The first series are those signed with the initials E. W., then E. J. W., and latterly with the writer’s full address--E. J. Wilson, Ennis, Ireland. His advertisements are headed by such a variety of names that, at first sight, we are apt to be misled, and do not think of connecting the writer of “Rouge et Noir” with that of “Indigo Blue” or “To the Equator.” Nevertheless they are all from the same source, as well as those headed “The Writer of the Anonymous Letter,” “Battledore and Shuttlecock,” “Flybynight,” “Egypte,” “Anchor,” “Circumspice,” “Au Simulacre,” “Decimals to Cheops,” “To Contre Coup,” “Tribe,” “Two Hundred Pounds Reward,” “Nicht eine Million,” “Nicht Zwei Millonen,” “Double Fin,” “Leb! Wohl,” “Poverty and Honour,” “Spurs and Skirts,” “A La Croix Rouge,” “To the Counterfeit,” “Alpha the First,” “To St. James,” “The Key,” “The Pillar,” “Honest Alexis,” “Hide and Seek,” “To a Christian,” “X Cheops X,” “X Tribe X,” “X Blue Eyes X,” “X Gamins X,” “My dearest Alice,” etc., some of which are signed “Cygne,” others “Egypte,” and the rest with the initials of name in full. His first advertisement (No. 245) appeared in 1851, and from that date they appeared continually during a period of six years. They ceased for a time, but commenced again in the year 1857. He seems to have been an unfortunate man, and evidently lost not only his fortune, but his daughter Alice, and his numerous appeals in the “Agony Column” are a curious mixture of business complications and entreaties for his lost child’s return. That his child was not lost by accident, but stolen by some one of evil intent, cannot fail to be apparent to even the most careless of my readers. One cannot help feeling an amount of sympathy with this unfortunate writer as we read advertisements No. 995, 1001, and 1034, in which we learn what a large share of anxiety and suffering fell to his lot. The last of his advertisements appeared in 1870 (No. 1753), but unfortunately we cannot learn from its contents whether or not the tide of misfortune had turned for him at last.