Will, a gamester's, 78
William III., a patron of racing, 389
Williams, George, 106
Williamson, Major, 67
Wind, a bet about the, 224
Windsor, Mother, 45
Windsor Forest, outrangership of, 195 _n._
Wine _v._ water, 229, 230
Wolfe, Colonel, his answer to Duke of Cumberland, 390
Women and freak races, 205;
as gamesters, 269, 359, 360
Wontner, Mr. St. John, and Park Club, 124
Wortley, Lady Mary, 39
Wren, Sir Christopher, and Charles II., 387
Wright of Long Acre, 213
Yarmouth, Lord, 421
Zeno, M. le Chevalier, Venetian ambassador, 248
Zoffany, court painter to Nawab of Oude, 187;
paints caricature of the Nawab, 187;
his narrow escape, 188, 189;
a favourite of royalty, 194;
his pictures, 194
THE END
_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_.
[Transcribers note: Numerals enclosed by = (=x=) were struck through
in the original text.]
BY RALPH NEVILL
FRENCH PRINTS
OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Illustrated. 8vo. 15s. net.
Mr. C. LEWIS HIND in the _DAILY CHRONICLE_.--"Congratulations to Mr.
Ralph Nevill! He has produced an art book that presents itself almost
as a novelty--the proper kind of art book, too: a hundred pages and
more of catalogue, fifty illustrations, and the text informative and
bearing the signs of erudition and enthusiasm.... A pretty book, yes;
but a book also of knowledge which the collector of eighteenth-century
French prints must possess."
_MORNING POST._--"A better book could not be desired. Mr. Nevill is
a cultured critic and perfectly versed in his subject. He writes
with equal vigour and effect, whether he is giving us biographical
notices of artists and the history of the development of line and
colour printing in France, or analysing the differences in the various
states of the more important specimens. The work is admirably and very
completely illustrated."
_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"A book crowded with curious information,
and which the collector, in spite, perhaps, of his little group of
M. Bocher's volumes, cherished during long years, must feel it his
business to possess.... We thank him for a book which must have cost
him labour; but which he must have executed with enjoyment, and in
the happy possession of an overflowing measure of the connoisseur's
knowledge. The book will certainly push appreciably further into
English hands those charming instances of Eighteenth-Century Line
Engraving which record, not only beautiful and dignified interiors,
and the sunlit, statue-studded gardens, and cool streams and skies
of France, but, more even than these, and to yet greater effect, the
graceful pose and the spontaneous cordial gesture of such a chosen
people, in irresponsible and radiant hours."
EDITED BY RALPH NEVILL
LEAVES FROM THE NOTE-BOOKS
OF LADY DOROTHY NEVILL
With Portraits. 8vo. 15s. net.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON.
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