NOTE TO THE KENSINGTON EDITION Or the pieces collected in the complete edition of Thackeray's works under the title BURLESQUES, three are from his contributions to Punch-the "Novels by Eminent Hands," first printed as "Punch's Prize Novelists" in 1847; "The Next French Revolution," appearing in 1844; and "The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche" in 1845. Of the others, " The Adventures of Major Gahagan" had appeared in the New Monthly Magazine in 1838, and had been included in that curiously unsuccessful two-volume book of "Comic Tales and Sketches" by Thackeray-which was published in 1841 and is now almost forgotten except by collectors, its contents having been distributed under other heads. "Cox's Diary was in the Comic Almanac in 1840; the "Legend of the Rhine," in Cruikshank's Table Book in 1845; and "Rebecca and Rowena," of which the first suggestion had been in Fraser in 1846 ("Proposals for a Continuation of Ivanhoe "), appeared in full as a Christmas Book in 1849. In the Kensington Edition "The Next French Revolution" and "Cox's Diary," not "Burlesques" in the sense of some of the others, are transferred, for purely practical reasons, to the volume containing the Ballads and "Men's Wives "; the rest are retained in the order of the edition of 1869. The portrait used as the frontispiece of this volume is from a painting by Sir John Gilbert, belonging to the Garrick Club, and once before reproduced in the "Maclise Portrait Gallery," where it was put as a substitute for one of Maclise's own of Thackeray, which for some reason was not included. It was not painted from life, but after Thackeray's death, from Gilbert's recollection of him as he sat in a favourite seat in the club smoking-room. The Committee of the Garrick Club have kindly consented that the plate already made from it shall be reproduced here. CONTENTS PHIL FOGARTY. A TALE OF THE FIGHTING ONETY- BARBAZURE. BY G. P. R. JEAMES, ESQ., ETC. LORDS AND LIVERIES. BY THE AUTHORESS OF DUKES |