Trilby, published the preceding spring in book form, was one of these books, for all this was at a very remote period; and the Rubaiyat was another, for that poem was as yet unhackneyed and hardly wellknown enough to be parodied in those happy days.

Hence come Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Chapman, and play Svengali to our Trilby.

I became self-conscious and looked around for companionship, but as my eye travelled along the crowded pavement I could see nothing but bowlers and trilbys and occasional straws.

One of these in particular attracted my attention; she was an exceedingly beautiful woman of perhaps thirty-five; she had glistening copper-colored hair, very white skin, and eyes very much like Du Maurier's conception of Trilby's "twin gray stars."

Her foot would have given Du Maurier inspiration for a brown Trilby.

On the back of one of these I saw "Corelli", and on anothergreat joy!was Trilby.

The gnomes of Pope, the fays and "trilbys" of Nodier, even the fairy-world of Doyle, are breathed upon by a race that has grown up habituated to science.

Didn't preach much from the Bible, but talked on the cussedness of Robert Elsmere and the low-downness of Trilby.

I didn' reckernise 'im for the momentdressed out in a fur coat an' Trilby 'at.

DU MAURIER, artist, born in Paris; started in London as a designer of wood engravings; did illustrations for Once a Week, the Cornhill Magazine, &c.., and finally joined the staff of Punch, to which he contributed numerous clever sketches; he published a novel, "Peter Ibbetson," in 1891, which was succeeded in 1895 by "Trilby," which had such a phenomenal success in both England and America (1834-1897).