Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have been maintained in this version of this book. Typographical errors have been marked with a [TN-#], which refers to a description in the complete list found at the end of the text. A list of words that have been inconsistently spelled or hyphenated is found at the end of the present text. The illustrations listed in the illustration list were missing from the book used as the source for this text. The following Unicode characters are used in this book: ă a with breve ā a with macron ě e with breve ē e with macron ĭ i with breve ī i with macron ŏ o with breve ō o with macron ŭ u with breve ū u with macron ⁂ asterism (in the original text, the asterism was reversed, with two asterisks at the top and one at the base) ♭ musical flat symbol ♯ musical sharp symbol If they do not display properly, please try changing your font. The following codes are used for characters that could not be represented in the character set used for this version of the book: [1] upside down 1 [6] upside down 6 CHARACTER SKETCHES OF ROMANCE, FICTION AND THE DRAMA A REVISED AMERICAN EDITION OF THE READER’S HANDBOOK BY THE REV. E. COBHAM BREWER, LL.D. EDITED BY MARION HARLAND VOLUME III [Colophon] NEW YORK SELMAR HESS PUBLISHER MDCCCXCII Copyright, 1892, by SELMAR HESS. PHOTOGRAVURES PRINTED ON THE HESS PRESS. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME III. PHOTOGRAVURES AND ETCHINGS. _Illustration_ _Artist_ DEATH OF MINNEHAHA (_colored_) W. L. DODGE MADAME CHRYSANTHÈME MEPHISTOPHELES AND FAUST A. JACOMIN MILLER (THE), HIS SON AND THE ASS EUGÈNE LEJEUNE NEWCOME (COLONEL) FREDERICK BARNARD OPHELIA MADELEINE LEMAIRE ORPHEUS G. MOREAU PECKSNIFF (MR.) FREDERICK BARNARD PENDENNIS (MAJOR) FREDERICK BARNARD WOOD ENGRAVINGS AND TYPOGRAVURES.