que j'apporte--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Aux nouvelles que j'apporte,
+        Vos beaux yeux vont pleurer!"
+
+      "Quittez vos habits roses--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Quittez vos habits roses,
+        Et vos satins brochés!"
+
+      "Le Sieur Malbrouck est mort--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Le Sieur--Malbrouck--est--mort!
+        Est mort--et enterré!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There is no more eloquent description of the effect of music on an
+impressionable nature than du Maurier gives of the impression made upon
+Little Billee by the singing of Adam's "Cantique de Noël" at the
+Madeleine on Christmas Eve.
+
+           CANTIQUE DE NOËL
+
+    Minuit, Chrétiens, c'est l'heure solennelle,
+      Où l'homme Dieu descendit jusqu'à nous,
+    Pour effacer la tache originelle
+      Et de son Père arrêter le courroux.
+    Le monde entier tressaille d'espérance
+      A cette nuit qui lui donne un sauveur.
+    Peuple à genoux! attends la délivrance!
+      Noël, Noël, voici le Rédempteur!
+
+
+
+
+A Search for Sources
+
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+The liquid name, "Trilby," of du Maurier's heroine having been duly run
+down to its source, will a slight excursus be amiss as to the origin of
+the affectionate title applied by the novelist on his charming little
+hero--"Little Billee"? Evidently the name, together with certain
+descriptive touches, has been taken from Thackeray's ballad, "Little
+Billee." This racy skit, as many doubtless know, is in the best vein of
+the great humorist's inimitable burlesque. It narrates the tragic cruise
+of
+
+    "Three sailors of Bristol city
+     Who took a boat and went to sea,"
+
+the second stanza running thus:--
+
+    "There was gorging Jack, and guzzling Jimmy
+     _And the youngest, he was Little Billee_.
+     Now when they got as far as the Equator
+     They'd nothing left, but one split pea."
+
+And the unpleasant ultimatum being arrived at, that "We've nothing left,
+us must eat we," the poem continues:--
+
+    "Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy,
+     With one another we shouldn't agree,
+     There's little Bill, _he's young and tender_,
+     We're old and tough, so let's eat he."
+
+Here, I say, we have the origin of the novelist's "Little Billee,"
+while, in the italicized phrases, we have also du Maurier's, "the third,
+he was little Billee" (page 6), and "he was young and tender, was little
+Billee."
+
+It would be sheer nonsense, of course, to urge against the famous
+novelist any charge of unacknowledged borrowing in matters so entirely
+trivial. The point is merely a curious one of origins; a little
+siccatine botanizing, so to speak, on the _folia disjecta_ that have
+been wonderfully spun by du Maurier's genius into a fabric of grace and
+beauty so rare as is this "Trilby." Nor, indeed, should the further fact
+be a detraction from the gifted author of "Trilby," that his
+indebtedness to Thackeray is obviously greater than in the minutiæ under
+consideration--that, in fact, he has caught from the great immortal the
+note of much that is best in his book. In his limpid, graceful
+simplicity of words, and their easy, natural flow--in his delicate,
+playful humor, and tender but not overwrought pathos, we discover a
+careful study of found only a few general remarks about fairies, their
+habits and habitations, nothing in the least resembling the story of
+Jeannie's lover. Perhaps Nodier was mistaken about his source. As he
+travelled in the Highlands, he may possibly have "collected" the tale at
+first hand, and, there being no folk-lore societies in those early days
+of romanticism, he was not aware of the honor that thus accrued to him.
+It cannot have evolved itself from a mere hint. We appeal to Mr. Lang to
+take up and follow the chase farther. He might be worse occupied than in
+tracing out the original John Trilby MacFarlane, and whence he got his
+English-sounding name, his fairy powers and his connection with Saint
+Columba--the last probably from Nodier himself, who may have been
+reading Montalembert's "Monks of the West" before setting out upon his
+pilgrimage. Mr. Dole, by the way, irreverently converts the Dove of the
+Churches into a "Saint Columbine," unknown to any respectable
+hagiographer. Think, Mr. Lang, what a delightful coil this romancing
+Frenchman, let loose among your Hielan' men, fairies, monks and Scotch
+novels, has made for you to straighten out, and how many strange
+discoveries may be made while you are about the job!
+
+Miss Smith (2) has prepared another translation of Nodier's story, and,
+though there is little choice between her version and Mr. Dole's, we
+prefer it. It seems a trifle less exact, but it is more idiomatic; and,
+if anything, she perhaps intensifies the local color a little, which
+does not do the tale any harm. Her book is got up in tartan cover; Mr.
+Dole's has a design adapted from Paul Konewka.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mr. Richard Mansfield has secured from Estes & Lauriat the right to
+dramatize and produce Mr. Dole's translation of Nodier's "Trilby, le
+Lutin d'Argail."
+
+
+
+
+Nodier's "Trilby, le Lutin d'Argail"
+
+
+It was not long after the appearance of "Trilby" that our readers
+detected the French origin of the name of Mr. du Maurier's heroine. The
+story of the unearthing of this delightful French fairy-tale may be
+followed in this series of communications to _The Critic_:
+
+On looking over Roche's "Prosateurs Français," I find that one of the
+"plus jolis" contes of Charles Nodier (1788-1844) is entitled "Trilby";
+therefore the title of du Maurier's much-bought novel is not original
+with him. I should be pleased if any reader of _The Critic_ would inform
+me as to the plot of Nodier's story.
+
+ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI RECTORY,
+
+WM. J. MCCLURE,
+
+MT. KISCO, N. Y., 29th Oct., 1894.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following lines occur in the "Réponse à M. Charles Nodier" of Alfred
+de Musset:--
+
+    "Non pas cette belle insomnie
+           Du génie
+     Où Trilby vient, prêt à chanter,
+           T'écouter."
+
+This would seem to offer some clue to the origin of the name chosen by
+Mr. du Maurier for his heroine. Can you enlighten me as to the identity
+of the "Trilby" referred to by Musset?
+
+RIDGEFIELD, CONN., 19 Nov., 1894.
+
+ROSWELL BACON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In answer to the request of your correspondent in _The Critic_ of Nov.
+17, I find the tale of "Trilby" in my copy of the "Contes de Charles
+Nodier, illustrés par Tony Johannot." "Trilby" is the story of a
+household fairy of Scotland (a "Lutin familier de la Chaumière"). It is
+fantastic and touching, but it has nothing in common with du Maurier's
+"Trilby."
+
+LEESBURGH, VIRGINIA, 20 Nov., 1894.
+
+I. L. P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+From the recent contributions to "Trilbyana" in your columns, it would
+appear as if the name of Trilby (originally Scotch or Irish?) were not
+uncommon in the writings of French authors. Charles Nodier, in his
+_conte_, says that M. de Latouche--a contemporary--wrote on the same
+subject, "où cette charmante tradition était racontée en vers
+enchanteurs"--which gives one to suppose that "Trilby" was the name of
+his enchantress; though, perhaps, he refers to the old story of "Le
+Diable Amoureux." I find, moreover, that Balzac takes the name for a
+type in his "Histoire des Treize: Ferragus: Vol. I. Scènes de la Vie
+Parisienne" (page 48 of edition of 1843):--"Pour développer cette
+histoire dans toute la vérité de ses détails, pour en suivre le cours
+dans toutes ses sinuosités, il faut ici divulguer quelques secrets de
+l'amour, se glisser sous les lambris d'une chambre à coucher, non pas
+effrontément, mais à la manière de Trilby [the opposite to du Maurier's
+Trilby], n'effaroucher ni Dougal, ni Jeannie, n'effaroucher personne,"
+etc.
+
+TUXEDO PARK, 26 Nov., 1894.
+
+E. L. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_Boston Evening Transcript, 1 Dec. 1894._)
+
+"The Listener was asked the other day where du Maurier got the name of
+Trilby--a sweet and pleasant word, neither English nor French, which
+seemed to suit so perfectly the adorable young person of his creation.
+He was able to answer, more by accident certainly than as the result of
+erudition, that the name was not invented by du Maurier but belongs to
+the French classics--possibly to Scottish folk-lore. In the year 1822
+there was first published in Paris a _nouvelle_, by Charles Nodier,
+afterward a member of the French Academy, entitled, "Trilby, or the Fay
+of Argyle"; it was a sort of fairy-story, in which a fay is in love with
+a mortal woman, and the woman is very far from being indifferent to his
+sentiment. This 'Trilby' attained a considerable degree of popularity;
+it became, indeed, a French classic; Sainte-Beuve has particularly
+praised the charm of its style. * * * In his preface to the story,
+Nodier says: 'The subject of this story is derived from a preface or a
+note to one of the romances of Sir Walter Scott, I do not know which
+one.' This is a very indefinite acknowledgment While Nodier may have got
+his subject from Scott, the Listener doubts if he got the name 'Trilby'
+from him. It is just the sort of name that a French writer would give to
+a Scotch fay. Nevertheless, Trilby may be a real Scotch elfin. The
+Listener would hardly claim personal acquaintance with them all.
+
+"Du Maurier's 'Trilby' is curiously prefigured, in part at least, in
+Nodier's; and yet there is not the smallest thing that the most jealous
+critic could call a plagiarism; it is a legitimate parentage. As you go
+on with Nodier's story, you love his Trilby more and more, as you do du
+Maurier's, until you think that there was never so bewitching a fairy;
+and your love for Trilby is interwoven with your love for Jeannie, his
+mortal sweetheart, just as your love for du Manner's Trilby is forever
+mixed up with your tender sentiment for Little Billee. You feel a sort
+of enchantment over you like the hypnotism that you are under in du
+Maurier's strange book. And both stories, while abounding in wit and
+pretty things, are deeply tragical. It has been said of Nodier's
+'Trilby' that it belongs to the realm of the _supra-sensible_, and so,
+in large measure, certainly does du Maurier's. Du Maurier has confessed
+his obligation flatly in giving his story the very name that Nodier's
+bore. It is conceivable that the image of the Frenchman's haunting fairy
+dwelt with him until he resolved to reincarnate the adorable elf in the
+body of a girl as adorable. He gave his Trilby a Scotch ancestry to
+connect her the more naturally with the _lutin d'Argail_; and her fairy
+ancestry will easily account not only for her early prankishness, but
+for her later unreality. But it is a prefiguring merely, and not a
+direct suggestion. Whatever du Maurier's 'Trilby' lacks, it isn't
+originality!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_From Mr. C. E. L. Wingate's Boston Letter in The Critic of 20 April,
+1893._)
+
+It appears that the first mention of the French book appeared in _The
+Critic_, last November. It was in the same month that Mr. Bradford
+Torrey * * * happened to find a copy of Nodier's "Trilby" in the Boston
+Athenæum. He took the book to his friend, Mr. J. E. Chamberlin of _The
+Youth's Companion_, who began its translation at once. A few days later
+appeared a note in _The Critic_ from a correspondent in Virginia.
+Thinking that secrecy was no longer worth while, Mr. Chamberlin wrote
+his paragraphs for the _Transcript_ "Listener" column, incorporating a
+bit of translation. This was printed on Dec. 1. Miss Minna C. Smith went
+to Roberts Bros. at once, to ask them if they would consider the
+publication of a translation of the romance by her _Transcript_
+confrère, and Mr. F. Alcott Pratt replied that they would like very much
+to see that gentleman's work. Circumstances made Mr. Chamberlin decide
+not to finish the translation, and he gave Miss Smith his idea and a few
+pages of the manuscript for a Christmas present. During several weeks
+following she was engaged upon her careful translation. The Scotch words
+and names of localities in her manuscript were corrected by Mr. J.
+Murray Kay of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., an accomplished Scot, who walked
+through Argyle with his daughters last summer. On March 19, an article
+on Charles Nodier's story, foreshadowing Miss Smith's translation,
+appeared in the _Transcript_. On the morning of March 20, Mr. Dana Estes
+sent for Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole and asked him to make a translation,
+which was done with remarkable rapidity, and put out on March 29.
+Learning of this, Lamson, Wolffe & Co. hurried on Miss Smith's book,
+which had been in the hands of their printer at the Collins press for
+days, advertised it on Thursday and brought it out on Saturday, in
+Scotch plaid covers.
+
+This firm of Lamson, Wolffe & Co., by the way, has just been dissolved
+for a novel reason. Mr. Wolffe is a member of the class of '95 at
+Harvard. The publication of "Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle" called the
+attention of the faculty to his publishing business, and he was asked to
+give it up, or else forfeit his degree. He chose the former alternative,
+and although the firm name will remain Lamson, Wolffe & Co., a new and,
+for the present, silent member of the firm has added capital and
+scholarship to the house.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle"
+
+_By Charles Noder. 1. Translated from the French, with introduction, by
+Nathan Haskell Dole. Estes & Lauriat. 2. From the French by Minna
+Caroline Smith. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co._
+
+Nodier's "Trilby," who now revisits the book-stores owing to Mr. du
+Maurier's having taken his name for his heroine's, is one of the few
+latter-day fairies that have fairy blood (or ichor) in their veins. He
+belongs on the same shelf with Fouqué's "Undine," but, though he was
+only joking when he personated a father who "had not seen him since the
+days of King Fergus," he is certainly of the breed of Una and Maer,
+Caoilte and Mananan. That he made a sensation on his first appearance in
+the world of letters is shown by Victor Hugo's ode, warning the Fairy of
+Argyle to beware of ink-slinging penny-a-liners:--
+
+    "Car on en veut aux Trilbys
+      *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
+         Ils souilleraient d'encre noire,
+         Hélas! ton manteau de moire,
+       Ton aigrette de rubis"--
+
+advice which might be repeated apropos of Mr. du Maurier's creation.
+
+Mr. Dole, who has made a translation (1) of Nodier's "Trilby," has
+looked through all of Scott's novels, he says, to discover, if possible,
+the "preface or note" from which the French author claimed to have drawn
+his story, and has the deft art of "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes." And
+the "Cave of Harmony," with its songs and its bumpers and long whiffs,
+the gay nights and rollicking days of F. B. and Clive and Pendennis--the
+glamor of all which has enticed full many a youngster towards the easy
+descent, or the shining slopes (as the case may be) of art and
+letters--all these scenes have doubtless served as the studies of the
+pictures, almost as delightful and masterly as their prototypes, that du
+Maurier gives us of the joyous Bohemian life of the three jolly
+Musketeers of the Brush in the Quartier Latin in "Trilby."
+
+AUBURN, ALA., 26 Dec., 1894.
+
+CHARLES C. THACH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As a small contribution to "Trilbyana," I would call attention to the
+fact, unnoted so far, that Trilby was the name of Eugénie de Guérin's
+pet dog, mentioned several times in the journal she kept for her brother
+Maurice. Was the dog, perhaps, named for the fairy?
+
+LOUISVILLE, KY.
+
+A. C. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As there seems to be a mania for hunting up the sources of the
+inspiration of certain authors, I will engage in the game also. In
+Saintine's "Picciola," Book I., Chap XII., after the first paragraph,
+you will find the germ of "Peter Ibbetson."
+
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+
+C. C.
+
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+Title: Trilbyana
+       The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel
+
+Author: Joseph Benson Gilder & Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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+        Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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+<hr />
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/ill_title.jpg" alt="Trilbyana"  style="max-width:50%;" title="Trilbyana" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 562px;margin-top:15%;">
+<a name="frontispiece" id="frontispiece"></a>
+<span class="caption">Mr. du Maurier&#39;s First Drawing in &quot;Punch&quot;<br />Showing himself (smooth face) and Mr. Whistler (with eyeglass). (See <a href="#page_014">page 14</a>.)</span>
+<a href="images/ill_009_lg.png">
+<img src="images/ill_009_sml.png" width="562" height="550" alt="Mr. du Maurier&#39;s First Drawing in &quot;Punch&quot;" title="Mr. du Maurier&#39;s First Drawing in &quot;Punch&quot;" /></a>
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Photographer.</span>&mdash;&quot;No smoking here, Sir!&quot;</p>
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Dick Tinto.</span>&mdash;&quot;Oh! A thousand pardons! I was not aware that&mdash;&mdash;&quot;</p>
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Photographer</span> [interrupting with dignity."&mdash;<i>Please to remember, Gentlemen, that this is
+not a Common Hartist's studio!</i>" [N. B.&mdash;Dick and his friends, who <i>are</i> Common Artists, feel
+shut up by this little aristocratic distinction, which had not occurred to them.]
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<h1>TRILBYANA</h1>
+
+<h2>The Rise and Progress of a<br />
+Popular Novel</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;">
+<a name="Mr_du_Mauriers_Monogram" id="Mr_du_Mauriers_Monogram"></a>
+<img src="images/ill_010.png" width="150" height="139" alt="Mr. du Maurier's Monogram" title="Mr. du Maurier's Monogram" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>NEW YORK<br />
+THE CRITIC CO.<br />
+<br />
+MDCCCXCV</h3>
+
+<p class="c"><span class="smcap">Copyright 1895<br />
+by<br />
+The Critic Co.</span></p>
+
+<p class="c"><i>This edition is limited to<br />
+250 copies, of which this<br />
+is No.</i> 194.</p>
+
+<p><i>It is many a year since a book has attained the popularity
+of Mr. du Maurier's second novel, "Trilby" (printed
+as a serial in Harper's Monthly, from January to August,
+inclusive, and then issued in book-form, on Saturday, 8 September,
+1894). Several others have sold as well&mdash;some even
+better; but neither "Looking Backward" nor "Ben Hur"
+(to name but these two) has captivated the public in the same
+manner or in the same degree as this romance, this fairy-tale
+of the three British artists, the blanchisseuse who posed for
+"the altogether," the Parisian masters of painting, and the
+trans-Rhenish masters of music, in the Latin Quarter of the
+early fifties. It is a story written out of the author's very
+heart, and it finds its way straight to the hearts of his readers.
+This is the secret of its unique success. Its charm is
+emotional rather than intellectual. With all its art, it impresses
+one as essentially ingenuous. It is a book to be loved,
+not merely to be liked or admired.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>On 16 June, 1894, The Critic printed, with comment, a
+letter in which Mr. Whistler protested to the editor of an English
+newspaper against the libellous likeness of himself to be
+found in the character of Joe Sibley, one of the minor personages
+in the story of "Trilby." In the fall there were so many
+sporadic calls for this number of the paper as soon to exhaust
+the supply carried over from the summer. There seemed
+to be a general desire on the part of our readers to bind
+up the Whistler letters, etc., with the text and pictures of
+"Trilby" as printed in Harper's Monthly, the American artist's
+protest having led to a slight revision of the story before its
+appearance in book-form. The hint was acted upon; and two
+pages of "Trilbyana" were printed in The Critic of Nov. 17.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>Though an extra edition was struck off, the call for this
+number has at last exhausted the supply; and the present
+pamphlet, containing among its many items of interest a majority
+of those that have found a place in the columns of The Critic,
+may fairly claim to be issued in response to a popular call.</i></p>
+
+<p class="r"><i><span class="smcap">J.B. &amp; J.L. Gilder.</span></i><br />
+</p>
+
+<h3>TABLE OF CONTENTS</h3>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="toc">
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" class="smcap">Page</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">"Trilby: a Novel"</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_001">1</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Mr. du Maurier as a Draughtsman</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_004">4</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">"Trilby" on the Stage</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_008">8</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Personalia</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_011">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Whistler</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_015">15</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">"Trilby" Entertainments</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_019">19</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Miscellanea</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_022">22</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Songs</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_030">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">A Search for Sources</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_035">35</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Nodier's "Trilby," le Lutin d'Argail</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_037">37</a></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<h3>ILLUSTRATIONS</h3>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="illustrations">
+<tr><td align="left">Mr. du Maurier's Monogram</td><td align="left"><a href="#Mr_du_Mauriers_Monogram">Title-page</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Mr. du Maurier's First Drawing for <i>Punch</i></td><td align="left"><a href="#frontispiece">Frontispiece</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Portrait of Mr. du Maurier from a Photograph</td><td align="right">Face <a href="#page_010">10</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Portrait of Mr. du Maurier by Himself</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_011">11</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Portrait of Mr. Whistler</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_015">15</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">"Platt, the New Svengali"</td><td align="right"><a href="#page_025">25</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Mr. du Maurier's House on Hampton Heath</td><td align="right">Face <a href="#page_027">27</a></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p><a name="page_001" id="page_001"></a></p>
+
+<h3>"Trilby: a Novel"</h3>
+
+<p class="c"><i>By George du Maurier. With Illustrations by the Author. Harper &amp;
+Brothers.</i></p>
+
+<p>When "<span class="smcap">Trilby</span>" began to appear as a serial in <i>Harper's
+Monthly</i>, January 1894, Mr. Henry James prophesied that
+it would prove to be a glorification of "the long leg and the
+twentieth year." The prophecy was soon verified. At the
+outset, indeed, it seemed as if the glorification were to be,
+not so much of the long leg, as of the large and shapely foot.
+The whole story rested for a while on one of Trilby's feet.
+We say one, for it was only one of them&mdash;the left one&mdash;that
+Little Billee immortalized by drawing on the wall of the
+studio in the Place St. Anatole des Arts; but they were
+equally perfect. As the young woman who had the happiness
+of standing on this foot proclaims, kicking off one of
+the big slippers in which she is introduced to us, "It's the
+handsomest foot in all Paris: there's only one in all Paris to
+match it, and here it is"&mdash;and off goes the other slipper.
+The sketch of it that proves Little Billee already a master of
+his art is not shown till near the end of the book; and neither
+this nor Mr. du Maurier's own portrait of the <i>pieds nus</i> on
+page 21 fully realizes one's notion of the thing's unapproached
+perfection.</p>
+
+<p>As we have said, the whole story rests for a while on one
+of these handsome feet; but the novelist manages at last to
+free his neck from the thraldom of the "slim, straight, rosy
+heel, clean-cut and smooth as the back of a razor," and proceeds
+to gratify our curiosity to know something about the
+strange being who poked about the studios in the Quartier
+Latin in the early fifties, bare-headed, and wearing a big,
+military coat with epaulets, which she could throw off when
+she posed for the <i>ensemble</i> as easily as she could kick off the
+loose slippers when only her foot was desired as a model. It
+will be seen that Trilby was not a woman of any social
+standing. Her father was an educated Irishman, her mother
+(his wife) a pretty barmaid. They both were dead, and she
+herself was a professional model.</p>
+
+<p>Two things about her were equally marvellous: one was her
+foot, the other her voice&mdash;an organ of surprising power, range
+and sweetness. No less extraordinary, perhaps, was the trick
+that nature had played upon her, by coupling so glorious a
+voice with an ear that could not distinguish one note from<a name="page_002" id="page_002"></a>
+another&mdash;could scarcely tell a bass from a treble, and permitted
+her to sing so badly that her hearers either stopped
+their ears, laughed in her face, or bolted from the room. The
+American song "Ben Bolt" was the one she liked the best to
+sing, and sang the worst. There was something else about
+her, almost as strange as her beautiful feet, her magnificent
+voice and her defective (or altogether lacking) ear for music;
+and that was the purity of her character. She had had affairs
+with half a dozen men in the studios, without really knowing
+that it wasn't the right thing to do. But her heart remained
+spotless (so Mr. du Maurier assures us); and it is a most unfortunate
+thing that Little Billee's mother comes tearing over
+to Paris, leaving the peaceful dales and dairies of Devonshire
+behind her, in her mad haste to break the engagement which
+Trilby has at last made with the young English painter, after
+having repeatedly refused to do so, notwithstanding her great
+love for him. Mrs. Bagot has no difficulty in convincing her
+that she is no worthy mate for Little Billee; and she accordingly
+runs away from Paris, heart-broken, and becomes a
+<i>blanchisseuse de fin</i>. Little Billee's heart is broken, too; or
+if not broken, benumbed; and henceforth, though he becomes
+a most successful artist, and the pet of all London, he
+takes his pleasures and successes sadly and listlessly, caring
+nothing for the wealth and fame that come to him.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime a great <i>prima-donna</i> appears upon the
+European stage, and all the world bows down before her.
+Happening to be in Paris, Little Billee is persuaded by
+his old chums, Taffy the Yorkshireman ex-soldier, and the
+"Laird of Cockpen"&mdash;painters both,&mdash;to go and hear the
+prodigy. Fancy their stupefaction at recognizing in the
+glorious singer the tuneless Trilby of five years gone! No
+longer Trilby O'Ferrall, but La Svengali, wife of their old
+acquaintance Svengali the Jew, who had recognized the
+possibilities of her voice when he first heard it in their Paris
+studio, and had afterwards captured her and cultivated it
+and by his mesmeric arts trained her as a singer and even
+made her love him as a dog loves his master. A day or two
+later, meeting him at a hotel, Svengali spits in Little Billee's
+face, and gets his nose pulled for his pains by Taffy. And
+then the great <i>prima-donna</i> and her master go to London;
+and Trilby breaks down in trying to sing "Ben Bolt," and is
+hooted off the stage&mdash;Svengali's sudden death in a stage-box
+(unknown to anyone in the house) having broken the mesmeric
+influence that has made her a singer. She pines
+away, surrounded by her old friends the Englishmen, and
+an object of solicitude to all Christendom; and after her<a name="page_003" id="page_003"></a>
+death Little Billee pines away, too, and no one is left but
+the big ex-officer Taffy&mdash;with the exception of Trilby, the
+most attractive character in the book. For Little Billee
+(whose sister he marries, after the death of Trilby, whom he,
+too, loved) is, truth to tell, somewhat of a prig, even after the
+sight of Trilby at the concert in Paris has roused him from
+the unemotional state to which her flight consigned him, years
+before; and Svengali is a beast, and Gecko is insignificant.</p>
+
+<p>The text of the book is the counterpart of its illustrations,
+for Mr. du Maurier writes as he draws&mdash;with infinite precision
+and detail. Nothing is omitted that could possibly
+heighten an effect. Instead of flashing a scene or a sensation
+upon you, he describes it and redescribes it, heaping
+up the adjectives in masses. His art is a different art from
+Kipling's, for instance, which never wastes a syllable. But
+the point to be decided is not one of methods but of results;
+and as a whole "Trilby" is delightful. It is a slow and
+laborious process by which the author creates an impression
+and surrounds his characters with the atmosphere he wishes
+us to see them in; but he does finally create the impression
+and the atmosphere, and in so doing justifies his means. He
+has steeped his mind in Thackeray, and so has had a noble
+master. Like "Peter Ibbetson," his new story is unique.
+It is a book that could have been written only by an artist&mdash;and
+illustrated only by the author; it is a book, moreover, in
+which the man and the style are one.</p>
+
+<p>In its present form the story contains certain passages not
+printed in the magazine&mdash;notably, a brief disquisition on
+sitting for the nude. On the other hand, certain passages
+have been altered in deference to the wishes of Mr. Whistler,
+who saw in Joe Sibley, as described and pictured by Mr. du
+Maurier, an unpleasant resemblance to himself. Not only
+has the text been altered, but our friend Sibley is now called
+Antony, and his hitherto unbearded face is adorned with a
+non-Whistlerian beard. (See "Trilby," opposite page 132.)
+One picture has been omitted altogether. It needed not the
+accidental advertising of Mr. Whistler's threatened libel suit
+to draw attention to the book. It is its own best advertisement,
+and has fairly earned the success implied in advance
+orders so numerous as to cause the postponement until to-day
+(8 Sept. 1894) of the original date of publication.<a name="page_004" id="page_004"></a></p>
+
+<h3>Mr. du Maurier as a Draughtsman</h3>
+
+<p>It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. du Maurier's work
+as a novelist is in no way matched by his work as a draughtsman,
+as exemplified, for instance, in the 120 drawings for
+"Trilby," exhibited in December, 1894, at the Avery gallery.
+Until he began to write he was known merely as the author
+of innumerable caricatures, which had a certain vogue because
+they were at the same time pictures of fashionable
+society; but even of these the legend was often the best
+part. He had mastered many types, but they were nothing
+more than that; and one had seen his millionaires and
+swells and singing people and artists until one had grown
+rather tired of them. Then, suddenly, it was found, with the
+first chapters of his first novel, that in writing he could give
+to all these well-known figures individuality, could make
+flesh and blood of them. The drawings themselves, at least
+those done as illustrations for his two romances, seem to
+have gained by that discovery. These do not appear to be
+the same French blouses and English guardsmen. Something
+has got into them, a touch of life, which they did not
+have before. Yet no one will say that the Little Billee of the
+drawings now exhibited at Avery's gallery is even a shadow of
+the Little Billee of the text. Of Trilby there is not so much
+as the famous foot. Any schoolboy, almost, might have
+made as clever a travesty of the Venus de Milo. The best
+presentment of the gigantic Taffy is that in which he poses as
+the Ilyssus. The Laird o' Cockpen is much better, being
+frequently very like Mr. George W. Cable, particularly where
+he listens to Trilby's confession&mdash;an accidental likeness, no
+doubt, but one that increases our respect for the Laird. The
+intentional likeness of Frederick Walker, who is said to be
+the real original of Little Billee, is vastly superior to the
+ideal one; and the many unnamed figures in the more crowded
+compositions that appear to have been sketched from the life
+or from a particularly vivid memory are among the most
+amusing and enjoyable things in the drawings.</p>
+
+<p>But it must not be denied that there is here and there a
+bit of <i>chic</i> that approaches the ideal&mdash;something not easily
+to be discovered in the artist's former work. Svengali is
+throughout a creation of this sort. He is as grotesquely romantic,
+as Mephistophelian a figure in the illustration as in
+the printed page. The only failure is the head (on page 59<a name="page_005" id="page_005"></a>
+of the book) which is in more senses than one "as bad as
+they make them." He is excellent where he laughs over the
+two Englishmen cleaning themselves; he is delightful where
+he examines the roof of Trilby's mouth, "like the dome of
+the Panthéon," "room in it for 'toutes les gloires de la
+France.'" Where he stands in the midst of the crowded studio,
+"All as it Used to Be," he looks every inch the artist,
+more so than the "idle apprentice," lounging against the
+door-jamb. If there were such a man, one who had sunk his
+whole soul in his art, he might look like this, or like the same
+figure in the hussar uniform, a Semitic conqueror "out of
+the mysterious East." There is a touch of the spirit of the
+illustrators of the romantic period in the pictures of the
+Christmas festivities, especially in the two that illustrate the
+peculiar interchange of rôles between Little Billee and the
+festive Ribot, and in the sketch of Zouzou as the "Ducal
+French Fighting-Cock." The scenes of common life, too,
+are admirable, the free-and-easy, the "Happy Dinner," the
+bargaining of the Laird with Mme. Vinard&mdash;"Je prong!"&mdash;and
+the scene at the rehearsal where "The First Violin
+Loses his Temper." The art of the drawings is all in expression
+and action, and Du Maurier, in spite of all that is
+French in him, is thoroughly British in this, and a descendant
+in the right line of Hogarth, Cruikshank and Leech.</p>
+
+<p>The "Trilby" drawings were bought <i>en bloc</i> by some one
+in England. They had been sent here to be engraved for
+<i>Harper's Monthly</i> and the book; the sale occurred before
+they were placed on exhibition in New York. A representative
+of <i>The Critic</i> asked Mr. Avery, who said that a number of
+people had expressed a desire to buy some of them, what he
+thought they would have brought, if sold over here. He replied
+that he could not tell with any degree of accuracy, but he
+thought they would have averaged at least $50 apiece. As there
+are 120 drawings, this would have meant $6,000 more for Mr.
+du Maurier. <i>En bloc</i>, no doubt, they brought a smaller sum.</p>
+
+<p>A painting of "Trilby," by Mr. Constant Mayer, was
+shown at Knoedler's gallery, in December, along with half a
+dozen other and more satisfactory paintings by the same
+artist. The hypnotic condition of the subject was declared
+by Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton to be admirably suggested
+in this fancy portrait.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">To the Editors of The Critic</span>:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Those who express surprise at the sudden literary development
+of du Maurier's genius do not apparently recognize
+the fact that the whole series of his drawings has included<a name="page_006" id="page_006"></a>
+the literary element. His thoughts as expressed in art have
+always shown a close and philosophical observation of life,
+an understanding of the actions and motives of men. Every
+one of his illustrations tells not only an individual story, but
+a story of surroundings and times, of tendencies, fads and
+foibles. And the text is always as important as the picture;
+sometimes it is far more so. Who can have forgotten the
+history and culmination of the "old china" craze given by
+du Maurier in a four-inch-square illustration of the young
+husband and wife examining an old teapot, with the exquisite
+text, "Oh, Algernon, do you think we can ever live up to
+it?" Certainly the man who could invent the application
+of that phrase must have stores of wit and sense equal to
+the writing of many "Peter Ibbetsons" and "Trilbys." And
+those stores were bound to find their larger expression in
+literature.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">New York, 22 Nov., 1894.</span>
+<span style="margin-left:10em;"><span class="smcap">Candace Wheeler.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>The New York <i>Tribune</i> has printed the following protest
+against the insinuation that the author of the book was not
+its illustrator also:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"It ought not to be necessary for any formal contradiction to
+be made of that absurd rumor which has just been set adrift concerning
+the illustrations to 'Trilby.' On the face of it, it is impossible
+for either Mrs. du Maurier or her daughter to have given the
+pictures the character they possess. They have du Maurier's style,
+du Maurier's technique, du Maurier's peculiar little touches of
+humor, not merely in the broad idea but in that minute turn of the
+pen which makes all the difference in the world between an empty
+profile and a funny one. It is true that there is a dissimilarity between
+Trilby in one illustration and Trilby in another, but it should
+be remembered that du Maurier's eyesight has been failing him,
+that he has been compelled to be prolific at a time when he has
+most needed to lie fallow as an artist; and, in brief, the shortcomings
+of the 'Trilby' designs, if serious shortcomings they have,
+are to be explained on the most natural and logical of grounds.
+The intrinsic character of the drawings proclaims their authorship.
+Only George du Maurier could have done them, and not any of the
+trifling assistance which he may have received from his family in
+matters of posing, costume, etc., could deprive him of his responsibility
+or his honor. The recent tendency to criticise these designs
+with some severity will soon be counteracted. As a matter
+of fact, they present some of the cleverest work du Maurier has
+ever done."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>The New York <i>Sun</i> printed a letter, not long ago, in which
+the drawings were declared to be anachronistic. "Why," it
+was asked, "should Mr. du Maurier deny to his characters<a name="page_007" id="page_007"></a>
+the crinolines, waterfalls, surtouts, cravats, chignons, peg-top
+trousers and hoop-skirts of the early sixties, and make them,
+despite Taffy's whiskers, of the <i>monde</i> of to-day? Is it that
+his artistic instincts have reverted to that fine school of old
+masters who delighted to portray, saving Taffy's grace, Hector
+fighting in the armor of the Black Prince, or turned out Madonnas
+by the score in Margaret of Anjou skirts?"</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>In "Trilby" every stroke of pen or pencil seems to be
+significant. Is there special meaning in the fact that, in
+the dainty tail-piece, one glass in the spectacles appears
+to be heavily shaded, while the other is clear? Is Mr.
+du Maurier, like so many literary people, afflicted with
+partial loss of sight or other visual difficulty?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Amherst College Library.</span>
+<span style="margin-left:10em;"><span class="smcap">W. I. Fletcher.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>[Unhappily he is, and has been for many years. It is
+only with the greatest difficulty that he is able to work with
+either pen or pencil.]</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<a href="images/ill_020_lg.png">
+<img src="images/ill_020_sml.png" width="350" height="174" alt="From &quot;Trilby.&quot; Copyright, 1894, by Harper &amp; Brothers." title="From &quot;Trilby.&quot; Copyright, 1894, by Harper &amp; Brothers." /></a>
+<br />
+<span class="caption">From &quot;Trilby.&quot; <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Copyright, 1894, by Harper &amp; Brothers.</span></span>
+</div>
+
+<p><a name="page_008" id="page_008"></a></p>
+
+<h3>"Trilby" on the Stage</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Paul M. Potter's dramatization of "Trilby" was produced
+by Mr. A. M. Palmer's company at the Boston Museum
+on Monday, 4 March, 1895, and achieved so great a success
+that several companies were immediately put upon the road
+to play it throughout the country. Its first production in
+New York, with the original cast, occurred at the Garden
+Theatre, on April 15. Hundreds of people were turned away
+from the door for want of room to accommodate them; and
+an offer was received from Mr. Beerbohm Tree, the eminent
+English actor, for the privilege of producing the play in
+England, where he himself wished to impersonate Svengali.
+It would be a pity if the Lyceum company did not secure the
+English rights; for Mr. Irving would make an inimitable
+Svengali, and Ellen Terry would be Trilby without trying.</p>
+
+<p>As nobody has ever succeeded, or is likely to succeed, in
+really dramatizing a novel, it is not surprising that the stage
+version of "Trilby" should prove in some respects unsatisfactory.
+It might be thought that the book would lend itself
+readily to dramatic treatment; but a little consideration will
+show that it offers peculiar difficulties to the playwright, inasmuch
+as its chief charm is one of manner, which cannot be
+transferred to the stage, while its story, although it contains
+some striking situations, such as Trilby's collapse upon the
+death of Svengali, consists chiefly of a series of episodes,
+largely independent of each other and strung together very
+loosely. All things considered, Mr. Potter ought not, perhaps,
+to be held to too strict an account for the liberties he has
+taken with the text and some of the personages, but he has
+certainly lowered the tone of the work, and been guilty of
+various crudities of construction. There is some excuse for
+his employment of Svengali as the evil influence which wrecks
+the happiness of Little Billee and Trilby, but he leaves nothing
+of the author's original intention, and infinitely belittles
+the character of the girl, when he attributes her flight from her
+lover to mesmeric suggestion, instead of her own noble and
+unselfish devotion. In many other similar ways the spiritual
+side of the book suffers at his hands. His persistent references
+to Trilby's posing for the figure, his selection of that
+particular incident for her first introduction, and the joking
+references to it which he puts into the mouths of other personages,
+are in bad taste, while his travesty of the character<a name="page_009" id="page_009"></a>
+of Dr. Bagot is entirely without justification. Mrs. Bagot he
+treats with more consideration, but he reduces her to the level
+of the dullest stage conventionality. Trilby herself preserves a
+good many of her characteristics, but is degraded even more
+than in the book by her subserviency to Svengali.</p>
+
+<p>The play is in four acts, and the whole story up to the flight
+of Trilby is compressed into the first two. This feat is accomplished
+with no small ingenuity, but at great cost of probability.
+In this brief space Trilby is wooed and won, Svengali
+asserts his mesmeric power, the marriage of Little Billee
+is arranged and interrupted by the arrival of his mother, and
+an elopement is planned and frustrated. In the third act
+Trilby is to sing in the Cirque des Bashibazouck, and all the
+characters reassemble as if by magic in the foyer of that temple
+of art, which is abandoned of all other persons for their
+sole benefit. The proceedings which are supposed to occur
+in this retired spot are intrinsically absurd, but they are effective
+enough from a scenic and theatrical point of view, and
+were accepted by the audience, on the first night, as eminently
+natural and satisfactory. They culminate in the ghastly death
+of Svengali and the restoration of Trilby in a dazed and exhausted
+condition to the three faithful friends. In the fourth
+act there is another reunion of characters, and Trilby, who
+has agreed once more to marry Little Billee, and is supposed
+to be on the road to recovery, dies suddenly, upon the unexpected
+apparition of Svengali's photograph.</p>
+
+<p>As it stands, the play is not much superior, if at all, to
+ordinary melodrama, being almost wholly void of the literary,
+humorous and personal charm of the book, but it is very
+well played, has a number of effective scenes, and is unquestionably
+popular. Miss Harned's Trilby, though rather a faint
+reflection of the original, has the merit of being attractive
+and womanly, as well as free and frank, and exhibits true
+pathos in the mesmeric scenes. On the whole, it is a very
+creditable impersonation. Mr. Lackaye's Svengali is overwrought
+but indisputably strong; and Burr McIntosh, John
+Glendenning and Alfred Hickman represent the three friends
+cleverly, and furnish excellent living pictures of du Maurier's
+sketches. Mr. Dietrichstein makes an admirable Zouzou,
+and all the minor parts are performed competently. A feature
+of the representation which is received with special
+favor is the Christmas merrymaking in the Latin Quarter,
+which is as vivacious and realistic as could be wished.</p>
+
+<p>A matter of considerable interest to authors and publishers,
+for the copyright question involved, occurred in connection
+with the Boston performances. Elmer Chickering,<a name="page_010" id="page_010"></a>
+the well-known photographer of Boston, took some pictures
+of Mr. A. M. Palmer's company, which naturally came into
+demand at once. But rushing over the wires came a message
+from Harper &amp; Bros., saying that, as the characters were
+made up after du Maurier's drawings, they should regard
+the sale of any such pictures as an infringement of their copyright.
+To this, Mr. Chickering disagreed, on the ground
+that the photographs were not copies of any drawings, but
+of actual scenes on the stage, which any man might sketch.
+Telegrams flew back and forth, for the Messrs. Harper
+would not yield. Meanwhile, the papers sought for the
+photographs, and Mr. Palmer was apparently willing to receive
+the advertisement their publication would ensure; but
+the publishers still held off. At last Mr. Chickering decided
+to fight it out on his own line, for two of the New York papers
+printed some of the 160 "Trilby" pictures taken by him;
+and&mdash;as indicating an amicable adjustment of the dispute&mdash;a
+number of them appeared in <i>Harper's Weekly</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The morning papers of April 30 contained this despatch:&mdash;"<span class="smcap">Denver,
+Col.</span>, April 29. Did du Maurier write 'Trilby'?
+This novel question was propounded to-day in the United States
+Court in good faith, when the suit of Harper &amp; Bros. and A. M.
+Palmer for an injunction against the Lyceum Stock Company to
+restrain them from producing 'Trilby' at their theatre was called.
+The defendants allege that the book entitled 'Trilby' was not
+originated, invented or written by du Maurier. They assert that
+the original title and book of 'Trilby' were first published in
+France in 1820, and afterwards translated and published in English
+in 1847, and that the title and book have been common property
+for seventy-five years. The attorneys for the plaintiffs asked
+for time to communicate with their clients in New York as to the
+course they should pursue, and the Court postponed the hearing
+until Wednesday morning. Should the allegations of the Lyceum
+Company be true, a sensation will be caused all over the two continents.
+This is the first public intimation of an attack on the
+authenticity of the work, and if it is successful every company in
+the world will have as much right to play 'Trilby' as the Boston
+Organization."</p>
+
+<p>The Lounger reprinted the telegram with this comment:&mdash;"Charles
+Nodier's 'Trilby, le Lutin d'Argail,' was published
+in Paris in 1822. It has just one thing in common with du
+Maurier's book&mdash;the first word in its title." The Sunday
+papers of May 12 printed this paragraph:&mdash;"<span class="smcap">Denver</span>, May
+11. Judge Hallet, in the United States District Court to-day,
+granted an injunction restraining the Lyceum Theatre
+from producing 'Trilby' hereafter, deciding that it infringed
+on the rights of Harper &amp; Bros., and others. To-day's performance
+was stopped."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 502px;">
+<a href="images/ill_024_lg.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_024_sml.jpg" width="502" height="550" alt="Portrait of George du Maurier" title="Portrait of George du Maurier" /></a>
+<span class="caption smcap">George du Maurier</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><a name="page_011" id="page_011"></a></p>
+
+<h3>Personalia</h3>
+
+<p>A London correspondent of the Philadelphia <i>Press</i> furnishes
+some interesting notes of a talk with Mr. du Maurier.
+Concerning literary practice, the artist-novelist said that
+"Peter Ibbetson" was
+absolutely the first
+story he ever wrote.
+"And yet," he added,
+"I have in one sense
+been writing stories all
+my life. Every one of
+my pictures, for example,
+has had under
+it a story condensed to
+the smallest possible
+space. The necessity
+of condensing my description
+and dialogue
+has been of great benefit
+to me in writing my
+two novels." As for
+"Trilby," Mr. du Maurier
+said that his earliest
+conception of the
+story was quite different
+from the one he
+finally worked out. "I
+had first thought of
+Trilby as a girl of very
+low birth&mdash;a servant, or something like that. Then it occurred
+to me that it would be much better to make her
+interesting&mdash;to create a person who would be liked by readers.
+As a good many people seem to be fond of 'Trilby'
+now, I am very glad, indeed, that I made the change." And
+he declared further that the character of Trilby was not a
+study from life, but wholly imaginary. It was Henry James
+who suggested to the artist that he should write novels.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 377px;">
+<a href="images/ill_026_lg.png">
+<img src="images/ill_026_sml.png" width="377" height="550" alt="By Himself
+From Harry Furniss's &quot;Lika-Joko&quot;" title="By Himself
+From Harry Furniss's &quot;Lika-Joko&quot;" /></a>
+<span class="caption">BY HIMSELF
+From Harry Furniss's &quot;Lika-Joko&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>"It was one day while we were walking together on
+Hampstead Heath. We were talking about storywriting, and
+I said to him:&mdash;'If I were a writer, it seems to me that I
+should have no difficulty about plots. I have in my head
+now plots for fifty stories. I'm always working them out for
+my own amusement.' 'Well,' he said, 'it seems to me that<a name="page_012" id="page_012"></a>
+you are a very fortunate person; I wish you'd tell me one of
+those plots.' Then I told him the story of 'Trilby.'" "Yes,
+he praised it very generously. 'Well,' I said, 'you may have
+the idea and work it out to your own satisfaction.' But he refused
+to accept it. 'You must write it yourself,' he said: 'I'm
+sure you can do it, if you'll only try.' But I insisted that I
+couldn't, and so we left the matter. But that night after going
+home it occurred to me that it would be worth while
+trying to write, after all. So on the impulse I sat down and
+began to work. It was not on 'Trilby,' however, but on
+'Peter Ibbetson.' I kept at it for a time, but after doing
+several chapters I became utterly discouraged, and said to
+myself one evening:&mdash;'Oh, I can't do anything with this.
+It's a mad story. It's utter rubbish.' Then I took up the
+sheets and was just about to throw them into the fire when
+I thought I'd keep them for another day and think the thing
+over. That night in bed, while I was worrying about the
+impossibility of going on with the tale, the solution of my
+difficulty suddenly occurred to me. 'I'll make the hero mad,'
+I cried to myself, 'that will put everything right.' So the
+next day I wrote the introduction, explaining Peter's madness,
+and after that I went on with the work to the end without
+any more trouble."</p>
+
+<p>"Trilby's" American publishers have sent out the following
+note:&mdash;"A letter from Mr. du Maurier to the late James
+R. Osgood is given herewith. Possibly the hint it contains
+as to the secret of an exquisite literary style will interest the
+greater number of readers; or perhaps his saying (in 1890)
+that he has 'several good ideas,' which would seem to be an
+answer to those who have maintained that 'Trilby' was
+written many years ago.<span class="spc"> &nbsp; * * *</span></p>
+
+<p>'<span class="smcap">My Dear Osgood</span>:&mdash;Of course I remembered my promise,
+and as soon as my book&mdash;"Peter Ibbetson"&mdash;was finished and
+typewritten, I wrote to you&mdash;last week, as it happens&mdash;at 50
+Fleet Street, but behold! you were in America; so I sent them
+the copy, and I believe it starts by to-day's mail for Harper in
+New York. I don't know how it got into the papers that I was
+coming out in this new line, but I have already offers to come to
+an arrangement. I have no notion whether it is suited to a periodical
+or not&mdash;you will see; probably <i>not</i>,&mdash;but if it is I want to
+be well paid for it; first [illegible], as far as my <i>first</i> book is concerned,
+whatever its merits; secondly, because the only people to
+whom I have told the story (H. James, Canon Ainger, poor Allingham
+and a few others) thought so well of it&mdash;or said so&mdash;as an
+<i>idea</i>; and I have taken great pains in the carrying out thereof.
+If Harper's doesn't see its way to it, I shall offer it elsewhere;
+and after that, I shall put it in the hands of an agent. And if I
+don't get what I think I ought to, I shall keep it and write another,<a name="page_013" id="page_013"></a>
+as I have several good ideas, and writing this has taught me a lot.
+All of which sounds very cheeky and grand; but I am in no hurry
+to come before the public as a novelist before I'm ripe, and to
+ripen myself duly I am actually rewriting it in French, and you've
+no idea what a lesson <i>that</i> is!<span class="spc"> &nbsp; * * *</span></p>
+
+<p class="r">'Yours ever, <span class="smcap">G. du Maurier</span>.</p>
+
+<p>'<span class="smcap">15 Bayswater Terrace, London</span>, April 18, 1890.'"</p>
+
+<p>It is said that when the Messrs. Harper were negotiating
+with Mr. du Maurier for "Trilby," he declined their offer of
+a royalty on the sales of the book and decided in favor of a
+"lump sum." We do not know how large this sum was, but
+we are pretty sure that it was not so much as he would have
+made by the royalty plan. That would have earned at least
+$30,000 for him on a sale of about 100,000 copies to 31 Dec.,
+1894. The Messrs. Harper have, however, done a more
+than generous thing by him: they have informed him that
+they will pay him a royalty, and a good big one, too, on all
+sales after 1 Jan., 1895, on both "Trilby" and "Peter Ibbetson."
+The 600 copies of the <i>édition de luxe</i> of "Trilby,"
+at $10 a copy, were sold outright to the Syndicate Trading Co.</p>
+
+<p>Our London correspondent, Mr. Arthur Waugh, wrote to
+us on 16 April, 1895:&mdash;"The English reading public is to
+have its illustrated 'Trilby' in one volume in June. Hitherto
+the three-volume edition has alone been in circulation, and
+that without the illustrations. There are to be no sketches
+in all, and arrangements are also in progress for a large-paper
+edition of 250 copies, with six facsimile reproductions of
+original drawings, unbound." Advance orders were received
+for 15,000 copies of the six-shilling edition.</p>
+
+<p>In an interview reported in the <i>Tribune</i> of June 14, Mr. J.
+Henry Harper was quoted as saying, apropos of a cablegram
+to the effect that the writing of "The Martians" was completed:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"He assures me that his new story will not be ready for the
+publishers until December, 1896. I cannot tell you much about
+the book itself yet, but it will not be in any sense a sequel to
+'Trilby' except so far as it will succeed that book. The new story
+will deal in its opening chapters with French school life, and then
+with English life, both fashionable and rowdy; then the artistic
+world of Antwerp and Dusseldorf is exploited, while the closing
+stages occur in England. There will be love in the tale, of course,
+and du Maurier also brings in the supernatural again. There will
+be plenty of liveliness and some tragedy. The book, I am given
+to understand, will be capable of illustration; but I am sorry to
+say there is some doubt as to whether du Maurier himself will illustrate
+it. It will depend entirely upon the state of his health,
+which of late has not been of the best. The length of the story
+will be greater than 'Trilby' and will run through about twelve<a name="page_014" id="page_014"></a>
+numbers of <i>Harper's Magazine</i>, in which it will first be published
+in serial form."</p>
+
+<p>As a matter of course, Mr. du Maurier has had no end
+of invitations to read and lecture in this country, but to all
+these invitations he has turned a deaf ear. In a recent
+letter to <i>The Critic's</i> Lounger, he expressed himself as flattered
+by these overtures, but added that his health would not
+permit of his accepting any of the tempting propositions.
+He might be more in the way of temptation, if it were not
+for the play of "Trilby." This brings him in almost as much
+money as readings would. We are told that he is in receipt
+of several hundred dollars a week from this source&mdash;not ten
+hundred, but very near it. This, surely, is a much easier way
+of earning money than travelling from one end of a big
+country to the other, for it costs him no greater exertion
+than the signing of his name to a check.</p>
+
+<p>No one who loves "Trilby" should fail to read the "autobiographic
+interview" with du Maurier which Mr. Robert
+H. Sherard contributed, with illustrations, to <i>McClure's
+Magazine</i> for April, 1895. From this singularly intimate and
+interesting article, one learns that the author's first picture in
+<i>Punch</i> represented himself and his chum Whistler<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a>; also, that
+the studio in the Latin Quarter where Trilby visited the
+three English artists was drawn from that of his master,
+Gleyre.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. du Maurier's monogram, which appears on the title-page
+of this pamphlet, is reproduced from a carving on the table at
+which the staff contributors to <i>Punch</i> dine once a week, and
+on which many of them have made similar inscriptions. We
+are indebted for it to <i>McClure's Magazine</i>.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 50px;">
+<img src="images/ill_design.png" width="50" height="51" alt="spiral floral decoration" title="spiral floral decoration" />
+</div>
+
+<p><a name="page_015" id="page_015"></a></p>
+
+<h3>Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Whistler</h3>
+
+<p>The first two or three of the following paragraphs appeared
+on the Lounger's page in <i>The Critic</i> of 16 June,
+1894, and were reprinted, with most of the Whistler-du Maurier
+items that succeed them, in the issue of Nov. 17.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 442px;">
+<a href="images/ill_030_lg.png">
+<img src="images/ill_030_sml.png" width="442" height="500" alt="drawing: (From The Westminster Budget)
+Mr. Whistler" title="drawing: (From The Westminster Budget)
+Mr. Whistler" /></a>
+<p class="whistler">(From The Westminster Budget)<br />
+Mr. Whistler</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>Mr. Whistler has mastered two arts besides painting and
+sketching. One he has immortalized in that unique brochure,
+"The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"; the other is the Gentle
+Art of Advertising
+Oneself.
+These two generalities
+are not
+always to be distinguished
+from
+each other. It
+is quite possible
+to make an enemy
+in advertising
+oneself; and nothing
+is easier than
+to draw general
+attention to oneself,
+by the same
+act that incurs
+the enmity of
+individual&mdash;especially
+if the
+individual be
+eminent. At the
+present moment
+M. du Maurier
+happens to be
+one of the most
+conspicuous figures in the field jointly occupied by Art and
+Letters. In choosing him as an object of clamorous attack,
+Mr. Whistler has shown himself a past-master of the art of
+advertising oneself. By identifying himself with one of the
+characters in a story that everyone is reading, he brings himself
+more conspicuously before the public than by painting a
+new picture. Moreover, in sending to an English newspaper
+a letter in which he vituperates his quondam friend and fellow-artist,
+he interrupts himself for but a moment in the
+pursuit of his legitimate calling as a painter.<a name="page_016" id="page_016"></a></p>
+
+<p>In America, at least, few readers of "Trilby" would have
+known that, in Joe Sibley, Mr. du Maurier had hit off some
+of the most salient "peculiarities" of the immensely talented
+etcher, who, when he takes the newspapers into his confidence,
+dips his pen in the corrosive acid with which he bites
+his plates. Joe Sibley is not an engaging character; he is
+a Bohemian of the Bohemians, clever, witty, penniless and
+presuming. In taking his sibilant surname as a pseudonym
+for Whistler, we have the endorsement of the artist himself,
+though he does not expressly declare himself to be the archetype
+of this particular character. Sibley is the only man in
+the book who <i>could</i> have been drawn from Whistler&mdash;the
+Whistler of a generation ago; and no one but Sibley could
+have written the following letter, in which the creator of the
+character is so wittily vilified:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">To the Editor&mdash;SIR</span>: It would seem, notwithstanding;
+my boastful declaration, that, after all, I had not, before leaving
+England, completely rid myself of the abomination&mdash;the 'friend '!
+One solitary, unheeded one&mdash;Mr. George du Maurier&mdash;still remained,
+hidden in Hampstead. On that healthy heath he has been
+harboring, for nearly half a life, every villainy of good fellowship
+that could be perfected by the careless frequentation of our early
+intimacy and my unsuspecting <i>camaraderie</i>. Of this pent-up envy,
+malice and furtive intent he never at any moment during all that
+time allowed me, while affectionately grasping his honest Anglo-French
+fist, to detect the faintest indication. Now that my back
+is turned, the old <i>marmite</i> of our <i>pot-au-feu</i> he fills with the picric
+acid of 30 years' spite, and, in an American magazine, fires off
+his bomb of mendacious recollection and poisoned rancour. The
+lie with which it is loaded <i>à mon intention</i> he proposes for my possible
+'future biographer'&mdash;but I fancy it explodes, as is usual, in
+his own waistcoat, and he furnishes, in his present unseemly state,
+an excellent example of all those others who, like himself, have
+thought a foul friend a finer fellow than an open enemy.</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">Paris.</span> <span style="margin-left:10em;"><span class="smcap">J. M'Neill Whistler.</span></span></p>
+
+<p>"Reflection: The <i>compagnon</i> of the <i>pétard</i> we guillotine. Guineas
+are given to the popular companion who prepares his infernal
+machine for the distinguished associates in whose friendship he
+has successfully speculated."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>The following card appeared in <i>Harper's</i> for October:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Pursuant to an arrangement made with Mr. J. McNeill Whistler
+by our London agents, Messrs. Osgood, McIlvaine &amp; Co., the
+publishers of the English edition of <i>Harper's Magazine</i>, the following
+letter is published:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="r">August 31, 1894.</p>
+
+<p>"'<span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>&mdash;Our attention has been called to the attack
+made upon you by Mr. du Maurier in the novel "Trilby," which
+appeared in our magazine. If we had had any knowledge of personal<a name="page_017" id="page_017"></a>
+reference to yourself being intended, we should not have
+permitted the publication of such passages as could be offensive to
+you. As it is, we have freely made such reparation as is in our
+power. We have agreed to stop future sales of the March number
+of <i>Harper's Magazine</i>,<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> and we undertake that, when the
+story appears in the form of a book, the March number shall be so
+rewritten as to omit every mention of the offensive character, and
+that the illustration which represents the Idle Apprentice shall be
+excised, and that the portraits of Joe Sibley in the general scene
+shall be altered so as to give no clue to your identity. Moreover,
+we engage to print and insert in our magazine for the month of
+October this letter of apology addressed to you. Assuring you
+again of our sincere regret that you should have sustained the
+least annoyance in any publication of ours, we are,</p>
+
+<p>
+"'Yours respectfully,
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Harper &amp; Brothers</span>.</span><br />
+"'<span class="smcap">J. McNeill Whistler, Esq.</span>'"<br />
+</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>One of the humors of the controversy was a letter that appeared
+in the first number of Harry Furniss's <i>Lika-Joko</i>.
+It was supposed to have been written by Whistler to express
+his indignation at having been cut out of the book. The
+English as well as the American papers fell into the trap, and
+discussed the letter as a genuine expression of Mr. Whistler's
+outraged feelings. It was only a joke, however&mdash;and is said
+to have been the only joke in Mr. Furniss's comic paper.
+To an interviewer for <i>The Westminster Budget</i>, Mr. Whistler
+expressed his surprise that anyone should have been taken
+in by the parody. "There was no harm in the appearance
+of the article," he said, "but what caused my merriment,
+though not surprise, is that anyone would have thought for
+a moment that I had written it. But then, it was in England,
+and in England anything is possible!" That the parody
+was a clever one will be seen from the following extract:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"In the fascinating numbers of 'Trilby,' as they appeared in
+<i>Harper's Magazine</i>, I read with delight of one Joe Sibley, idle
+apprentice, king of Bohemia, <i>roi des truands</i>, always in debt, vain,
+witty, exquisite and original in art, eccentric in dress, genial,
+caressing, scrupulously clean, sympathetic, charming; an irresistible
+but unreliable friend, a jester of infinite humor, a man now
+perched upon a pinnacle of fame (and notoriety), a worshipper of
+himself; a white-haired, tall, slim, graceful person with pretty
+manners and an unimpeachable moral tone. My only regret was
+that too little was said about so charming a creation. I looked to
+see more of him in the published three volumes. But no! I found
+the addition of some thoughtful excursuses by Mr. du Maurier upon
+nudity, agnosticism, and other more hazardous subjects, which
+had, presumably, been judged too strong for the ice-watered, ice-<a name="page_018" id="page_018"></a>creamed constitution of the American Philistine; but I looked in
+vain for the delightful Joseph Sibley. In his place I find a yellow-haired
+Switzer, one Antony, son of a respectable burgher of Lausanne,
+who is now tall, stout, strikingly handsome and rather
+bald, but who in his youth had all the characteristics of the lost
+Joseph Sibley&mdash;his idleness, his debts, his humor, his art, his
+eccentricity, his charm. I rubbed my eye-glass. <i>Je me suis demandé
+pourquoi.</i>"</p>
+
+<p>Displeased with <i>The Speaker's</i> comments on his connection
+with "Trilby," Mr. Whistler compelled that paper to
+print a letter from his solicitors, from which it appears that
+the revised MS. of the novel was sent to him to be passed.
+And apropos of this, he remarks in a letter to the editor:&mdash;"I
+question if it be not without precedent that a writer ever
+before so abjectly regorged his spleen as to submit his
+Bowdlerized work to his victim for his approval."</p>
+
+<p>In the Chicago <i>Tribune</i> of Sunday, 2 Dec., 1894, were reprinted
+from <i>Harper's</i> the pictures of, and passages about, Joe
+Sibley which provoked Mr. Whistler's threatened libel-suit.
+The revised passages, as they appear in the book, were also
+given.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 50px;margin-top:10%;">
+<img src="images/ill_design2.png" width="50" height="30" alt="floral design" title="floral design" />
+</div>
+
+<p><a name="page_019" id="page_019"></a></p>
+
+<h3>"Trilby" Entertainments</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Of entertainments</span> founded upon Mr. du Maurier's book,
+the name is legion. The most pretentious, and at the same
+time the most successful, was the series of "Scenes and
+Songs from 'Trilby,'" given at Sherry's in the afternoon and
+again in the evening of Saturday, February 9, for the benefit
+of that admirable institution, the New York Kindergarten
+Association. The affair, which had the advantage of distinguished
+patronage, was given under the special management
+of Mrs. Charles H. Ditson; Mr. E. Hamilton Bell arranged
+the details of scenery and costume; and among those who
+personated the various characters were several well-known
+artists.</p>
+
+<p>The audience was a large one, which was excellent for the
+little ones who were to be benefited; and it was enthusiastic,
+which was only a just and fit tribute to managers, performers
+and singers. Every detail of the tableaux had been thought
+out with infinite care, and posing, grouping and make-up
+were as near perfection as du Maurier himself could have
+wished. The program included the singing of "Ben Bolt,"
+"Bonjour, Suzon," "Au Clair de la Lune" and several other
+songs, and the following tableaux:&mdash;"The Three Musketeers
+of the Brush"; "Wistful and Sweet"; "Svengali"; "I will
+Not!"; "All As it Used to Be"; "Answer Me, Trilby!";
+"The Soft Eyes"; "The Sweet Melodic Phrase";
+"Dors, Ma Mignonne"; "The Nightingale's First Song";
+"Malbrouck" and "It was Trilby." The entertainment
+opened most effectively with a quartet by Messrs. Devoll,
+Moore, Bracewell and Devoll. The first tableau, "Three
+Musketeers of the Brush," received the admiration it deserved,
+as did, also, the singing of Miss Akers and Mr. Mackenzie
+Gordon interspersed with the different tableaux. The first
+appearance of Trilby was awaited with impatient expectancy,
+and when she came, she proved to be "wistful and sweet,"
+indeed, in the person of Mrs. Eric Pape, the wife of the well-known
+young artist. The last tableau of the second part,
+"It was Trilby," was most effectively arranged by Mr. Pape.
+The full cast of characters was as follows:&mdash;Trilby, Mrs. Eric
+Pape; Taffy, W. Harris Roome; The Laird, Evert Jansen
+Wendell; Little Billee, J. Gerald Benkard; Svengali, Robert
+Reid; Gecko, Eric Pape; Dodor, William Abbott; Zouzou,
+Franklin C. Butler; Mrs. Bagot, Mrs. J. Wells Champney;
+Miss Bagot, Miss Lilian Wing; Mme. Malbrouck, Mme. Bettini;<a name="page_020" id="page_020"></a>
+Durien, Leslie G. Cauldwell; Blanchisseuse, Miss Lou-lou
+Noel; Fencer, Lieut. Gianni Bettini.</p>
+
+<p>During the intermission between the first and second parts
+of the program, Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin sold a copy of
+"Trilby" presented by the Messrs. Harper. To this Mr.
+du Maurier and Mr. Henry James (who persuaded the author
+to write the book) had contributed their autographs, and Dr.
+English a manuscript copy of his song "Ben Bolt." The
+volume fetched $100, making the net addition to the Kindergarten
+Association's treasury about $2500.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">At Mr. Mansfield's</span> Garrick Theatre, "Trilby" has been
+burlesqued. It had already been parodied in book-form,
+produced as a melodrama, read aloud in drawing-rooms, with
+music, and put on the platform in "scenes and songs," so
+that nothing was left to do with it but to make an "operatic
+burlesque" of it; and this was duly accomplished by Messrs.
+Joseph W. Herbert and Charles Puerner, the latter being
+responsible for the music and the former for the words. The
+piece is called "Thrilby." As in the serious play founded
+upon the novel, the villain (rechristened "Spaghetti") is the
+principal figure; and mesmerism is carried to a ridiculous
+excess, even inanimate objects succumbing to its influence.
+There is a farce within this farce; for "Mme. Sans-Gêne"
+is parodied in a sub-play introduced under the name of
+"Mme. Sans Ra-Gêne." The burlesque is by no means free
+from horse-play, but it unquestionably accomplishes its purpose,
+which is merely to amuse.</p>
+
+<p>At the Casino, as well as at the Garrick, "Trilby" and
+"Mme. Sans Gêne" have both been travestied.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p class="c">(<i>Harper's Weekly</i>)</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">The</span> <i>Weekly</i> has received a copy of the programme of a
+novel and decidedly interesting literary and musical entertainment
+that was given on Oct. 17, at Omaha. It was
+called 'An Evening with Trilby.' The participants were all
+gentlemen. The subjects of the papers read were 'The
+Story of Trilby,' 'Du Maurier, his Life and Work,' 'The
+French of Trilby,' 'The Identity of the Artists in Trilby,'
+'Trilby's Voice and Method,' 'Trilby as a Hypnotic Subject,'
+'Could Trilby be Successfully Dramatized?' After
+each paper there was Trilby music, which included 'Ben
+Bolt,' 'Au Clair de la Lune,' 'Malbrouck s'en va-t-en Guerre'
+and other songs and instrumental pieces. At the end of the
+programme comes the inquiry, What shall we 'ave the pleasure
+of drinkin' after that werry nice 'armony?' and then the
+page turns over to the farewell couplet:&mdash;<a name="page_021" id="page_021"></a></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">'A little warmth, a little light</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Of love's bestowing&mdash;and so, good-night.'</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>"It is a pretty far cry from Paris to Omaha, but Trilby's
+voice seems to have carried that distance without the least
+trouble. It is worth remarking that these Omaha gentlemen
+made seven 'papers' about her without finding it necessary
+to discuss her morals."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Of the many</span> "Trilby" entertainments in New York one
+of the most successful was given in May, at the house of
+Postmaster Dayton, for the benefit of St. Luke's Home for
+Indigent Christian Females. A literary criticism of the book
+was read, and one of the chapters of the story; and the
+songs that are oftenest alluded to were sung. The affair
+was given under the auspices of the Daughters of the Revolution.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">"Trilby's" wide popularity</span>&mdash;in the sense that many
+people who are not, ordinarily, novel-readers take a lively interest
+in it&mdash;is evidenced by many indications, not the least
+significant being the concerts made up from the music mentioned
+in the novel. One such was given in San Francisco
+last December, under the management of the ladies of the
+Mercantile Library Auxiliary and for the benefit of the
+Library's unfortunately slender exchequer. According to <i>The
+Argonaut</i>, a very interesting program was presented, including
+Schubert's "Rosamonde," Adam's "Cantique de Noël,"
+Chopin's Impromptu in A flat, "Bonjour Suzon," "Le Capitaine
+Roquefinette" and the much-discussed "Ben Bolt."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">"Trilby" representations</span> have broken out in all sorts
+of strange places. At the Eden Musée, New York, Miss
+Ganthony has been restrained from impersonating du
+Maurier's heroine; and at "The Greatest Show on Earth,"
+Miss Marie Meers, who has not been restrained, appears
+nightly in Trilby costume, riding bareback (not barefoot)
+around the tan-bark to the snapping of ringmaster Svengali's
+whip.<a name="page_022" id="page_022"></a></p>
+
+<h3>Miscellanea</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mr. du Maurier</span> and Mr. James took a walk together,
+one day, and the artist unfolded to the novelist the plot of
+"Trilby," suggesting that he should use it in a novel. Mr.
+James persuaded him to write the story himself. He did so;
+and what has been the result? Think of the time and skill,
+the money and material that have been employed in putting
+the thing in type, preparing its illustrations, printing it as a
+serial and reprinting it in book-form; in dramatizing it, burlesquing
+it in books and on the stage, in adapting its songs
+and illustrations for reproduction on lecture-platforms and in
+drawing-rooms, and in translating and publishing Nodier's
+tale, from which the author took his title! Its presentation
+has given employment, onerous or enjoyable, honorary or
+remunerative, to thousands; hundreds of thousands have read
+it, and hundreds of thousands seen it on the stage; and its
+leading characters&mdash;Trilby, Svengali and "the three musketeers
+of the brush"&mdash;have become household names and
+personalities. It has enriched its author, added to the wealth
+of its publishers, put money in the purses of playwright and
+manager and replenished the treasuries of more than one excellent
+charity. Directly or indirectly, no doubt, it has
+caused much more than a million dollars to change hands
+within the past eighteen months. And last but not least, it
+is responsible for this pamphlet, in which is chronicled the
+story of its rise and progress.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">At the</span> Mercantile Library, New York, it was found necessary,
+at the time when "Trilby" was in greatest demand, to
+circulate a hundred copies of the book; at the beginning of
+June the number in circulation was seventy. Mr. Wingate
+wrote to <i>The Critic</i> from Boston, in June, that there were six
+copies of the book in the main building of the Public Library,
+and one in each of its branches, but that this supply was inadequate,
+72 demands for the book having come from the
+branch libraries in a single day. And Mr. Hild writes to
+us from Chicago that the Public Library of that city has 26
+copies, but that they do not begin to supply the demand.
+"I believe we could use 260 and never find a copy on the
+shelves. Every one of our 54,000 card-holders seems determined
+to read the book."<a name="page_023" id="page_023"></a></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">On the point</span> of the morality or immorality of the book,
+<i>The Independent</i> says:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Mr. du Maurier, apparently in deference to the current craze
+for heroines that have been seduced, or are just going to be, bedaubs
+the first fifty pages of his otherwise clean story with telling
+how his pure heroine, Trilby, a <i>blanchisseuse de fin</i>, had been led
+astray, and so forth. That is to say, he unnecessarily goes behind
+the true door of his story to wash some dirty linen, and then
+he sets forth."</p>
+
+<p>On this point the San Francisco <i>Argonaut</i> does not agree
+with its New York contemporary:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"With those who think these passages immoral, we cannot
+agree. Mr. du Maurier has treated with candor some facts belonging
+to the realm of things which are usually understood instead of
+being talked about; but he has done this with singular manliness
+and delicacy, and with entire absence of mawkish or other improper
+sentiment. The impression of Trilby's character left upon
+the reader is entirely that of a noble, generous woman, whose
+life is not a sin, but a tragedy."</p>
+
+<p>The same paper reproduces "a letter Mr. du Maurier
+wrote to a Paterson, N. J., man who contended that the relations
+of Trilby with her hypnotizer were chaste, so far as
+her consciousness of them went, and decided to find out if
+he were right by writing to the novelist":&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="r">"<span class="smcap">New Grove House, Hampstead Heath</span>,<br />
+
+"October 31, 1894.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>: In answer to your letter of September 24th, I beg
+to say that you are right about Trilby. When free from mesmeric
+influence, she lived with him as his daughter, and was quite innocent
+of any other relation. In haste, yours very truly,</p>
+
+<p class="r">
+"<span class="smcap">G. du Maurier</span>."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Early in</span> March, 1895, one of the Boston clergymen advertised
+Robert Grant's "Art of Living," as our Boston correspondent
+reported at the time, and on Sunday, March 17,
+another prominent minister took up "Trilby." So it is evident
+that, even if Boston authorship is on the decline, as so
+many New Yorkers enviously declare, the Boston clergy are
+going to keep alive the interest in literary matters by emphatic
+words to their congregations. "Have you read
+'Trilby'?" was the theme of the Rev. George W. Bicknell's
+sermon, and the topic crowded the church. The Reverend
+Doctor declared that he had spent five hours reading the
+book, and had decided that it was a story of magnificent possibilities,
+but that its morality was "as one viewed it." He
+considered the tale far-fetched and over-drawn and lacking
+in healthful flavor, and placed it in the same class of art<a name="page_024" id="page_024"></a>
+with the nude paintings at the World's Fair&mdash;a position to
+which, we presume, the author would not object. Then he
+launched out into an emphatic declaration that it was time
+for the pulpit to speak out against art of this kind.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Du Maurier's</span> heroine has been heard of over in Brooklyn.
+A married woman, aged twenty-nine, got into a dispute with
+her husband, recently, as to the morals of the young model,
+and proved her point by "smashing him over the head with
+an earthenware jar." In the newspaper in which we read of
+this intemperate act, the husband's age is not given, nor
+the side he took in the argument, before he was shown to be
+wrong. The fact that he got his head broken proves little&mdash;except
+the folly of arguing with a woman; nor the additional
+fact that he refused to appear against his wife in court.
+But the case is one in which a good deal might be said on
+both sides&mdash;if earthenware jars were not introduced too early
+in the discussion.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mr. du Maurier</span> has worse offenses to atone for than the
+breaking of the Brooklyn man's silly head. But for his entertaining
+book we should have been spared the unreadable
+prose of "Biltry: a Parody on 'Trilby'" and the unspeakable
+verse of "Drilby Re-versed," the former by Mary Kyle Dallas,
+the latter by Leopold Jordan. In vulgarity and banality,
+these two precious productions run each other a close race.
+Of the two we think "Drilby" a trifle the less objectionable,
+merely because the proportion of text to white paper is somewhat
+smaller. Both are poorly illustrated, and printed on
+much better paper than they deserve.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">E. C. of New Albany, Ind.</span>, thinks that "Trilby's" possibilities
+as a vehicle of evil to the much-considered American
+"young person" are emphasized by a conversation recently
+overheard by her between two feminine "young persons" in
+Indiana. "What is this 'Trilby' everybody is talking
+about?" asked one of these. "Oh," replied the other, "it's
+a book&mdash;a novel." "They say it is awfully bad," said the
+first young person. "Yes, I've heard so; but it isn't so at
+all. I read it clear through, and there wasn't anything bad
+in it. I didn't like it either; there is too much French in
+it." "French?" commented the first young woman; "well
+that's it, then&mdash;all the bad part is in French." "I hadn't
+thought of that," mused the other one; "I suppose that's
+just the way of it. Anyway, it isn't nearly as good as 'Dally.'"<a name="page_025" id="page_025"></a></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;">
+<span class="caption">PLATT. THE NEW SVENGALI.</span>
+<a href="images/ill_040_lg.png">
+<img src="images/ill_040_sml.png" width="550" height="485" alt="PLATT. THE NEW SVENGALI.
+THE HYPNOTIZING OF MORTON.
+Have you read &quot;Trilby?&quot; Svengali was a bad, wicked man, who
+used to hypnotize poor, sweet little Trilby and make her sing and
+act as he pleased&mdash;With apologies to Du Maurier." title="" /></a>
+<p class="c caption">THE HYPNOTIZING OF MORTON.</p>
+<p class="caption">Have you read &quot;Trilby?&quot; Svengali was a bad, wicked man, who
+used to hypnotize poor, sweet little Trilby and make her sing and
+act as he pleased&mdash;With apologies to Du Maurier.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>"Trilby" has even got into American politics. This
+shows better than anything else how wide an audience the
+story most have reached. How many allusions to a book of
+the current year would be comprehensible to the average
+reader of a New York daily paper? We reproduce the accompanying
+cartoon from the <i>World</i> of Dec. 9 as a curiosity of
+literature and an interesting contribution to "Trilbyana."
+It is adapted from Mr. du Maurier's drawing entitled "Et
+Maintenant Dors, ma Mignonne!"</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>A Broadway caterer now "molds his ice-cream in the
+shape of a model of Trilby's ever-famous foot." Mr. du
+Maurier can want no greater evidence of the popularity of
+his story in America. That there is not a "Trilby" shoe on
+the market reflects little credit upon the enterprise of our
+bootmakers. It is an opportunity that no soap-maker would
+neglect if it came his way. Possibly the fact that Trilby's
+foot was large (as well as shapely) has something to do with
+the shoemakers' backwardness. Hers were not Cinderella
+slippers. ("The Lounger," 30 March, 1895.)</p>
+
+<p>Mr. C. W. Coleman, Librarian of William and Mary College,
+writes from Williamsburg, Va., to say that I am in error
+in supposing that the bootmakers of this wide-wake country<a name="page_026" id="page_026"></a>
+have not yet seized the name of du Maurier's heroine for
+advertising purposes. In his note of correction he encloses
+a clipping from the catalogue of a Chicago house, containing
+a picture of a high-heeled ladies' shoe, flanked by an advertisement
+of "'The Trilby,' price $3, postage 15 cts.&mdash;'an
+ornament to any foot,'" etc. And I hear that the shop-windows
+of Norfolk, Va., fairly bristle with shoes of this brand.
+Moreover, a bootmaker's advertisement in the Pittsburg <i>Post</i>
+shows (as a punning Pennsylvania correspondent writes to me)
+that "Trilby has obtained a foothold even in the Iron City."
+According to the advertisement, "this enterprising firm offer
+to the lady sending in the most accurate dimensions according
+to the diagram above, together with a drawn outline of the
+nude foot on paper, a handsome pair of the highest grade
+'Trilby' shoe, which they will have made up especially for
+the winner. This stylish foot adornment for Pittsburgh's model
+feet will be satin or silk lined throughout, of the finest quality
+kid and best workmanship. Bear in mind, ladies, it need not
+be the smallest feet that win, but the most perfect form of
+a foot from a standpoint of proportionate measurements."
+("The Lounger," 13 April, 1895.)</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>G. A. D. writes from Philadelphia to deplore the Quaker
+City's vulgarization of the name and fame of Trilby; and in
+justification of his plaint encloses a Chestnut Street dealer's
+advertisement of the "Trilby Sausage"! This, it is claimed,
+"is something new, and fills a long-felt want"; "they melt
+in your mouth." They don't melt in G. A. D.'s mouth, but
+they rankle in his æsthetic soul. "What next?" he exclaims;
+"an Ophelia tooth-wash, a Duchess of Towers garbage-pail!"
+Our correspondent has not yet heard of the "Trilby Ham."
+This, if anything, is worse than the Sausage. It has been
+heard of in this city; whether or no it originated here, I do
+not care to inquire. But in an Eighth Avenue dime-museum,
+there are "Twenty Trilbys," and visitors vote for the handsomest!
+Moreover, we have now the "Trilby Hearth-brush";
+and huge posters on the East Side announce a picnic of the
+"Trilby Coterie and Chowder Club."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><i>The Evening Post</i> reprints from James Braid's "Observations
+of Trance" (1850, page 43) the following paragraph,
+which is of singular interest in connection with the novel
+which has made such an extraordinary sensation in this
+country during the past year, and has become as great a success
+on the stage as in book-form. Svengali's transformation<a name="page_027" id="page_027"></a>
+of a girl with no ear for music into a singer of marvellous
+powers seems to have been almost paralleled in real life, half
+a century ago:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;">
+<a href="images/ill_042_lg.jpg">
+<img src="images/ill_042_sml.jpg" width="550" height="408" alt="Du Maurier&#39;s House.
+Hampstead Heath." title="Du Maurier&#39;s House.
+Hampstead Heath." /></a>
+<span class="caption">DU MAURIER&#39;S HOUSE.<br />
+HAMPSTEAD HEATH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>"Many patients will thus repeat accurately what is spoken in
+<i>any</i> language; and they may be also able to sing correctly and
+simultaneously both words and music of songs in any language
+which they have never heard before&mdash;<i>i. e.</i>, they catch the words as
+well as music so instantaneously as to accompany the other singer
+as if both had been previously equally familiar with both words
+and music. In this manner a patient of mine, who, when awake,
+knew not the grammar of even her own language, and who had
+very little knowledge of music, was enabled to follow Mlle. Jenny
+Lind correctly in songs in different languages, giving both words
+and music <i>so correctly and so simultaneously with Jenny Lind</i>, that
+two parties in the room could not for some time imagine that there
+were two voices, so perfectly did they accord, both in musical
+tone and vocal pronunciation of Swiss, German and Italian songs.
+She was equally successful in accompanying Mlle. Lind in one of
+her extemporaneous effusions, which was a long and extremely difficult
+elaborate chromatic exercise, which the celebrated cantatrice
+tried by way of taxing the powers of the somnambulist to the
+utmost. When awake the girl durst not even <i>attempt</i> to do anything
+of the sort; and, after all, wonderful as it was, it was <i>only
+phonic imitation</i>, for she did not understand the meaning of a
+single word of the foreign language which she had uttered so correctly."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p class="c">(<i>Miss Frances Albert Doughty, in The Critic, 15 June, 1895.</i>)</p>
+
+<p>"The strength of 'Trilby' as a novel lies in the exquisitely
+dear realization of the good in the girl's nature, which the
+fine art of the author has been able to give to the reader.
+The divine in the Laird, in Taffy and in Little Billee responded
+to the divine in that undeveloped girl, and to them
+the angel in her was the real Trilby in spite of all her past
+experience. But idealism and realism in this charming story
+are not quite happily balanced: the reader receives a blow
+on the spiritual side of his being from the manifestation of
+an agency in the universe that is endowed with an all-conquering
+malevolence, something extraneous from the individual
+and yet able to arrest in her the growth of the budding
+germ of holiness and moral beauty, a power triumphant even
+at the moment when her spirit was about to return to the
+God who gave it. Without Svengali there would be no novel
+of Trilby; nevertheless, he is the sole blot upon it."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p class="c">(<i>San Francisco Argonaut</i>)</p>
+
+<p>"Perhaps the most surprising circumstance connected with
+'Trilby' in the eyes of American readers is the way the<a name="page_028" id="page_028"></a>
+book has been received in England. At best it has been
+accorded lukewarm praise, and the tone of its reviews has
+run the gamut down to downright slating. Some have been
+spiteful enough to be exceptionally entertaining. Of these,
+that of <i>The Pall Mall Gazette</i> is the most striking, the reviewer
+of that journal showing himself to be (as an exchange
+puts it) a master of vituperative diction. To this reviewer,
+'Trilby's' three Englishmen are 'British prigs cut in pasteboard,'
+and their biographer is denied even the poor ability
+to express himself in grammatical English."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">To the Editors of The Critic</span>:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>If there yet remains a word to be said in criticism of this
+book, it may, perhaps, be in regard to the musical part of it.
+Whether intentionally or not, du Maurier has certainly
+added an instance, which tends to prove the theory true, that
+music in itself is neither elevating nor refining. Svengali is
+drawn with inimitable skill, and with so much realism that
+the reader feels that he must have been known and hated
+by du Maurier in all his repulsiveness. And yet this loathsome
+creature has the power of so seizing and expressing the
+noblest works of the great masters of harmony as to move
+his hearers to tears, to sway them at his will by the tenderness
+and feeling he puts into the notes. It is a hard thing
+for a music-lover to comprehend, that a man of low and
+vicious life, and utterly without aspirations, can so express
+the penetrating beauty that lies in music more than in any
+other art. It shows, too, that music gives us only what it
+finds in us, and proves the folly of "program music," or
+music with a translation.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">Auburn, N. Y.</span> <span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">S. M. Cox.</span></span></p>
+
+<p class="c">(<i>Mrs. Emma Carleton, in the Louisville Courier-Journal.</i>)</p>
+
+<p>"A great deal has been said and written about 'Ben Bolt,'"
+said a woman who doesn't pretend to be musical, "and the
+other songs of the Trilby repertoire; but I have not yet seen
+or heard any comment on Trilby's 'great and final performance'&mdash;the
+vocalization of Chopin's Impromptu, A flat. Du
+Maurier devotes two entire pages to most wonderful description
+of this wonderful musical achievement; two exquisite
+pages of music painted in words, in most masterly and matchless
+fashion. Who can forget the depiction of La Svengali's
+voice, 'as a light nymph catching the whirl of a double-skipping
+rope as she warbles that long, smooth, lilting, dancing
+laugh, that wondrous song without words.' This impromptu<a name="page_029" id="page_029"></a>
+should be rechristened the 'Trilby Impromptu,' and musicians
+everywhere should now&mdash;while the Trilby wave is riding
+high&mdash;be charming their audiences by playing it."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>The Oliver Ditson Co. has published a pamphlet of
+"Trilby" songs, etc., containing the words and music of
+"Ben Bolt," "Malbrouck," "Bonjour, Suzon," "Der Nussbaum"
+("The Nut-tree") "Cantique de Noël" and "Au
+Clair de la Lune," and the music of Chopin's "Impromptu."</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>On March 1, 1895, a postcard was sent from the office of
+<i>Life</i>, calling the attention of "exchange editors" throughout
+the country to "A 'Trilby' Examination." We reprint the
+card in full:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"<i>Life's Monthly Calendar</i> offers a series of cash prizes for the
+best sets of replies to the following questions on 'Trilby':</p>
+
+<p>1. What does the author claim as the king of all instruments?
+Who does he claim was the greatest violinist of his time? What
+does he call the most bourgeois piece of music he knows?</p>
+
+<p>2. What was Svengali's real name?</p>
+
+<p>3. Where does the author state that he is a social lion? Where
+does he deny that he is a snob?</p>
+
+<p>4. Where does he bring Little Billee in contact with Punch?</p>
+
+<p>5. What did the Laird call M. le général Comte de la Tour-aux-Loups?</p>
+
+<p>6. In what places does the author compare Gecko to a dog?</p>
+
+<p>7. How old was Trilby when she died?</p>
+
+<p>8. What was Little Billee's physical explanation of his inability
+to love?</p>
+
+<p>9. What verbal description of one of the heroes contradicts almost
+every one of the author's drawings of him?</p>
+
+<p>10. What incident of the story is inconsistent with the author's
+own argument in behalf of the nude in art?</p>
+
+<p class="c">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"Dear Sir: The above questions are covered by our copyright,
+but in view of the popular interest in 'Trilby,' you may
+wish to reproduce them. We should be more than pleased to have
+you do so, if you will give us credit.</p>
+<p>
+Yours very truly,</p>
+
+<p class="r"><span class="smcap">James S. Metcalfe</span>,<br />
+Editor and Manager <i>Life's Monthly Calendar</i>."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;">
+<img src="images/ill_design3.png" width="25" height="46" alt="floral decoration" title="floral decoration" />
+</div>
+
+<p><a name="page_030" id="page_030"></a></p>
+
+<h3>The Songs in "Trilby"</h3>
+
+<p>Dr. Thomas Dunn English wrote the words of "Ben
+Bolt" in New York, in 1842, when he was a young man of
+three-and-twenty. Mr. N. P. Willis had asked him to write
+a sea-song for <i>The New Mirror</i>, and so he wound up the last
+stanza with an allusion to "the salt-sea gale!" As a sea-song,
+"Ben Bolt" is not a success; but it has been sung on every sea
+and in every land where the English tongue is spoken. At
+Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1848, an English journalist named
+Hunt quoted the words (from a defective memory) to Nelson
+Kneass, who was attached to the local theatre; and, adapted
+by Kneass to a German melody, the song, in a somewhat
+garbled version, was introduced in a play called "The Battle
+of Buena Vista." In Helen Kendrick Johnson's "Our
+Familiar Songs, and Those Who Made Them" (Henry Holt
+&amp; Co., 1881), the story of its vogue in England as well as in
+America is told effectively. Not only were ships and steam-boats
+named in its honor, but a play was built upon its suggestions,
+and as recently as in 1877 an English novelist made the
+memories evoked by the singing of the song a factor in the
+development of his catastrophe. Its revival at the hand of
+Mr. du Maurier is the latest and perhaps the most striking
+tribute to its hold upon the popular heart. To the author
+himself&mdash;in his ripe old age a member of the LIIId Congress&mdash;its
+fame is seemingly a bore, for he is quoted as saying:&mdash;"I
+am feeling very well and enjoying life as well as an old
+man can, but this eternal 'Ben Bolt' business makes me so
+infernally weary at times that existence becomes a burden.
+The other night, at a meeting of a medical association at my
+home in Newark, some one proposed that all hands join in
+singing 'Ben Bolt,' whereupon I made a rush for the door,
+and came very near forgetting the proprieties by straightway
+leaving home. However, I recovered my equilibrium and rejoined
+my friends. I don't think that General Sherman ever
+grew half so tired of 'Marching Through Georgia' as I have
+of that creation of mine, and it will be a blessed relief to me
+when the public shall conclude to let it rest."</p>
+
+<p>Apropos of the use made of the song in "Trilby," <i>Harper's
+Bazar</i> published the words and music; whereupon the author
+sent this letter to the editor:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"It is very pleasing to an old man like myself to have the literary
+work of a half-century since dragged to light and commended,<a name="page_031" id="page_031"></a>
+as has been the case with 'Ben Bolt' of late. I was flattered by
+seeing my likeness&mdash;or, rather, the likeness of a younger man than
+myself&mdash;in your pages; but I must protest against some errors
+which, in spite of careful editing, enter into your transcription of
+the song. The words of the original were:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">'Don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">With the master so cruel and grim,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">And the shaded nook in the running brook,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where the children went to swim?'</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>"This has been changed in the song, as usually sung, to read:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">'With the master so kind and so true.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">And the little nook by the clear-running brook,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Where we gathered the flowers as they grew?'</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>"You have copied this, but in a better shape, with the exception
+of changing the rhythm. I must protest against this change,
+because the school-masters of between sixty and seventy years
+since were, to my memory, 'cruel and grim'; they were neither
+kind nor true. They seemed to think the only way to get learning
+into a boy's head was by the use of the rod. There may have been
+exceptions, but I never met them. At all events, 'what I have
+written I have written.'"</p>
+
+<p class="c"><span class="smcap">Ben Bolt</span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="center">I</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Oh, don't you remember, Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And trembled with fear at your frown!</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">In the old churchyard, in the valley, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">In a corner obscure and alone,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">They have fitted a slab of the granite so gray.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And Alice lies under the stone!</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">II</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Under the hickory tree, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Which stood at the foot of the hill,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Together we've lain in the noon-day shade,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">And listened to Appleton's mill.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">The mill-wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The rafters have tumbled in,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">And a quiet that crawls round the walls as you gaze,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Has followed the olden din.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">III</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Do you mind the cabin of logs, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">At the edge of the pathless wood,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">And the button-ball tree with its motley limbs,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Which nigh by the door-step stood?</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">The cabin to ruin has gone, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The tree you would seek in vain;</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">And where once the lords of the forest waved,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Grows grass and the golden grain.<a name="page_032" id="page_032"></a></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">IV</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">And don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">With the master so cruel and grim,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">And the shaded nook in the running brook,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Where the children went to swim?</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Grass grows on the master's grave, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">The spring of the brook is dry,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">And of all the boys who were schoolmates then,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">There are only you and I.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">V</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">There is change in the things I loved, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">They have changed from the old to the new;</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">But I feel in the depths of my spirit the truth,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">There never was change in you.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Twelve-months twenty have past, Ben Bolt,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Since first we were friends&mdash;yet I hail</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Thy presence a blessing, thy friendship a truth,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Ben Bolt, of the salt-sea gale!</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="c">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">To the Editors of The Critic</span>:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>In your columns of "Trilbyana" I have seen no mention
+of the fact that George W. Cable, in his "Dr. Sevier"&mdash;a
+thousand times better novel and better work, in every way,
+than "Trilby,"&mdash;has introduced the old song "Ben Bolt"
+with wonderful effect. It is strange that the old melody
+should have appealed to the two men, so widely apart, and it
+is but fair that the American's first, and most skilful, use of it
+should have due recognition.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">Philadelphia.</span> <span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">John Patterson.</span></span></p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">To the Editors of The Critic</span>:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Du Maurier says that there is but one verse of the little
+French song, which Trilby sings with so much effect&mdash;"Au
+clair de la lune." He mistakes; there is another, running
+thus:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="songs">
+<tr><td align="left">"Je n'ouvrirai pas la porte,&nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align="left">J'ouvre bien la porte,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">À un vieux savetier,</span></td><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">À un pâtissier,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left" class="spc">* * * * * </td><td align="left">Qui m'apporte des brioches</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left" class="spc"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">* * * *</span></td><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dans un tablier."</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>The two missing lines have escaped the memory of the
+writer.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Auburn, N. Y.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">S. M. Cox.</span></span></p>
+
+<p class="c">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Your correspondent, S. M. Cox, offers some more verses of
+"Mon Ami Pierrot." They do not quite agree with those
+taught me, shortly after the Revolution of 1848, by an old
+French gentleman. You will notice that the French of the
+last verse is quite "eighteenth-century" in style and diction.<a name="page_033" id="page_033"></a></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="song">
+<tr><td align="center">II</td><td align="center">III</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Je n'ouvre pas ma porte</td><td align="left">Mais j'ouvre bien ma porte</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">À des savetiers,</span></td><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">À des officiers,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Ils ont des alènes,</td><td align="left">Ils ont des pistoles,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">C'est pour me piquer.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></td><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">C'est pour me les baîller.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Paris</span>, 1 Jan., 1895.</td><td align="right">B. F.</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="c">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>Mr. du Maurier was correct in saying that there is only
+one verse of "Au Clair de la Lune"; yet there are possibly,
+and probably, a thousand made in imitation of it, which go to
+the same air. We quote from the San Francisco <i>Argonaut</i>:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"It is to be observed that these <i>amateurs de Trilby</i> do not
+go the length of singing 'Au Clair de la Lune,' even repeating
+the first stanza twice, as Trilby did. But perhaps they
+are as ignorant concerning the song as is Mr. du Maurier,
+who declares there is but one verse. There are four. The
+first is given in 'Trilby' thus:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="song">
+<tr><td align="left">'Au clair de la lune, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</td><td align="left">Ma chandelle est morte....</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Mon ami Pierrot!</td><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Je n'ai plus de feu!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Prête-moi ta plume</td><td align="left">Ouvre-moi ta porte</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Pour écrire un mot.</td><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Pour l'amour de Dieu!'</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>The second runs:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="song">
+<tr><td align="left">'Au clair de la lune</td><td align="left">Va chez la voisine&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Pierrot répondit:</td><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Je crois qu'elle y est,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Je n'ai pas de plume,</td><td align="left">Car, dans sa cuisine,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Je suis dans mon lit. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </td><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;On bat le briquet.'</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>The third stanza contains the point of the song:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="song">
+<tr><td align="left">'Au clair de la lune</td><td align="left">Qui frappe de la sorte?</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;S'en va Arléquin</td><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Il dit à son tour:</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"> Frapper chez la brune&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </td><td align="left">Ouvre-moi ta porte</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Qui répond soudain:</td><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Pour le dieu d'amour.'</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>The fourth stanza continues in the same strain, and it
+goes farther."</p>
+
+<p class="c">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="c">"<span class="smcap">Malbrouck s'en va't en Guerre</span>"</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre....</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Ne sais quand reviendra!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Ne sais quand reviendra!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Ne sais quand reviendra!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Il reviendra-z-à Pâques&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Il reviendra-z-à Pâques....</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Ou ... à la Trinit!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;La Trinité se passe&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;La Trinité se passe....</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Malbrouck ne revient pas!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Madame à sa tour monte&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Madame à sa tour monte,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Si haut qu'elle peut monter!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Elle voit de loin son page&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Elle voit de loin son page,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Tout de noire habillé!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;"Mon page&mdash;mon beau page!&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Mon page&mdash;mon beau page!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Quelles nouvelles apportez?"</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;"Aux nouvelles que j'apporte&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Aux nouvelles que j'apporte,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Vos beaux yeux vont pleurer!"</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;"Quittez vos habits roses&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Quittez vos habits roses,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Et vos satins brochés!"</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;"Le Sieur Malbrouck est mort&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<i>Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp;Le Sieur&mdash;Malbrouck&mdash;est&mdash;mort!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Est mort&mdash;et enterré!"</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="c">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>There is no more eloquent description of the effect of
+music on an impressionable nature than du Maurier gives
+of the impression made upon Little Billee by the singing of
+Adam's "Cantique de Noël" at the Madeleine on Christmas
+Eve.</p>
+
+<p class="c"><span class="smcap">Cantique de Noël</span></p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">Minuit, Chrétiens, c'est l'heure solennelle,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Où l'homme Dieu descendit jusqu'à nous,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Pour effacer la tache originelle</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Et de son Père arrêter le courroux.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Le monde entier tressaille d'espérance</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">A cette nuit qui lui donne un sauveur.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Peuple à genoux! attends la délivrance!</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Noël, Noël, voici le Rédempteur!</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p><a name="page_035" id="page_035"></a></p>
+
+<h3>A Search for Sources</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">To the Editors of The Critic</span>:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>The liquid name, "Trilby," of du Maurier's heroine having
+been duly run down to its source, will a slight excursus be
+amiss as to the origin of the affectionate title applied by the
+novelist on his charming little hero&mdash;"Little Billee"? Evidently
+the name, together with certain descriptive touches,
+has been taken from Thackeray's ballad, "Little Billee."
+This racy skit, as many doubtless know, is in the best vein of
+the great humorist's inimitable burlesque. It narrates the
+tragic cruise of</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">"Three sailors of Bristol city</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Who took a boat and went to sea,"</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="nind">the second stanza running thus:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">"There was gorging Jack, and guzzling Jimmy</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;"><i>And the youngest, he was Little Billee</i>.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Now when they got as far as the Equator</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">They'd nothing left, but one split pea."</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>And the unpleasant ultimatum being arrived at, that "We've
+nothing left, us must eat we," the poem continues:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">"Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">With one another we shouldn't agree,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">There's little Bill, <i>he's young and tender</i>,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">We're old and tough, so let's eat he."</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Here, I say, we have the origin of the novelist's "Little
+Billee," while, in the italicized phrases, we have also du
+Maurier's, "the third, he was little Billee" (page 6), and
+"he was young and tender, was little Billee."</p>
+
+<p>It would be sheer nonsense, of course, to urge against the
+famous novelist any charge of unacknowledged borrowing in
+matters so entirely trivial. The point is merely a curious one
+of origins; a little siccatine botanizing, so to speak, on the
+<i>folia disjecta</i> that have been wonderfully spun by du Maurier's
+genius into a fabric of grace and beauty so rare as is
+this "Trilby." Nor, indeed, should the further fact be a detraction
+from the gifted author of "Trilby," that his indebtedness
+to Thackeray is obviously greater than in the
+minutiæ under consideration&mdash;that, in fact, he has caught
+from the great immortal the note of much that is best in his
+book. In his limpid, graceful simplicity of words, and their
+easy, natural flow&mdash;in his delicate, playful humor, and tender
+but not overwrought pathos, we discover a careful study of<a name="page_036" id="page_036"></a>
+found only a few general remarks about fairies, their habits
+and habitations, nothing in the least resembling the story of
+Jeannie's lover. Perhaps Nodier was mistaken about his
+source. As he travelled in the Highlands, he may possibly
+have "collected" the tale at first hand, and, there being no
+folk-lore societies in those early days of romanticism, he was
+not aware of the honor that thus accrued to him. It cannot
+have evolved itself from a mere hint. We appeal to Mr.
+Lang to take up and follow the chase farther. He might be
+worse occupied than in tracing out the original John Trilby
+MacFarlane, and whence he got his English-sounding name,
+his fairy powers and his connection with Saint Columba&mdash;the
+last probably from Nodier himself, who may have been
+reading Montalembert's "Monks of the West" before setting
+out upon his pilgrimage. Mr. Dole, by the way, irreverently
+converts the Dove of the Churches into a "Saint Columbine,"
+unknown to any respectable hagiographer. Think, Mr. Lang,
+what a delightful coil this romancing Frenchman, let loose
+among your Hielan' men, fairies, monks and Scotch novels,
+has made for you to straighten out, and how many strange
+discoveries may be made while you are about the job!</p>
+
+<p>Miss Smith (2) has prepared another translation of Nodier's
+story, and, though there is little choice between her version
+and Mr. Dole's, we prefer it. It seems a trifle less exact, but
+it is more idiomatic; and, if anything, she perhaps intensifies
+the local color a little, which does not do the tale any harm.
+Her book is got up in tartan cover; Mr. Dole's has a design
+adapted from Paul Konewka.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Richard Mansfield has secured from Estes &amp; Lauriat
+the right to dramatize and produce Mr. Dole's translation
+of Nodier's "Trilby, le Lutin d'Argail."<a name="page_037" id="page_037"></a></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 25px;">
+<img src="images/ill_design4.png" width="25" height="34" alt="decoration" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h3>Nodier's "Trilby, le Lutin d'Argail"</h3>
+
+<p>It was not long after the appearance of "Trilby" that
+our readers detected the French origin of the name of Mr.
+du Maurier's heroine. The story of the unearthing of this
+delightful French fairy-tale may be followed in this series of
+communications to <i>The Critic</i>:</p>
+
+<p class="c">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>On looking over Roche's "Prosateurs Français," I find
+that one of the "plus jolis" contes of Charles Nodier (1788-1844)
+is entitled "Trilby"; therefore the title of du Maurier's
+much-bought novel is not original with him. I should
+be pleased if any reader of <i>The Critic</i> would inform me as
+to the plot of Nodier's story.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">St. Francis of Assisi Rectory</span>, <span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Wm. J. McClure</span>,</span></p>
+
+<p class="c"><span class="smcap">Mt. Kisco, N. Y.</span>, 29th Oct., 1894.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>The following lines occur in the "Réponse à M. Charles
+Nodier" of Alfred de Musset:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">"Non pas cette belle insomnie</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">Du génie</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Où Trilby vient, prêt à chanter,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">T'écouter."</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>This would seem to offer some clue to the origin of the name
+chosen by Mr. du Maurier for his heroine. Can you enlighten
+me as to the identity of the "Trilby" referred to by
+Musset?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Ridgefield, Conn.</span>, 19 Nov., 1894. <span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Roswell Bacon</span>.</span></p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>In answer to the request of your correspondent in <i>The
+Critic</i> of Nov. 17, I find the tale of "Trilby" in my copy of the
+"Contes de Charles Nodier, illustrés par Tony Johannot."
+"Trilby" is the story of a household fairy of Scotland (a
+"Lutin familier de la Chaumière"). It is fantastic and
+touching, but it has nothing in common with du Maurier's
+"Trilby."</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Leesburgh, Virginia</span>, 20 Nov., 1894. <span style="margin-left: 10em;">I. L. P.</span></p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>From the recent contributions to "Trilbyana" in your
+columns, it would appear as if the name of Trilby (originally
+Scotch or Irish?) were not uncommon in the writings of
+French authors. Charles Nodier, in his <i>conte</i>, says that M.
+de Latouche&mdash;a contemporary&mdash;wrote on the same subject,
+"où cette charmante tradition était racontée en vers enchanteurs<a name="page_038" id="page_038"></a>"&mdash;which
+gives one to suppose that "Trilby" was
+the name of his enchantress; though, perhaps, he refers to
+the old story of "Le Diable Amoureux." I find, moreover,
+that Balzac takes the name for a type in his "Histoire des
+Treize: Ferragus: Vol. I. Scènes de la Vie Parisienne"
+(page 48 of edition of 1843):&mdash;"Pour développer cette histoire
+dans toute la vérité de ses détails, pour en suivre le
+cours dans toutes ses sinuosités, il faut ici divulguer quelques
+secrets de l'amour, se glisser sous les lambris d'une chambre
+à coucher, non pas effrontément, mais à la manière de Trilby
+[the opposite to du Maurier's Trilby], n'effaroucher ni Dougal,
+ni Jeannie, n'effaroucher personne," etc.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">Tuxedo Park</span>, 26 Nov., 1894. <span style="margin-left: 10em;">E. L. B.</span></p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p class="c">(<i>Boston Evening Transcript, 1 Dec. 1894.</i>)</p>
+
+<p>"The Listener was asked the other day where du Maurier
+got the name of Trilby&mdash;a sweet and pleasant word, neither
+English nor French, which seemed to suit so perfectly the
+adorable young person of his creation. He was able to
+answer, more by accident certainly than as the result of erudition,
+that the name was not invented by du Maurier but
+belongs to the French classics&mdash;possibly to Scottish folk-lore.
+In the year 1822 there was first published in Paris a
+<i>nouvelle</i>, by Charles Nodier, afterward a member of the
+French Academy, entitled, "Trilby, or the Fay of Argyle";
+it was a sort of fairy-story, in which a fay is in love with a
+mortal woman, and the woman is very far from being indifferent
+to his sentiment. This 'Trilby' attained a considerable
+degree of popularity; it became, indeed, a French
+classic; Sainte-Beuve has particularly praised the charm of
+its style. * * * In his preface to the story, Nodier says:
+'The subject of this story is derived from a preface or a
+note to one of the romances of Sir Walter Scott, I do not
+know which one.' This is a very indefinite acknowledgment
+While Nodier may have got his subject from Scott,
+the Listener doubts if he got the name 'Trilby' from him.
+It is just the sort of name that a French writer would give
+to a Scotch fay. Nevertheless, Trilby may be a real Scotch
+elfin. The Listener would hardly claim personal acquaintance
+with them all.</p>
+
+<p>"Du Maurier's 'Trilby' is curiously prefigured, in part at
+least, in Nodier's; and yet there is not the smallest thing
+that the most jealous critic could call a plagiarism; it is a
+legitimate parentage. As you go on with Nodier's story,
+you love his Trilby more and more, as you do du Maurier's,
+until you think that there was never so bewitching a fairy;<a name="page_039" id="page_039"></a>
+and your love for Trilby is interwoven with your love for
+Jeannie, his mortal sweetheart, just as your love for du
+Manner's Trilby is forever mixed up with your tender sentiment
+for Little Billee. You feel a sort of enchantment over
+you like the hypnotism that you are under in du Maurier's
+strange book. And both stories, while abounding in wit
+and pretty things, are deeply tragical. It has been said of
+Nodier's 'Trilby' that it belongs to the realm of the <i>supra-sensible</i>,
+and so, in large measure, certainly does du Maurier's.
+Du Maurier has confessed his obligation flatly in
+giving his story the very name that Nodier's bore. It is conceivable
+that the image of the Frenchman's haunting fairy
+dwelt with him until he resolved to reincarnate the adorable
+elf in the body of a girl as adorable. He gave his Trilby a
+Scotch ancestry to connect her the more naturally with the
+<i>lutin d'Argail</i>; and her fairy ancestry will easily account
+not only for her early prankishness, but for her later unreality.
+But it is a prefiguring merely, and not a direct suggestion.
+Whatever du Maurier's 'Trilby' lacks, it isn't originality!"</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p class="c">(<i>From Mr. C. E. L. Wingate's Boston Letter in The Critic of 20
+April, 1893.</i>)</p>
+
+<p>It appears that the first mention of the French book appeared
+in <i>The Critic</i>, last November. It was in the same
+month that Mr. Bradford Torrey * * * happened to
+find a copy of Nodier's "Trilby" in the Boston Athenæum.
+He took the book to his friend, Mr. J. E. Chamberlin of
+<i>The Youth's Companion</i>, who began its translation at once.
+A few days later appeared a note in <i>The Critic</i> from a correspondent
+in Virginia. Thinking that secrecy was no longer
+worth while, Mr. Chamberlin wrote his paragraphs for the
+<i>Transcript</i> "Listener" column, incorporating a bit of translation.
+This was printed on Dec. 1. Miss Minna C. Smith
+went to Roberts Bros. at once, to ask them if they would consider
+the publication of a translation of the romance by her
+<i>Transcript</i> confrère, and Mr. F. Alcott Pratt replied that
+they would like very much to see that gentleman's work.
+Circumstances made Mr. Chamberlin decide not to finish the
+translation, and he gave Miss Smith his idea and a few pages
+of the manuscript for a Christmas present. During several
+weeks following she was engaged upon her careful translation.
+The Scotch words and names of localities in her
+manuscript were corrected by Mr. J. Murray Kay of Houghton,
+Mifflin &amp; Co., an accomplished Scot, who walked through
+Argyle with his daughters last summer. On March 19, an<a name="page_040" id="page_040"></a>
+article on Charles Nodier's story, foreshadowing Miss Smith's
+translation, appeared in the <i>Transcript</i>. On the morning of
+March 20, Mr. Dana Estes sent for Mr. Nathan Haskell
+Dole and asked him to make a translation, which was done
+with remarkable rapidity, and put out on March 29. Learning
+of this, Lamson, Wolffe &amp; Co. hurried on Miss Smith's
+book, which had been in the hands of their printer at the
+Collins press for days, advertised it on Thursday and brought
+it out on Saturday, in Scotch plaid covers.</p>
+
+<p>This firm of Lamson, Wolffe &amp; Co., by the way, has just
+been dissolved for a novel reason. Mr. Wolffe is a member
+of the class of '95 at Harvard. The publication of "Trilby,
+the Fairy of Argyle" called the attention of the faculty to his
+publishing business, and he was asked to give it up, or else
+forfeit his degree. He chose the former alternative, and
+although the firm name will remain Lamson, Wolffe &amp; Co., a
+new and, for the present, silent member of the firm has added
+capital and scholarship to the house.</p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p class="c">"Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle"</p>
+
+<p><i>By Charles Noder. 1. Translated from the French, with introduction,
+by Nathan Haskell Dole. Estes &amp; Lauriat. 2. From the French
+by Minna Caroline Smith. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe &amp; Co.</i></p>
+
+<p>Nodier's "Trilby," who now revisits the book-stores
+owing to Mr. du Maurier's having taken his name for his
+heroine's, is one of the few latter-day fairies that have fairy
+blood (or ichor) in their veins. He belongs on the same
+shelf with Fouqué's "Undine," but, though he was only joking
+when he personated a father who "had not seen him
+since the days of King Fergus," he is certainly of the breed
+of Una and Maer, Caoilte and Mananan. That he made a
+sensation on his first appearance in the world of letters is
+shown by Victor Hugo's ode, warning the Fairy of Argyle to
+beware of ink-slinging penny-a-liners:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left">"Car on en veut aux Trilbys</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left" class="spc">&nbsp; * * * * * * * *</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Ils souilleraient d'encre noire,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Hélas! ton manteau de moire,</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Ton aigrette de rubis"&mdash;</span></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="nind">advice which might be repeated apropos of Mr. du Maurier's
+creation.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Dole, who has made a translation (1) of Nodier's
+"Trilby," has looked through all of Scott's novels, he says,
+to discover, if possible, the "preface or note" from which
+the French author claimed to have drawn his story, and has<a name="page_041" id="page_041"></a>
+the deft art of "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes." And
+the "Cave of Harmony," with its songs and its bumpers and
+long whiffs, the gay nights and rollicking days of F. B. and
+Clive and Pendennis&mdash;the glamor of all which has enticed
+full many a youngster towards the easy descent, or the shining
+slopes (as the case may be) of art and letters&mdash;all these scenes
+have doubtless served as the studies of the pictures, almost as
+delightful and masterly as their prototypes, that du Maurier
+gives us of the joyous Bohemian life of the three jolly Musketeers
+of the Brush in the Quartier Latin in "Trilby."</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Auburn, Ala.</span>, 26 Dec., 1894. <span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Charles C. Thach.</span></span></p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>As a small contribution to "Trilbyana," I would call attention
+to the fact, unnoted so far, that Trilby was the name
+of Eugénie de Guérin's pet dog, mentioned several times in
+the journal she kept for her brother Maurice. Was the dog,
+perhaps, named for the fairy?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Louisville, Ky.</span> <span style="margin-left: 10em;">A. C. B.</span></p>
+
+<p class="asterisks">* * *</p>
+
+<p>As there seems to be a mania for hunting up the sources
+of the inspiration of certain authors, I will engage in the
+game also. In Saintine's "Picciola," Book I., Chap XII.,
+after the first paragraph, you will find the germ of "Peter
+Ibbetson."</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Grand Rapids, Mich.</span> <span style="margin-left: 10em;">C. C.</span></p>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Trilbyana, by
+Joseph Benson Gilder & Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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+Title: Trilbyana
+       The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel
+
+Author: Joseph Benson Gilder & Jeannette Leonard Gilder
+
+Editor: Joseph Benson Gilder
+        Jeannette Leonard Gilder
+
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+TRILBYANA
+
+[Illustration: MR. DU MAURIER'S FIRST DRAWING IN "PUNCH"
+
+_Showing himself (smooth face) and Mr. Whistler (with eyeglass)._ (_See
+page 14._)
+
+PHOTOGRAPHER.--"_No smoking here, Sir!_"
+
+DICK TINTO.--"_Oh! A thousand pardons! I was not aware that---- _"
+
+PHOTOGRAPHER [interrupting with dignity]."--_Please to remember,
+Gentlemen, that this is not a Common Hartist's studio!_" [N. B.--Dick
+and his friends, who _are_ Common Artists, feel shut up by this little
+aristocratic distinction, which had not occurred to them.]]
+
+
+
+
+TRILBYANA
+
+The Rise and Progress of a
+Popular Novel
+
+NEW YORK
+THE CRITIC CO.
+
+MDCCCXCV
+
+COPYRIGHT 1895
+BY
+THE CRITIC CO.
+
+_This edition is limited to
+250 copies, of which this
+is No._ 194.
+
+_It is many a year since a book has attained the popularity of Mr. du
+Maurier's second novel, "Trilby" (printed as a serial in Harper's
+Monthly, from January to August, inclusive, and then issued in
+book-form, on Saturday, 8 September, 1894). Several others have sold as
+well--some even better; but neither "Looking Backward" nor "Ben Hur" (to
+name but these two) has captivated the public in the same manner or in
+the same degree as this romance, this fairy-tale of the three British
+artists, the blanchisseuse who posed for "the altogether," the Parisian
+masters of painting, and the trans-Rhenish masters of music, in the
+Latin Quarter of the early fifties. It is a story written out of the
+author's very heart, and it finds its way straight to the hearts of his
+readers. This is the secret of its unique success. Its charm is
+emotional rather than intellectual. With all its art, it impresses one
+as essentially ingenuous. It is a book to be loved, not merely to be
+liked or admired._
+
+_On 16 June, 1894, The Critic printed, with comment, a letter in which
+Mr. Whistler protested to the editor of an English newspaper against the
+libellous likeness of himself to be found in the character of Joe
+Sibley, one of the minor personages in the story of "Trilby." In the
+fall there were so many sporadic calls for this number of the paper as
+soon to exhaust the supply carried over from the summer. There seemed to
+be a general desire on the part of our readers to bind up the Whistler
+letters, etc., with the text and pictures of "Trilby" as printed in
+Harper's Monthly, the American artist's protest having led to a slight
+revision of the story before its appearance in book-form. The hint was
+acted upon; and two pages of "Trilbyana" were printed in The Critic of
+Nov. 17._
+
+_Though an extra edition was struck off, the call for this number has at
+last exhausted the supply; and the present pamphlet, containing among
+its many items of interest a majority of those that have found a place
+in the columns of The Critic, may fairly claim to be issued in response
+to a popular call._
+
+_J.B. & J.L. GILDER._
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS
+
+
+                                         PAGE
+
+"Trilby: a Novel"                           1
+
+Mr. du Maurier as a Draughtsman             4
+
+"Trilby" on the Stage                       8
+
+Personalia                                 11
+
+Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Whistler            15
+
+"Trilby" Entertainments                    19
+
+Miscellanea                                22
+
+Songs                                      30
+
+A Search for Sources                       35
+
+Nodier's "Trilby," le Lutin d'Argail       37
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+Mr. du Maurier's Monogram                          Title-page
+
+Mr. du Maurier's First Drawing for _Punch_       Frontispiece
+
+Portrait of Mr. du Maurier from a Photograph     Face      16
+
+Portrait of Mr. du Maurier by Himself                      11
+
+Portrait of Mr. Whistler                                   15
+
+"Platt, the New Svengali"                                  25
+
+Mr. du Maurier's House on Hampton Heath          Face      27
+
+
+
+
+"Trilby: a Novel"
+
+_By George du Maurier. With Illustrations by the Author. Harper &
+Brothers._
+
+
+When "TRILBY" began to appear as a serial in _Harper's Monthly_, January
+1894, Mr. Henry James prophesied that it would prove to be a
+glorification of "the long leg and the twentieth year." The prophecy was
+soon verified. At the outset, indeed, it seemed as if the glorification
+were to be, not so much of the long leg, as of the large and shapely
+foot. The whole story rested for a while on one of Trilby's feet. We say
+one, for it was only one of them--the left one--that Little Billee
+immortalized by drawing on the wall of the studio in the Place St.
+Anatole des Arts; but they were equally perfect. As the young woman who
+had the happiness of standing on this foot proclaims, kicking off one of
+the big slippers in which she is introduced to us, "It's the handsomest
+foot in all Paris: there's only one in all Paris to match it, and here
+it is"--and off goes the other slipper. The sketch of it that proves
+Little Billee already a master of his art is not shown till near the end
+of the book; and neither this nor Mr. du Maurier's own portrait of the
+_pieds nus_ on page 21 fully realizes one's notion of the thing's
+unapproached perfection.
+
+As we have said, the whole story rests for a while on one of these
+handsome feet; but the novelist manages at last to free his neck from
+the thraldom of the "slim, straight, rosy heel, clean-cut and smooth as
+the back of a razor," and proceeds to gratify our curiosity to know
+something about the strange being who poked about the studios in the
+Quartier Latin in the early fifties, bare-headed, and wearing a big,
+military coat with epaulets, which she could throw off when she posed
+for the _ensemble_ as easily as she could kick off the loose slippers
+when only her foot was desired as a model. It will be seen that Trilby
+was not a woman of any social standing. Her father was an educated
+Irishman, her mother (his wife) a pretty barmaid. They both were dead,
+and she herself was a professional model.
+
+Two things about her were equally marvellous: one was her foot, the
+other her voice--an organ of surprising power, range and sweetness. No
+less extraordinary, perhaps, was the trick that nature had played upon
+her, by coupling so glorious a voice with an ear that could not
+distinguish one note from another--could scarcely tell a bass from a
+treble, and permitted her to sing so badly that her hearers either
+stopped their ears, laughed in her face, or bolted from the room. The
+American song "Ben Bolt" was the one she liked the best to sing, and
+sang the worst. There was something else about her, almost as strange as
+her beautiful feet, her magnificent voice and her defective (or
+altogether lacking) ear for music; and that was the purity of her
+character. She had had affairs with half a dozen men in the studios,
+without really knowing that it wasn't the right thing to do. But her
+heart remained spotless (so Mr. du Maurier assures us); and it is a most
+unfortunate thing that Little Billee's mother comes tearing over to
+Paris, leaving the peaceful dales and dairies of Devonshire behind her,
+in her mad haste to break the engagement which Trilby has at last made
+with the young English painter, after having repeatedly refused to do
+so, notwithstanding her great love for him. Mrs. Bagot has no difficulty
+in convincing her that she is no worthy mate for Little Billee; and she
+accordingly runs away from Paris, heart-broken, and becomes a
+_blanchisseuse de fin_. Little Billee's heart is broken, too; or if not
+broken, benumbed; and henceforth, though he becomes a most successful
+artist, and the pet of all London, he takes his pleasures and successes
+sadly and listlessly, caring nothing for the wealth and fame that come
+to him.
+
+In the meantime a great _prima-donna_ appears upon the European stage,
+and all the world bows down before her. Happening to be in Paris, Little
+Billee is persuaded by his old chums, Taffy the Yorkshireman ex-soldier,
+and the "Laird of Cockpen"--painters both,--to go and hear the prodigy.
+Fancy their stupefaction at recognizing in the glorious singer the
+tuneless Trilby of five years gone! No longer Trilby O'Ferrall, but La
+Svengali, wife of their old acquaintance Svengali the Jew, who had
+recognized the possibilities of her voice when he first heard it in
+their Paris studio, and had afterwards captured her and cultivated it
+and by his mesmeric arts trained her as a singer and even made her love
+him as a dog loves his master. A day or two later, meeting him at a
+hotel, Svengali spits in Little Billee's face, and gets his nose pulled
+for his pains by Taffy. And then the great _prima-donna_ and her master
+go to London; and Trilby breaks down in trying to sing "Ben Bolt," and
+is hooted off the stage--Svengali's sudden death in a stage-box (unknown
+to anyone in the house) having broken the mesmeric influence that has
+made her a singer. She pines away, surrounded by her old friends the
+Englishmen, and an object of solicitude to all Christendom; and after
+her death Little Billee pines away, too, and no one is left but the big
+ex-officer Taffy--with the exception of Trilby, the most attractive
+character in the book. For Little Billee (whose sister he marries, after
+the death of Trilby, whom he, too, loved) is, truth to tell, somewhat of
+a prig, even after the sight of Trilby at the concert in Paris has
+roused him from the unemotional state to which her flight consigned him,
+years before; and Svengali is a beast, and Gecko is insignificant.
+
+The text of the book is the counterpart of its illustrations, for Mr. du
+Maurier writes as he draws--with infinite precision and detail. Nothing
+is omitted that could possibly heighten an effect. Instead of flashing a
+scene or a sensation upon you, he describes it and redescribes it,
+heaping up the adjectives in masses. His art is a different art from
+Kipling's, for instance, which never wastes a syllable. But the point to
+be decided is not one of methods but of results; and as a whole "Trilby"
+is delightful. It is a slow and laborious process by which the author
+creates an impression and surrounds his characters with the atmosphere
+he wishes us to see them in; but he does finally create the impression
+and the atmosphere, and in so doing justifies his means. He has steeped
+his mind in Thackeray, and so has had a noble master. Like "Peter
+Ibbetson," his new story is unique. It is a book that could have been
+written only by an artist--and illustrated only by the author; it is a
+book, moreover, in which the man and the style are one.
+
+In its present form the story contains certain passages not printed in
+the magazine--notably, a brief disquisition on sitting for the nude. On
+the other hand, certain passages have been altered in deference to the
+wishes of Mr. Whistler, who saw in Joe Sibley, as described and pictured
+by Mr. du Maurier, an unpleasant resemblance to himself. Not only has
+the text been altered, but our friend Sibley is now called Antony, and
+his hitherto unbearded face is adorned with a non-Whistlerian beard.
+(See "Trilby," opposite page 132.) One picture has been omitted
+altogether. It needed not the accidental advertising of Mr. Whistler's
+threatened libel suit to draw attention to the book. It is its own best
+advertisement, and has fairly earned the success implied in advance
+orders so numerous as to cause the postponement until to-day (8 Sept.
+1894) of the original date of publication.
+
+
+
+
+Mr. du Maurier as a Draughtsman
+
+
+It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. du Maurier's work as a novelist
+is in no way matched by his work as a draughtsman, as exemplified, for
+instance, in the 120 drawings for "Trilby," exhibited in December, 1894,
+at the Avery gallery. Until he began to write he was known merely as the
+author of innumerable caricatures, which had a certain vogue because
+they were at the same time pictures of fashionable society; but even of
+these the legend was often the best part. He had mastered many types,
+but they were nothing more than that; and one had seen his millionaires
+and swells and singing people and artists until one had grown rather
+tired of them. Then, suddenly, it was found, with the first chapters of
+his first novel, that in writing he could give to all these well-known
+figures individuality, could make flesh and blood of them. The drawings
+themselves, at least those done as illustrations for his two romances,
+seem to have gained by that discovery. These do not appear to be the
+same French blouses and English guardsmen. Something has got into them,
+a touch of life, which they did not have before. Yet no one will say
+that the Little Billee of the drawings now exhibited at Avery's gallery
+is even a shadow of the Little Billee of the text. Of Trilby there is
+not so much as the famous foot. Any schoolboy, almost, might have made
+as clever a travesty of the Venus de Milo. The best presentment of the
+gigantic Taffy is that in which he poses as the Ilyssus. The Laird o'
+Cockpen is much better, being frequently very like Mr. George W. Cable,
+particularly where he listens to Trilby's confession--an accidental
+likeness, no doubt, but one that increases our respect for the Laird.
+The intentional likeness of Frederick Walker, who is said to be the real
+original of Little Billee, is vastly superior to the ideal one; and the
+many unnamed figures in the more crowded compositions that appear to
+have been sketched from the life or from a particularly vivid memory are
+among the most amusing and enjoyable things in the drawings.
+
+But it must not be denied that there is here and there a bit of _chic_
+that approaches the ideal--something not easily to be discovered in the
+artist's former work. Svengali is throughout a creation of this sort. He
+is as grotesquely romantic, as Mephistophelian a figure in the
+illustration as in the printed page. The only failure is the head (on
+page 59 of the book) which is in more senses than one "as bad as they
+make them." He is excellent where he laughs over the two Englishmen
+cleaning themselves; he is delightful where he examines the roof of
+Trilby's mouth, "like the dome of the Pantheon," "room in it for 'toutes
+les gloires de la France.'" Where he stands in the midst of the crowded
+studio, "All as it Used to Be," he looks every inch the artist, more so
+than the "idle apprentice," lounging against the door-jamb. If there
+were such a man, one who had sunk his whole soul in his art, he might
+look like this, or like the same figure in the hussar uniform, a Semitic
+conqueror "out of the mysterious East." There is a touch of the spirit
+of the illustrators of the romantic period in the pictures of the
+Christmas festivities, especially in the two that illustrate the
+peculiar interchange of roles between Little Billee and the festive
+Ribot, and in the sketch of Zouzou as the "Ducal French Fighting-Cock."
+The scenes of common life, too, are admirable, the free-and-easy, the
+"Happy Dinner," the bargaining of the Laird with Mme. Vinard--"Je
+prong!"--and the scene at the rehearsal where "The First Violin Loses
+his Temper." The art of the drawings is all in expression and action,
+and Du Maurier, in spite of all that is French in him, is thoroughly
+British in this, and a descendant in the right line of Hogarth,
+Cruikshank and Leech.
+
+The "Trilby" drawings were bought _en bloc_ by some one in England. They
+had been sent here to be engraved for _Harper's Monthly_ and the book;
+the sale occurred before they were placed on exhibition in New York. A
+representative of _The Critic_ asked Mr. Avery, who said that a number
+of people had expressed a desire to buy some of them, what he thought
+they would have brought, if sold over here. He replied that he could not
+tell with any degree of accuracy, but he thought they would have
+averaged at least $50 apiece. As there are 120 drawings, this would have
+meant $6,000 more for Mr. du Maurier. _En bloc_, no doubt, they brought
+a smaller sum.
+
+A painting of "Trilby," by Mr. Constant Mayer, was shown at Knoedler's
+gallery, in December, along with half a dozen other and more
+satisfactory paintings by the same artist. The hypnotic condition of the
+subject was declared by Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton to be admirably
+suggested in this fancy portrait.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+Those who express surprise at the sudden literary development of du
+Maurier's genius do not apparently recognize the fact that the whole
+series of his drawings has included the literary element. His thoughts
+as expressed in art have always shown a close and philosophical
+observation of life, an understanding of the actions and motives of men.
+Every one of his illustrations tells not only an individual story, but a
+story of surroundings and times, of tendencies, fads and foibles. And
+the text is always as important as the picture; sometimes it is far more
+so. Who can have forgotten the history and culmination of the "old
+china" craze given by du Maurier in a four-inch-square illustration of
+the young husband and wife examining an old teapot, with the exquisite
+text, "Oh, Algernon, do you think we can ever live up to it?" Certainly
+the man who could invent the application of that phrase must have stores
+of wit and sense equal to the writing of many "Peter Ibbetsons" and
+"Trilbys." And those stores were bound to find their larger expression
+in literature.
+
+NEW YORK, 22 NOV., 1894.
+
+CANDACE WHEELER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The New York _Tribune_ has printed the following protest against the
+insinuation that the author of the book was not its illustrator also:--
+
+"It ought not to be necessary for any formal contradiction to be made of
+that absurd rumor which has just been set adrift concerning the
+illustrations to 'Trilby.' On the face of it, it is impossible for
+either Mrs. du Maurier or her daughter to have given the pictures the
+character they possess. They have du Maurier's style, du Maurier's
+technique, du Maurier's peculiar little touches of humor, not merely in
+the broad idea but in that minute turn of the pen which makes all the
+difference in the world between an empty profile and a funny one. It is
+true that there is a dissimilarity between Trilby in one illustration
+and Trilby in another, but it should be remembered that du Maurier's
+eyesight has been failing him, that he has been compelled to be prolific
+at a time when he has most needed to lie fallow as an artist; and, in
+brief, the shortcomings of the 'Trilby' designs, if serious shortcomings
+they have, are to be explained on the most natural and logical of
+grounds. The intrinsic character of the drawings proclaims their
+authorship. Only George du Maurier could have done them, and not any of
+the trifling assistance which he may have received from his family in
+matters of posing, costume, etc., could deprive him of his
+responsibility or his honor. The recent tendency to criticise these
+designs with some severity will soon be counteracted. As a matter of
+fact, they present some of the cleverest work du Maurier has ever done."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The New York _Sun_ printed a letter, not long ago, in which the drawings
+were declared to be anachronistic. "Why," it was asked, "should Mr. du
+Maurier deny to his characters the crinolines, waterfalls, surtouts,
+cravats, chignons, peg-top trousers and hoop-skirts of the early
+sixties, and make them, despite Taffy's whiskers, of the _monde_ of
+to-day? Is it that his artistic instincts have reverted to that fine
+school of old masters who delighted to portray, saving Taffy's grace,
+Hector fighting in the armor of the Black Prince, or turned out Madonnas
+by the score in Margaret of Anjou skirts?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In "Trilby" every stroke of pen or pencil seems to be significant. Is
+there special meaning in the fact that, in the dainty tail-piece, one
+glass in the spectacles appears to be heavily shaded, while the other is
+clear? Is Mr. du Maurier, like so many literary people, afflicted with
+partial loss of sight or other visual difficulty?
+
+AMHERST COLLEGE LIBRARY.
+
+W. I. FLETCHER.
+
+[Unhappily he is, and has been for many years. It is only with the
+greatest difficulty that he is able to work with either pen or pencil.]
+
+[Illustration: From "Trilby." Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers.]
+
+
+
+
+"Trilby" on the Stage
+
+
+Mr. Paul M. Potter's dramatization of "Trilby" was produced by Mr. A. M.
+Palmer's company at the Boston Museum on Monday, 4 March, 1895, and
+achieved so great a success that several companies were immediately put
+upon the road to play it throughout the country. Its first production in
+New York, with the original cast, occurred at the Garden Theatre, on
+April 15. Hundreds of people were turned away from the door for want of
+room to accommodate them; and an offer was received from Mr. Beerbohm
+Tree, the eminent English actor, for the privilege of producing the play
+in England, where he himself wished to impersonate Svengali. It would be
+a pity if the Lyceum company did not secure the English rights; for Mr.
+Irving would make an inimitable Svengali, and Ellen Terry would be
+Trilby without trying.
+
+As nobody has ever succeeded, or is likely to succeed, in really
+dramatizing a novel, it is not surprising that the stage version of
+"Trilby" should prove in some respects unsatisfactory. It might be
+thought that the book would lend itself readily to dramatic treatment;
+but a little consideration will show that it offers peculiar
+difficulties to the playwright, inasmuch as its chief charm is one of
+manner, which cannot be transferred to the stage, while its story,
+although it contains some striking situations, such as Trilby's collapse
+upon the death of Svengali, consists chiefly of a series of episodes,
+largely independent of each other and strung together very loosely. All
+things considered, Mr. Potter ought not, perhaps, to be held to too
+strict an account for the liberties he has taken with the text and some
+of the personages, but he has certainly lowered the tone of the work,
+and been guilty of various crudities of construction. There is some
+excuse for his employment of Svengali as the evil influence which wrecks
+the happiness of Little Billee and Trilby, but he leaves nothing of the
+author's original intention, and infinitely belittles the character of
+the girl, when he attributes her flight from her lover to mesmeric
+suggestion, instead of her own noble and unselfish devotion. In many
+other similar ways the spiritual side of the book suffers at his hands.
+His persistent references to Trilby's posing for the figure, his
+selection of that particular incident for her first introduction, and
+the joking references to it which he puts into the mouths of other
+personages, are in bad taste, while his travesty of the character of
+Dr. Bagot is entirely without justification. Mrs. Bagot he treats with
+more consideration, but he reduces her to the level of the dullest stage
+conventionality. Trilby herself preserves a good many of her
+characteristics, but is degraded even more than in the book by her
+subserviency to Svengali.
+
+The play is in four acts, and the whole story up to the flight of Trilby
+is compressed into the first two. This feat is accomplished with no
+small ingenuity, but at great cost of probability. In this brief space
+Trilby is wooed and won, Svengali asserts his mesmeric power, the
+marriage of Little Billee is arranged and interrupted by the arrival of
+his mother, and an elopement is planned and frustrated. In the third act
+Trilby is to sing in the Cirque des Bashibazouck, and all the characters
+reassemble as if by magic in the foyer of that temple of art, which is
+abandoned of all other persons for their sole benefit. The proceedings
+which are supposed to occur in this retired spot are intrinsically
+absurd, but they are effective enough from a scenic and theatrical point
+of view, and were accepted by the audience, on the first night, as
+eminently natural and satisfactory. They culminate in the ghastly death
+of Svengali and the restoration of Trilby in a dazed and exhausted
+condition to the three faithful friends. In the fourth act there is
+another reunion of characters, and Trilby, who has agreed once more to
+marry Little Billee, and is supposed to be on the road to recovery, dies
+suddenly, upon the unexpected apparition of Svengali's photograph.
+
+As it stands, the play is not much superior, if at all, to ordinary
+melodrama, being almost wholly void of the literary, humorous and
+personal charm of the book, but it is very well played, has a number of
+effective scenes, and is unquestionably popular. Miss Harned's Trilby,
+though rather a faint reflection of the original, has the merit of being
+attractive and womanly, as well as free and frank, and exhibits true
+pathos in the mesmeric scenes. On the whole, it is a very creditable
+impersonation. Mr. Lackaye's Svengali is overwrought but indisputably
+strong; and Burr McIntosh, John Glendenning and Alfred Hickman represent
+the three friends cleverly, and furnish excellent living pictures of du
+Maurier's sketches. Mr. Dietrichstein makes an admirable Zouzou, and all
+the minor parts are performed competently. A feature of the
+representation which is received with special favor is the Christmas
+merrymaking in the Latin Quarter, which is as vivacious and realistic as
+could be wished.
+
+A matter of considerable interest to authors and publishers, for the
+copyright question involved, occurred in connection with the Boston
+performances. Elmer Chickering, the well-known photographer of Boston,
+took some pictures of Mr. A. M. Palmer's company, which naturally came
+into demand at once. But rushing over the wires came a message from
+Harper & Bros., saying that, as the characters were made up after du
+Maurier's drawings, they should regard the sale of any such pictures as
+an infringement of their copyright. To this, Mr. Chickering disagreed,
+on the ground that the photographs were not copies of any drawings, but
+of actual scenes on the stage, which any man might sketch. Telegrams
+flew back and forth, for the Messrs. Harper would not yield. Meanwhile,
+the papers sought for the photographs, and Mr. Palmer was apparently
+willing to receive the advertisement their publication would ensure; but
+the publishers still held off. At last Mr. Chickering decided to fight
+it out on his own line, for two of the New York papers printed some of
+the 160 "Trilby" pictures taken by him; and--as indicating an amicable
+adjustment of the dispute--a number of them appeared in _Harper's
+Weekly_.
+
+The morning papers of April 30 contained this despatch:--"DENVER, COL.,
+April 29. Did du Maurier write 'Trilby'? This novel question was
+propounded to-day in the United States Court in good faith, when the
+suit of Harper & Bros. and A. M. Palmer for an injunction against the
+Lyceum Stock Company to restrain them from producing 'Trilby' at their
+theatre was called. The defendants allege that the book entitled
+'Trilby' was not originated, invented or written by du Maurier. They
+assert that the original title and book of 'Trilby' were first published
+in France in 1820, and afterwards translated and published in English in
+1847, and that the title and book have been common property for
+seventy-five years. The attorneys for the plaintiffs asked for time to
+communicate with their clients in New York as to the course they should
+pursue, and the Court postponed the hearing until Wednesday morning.
+Should the allegations of the Lyceum Company be true, a sensation will
+be caused all over the two continents. This is the first public
+intimation of an attack on the authenticity of the work, and if it is
+successful every company in the world will have as much right to play
+'Trilby' as the Boston Organization."
+
+The Lounger reprinted the telegram with this comment:--"Charles Nodier's
+'Trilby, le Lutin d'Argail,' was published in Paris in 1822. It has just
+one thing in common with du Maurier's book--the first word in its
+title." The Sunday papers of May 12 printed this paragraph:--"DENVER,
+May 11. Judge Hallet, in the United States District Court to-day,
+granted an injunction restraining the Lyceum Theatre from producing
+'Trilby' hereafter, deciding that it infringed on the rights of Harper &
+Bros., and others. To-day's performance was stopped."
+
+[Illustration: GEORGE DU MAURIER]
+
+
+
+
+Personalia
+
+
+A London correspondent of the Philadelphia _Press_ furnishes some
+interesting notes of a talk with Mr. du Maurier. Concerning literary
+practice, the artist-novelist said that "Peter Ibbetson" was absolutely
+the first story he ever wrote. "And yet," he added, "I have in one sense
+been writing stories all my life. Every one of my pictures, for example,
+has had under it a story condensed to the smallest possible space. The
+necessity of condensing my description and dialogue has been of great
+benefit to me in writing my two novels." As for "Trilby," Mr. du Maurier
+said that his earliest conception of the story was quite different from
+the one he finally worked out. "I had first thought of Trilby as a girl
+of very low birth--a servant, or something like that. Then it occurred
+to me that it would be much better to make her interesting--to create a
+person who would be liked by readers. As a good many people seem to be
+fond of 'Trilby' now, I am very glad, indeed, that I made the change."
+And he declared further that the character of Trilby was not a study
+from life, but wholly imaginary. It was Henry James who suggested to the
+artist that he should write novels.
+
+[Illustration: _BY HIMSELF_
+
+FROM HARRY FURNISS'S "LIKA-JOKO"]
+
+"It was one day while we were walking together on Hampstead Heath. We
+were talking about storywriting, and I said to him:--'If I were a
+writer, it seems to me that I should have no difficulty about plots. I
+have in my head now plots for fifty stories. I'm always working them out
+for my own amusement.' 'Well,' he said, 'it seems to me that you are a
+very fortunate person; I wish you'd tell me one of those plots.' Then I
+told him the story of 'Trilby.'" "Yes, he praised it very generously.
+'Well,' I said, 'you may have the idea and work it out to your own
+satisfaction.' But he refused to accept it. 'You must write it
+yourself,' he said: 'I'm sure you can do it, if you'll only try.' But I
+insisted that I couldn't, and so we left the matter. But that night
+after going home it occurred to me that it would be worth while trying
+to write, after all. So on the impulse I sat down and began to work. It
+was not on 'Trilby,' however, but on 'Peter Ibbetson.' I kept at it for
+a time, but after doing several chapters I became utterly discouraged,
+and said to myself one evening:--'Oh, I can't do anything with this.
+It's a mad story. It's utter rubbish.' Then I took up the sheets and was
+just about to throw them into the fire when I thought I'd keep them for
+another day and think the thing over. That night in bed, while I was
+worrying about the impossibility of going on with the tale, the solution
+of my difficulty suddenly occurred to me. 'I'll make the hero mad,' I
+cried to myself, 'that will put everything right.' So the next day I
+wrote the introduction, explaining Peter's madness, and after that I
+went on with the work to the end without any more trouble."
+
+"Trilby's" American publishers have sent out the following note:--"A
+letter from Mr. du Maurier to the late James R. Osgood is given
+herewith. Possibly the hint it contains as to the secret of an exquisite
+literary style will interest the greater number of readers; or perhaps
+his saying (in 1890) that he has 'several good ideas,' which would seem
+to be an answer to those who have maintained that 'Trilby' was written
+many years ago. * * *
+
+'MY DEAR OSGOOD:--Of course I remembered my promise, and as soon as my
+book--"Peter Ibbetson"--was finished and typewritten, I wrote to
+you--last week, as it happens--at 50 Fleet Street, but behold! you were
+in America; so I sent them the copy, and I believe it starts by to-day's
+mail for Harper in New York. I don't know how it got into the papers
+that I was coming out in this new line, but I have already offers to
+come to an arrangement. I have no notion whether it is suited to a
+periodical or not--you will see; probably _not_,--but if it is I want to
+be well paid for it; first [illegible], as far as my _first_ book is
+concerned, whatever its merits; secondly, because the only people to
+whom I have told the story (H. James, Canon Ainger, poor Allingham and a
+few others) thought so well of it--or said so--as an _idea_; and I have
+taken great pains in the carrying out thereof. If Harper's doesn't see
+its way to it, I shall offer it elsewhere; and after that, I shall put
+it in the hands of an agent. And if I don't get what I think I ought to,
+I shall keep it and write another, as I have several good ideas, and
+writing this has taught me a lot. All of which sounds very cheeky and
+grand; but I am in no hurry to come before the public as a novelist
+before I'm ripe, and to ripen myself duly I am actually rewriting it in
+French, and you've no idea what a lesson _that_ is! * * *
+
+'Yours ever, G. DU MAURIER.
+
+'15 BAYSWATER TERRACE, LONDON, April 18, 1890.'"
+
+It is said that when the Messrs. Harper were negotiating with Mr. du
+Maurier for "Trilby," he declined their offer of a royalty on the sales
+of the book and decided in favor of a "lump sum." We do not know how
+large this sum was, but we are pretty sure that it was not so much as he
+would have made by the royalty plan. That would have earned at least
+$30,000 for him on a sale of about 100,000 copies to 31 Dec., 1894. The
+Messrs. Harper have, however, done a more than generous thing by him:
+they have informed him that they will pay him a royalty, and a good big
+one, too, on all sales after 1 Jan., 1895, on both "Trilby" and "Peter
+Ibbetson." The 600 copies of the _edition de luxe_ of "Trilby," at $10 a
+copy, were sold outright to the Syndicate Trading Co.
+
+Our London correspondent, Mr. Arthur Waugh, wrote to us on 16 April,
+1895:--"The English reading public is to have its illustrated 'Trilby'
+in one volume in June. Hitherto the three-volume edition has alone been
+in circulation, and that without the illustrations. There are to be no
+sketches in all, and arrangements are also in progress for a large-paper
+edition of 250 copies, with six facsimile reproductions of original
+drawings, unbound." Advance orders were received for 15,000 copies of
+the six-shilling edition.
+
+In an interview reported in the _Tribune_ of June 14, Mr. J. Henry
+Harper was quoted as saying, apropos of a cablegram to the effect that
+the writing of "The Martians" was completed:--
+
+"He assures me that his new story will not be ready for the publishers
+until December, 1896. I cannot tell you much about the book itself yet,
+but it will not be in any sense a sequel to 'Trilby' except so far as it
+will succeed that book. The new story will deal in its opening chapters
+with French school life, and then with English life, both fashionable
+and rowdy; then the artistic world of Antwerp and Dusseldorf is
+exploited, while the closing stages occur in England. There will be love
+in the tale, of course, and du Maurier also brings in the supernatural
+again. There will be plenty of liveliness and some tragedy. The book, I
+am given to understand, will be capable of illustration; but I am sorry
+to say there is some doubt as to whether du Maurier himself will
+illustrate it. It will depend entirely upon the state of his health,
+which of late has not been of the best. The length of the story will be
+greater than 'Trilby' and will run through about twelve numbers of
+_Harper's Magazine_, in which it will first be published in serial
+form."
+
+As a matter of course, Mr. du Maurier has had no end of invitations to
+read and lecture in this country, but to all these invitations he has
+turned a deaf ear. In a recent letter to _The Critic's_ Lounger, he
+expressed himself as flattered by these overtures, but added that his
+health would not permit of his accepting any of the tempting
+propositions. He might be more in the way of temptation, if it were not
+for the play of "Trilby." This brings him in almost as much money as
+readings would. We are told that he is in receipt of several hundred
+dollars a week from this source--not ten hundred, but very near it.
+This, surely, is a much easier way of earning money than travelling from
+one end of a big country to the other, for it costs him no greater
+exertion than the signing of his name to a check.
+
+No one who loves "Trilby" should fail to read the "autobiographic
+interview" with du Maurier which Mr. Robert H. Sherard contributed, with
+illustrations, to _McClure's Magazine_ for April, 1895. From this
+singularly intimate and interesting article, one learns that the
+author's first picture in _Punch_ represented himself and his chum
+Whistler[A]; also, that the studio in the Latin Quarter where Trilby
+visited the three English artists was drawn from that of his master,
+Gleyre.
+
+Mr. du Maurier's monogram, which appears on the title-page of this
+pamphlet, is reproduced from a carving on the table at which the staff
+contributors to _Punch_ dine once a week, and on which many of them have
+made similar inscriptions. We are indebted for it to _McClure's
+Magazine_.
+
+
+
+
+Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Whistler
+
+
+The first two or three of the following paragraphs appeared on the
+Lounger's page in _The Critic_ of 16 June, 1894, and were reprinted,
+with most of the Whistler-du Maurier items that succeed them, in the
+issue of Nov. 17.
+
+[Illustration: (From _The Westminster Budget_)
+
+MR. WHISTLER]
+
+Mr. Whistler has mastered two arts besides painting and sketching. One
+he has immortalized in that unique brochure, "The Gentle Art of Making
+Enemies"; the other is the Gentle Art of Advertising Oneself. These two
+generalities are not always to be distinguished from each other. It is
+quite possible to make an enemy in advertising oneself; and nothing is
+easier than to draw general attention to oneself, by the same act that
+incurs the enmity of individual--especially if the individual be
+eminent. At the present moment M. du Maurier happens to be one of the
+most conspicuous figures in the field jointly occupied by Art and
+Letters. In choosing him as an object of clamorous attack, Mr. Whistler
+has shown himself a past-master of the art of advertising oneself. By
+identifying himself with one of the characters in a story that everyone
+is reading, he brings himself more conspicuously before the public than
+by painting a new picture. Moreover, in sending to an English newspaper
+a letter in which he vituperates his quondam friend and fellow-artist,
+he interrupts himself for but a moment in the pursuit of his legitimate
+calling as a painter.
+
+In America, at least, few readers of "Trilby" would have known that, in
+Joe Sibley, Mr. du Maurier had hit off some of the most salient
+"peculiarities" of the immensely talented etcher, who, when he takes the
+newspapers into his confidence, dips his pen in the corrosive acid with
+which he bites his plates. Joe Sibley is not an engaging character; he
+is a Bohemian of the Bohemians, clever, witty, penniless and presuming.
+In taking his sibilant surname as a pseudonym for Whistler, we have the
+endorsement of the artist himself, though he does not expressly declare
+himself to be the archetype of this particular character. Sibley is the
+only man in the book who _could_ have been drawn from Whistler--the
+Whistler of a generation ago; and no one but Sibley could have written
+the following letter, in which the creator of the character is so
+wittily vilified:--
+
+"TO THE EDITOR--SIR: It would seem, notwithstanding; my boastful
+declaration, that, after all, I had not, before leaving England,
+completely rid myself of the abomination--the 'friend '! One solitary,
+unheeded one--Mr. George du Maurier--still remained, hidden in
+Hampstead. On that healthy heath he has been harboring, for nearly half
+a life, every villainy of good fellowship that could be perfected by the
+careless frequentation of our early intimacy and my unsuspecting
+_camaraderie_. Of this pent-up envy, malice and furtive intent he never
+at any moment during all that time allowed me, while affectionately
+grasping his honest Anglo-French fist, to detect the faintest
+indication. Now that my back is turned, the old _marmite_ of our
+_pot-au-feu_ he fills with the picric acid of 30 years' spite, and, in
+an American magazine, fires off his bomb of mendacious recollection and
+poisoned rancour. The lie with which it is loaded _a mon intention_ he
+proposes for my possible 'future biographer'--but I fancy it explodes,
+as is usual, in his own waistcoat, and he furnishes, in his present
+unseemly state, an excellent example of all those others who, like
+himself, have thought a foul friend a finer fellow than an open enemy.
+
+"PARIS.
+
+J. M'NEILL WHISTLER.
+
+"Reflection: The _compagnon_ of the _petard_ we guillotine. Guineas are
+given to the popular companion who prepares his infernal machine for the
+distinguished associates in whose friendship he has successfully
+speculated."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following card appeared in _Harper's_ for October:--
+
+"Pursuant to an arrangement made with Mr. J. McNeill Whistler by our
+London agents, Messrs. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., the publishers of the
+English edition of _Harper's Magazine_, the following letter is
+published:--
+
+August 31, 1894.
+
+"'DEAR SIR--Our attention has been called to the attack made upon you by
+Mr. du Maurier in the novel "Trilby," which appeared in our magazine. If
+we had had any knowledge of personal reference to yourself being
+intended, we should not have permitted the publication of such passages
+as could be offensive to you. As it is, we have freely made such
+reparation as is in our power. We have agreed to stop future sales of
+the March number of _Harper's Magazine_,[B] and we undertake that, when
+the story appears in the form of a book, the March number shall be so
+rewritten as to omit every mention of the offensive character, and that
+the illustration which represents the Idle Apprentice shall be excised,
+and that the portraits of Joe Sibley in the general scene shall be
+altered so as to give no clue to your identity. Moreover, we engage to
+print and insert in our magazine for the month of October this letter of
+apology addressed to you. Assuring you again of our sincere regret that
+you should have sustained the least annoyance in any publication of
+ours, we are,
+
+"'Yours respectfully,
+
+HARPER & BROTHERS.
+
+"'J. MCNEILL WHISTLER, ESQ.'"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+One of the humors of the controversy was a letter that appeared in the
+first number of Harry Furniss's _Lika-Joko_. It was supposed to have
+been written by Whistler to express his indignation at having been cut
+out of the book. The English as well as the American papers fell into
+the trap, and discussed the letter as a genuine expression of Mr.
+Whistler's outraged feelings. It was only a joke, however--and is said
+to have been the only joke in Mr. Furniss's comic paper. To an
+interviewer for _The Westminster Budget_, Mr. Whistler expressed his
+surprise that anyone should have been taken in by the parody. "There was
+no harm in the appearance of the article," he said, "but what caused my
+merriment, though not surprise, is that anyone would have thought for a
+moment that I had written it. But then, it was in England, and in
+England anything is possible!" That the parody was a clever one will be
+seen from the following extract:--
+
+"In the fascinating numbers of 'Trilby,' as they appeared in _Harper's
+Magazine_, I read with delight of one Joe Sibley, idle apprentice, king
+of Bohemia, _roi des truands_, always in debt, vain, witty, exquisite
+and original in art, eccentric in dress, genial, caressing, scrupulously
+clean, sympathetic, charming; an irresistible but unreliable friend, a
+jester of infinite humor, a man now perched upon a pinnacle of fame (and
+notoriety), a worshipper of himself; a white-haired, tall, slim,
+graceful person with pretty manners and an unimpeachable moral tone. My
+only regret was that too little was said about so charming a creation. I
+looked to see more of him in the published three volumes. But no! I
+found the addition of some thoughtful excursuses by Mr. du Maurier upon
+nudity, agnosticism, and other more hazardous subjects, which had,
+presumably, been judged too strong for the ice-watered, ice-creamed
+constitution of the American Philistine; but I looked in vain for the
+delightful Joseph Sibley. In his place I find a yellow-haired Switzer,
+one Antony, son of a respectable burgher of Lausanne, who is now tall,
+stout, strikingly handsome and rather bald, but who in his youth had all
+the characteristics of the lost Joseph Sibley--his idleness, his debts,
+his humor, his art, his eccentricity, his charm. I rubbed my eye-glass.
+_Je me suis demande pourquoi._"
+
+Displeased with _The Speaker's_ comments on his connection with
+"Trilby," Mr. Whistler compelled that paper to print a letter from his
+solicitors, from which it appears that the revised MS. of the novel was
+sent to him to be passed. And apropos of this, he remarks in a letter to
+the editor:--"I question if it be not without precedent that a writer
+ever before so abjectly regorged his spleen as to submit his Bowdlerized
+work to his victim for his approval."
+
+In the Chicago _Tribune_ of Sunday, 2 Dec., 1894, were reprinted from
+_Harper's_ the pictures of, and passages about, Joe Sibley which
+provoked Mr. Whistler's threatened libel-suit. The revised passages, as
+they appear in the book, were also given.
+
+
+
+
+"Trilby" Entertainments
+
+
+OF ENTERTAINMENTS founded upon Mr. du Maurier's book, the name is
+legion. The most pretentious, and at the same time the most successful,
+was the series of "Scenes and Songs from 'Trilby,'" given at Sherry's in
+the afternoon and again in the evening of Saturday, February 9, for the
+benefit of that admirable institution, the New York Kindergarten
+Association. The affair, which had the advantage of distinguished
+patronage, was given under the special management of Mrs. Charles H.
+Ditson; Mr. E. Hamilton Bell arranged the details of scenery and
+costume; and among those who personated the various characters were
+several well-known artists.
+
+The audience was a large one, which was excellent for the little ones
+who were to be benefited; and it was enthusiastic, which was only a just
+and fit tribute to managers, performers and singers. Every detail of the
+tableaux had been thought out with infinite care, and posing, grouping
+and make-up were as near perfection as du Maurier himself could have
+wished. The program included the singing of "Ben Bolt," "Bonjour,
+Suzon," "Au Clair de la Lune" and several other songs, and the following
+tableaux:--"The Three Musketeers of the Brush"; "Wistful and Sweet";
+"Svengali"; "I will Not!"; "All As it Used to Be"; "Answer Me, Trilby!";
+"The Soft Eyes"; "The Sweet Melodic Phrase"; "Dors, Ma Mignonne"; "The
+Nightingale's First Song"; "Malbrouck" and "It was Trilby." The
+entertainment opened most effectively with a quartet by Messrs. Devoll,
+Moore, Bracewell and Devoll. The first tableau, "Three Musketeers of the
+Brush," received the admiration it deserved, as did, also, the singing
+of Miss Akers and Mr. Mackenzie Gordon interspersed with the different
+tableaux. The first appearance of Trilby was awaited with impatient
+expectancy, and when she came, she proved to be "wistful and sweet,"
+indeed, in the person of Mrs. Eric Pape, the wife of the well-known
+young artist. The last tableau of the second part, "It was Trilby," was
+most effectively arranged by Mr. Pape. The full cast of characters was
+as follows:--Trilby, Mrs. Eric Pape; Taffy, W. Harris Roome; The Laird,
+Evert Jansen Wendell; Little Billee, J. Gerald Benkard; Svengali, Robert
+Reid; Gecko, Eric Pape; Dodor, William Abbott; Zouzou, Franklin C.
+Butler; Mrs. Bagot, Mrs. J. Wells Champney; Miss Bagot, Miss Lilian
+Wing; Mme. Malbrouck, Mme. Bettini; Durien, Leslie G. Cauldwell;
+Blanchisseuse, Miss Lou-lou Noel; Fencer, Lieut. Gianni Bettini.
+
+During the intermission between the first and second parts of the
+program, Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin sold a copy of "Trilby" presented by
+the Messrs. Harper. To this Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Henry James (who
+persuaded the author to write the book) had contributed their
+autographs, and Dr. English a manuscript copy of his song "Ben Bolt."
+The volume fetched $100, making the net addition to the Kindergarten
+Association's treasury about $2500.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+AT MR. MANSFIELD'S Garrick Theatre, "Trilby" has been burlesqued. It had
+already been parodied in book-form, produced as a melodrama, read aloud
+in drawing-rooms, with music, and put on the platform in "scenes and
+songs," so that nothing was left to do with it but to make an "operatic
+burlesque" of it; and this was duly accomplished by Messrs. Joseph W.
+Herbert and Charles Puerner, the latter being responsible for the music
+and the former for the words. The piece is called "Thrilby." As in the
+serious play founded upon the novel, the villain (rechristened
+"Spaghetti") is the principal figure; and mesmerism is carried to a
+ridiculous excess, even inanimate objects succumbing to its influence.
+There is a farce within this farce; for "Mme. Sans-Gene" is parodied in
+a sub-play introduced under the name of "Mme. Sans Ra-Gene." The
+burlesque is by no means free from horse-play, but it unquestionably
+accomplishes its purpose, which is merely to amuse.
+
+At the Casino, as well as at the Garrick, "Trilby" and "Mme. Sans Gene"
+have both been travestied.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_Harper's Weekly_)
+
+"THE _Weekly_ has received a copy of the programme of a novel and
+decidedly interesting literary and musical entertainment that was given
+on Oct. 17, at Omaha. It was called 'An Evening with Trilby.' The
+participants were all gentlemen. The subjects of the papers read were
+'The Story of Trilby,' 'Du Maurier, his Life and Work,' 'The French of
+Trilby,' 'The Identity of the Artists in Trilby,' 'Trilby's Voice and
+Method,' 'Trilby as a Hypnotic Subject,' 'Could Trilby be Successfully
+Dramatized?' After each paper there was Trilby music, which included
+'Ben Bolt,' 'Au Clair de la Lune,' 'Malbrouck s'en va-t-en Guerre' and
+other songs and instrumental pieces. At the end of the programme comes
+the inquiry, What shall we 'ave the pleasure of drinkin' after that
+werry nice 'armony?' and then the page turns over to the farewell
+couplet:--
+
+    'A little warmth, a little light
+    Of love's bestowing--and so, good-night.'
+
+"It is a pretty far cry from Paris to Omaha, but Trilby's voice seems to
+have carried that distance without the least trouble. It is worth
+remarking that these Omaha gentlemen made seven 'papers' about her
+without finding it necessary to discuss her morals."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OF THE MANY "Trilby" entertainments in New York one of the most
+successful was given in May, at the house of Postmaster Dayton, for the
+benefit of St. Luke's Home for Indigent Christian Females. A literary
+criticism of the book was read, and one of the chapters of the story;
+and the songs that are oftenest alluded to were sung. The affair was
+given under the auspices of the Daughters of the Revolution.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"TRILBY'S" WIDE POPULARITY--in the sense that many people who are not,
+ordinarily, novel-readers take a lively interest in it--is evidenced by
+many indications, not the least significant being the concerts made up
+from the music mentioned in the novel. One such was given in San
+Francisco last December, under the management of the ladies of the
+Mercantile Library Auxiliary and for the benefit of the Library's
+unfortunately slender exchequer. According to _The Argonaut_, a very
+interesting program was presented, including Schubert's "Rosamonde,"
+Adam's "Cantique de Noel," Chopin's Impromptu in A flat, "Bonjour
+Suzon," "Le Capitaine Roquefinette" and the much-discussed "Ben Bolt."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"TRILBY" REPRESENTATIONS have broken out in all sorts of strange places.
+At the Eden Musee, New York, Miss Ganthony has been restrained from
+impersonating du Maurier's heroine; and at "The Greatest Show on Earth,"
+Miss Marie Meers, who has not been restrained, appears nightly in Trilby
+costume, riding bareback (not barefoot) around the tan-bark to the
+snapping of ringmaster Svengali's whip.
+
+
+
+
+Miscellanea
+
+
+MR. DU MAURIER and Mr. James took a walk together, one day, and the
+artist unfolded to the novelist the plot of "Trilby," suggesting that he
+should use it in a novel. Mr. James persuaded him to write the story
+himself. He did so; and what has been the result? Think of the time and
+skill, the money and material that have been employed in putting the
+thing in type, preparing its illustrations, printing it as a serial and
+reprinting it in book-form; in dramatizing it, burlesquing it in books
+and on the stage, in adapting its songs and illustrations for
+reproduction on lecture-platforms and in drawing-rooms, and in
+translating and publishing Nodier's tale, from which the author took his
+title! Its presentation has given employment, onerous or enjoyable,
+honorary or remunerative, to thousands; hundreds of thousands have read
+it, and hundreds of thousands seen it on the stage; and its leading
+characters--Trilby, Svengali and "the three musketeers of the
+brush"--have become household names and personalities. It has enriched
+its author, added to the wealth of its publishers, put money in the
+purses of playwright and manager and replenished the treasuries of more
+than one excellent charity. Directly or indirectly, no doubt, it has
+caused much more than a million dollars to change hands within the past
+eighteen months. And last but not least, it is responsible for this
+pamphlet, in which is chronicled the story of its rise and progress.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+AT THE Mercantile Library, New York, it was found necessary, at the time
+when "Trilby" was in greatest demand, to circulate a hundred copies of
+the book; at the beginning of June the number in circulation was
+seventy. Mr. Wingate wrote to _The Critic_ from Boston, in June, that
+there were six copies of the book in the main building of the Public
+Library, and one in each of its branches, but that this supply was
+inadequate, 72 demands for the book having come from the branch
+libraries in a single day. And Mr. Hild writes to us from Chicago that
+the Public Library of that city has 26 copies, but that they do not
+begin to supply the demand. "I believe we could use 260 and never find a
+copy on the shelves. Every one of our 54,000 card-holders seems
+determined to read the book."
+
+ON THE POINT of the morality or immorality of the book, _The
+Independent_ says:--
+
+"Mr. du Maurier, apparently in deference to the current craze for
+heroines that have been seduced, or are just going to be, bedaubs the
+first fifty pages of his otherwise clean story with telling how his pure
+heroine, Trilby, a _blanchisseuse de fin_, had been led astray, and so
+forth. That is to say, he unnecessarily goes behind the true door of his
+story to wash some dirty linen, and then he sets forth."
+
+On this point the San Francisco _Argonaut_ does not agree with its New
+York contemporary:--
+
+"With those who think these passages immoral, we cannot agree. Mr. du
+Maurier has treated with candor some facts belonging to the realm of
+things which are usually understood instead of being talked about; but
+he has done this with singular manliness and delicacy, and with entire
+absence of mawkish or other improper sentiment. The impression of
+Trilby's character left upon the reader is entirely that of a noble,
+generous woman, whose life is not a sin, but a tragedy."
+
+The same paper reproduces "a letter Mr. du Maurier wrote to a Paterson,
+N. J., man who contended that the relations of Trilby with her
+hypnotizer were chaste, so far as her consciousness of them went, and
+decided to find out if he were right by writing to the novelist":--
+
+"NEW GROVE HOUSE, HAMPSTEAD HEATH,
+
+"October 31, 1894.
+
+"DEAR SIR: In answer to your letter of September 24th, I beg to say that
+you are right about Trilby. When free from mesmeric influence, she lived
+with him as his daughter, and was quite innocent of any other relation.
+In haste, yours very truly,
+
+"G. DU MAURIER."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EARLY IN March, 1895, one of the Boston clergymen advertised Robert
+Grant's "Art of Living," as our Boston correspondent reported at the
+time, and on Sunday, March 17, another prominent minister took up
+"Trilby." So it is evident that, even if Boston authorship is on the
+decline, as so many New Yorkers enviously declare, the Boston clergy are
+going to keep alive the interest in literary matters by emphatic words
+to their congregations. "Have you read 'Trilby'?" was the theme of the
+Rev. George W. Bicknell's sermon, and the topic crowded the church. The
+Reverend Doctor declared that he had spent five hours reading the book,
+and had decided that it was a story of magnificent possibilities, but
+that its morality was "as one viewed it." He considered the tale
+far-fetched and over-drawn and lacking in healthful flavor, and placed
+it in the same class of art with the nude paintings at the World's
+Fair--a position to which, we presume, the author would not object. Then
+he launched out into an emphatic declaration that it was time for the
+pulpit to speak out against art of this kind.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DU MAURIER'S heroine has been heard of over in Brooklyn. A married
+woman, aged twenty-nine, got into a dispute with her husband, recently,
+as to the morals of the young model, and proved her point by "smashing
+him over the head with an earthenware jar." In the newspaper in which we
+read of this intemperate act, the husband's age is not given, nor the
+side he took in the argument, before he was shown to be wrong. The fact
+that he got his head broken proves little--except the folly of arguing
+with a woman; nor the additional fact that he refused to appear against
+his wife in court. But the case is one in which a good deal might be
+said on both sides--if earthenware jars were not introduced too early in
+the discussion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MR. DU MAURIER has worse offenses to atone for than the breaking of the
+Brooklyn man's silly head. But for his entertaining book we should have
+been spared the unreadable prose of "Biltry: a Parody on 'Trilby'" and
+the unspeakable verse of "Drilby Re-versed," the former by Mary Kyle
+Dallas, the latter by Leopold Jordan. In vulgarity and banality, these
+two precious productions run each other a close race. Of the two we
+think "Drilby" a trifle the less objectionable, merely because the
+proportion of text to white paper is somewhat smaller. Both are poorly
+illustrated, and printed on much better paper than they deserve.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+E. C. OF NEW ALBANY, IND., thinks that "Trilby's" possibilities as a
+vehicle of evil to the much-considered American "young person" are
+emphasized by a conversation recently overheard by her between two
+feminine "young persons" in Indiana. "What is this 'Trilby' everybody is
+talking about?" asked one of these. "Oh," replied the other, "it's a
+book--a novel." "They say it is awfully bad," said the first young
+person. "Yes, I've heard so; but it isn't so at all. I read it clear
+through, and there wasn't anything bad in it. I didn't like it either;
+there is too much French in it." "French?" commented the first young
+woman; "well that's it, then--all the bad part is in French." "I hadn't
+thought of that," mused the other one; "I suppose that's just the way of
+it. Anyway, it isn't nearly as good as 'Dally.'"
+
+[Illustration: PLATT. THE NEW SVENGALI.
+
+THE HYPNOTIZING OF MORTON.
+
+Have you read "Trilby?" Svengali was a bad, wicked man, who used to
+hypnotize poor, sweet little Trilby and make her sing and act as he
+pleased--With apologies to Du Maurier.]
+
+"Trilby" has even got into American politics. This shows better than
+anything else how wide an audience the story most have reached. How many
+allusions to a book of the current year would be comprehensible to the
+average reader of a New York daily paper? We reproduce the accompanying
+cartoon from the _World_ of Dec. 9 as a curiosity of literature and an
+interesting contribution to "Trilbyana." It is adapted from Mr. du
+Maurier's drawing entitled "Et Maintenant Dors, ma Mignonne!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A Broadway caterer now "molds his ice-cream in the shape of a model of
+Trilby's ever-famous foot." Mr. du Maurier can want no greater evidence
+of the popularity of his story in America. That there is not a "Trilby"
+shoe on the market reflects little credit upon the enterprise of our
+bootmakers. It is an opportunity that no soap-maker would neglect if it
+came his way. Possibly the fact that Trilby's foot was large (as well as
+shapely) has something to do with the shoemakers' backwardness. Hers
+were not Cinderella slippers. ("The Lounger," 30 March, 1895.)
+
+Mr. C. W. Coleman, Librarian of William and Mary College, writes from
+Williamsburg, Va., to say that I am in error in supposing that the
+bootmakers of this wide-wake country have not yet seized the name of du
+Maurier's heroine for advertising purposes. In his note of correction he
+encloses a clipping from the catalogue of a Chicago house, containing a
+picture of a high-heeled ladies' shoe, flanked by an advertisement of
+"'The Trilby,' price $3, postage 15 cts.--'an ornament to any foot,'"
+etc. And I hear that the shop-windows of Norfolk, Va., fairly bristle
+with shoes of this brand. Moreover, a bootmaker's advertisement in the
+Pittsburg _Post_ shows (as a punning Pennsylvania correspondent writes
+to me) that "Trilby has obtained a foothold even in the Iron City."
+According to the advertisement, "this enterprising firm offer to the
+lady sending in the most accurate dimensions according to the diagram
+above, together with a drawn outline of the nude foot on paper, a
+handsome pair of the highest grade 'Trilby' shoe, which they will have
+made up especially for the winner. This stylish foot adornment for
+Pittsburgh's model feet will be satin or silk lined throughout, of the
+finest quality kid and best workmanship. Bear in mind, ladies, it need
+not be the smallest feet that win, but the most perfect form of a foot
+from a standpoint of proportionate measurements." ("The Lounger," 13
+April, 1895.)
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+G. A. D. writes from Philadelphia to deplore the Quaker City's
+vulgarization of the name and fame of Trilby; and in justification of
+his plaint encloses a Chestnut Street dealer's advertisement of the
+"Trilby Sausage"! This, it is claimed, "is something new, and fills a
+long-felt want"; "they melt in your mouth." They don't melt in G. A.
+D.'s mouth, but they rankle in his aesthetic soul. "What next?" he
+exclaims; "an Ophelia tooth-wash, a Duchess of Towers garbage-pail!" Our
+correspondent has not yet heard of the "Trilby Ham." This, if anything,
+is worse than the Sausage. It has been heard of in this city; whether or
+no it originated here, I do not care to inquire. But in an Eighth Avenue
+dime-museum, there are "Twenty Trilbys," and visitors vote for the
+handsomest! Moreover, we have now the "Trilby Hearth-brush"; and huge
+posters on the East Side announce a picnic of the "Trilby Coterie and
+Chowder Club."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_The Evening Post_ reprints from James Braid's "Observations of Trance"
+(1850, page 43) the following paragraph, which is of singular interest
+in connection with the novel which has made such an extraordinary
+sensation in this country during the past year, and has become as great
+a success on the stage as in book-form. Svengali's transformation
+of a girl with no ear for music into a singer of marvellous powers seems
+to have been almost paralleled in real life, half a century ago:--
+
+[Illustration: DU MAURIER'S HOUSE.
+
+HAMPSTEAD HEATH.]
+
+"Many patients will thus repeat accurately what is spoken in _any_
+language; and they may be also able to sing correctly and simultaneously
+both words and music of songs in any language which they have never
+heard before--_i. e._, they catch the words as well as music so
+instantaneously as to accompany the other singer as if both had been
+previously equally familiar with both words and music. In this manner a
+patient of mine, who, when awake, knew not the grammar of even her own
+language, and who had very little knowledge of music, was enabled to
+follow Mlle. Jenny Lind correctly in songs in different languages,
+giving both words and music _so correctly and so simultaneously with
+Jenny Lind_, that two parties in the room could not for some time
+imagine that there were two voices, so perfectly did they accord, both
+in musical tone and vocal pronunciation of Swiss, German and Italian
+songs. She was equally successful in accompanying Mlle. Lind in one of
+her extemporaneous effusions, which was a long and extremely difficult
+elaborate chromatic exercise, which the celebrated cantatrice tried by
+way of taxing the powers of the somnambulist to the utmost. When awake
+the girl durst not even _attempt_ to do anything of the sort; and, after
+all, wonderful as it was, it was _only phonic imitation_, for she did
+not understand the meaning of a single word of the foreign language
+which she had uttered so correctly."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_Miss Frances Albert Doughty, in The Critic, 15 June, 1895._)
+
+"The strength of 'Trilby' as a novel lies in the exquisitely dear
+realization of the good in the girl's nature, which the fine art of the
+author has been able to give to the reader. The divine in the Laird, in
+Taffy and in Little Billee responded to the divine in that undeveloped
+girl, and to them the angel in her was the real Trilby in spite of all
+her past experience. But idealism and realism in this charming story are
+not quite happily balanced: the reader receives a blow on the spiritual
+side of his being from the manifestation of an agency in the universe
+that is endowed with an all-conquering malevolence, something extraneous
+from the individual and yet able to arrest in her the growth of the
+budding germ of holiness and moral beauty, a power triumphant even at
+the moment when her spirit was about to return to the God who gave it.
+Without Svengali there would be no novel of Trilby; nevertheless, he is
+the sole blot upon it."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_San Francisco Argonaut_)
+
+"Perhaps the most surprising circumstance connected with 'Trilby' in the
+eyes of American readers is the way the book has been received in
+England. At best it has been accorded lukewarm praise, and the tone of
+its reviews has run the gamut down to downright slating. Some have been
+spiteful enough to be exceptionally entertaining. Of these, that of _The
+Pall Mall Gazette_ is the most striking, the reviewer of that journal
+showing himself to be (as an exchange puts it) a master of vituperative
+diction. To this reviewer, 'Trilby's' three Englishmen are 'British
+prigs cut in pasteboard,' and their biographer is denied even the poor
+ability to express himself in grammatical English."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+If there yet remains a word to be said in criticism of this book, it
+may, perhaps, be in regard to the musical part of it. Whether
+intentionally or not, du Maurier has certainly added an instance, which
+tends to prove the theory true, that music in itself is neither
+elevating nor refining. Svengali is drawn with inimitable skill, and
+with so much realism that the reader feels that he must have been known
+and hated by du Maurier in all his repulsiveness. And yet this loathsome
+creature has the power of so seizing and expressing the noblest works of
+the great masters of harmony as to move his hearers to tears, to sway
+them at his will by the tenderness and feeling he puts into the notes.
+It is a hard thing for a music-lover to comprehend, that a man of low
+and vicious life, and utterly without aspirations, can so express the
+penetrating beauty that lies in music more than in any other art. It
+shows, too, that music gives us only what it finds in us, and proves the
+folly of "program music," or music with a translation.
+
+AUBURN, N. Y.
+
+S. M. COX.
+
+(_Mrs. Emma Carleton, in the Louisville Courier-Journal._)
+
+"A great deal has been said and written about 'Ben Bolt,'" said a woman
+who doesn't pretend to be musical, "and the other songs of the Trilby
+repertoire; but I have not yet seen or heard any comment on Trilby's
+'great and final performance'--the vocalization of Chopin's Impromptu, A
+flat. Du Maurier devotes two entire pages to most wonderful description
+of this wonderful musical achievement; two exquisite pages of music
+painted in words, in most masterly and matchless fashion. Who can forget
+the depiction of La Svengali's voice, 'as a light nymph catching the
+whirl of a double-skipping rope as she warbles that long, smooth,
+lilting, dancing laugh, that wondrous song without words.' This
+impromptu should be rechristened the 'Trilby Impromptu,' and musicians
+everywhere should now--while the Trilby wave is riding high--be charming
+their audiences by playing it."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Oliver Ditson Co. has published a pamphlet of "Trilby" songs, etc.,
+containing the words and music of "Ben Bolt," "Malbrouck," "Bonjour,
+Suzon," "Der Nussbaum" ("The Nut-tree") "Cantique de Noel" and "Au Clair
+de la Lune," and the music of Chopin's "Impromptu."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+On March 1, 1895, a postcard was sent from the office of _Life_, calling
+the attention of "exchange editors" throughout the country to "A
+'Trilby' Examination." We reprint the card in full:--
+
+"_Life's Monthly Calendar_ offers a series of cash prizes for the best
+sets of replies to the following questions on 'Trilby':
+
+1. What does the author claim as the king of all instruments? Who does
+he claim was the greatest violinist of his time? What does he call the
+most bourgeois piece of music he knows?
+
+2. What was Svengali's real name?
+
+3. Where does the author state that he is a social lion? Where does he
+deny that he is a snob?
+
+4. Where does he bring Little Billee in contact with Punch?
+
+5. What did the Laird call M. le general Comte de la Tour-aux-Loups?
+
+6. In what places does the author compare Gecko to a dog?
+
+7. How old was Trilby when she died?
+
+8. What was Little Billee's physical explanation of his inability to
+love?
+
+9. What verbal description of one of the heroes contradicts almost every
+one of the author's drawings of him?
+
+10. What incident of the story is inconsistent with the author's own
+argument in behalf of the nude in art?
+
+
+"Dear Sir: The above questions are covered by our copyright, but in view
+of the popular interest in 'Trilby,' you may wish to reproduce them. We
+should be more than pleased to have you do so, if you will give us
+credit.
+
+Yours very truly,
+
+JAMES S. METCALFE,
+
+Editor and Manager _Life's Monthly Calendar_."
+
+
+
+
+The Songs in "Trilby"
+
+
+Dr. Thomas Dunn English wrote the words of "Ben Bolt" in New York, in
+1842, when he was a young man of three-and-twenty. Mr. N. P. Willis had
+asked him to write a sea-song for _The New Mirror_, and so he wound up
+the last stanza with an allusion to "the salt-sea gale!" As a sea-song,
+"Ben Bolt" is not a success; but it has been sung on every sea and in
+every land where the English tongue is spoken. At Pittsburgh,
+Pennsylvania, in 1848, an English journalist named Hunt quoted the words
+(from a defective memory) to Nelson Kneass, who was attached to the
+local theatre; and, adapted by Kneass to a German melody, the song, in a
+somewhat garbled version, was introduced in a play called "The Battle of
+Buena Vista." In Helen Kendrick Johnson's "Our Familiar Songs, and Those
+Who Made Them" (Henry Holt & Co., 1881), the story of its vogue in
+England as well as in America is told effectively. Not only were ships
+and steam-boats named in its honor, but a play was built upon its
+suggestions, and as recently as in 1877 an English novelist made the
+memories evoked by the singing of the song a factor in the development
+of his catastrophe. Its revival at the hand of Mr. du Maurier is the
+latest and perhaps the most striking tribute to its hold upon the
+popular heart. To the author himself--in his ripe old age a member of
+the LIIId Congress--its fame is seemingly a bore, for he is quoted as
+saying:--"I am feeling very well and enjoying life as well as an old man
+can, but this eternal 'Ben Bolt' business makes me so infernally weary
+at times that existence becomes a burden. The other night, at a meeting
+of a medical association at my home in Newark, some one proposed that
+all hands join in singing 'Ben Bolt,' whereupon I made a rush for the
+door, and came very near forgetting the proprieties by straightway
+leaving home. However, I recovered my equilibrium and rejoined my
+friends. I don't think that General Sherman ever grew half so tired of
+'Marching Through Georgia' as I have of that creation of mine, and it
+will be a blessed relief to me when the public shall conclude to let it
+rest."
+
+Apropos of the use made of the song in "Trilby," _Harper's Bazar_
+published the words and music; whereupon the author sent this letter to
+the editor:--
+
+"It is very pleasing to an old man like myself to have the literary work
+of a half-century since dragged to light and commended, as has been the
+case with 'Ben Bolt' of late. I was flattered by seeing my likeness--or,
+rather, the likeness of a younger man than myself--in your pages; but I
+must protest against some errors which, in spite of careful editing,
+enter into your transcription of the song. The words of the original
+were:--
+
+    'Don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt,
+      With the master so cruel and grim,
+    And the shaded nook in the running brook,
+      Where the children went to swim?'
+
+"This has been changed in the song, as usually sung, to read:--
+
+    'With the master so kind and so true.
+    And the little nook by the clear-running brook,
+    Where we gathered the flowers as they grew?'
+
+"You have copied this, but in a better shape, with the exception of
+changing the rhythm. I must protest against this change, because the
+school-masters of between sixty and seventy years since were, to my
+memory, 'cruel and grim'; they were neither kind nor true. They seemed
+to think the only way to get learning into a boy's head was by the use
+of the rod. There may have been exceptions, but I never met them. At all
+events, 'what I have written I have written.'"
+
+BEN BOLT
+
+                        I
+
+    Oh, don't you remember, Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
+      Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown,
+    Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
+      And trembled with fear at your frown!
+    In the old churchyard, in the valley, Ben Bolt,
+      In a corner obscure and alone,
+    They have fitted a slab of the granite so gray.
+      And Alice lies under the stone!
+
+                         II
+
+    Under the hickory tree, Ben Bolt,
+      Which stood at the foot of the hill,
+    Together we've lain in the noon-day shade,
+      And listened to Appleton's mill.
+    The mill-wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben Bolt,
+      The rafters have tumbled in,
+    And a quiet that crawls round the walls as you gaze,
+      Has followed the olden din.
+
+                        III
+
+    Do you mind the cabin of logs, Ben Bolt,
+      At the edge of the pathless wood,
+    And the button-ball tree with its motley limbs,
+      Which nigh by the door-step stood?
+    The cabin to ruin has gone, Ben Bolt,
+      The tree you would seek in vain;
+    And where once the lords of the forest waved,
+      Grows grass and the golden grain.
+
+                         IV
+
+    And don't you remember the school, Ben Bolt,
+      With the master so cruel and grim,
+    And the shaded nook in the running brook,
+      Where the children went to swim?
+    Grass grows on the master's grave, Ben Bolt,
+      The spring of the brook is dry,
+    And of all the boys who were schoolmates then,
+      There are only you and I.
+
+                          V
+
+    There is change in the things I loved, Ben Bolt,
+      They have changed from the old to the new;
+    But I feel in the depths of my spirit the truth,
+      There never was change in you.
+    Twelve-months twenty have past, Ben Bolt,
+      Since first we were friends--yet I hail
+    Thy presence a blessing, thy friendship a truth,
+      Ben Bolt, of the salt-sea gale!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+In your columns of "Trilbyana" I have seen no mention of the fact that
+George W. Cable, in his "Dr. Sevier"--a thousand times better novel and
+better work, in every way, than "Trilby,"--has introduced the old song
+"Ben Bolt" with wonderful effect. It is strange that the old melody
+should have appealed to the two men, so widely apart, and it is but fair
+that the American's first, and most skilful, use of it should have due
+recognition.
+
+PHILADELPHIA.
+
+JOHN PATTERSON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+Du Maurier says that there is but one verse of the little French song,
+which Trilby sings with so much effect--"Au clair de la lune." He
+mistakes; there is another, running thus:--
+
+    "Je n'ouvrirai pas la porte,            J'ouvre bien la porte,
+      A un vieux savetier,                    A un patissier,
+    *   *   *   *   *                       Qui m'apporte des brioches
+      *   *   *   *                           Dans un tablier."
+
+The two missing lines have escaped the memory of the writer.
+
+AUBURN, N. Y.
+
+S. M. COX.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Your correspondent, S. M. Cox, offers some more verses of "Mon Ami
+Pierrot." They do not quite agree with those taught me, shortly after
+the Revolution of 1848, by an old French gentleman. You will notice that
+the French of the last verse is quite "eighteenth-century" in style and
+diction.
+
+              II                              III
+
+    Je n'ouvre pas ma porte         Mais j'ouvre bien ma porte
+      A des savetiers,                A des officiers,
+    Ils ont des alenes,             Ils ont des pistoles,
+      C'est pour me piquer.           C'est pour me les bailler.
+
+    PARIS, 1 Jan., 1895.      B. F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mr. du Maurier was correct in saying that there is only one verse of "Au
+Clair de la Lune"; yet there are possibly, and probably, a thousand made
+in imitation of it, which go to the same air. We quote from the San
+Francisco _Argonaut_:--
+
+"It is to be observed that these _amateurs de Trilby_ do not go the
+length of singing 'Au Clair de la Lune,' even repeating the first stanza
+twice, as Trilby did. But perhaps they are as ignorant concerning the
+song as is Mr. du Maurier, who declares there is but one verse. There
+are four. The first is given in 'Trilby' thus:--
+
+    'Au clair de la lune,        Ma chandelle est morte....
+       Mon ami Pierrot!            Je n'ai plus de feu!
+     Prete-moi ta plume          Ouvre-moi ta porte
+       Pour ecrire un mot.         Pour l'amour de Dieu!'
+
+The second runs:--
+
+    'Au clair de la lune         Va chez la voisine--
+       Pierrot repondit:           Je crois qu'elle y est,
+     Je n'ai pas de plume,       Car, dans sa cuisine,
+       Je suis dans mon lit.       On bat le briquet.'
+
+The third stanza contains the point of the song:--
+
+    'Au clair de la lune           Qui frappe de la sorte?
+       S'en va Arlequin              Il dit a son tour:
+     Frapper chez la brune         Ouvre-moi ta porte
+       Qui repond soudain:           Pour le dieu d'amour.'
+
+The fourth stanza continues in the same strain, and it goes farther."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+    "MALBROUCK S'EN VA'T EN GUERRE"
+
+      Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+    Malbrouck s'en va-t'en guerre....
+      Ne sais quand reviendra!
+      Ne sais quand reviendra!
+      Ne sais quand reviendra!
+
+      Il reviendra-z-a Paques--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Il reviendra-z-a Paques....
+        Ou ... a la Trinit!
+
+      La Trinite se passe--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      La Trinite se passe....
+        Malbrouck ne revient pas!
+
+      Madame a sa tour monte--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Madame a sa tour monte,
+        Si haut qu'elle peut monter!
+
+      Elle voit de loin son page--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Elle voit de loin son page,
+        Tout de noire habille!
+
+      "Mon page--mon beau page!--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Mon page--mon beau page!
+        Quelles nouvelles apportez?"
+
+      "Aux nouvelles que j'apporte--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Aux nouvelles que j'apporte,
+        Vos beaux yeux vont pleurer!"
+
+      "Quittez vos habits roses--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Quittez vos habits roses,
+        Et vos satins broches!"
+
+      "Le Sieur Malbrouck est mort--
+        _Mironton, mironton, mirontaine!_
+      Le Sieur--Malbrouck--est--mort!
+        Est mort--et enterre!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There is no more eloquent description of the effect of music on an
+impressionable nature than du Maurier gives of the impression made upon
+Little Billee by the singing of Adam's "Cantique de Noel" at the
+Madeleine on Christmas Eve.
+
+           CANTIQUE DE NOEL
+
+    Minuit, Chretiens, c'est l'heure solennelle,
+      Ou l'homme Dieu descendit jusqu'a nous,
+    Pour effacer la tache originelle
+      Et de son Pere arreter le courroux.
+    Le monde entier tressaille d'esperance
+      A cette nuit qui lui donne un sauveur.
+    Peuple a genoux! attends la delivrance!
+      Noel, Noel, voici le Redempteur!
+
+
+
+
+A Search for Sources
+
+
+TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRITIC:--
+
+The liquid name, "Trilby," of du Maurier's heroine having been duly run
+down to its source, will a slight excursus be amiss as to the origin of
+the affectionate title applied by the novelist on his charming little
+hero--"Little Billee"? Evidently the name, together with certain
+descriptive touches, has been taken from Thackeray's ballad, "Little
+Billee." This racy skit, as many doubtless know, is in the best vein of
+the great humorist's inimitable burlesque. It narrates the tragic cruise
+of
+
+    "Three sailors of Bristol city
+     Who took a boat and went to sea,"
+
+the second stanza running thus:--
+
+    "There was gorging Jack, and guzzling Jimmy
+     _And the youngest, he was Little Billee_.
+     Now when they got as far as the Equator
+     They'd nothing left, but one split pea."
+
+And the unpleasant ultimatum being arrived at, that "We've nothing left,
+us must eat we," the poem continues:--
+
+    "Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy,
+     With one another we shouldn't agree,
+     There's little Bill, _he's young and tender_,
+     We're old and tough, so let's eat he."
+
+Here, I say, we have the origin of the novelist's "Little Billee,"
+while, in the italicized phrases, we have also du Maurier's, "the third,
+he was little Billee" (page 6), and "he was young and tender, was little
+Billee."
+
+It would be sheer nonsense, of course, to urge against the famous
+novelist any charge of unacknowledged borrowing in matters so entirely
+trivial. The point is merely a curious one of origins; a little
+siccatine botanizing, so to speak, on the _folia disjecta_ that have
+been wonderfully spun by du Maurier's genius into a fabric of grace and
+beauty so rare as is this "Trilby." Nor, indeed, should the further fact
+be a detraction from the gifted author of "Trilby," that his
+indebtedness to Thackeray is obviously greater than in the minutiae under
+consideration--that, in fact, he has caught from the great immortal the
+note of much that is best in his book. In his limpid, graceful
+simplicity of words, and their easy, natural flow--in his delicate,
+playful humor, and tender but not overwrought pathos, we discover a
+careful study of found only a few general remarks about fairies, their
+habits and habitations, nothing in the least resembling the story of
+Jeannie's lover. Perhaps Nodier was mistaken about his source. As he
+travelled in the Highlands, he may possibly have "collected" the tale at
+first hand, and, there being no folk-lore societies in those early days
+of romanticism, he was not aware of the honor that thus accrued to him.
+It cannot have evolved itself from a mere hint. We appeal to Mr. Lang to
+take up and follow the chase farther. He might be worse occupied than in
+tracing out the original John Trilby MacFarlane, and whence he got his
+English-sounding name, his fairy powers and his connection with Saint
+Columba--the last probably from Nodier himself, who may have been
+reading Montalembert's "Monks of the West" before setting out upon his
+pilgrimage. Mr. Dole, by the way, irreverently converts the Dove of the
+Churches into a "Saint Columbine," unknown to any respectable
+hagiographer. Think, Mr. Lang, what a delightful coil this romancing
+Frenchman, let loose among your Hielan' men, fairies, monks and Scotch
+novels, has made for you to straighten out, and how many strange
+discoveries may be made while you are about the job!
+
+Miss Smith (2) has prepared another translation of Nodier's story, and,
+though there is little choice between her version and Mr. Dole's, we
+prefer it. It seems a trifle less exact, but it is more idiomatic; and,
+if anything, she perhaps intensifies the local color a little, which
+does not do the tale any harm. Her book is got up in tartan cover; Mr.
+Dole's has a design adapted from Paul Konewka.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mr. Richard Mansfield has secured from Estes & Lauriat the right to
+dramatize and produce Mr. Dole's translation of Nodier's "Trilby, le
+Lutin d'Argail."
+
+
+
+
+Nodier's "Trilby, le Lutin d'Argail"
+
+
+It was not long after the appearance of "Trilby" that our readers
+detected the French origin of the name of Mr. du Maurier's heroine. The
+story of the unearthing of this delightful French fairy-tale may be
+followed in this series of communications to _The Critic_:
+
+On looking over Roche's "Prosateurs Francais," I find that one of the
+"plus jolis" contes of Charles Nodier (1788-1844) is entitled "Trilby";
+therefore the title of du Maurier's much-bought novel is not original
+with him. I should be pleased if any reader of _The Critic_ would inform
+me as to the plot of Nodier's story.
+
+ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI RECTORY,
+
+WM. J. MCCLURE,
+
+MT. KISCO, N. Y., 29th Oct., 1894.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following lines occur in the "Reponse a M. Charles Nodier" of Alfred
+de Musset:--
+
+    "Non pas cette belle insomnie
+           Du genie
+     Ou Trilby vient, pret a chanter,
+           T'ecouter."
+
+This would seem to offer some clue to the origin of the name chosen by
+Mr. du Maurier for his heroine. Can you enlighten me as to the identity
+of the "Trilby" referred to by Musset?
+
+RIDGEFIELD, CONN., 19 Nov., 1894.
+
+ROSWELL BACON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In answer to the request of your correspondent in _The Critic_ of Nov.
+17, I find the tale of "Trilby" in my copy of the "Contes de Charles
+Nodier, illustres par Tony Johannot." "Trilby" is the story of a
+household fairy of Scotland (a "Lutin familier de la Chaumiere"). It is
+fantastic and touching, but it has nothing in common with du Maurier's
+"Trilby."
+
+LEESBURGH, VIRGINIA, 20 Nov., 1894.
+
+I. L. P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+From the recent contributions to "Trilbyana" in your columns, it would
+appear as if the name of Trilby (originally Scotch or Irish?) were not
+uncommon in the writings of French authors. Charles Nodier, in his
+_conte_, says that M. de Latouche--a contemporary--wrote on the same
+subject, "ou cette charmante tradition etait racontee en vers
+enchanteurs"--which gives one to suppose that "Trilby" was the name of
+his enchantress; though, perhaps, he refers to the old story of "Le
+Diable Amoureux." I find, moreover, that Balzac takes the name for a
+type in his "Histoire des Treize: Ferragus: Vol. I. Scenes de la Vie
+Parisienne" (page 48 of edition of 1843):--"Pour developper cette
+histoire dans toute la verite de ses details, pour en suivre le cours
+dans toutes ses sinuosites, il faut ici divulguer quelques secrets de
+l'amour, se glisser sous les lambris d'une chambre a coucher, non pas
+effrontement, mais a la maniere de Trilby [the opposite to du Maurier's
+Trilby], n'effaroucher ni Dougal, ni Jeannie, n'effaroucher personne,"
+etc.
+
+TUXEDO PARK, 26 Nov., 1894.
+
+E. L. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_Boston Evening Transcript, 1 Dec. 1894._)
+
+"The Listener was asked the other day where du Maurier got the name of
+Trilby--a sweet and pleasant word, neither English nor French, which
+seemed to suit so perfectly the adorable young person of his creation.
+He was able to answer, more by accident certainly than as the result of
+erudition, that the name was not invented by du Maurier but belongs to
+the French classics--possibly to Scottish folk-lore. In the year 1822
+there was first published in Paris a _nouvelle_, by Charles Nodier,
+afterward a member of the French Academy, entitled, "Trilby, or the Fay
+of Argyle"; it was a sort of fairy-story, in which a fay is in love with
+a mortal woman, and the woman is very far from being indifferent to his
+sentiment. This 'Trilby' attained a considerable degree of popularity;
+it became, indeed, a French classic; Sainte-Beuve has particularly
+praised the charm of its style. * * * In his preface to the story,
+Nodier says: 'The subject of this story is derived from a preface or a
+note to one of the romances of Sir Walter Scott, I do not know which
+one.' This is a very indefinite acknowledgment While Nodier may have got
+his subject from Scott, the Listener doubts if he got the name 'Trilby'
+from him. It is just the sort of name that a French writer would give to
+a Scotch fay. Nevertheless, Trilby may be a real Scotch elfin. The
+Listener would hardly claim personal acquaintance with them all.
+
+"Du Maurier's 'Trilby' is curiously prefigured, in part at least, in
+Nodier's; and yet there is not the smallest thing that the most jealous
+critic could call a plagiarism; it is a legitimate parentage. As you go
+on with Nodier's story, you love his Trilby more and more, as you do du
+Maurier's, until you think that there was never so bewitching a fairy;
+and your love for Trilby is interwoven with your love for Jeannie, his
+mortal sweetheart, just as your love for du Manner's Trilby is forever
+mixed up with your tender sentiment for Little Billee. You feel a sort
+of enchantment over you like the hypnotism that you are under in du
+Maurier's strange book. And both stories, while abounding in wit and
+pretty things, are deeply tragical. It has been said of Nodier's
+'Trilby' that it belongs to the realm of the _supra-sensible_, and so,
+in large measure, certainly does du Maurier's. Du Maurier has confessed
+his obligation flatly in giving his story the very name that Nodier's
+bore. It is conceivable that the image of the Frenchman's haunting fairy
+dwelt with him until he resolved to reincarnate the adorable elf in the
+body of a girl as adorable. He gave his Trilby a Scotch ancestry to
+connect her the more naturally with the _lutin d'Argail_; and her fairy
+ancestry will easily account not only for her early prankishness, but
+for her later unreality. But it is a prefiguring merely, and not a
+direct suggestion. Whatever du Maurier's 'Trilby' lacks, it isn't
+originality!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+(_From Mr. C. E. L. Wingate's Boston Letter in The Critic of 20 April,
+1893._)
+
+It appears that the first mention of the French book appeared in _The
+Critic_, last November. It was in the same month that Mr. Bradford
+Torrey * * * happened to find a copy of Nodier's "Trilby" in the Boston
+Athenaeum. He took the book to his friend, Mr. J. E. Chamberlin of _The
+Youth's Companion_, who began its translation at once. A few days later
+appeared a note in _The Critic_ from a correspondent in Virginia.
+Thinking that secrecy was no longer worth while, Mr. Chamberlin wrote
+his paragraphs for the _Transcript_ "Listener" column, incorporating a
+bit of translation. This was printed on Dec. 1. Miss Minna C. Smith went
+to Roberts Bros. at once, to ask them if they would consider the
+publication of a translation of the romance by her _Transcript_
+confrere, and Mr. F. Alcott Pratt replied that they would like very much
+to see that gentleman's work. Circumstances made Mr. Chamberlin decide
+not to finish the translation, and he gave Miss Smith his idea and a few
+pages of the manuscript for a Christmas present. During several weeks
+following she was engaged upon her careful translation. The Scotch words
+and names of localities in her manuscript were corrected by Mr. J.
+Murray Kay of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., an accomplished Scot, who walked
+through Argyle with his daughters last summer. On March 19, an article
+on Charles Nodier's story, foreshadowing Miss Smith's translation,
+appeared in the _Transcript_. On the morning of March 20, Mr. Dana Estes
+sent for Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole and asked him to make a translation,
+which was done with remarkable rapidity, and put out on March 29.
+Learning of this, Lamson, Wolffe & Co. hurried on Miss Smith's book,
+which had been in the hands of their printer at the Collins press for
+days, advertised it on Thursday and brought it out on Saturday, in
+Scotch plaid covers.
+
+This firm of Lamson, Wolffe & Co., by the way, has just been dissolved
+for a novel reason. Mr. Wolffe is a member of the class of '95 at
+Harvard. The publication of "Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle" called the
+attention of the faculty to his publishing business, and he was asked to
+give it up, or else forfeit his degree. He chose the former alternative,
+and although the firm name will remain Lamson, Wolffe & Co., a new and,
+for the present, silent member of the firm has added capital and
+scholarship to the house.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle"
+
+_By Charles Noder. 1. Translated from the French, with introduction, by
+Nathan Haskell Dole. Estes & Lauriat. 2. From the French by Minna
+Caroline Smith. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co._
+
+Nodier's "Trilby," who now revisits the book-stores owing to Mr. du
+Maurier's having taken his name for his heroine's, is one of the few
+latter-day fairies that have fairy blood (or ichor) in their veins. He
+belongs on the same shelf with Fouque's "Undine," but, though he was
+only joking when he personated a father who "had not seen him since the
+days of King Fergus," he is certainly of the breed of Una and Maer,
+Caoilte and Mananan. That he made a sensation on his first appearance in
+the world of letters is shown by Victor Hugo's ode, warning the Fairy of
+Argyle to beware of ink-slinging penny-a-liners:--
+
+    "Car on en veut aux Trilbys
+      *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
+         Ils souilleraient d'encre noire,
+         Helas! ton manteau de moire,
+       Ton aigrette de rubis"--
+
+advice which might be repeated apropos of Mr. du Maurier's creation.
+
+Mr. Dole, who has made a translation (1) of Nodier's "Trilby," has
+looked through all of Scott's novels, he says, to discover, if possible,
+the "preface or note" from which the French author claimed to have drawn
+his story, and has the deft art of "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes." And
+the "Cave of Harmony," with its songs and its bumpers and long whiffs,
+the gay nights and rollicking days of F. B. and Clive and Pendennis--the
+glamor of all which has enticed full many a youngster towards the easy
+descent, or the shining slopes (as the case may be) of art and
+letters--all these scenes have doubtless served as the studies of the
+pictures, almost as delightful and masterly as their prototypes, that du
+Maurier gives us of the joyous Bohemian life of the three jolly
+Musketeers of the Brush in the Quartier Latin in "Trilby."
+
+AUBURN, ALA., 26 Dec., 1894.
+
+CHARLES C. THACH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+As a small contribution to "Trilbyana," I would call attention to the
+fact, unnoted so far, that Trilby was the name of Eugenie de Guerin's
+pet dog, mentioned several times in the journal she kept for her brother
+Maurice. Was the dog, perhaps, named for the fairy?
+
+LOUISVILLE, KY.
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+
+As there seems to be a mania for hunting up the sources of the
+inspiration of certain authors, I will engage in the game also. In
+Saintine's "Picciola," Book I., Chap XII., after the first paragraph,
+you will find the germ of "Peter Ibbetson."
+
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