Character and Comedy

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. HE Essays that make up this volume have been collected by permission from various periodicals. My Cousin the Bookbinder ap peared in the Cornhill Magazine: the others in the Outlook, T. P.'s W eekly, the County Gentleman, and the Academy. In almost every case I have altered and expanded the text, I hope for the better. The second half of the book consists of a selection from an epistolary series that ran through Punch, which the proprietors kindly allow me to reprint here.