Introductory--Birth and Parentage--The Cause of my remaining a Caricaturist--The Schoolboys' _Punch_--Infant Prodigies--As a Student--I Start in Life--_Zozimus_--The Sullivan Brothers--Pigott--The Forger--The Irish "Pathriot"--Wood Engraving--Tom Taylor--The Wild West--Judy--Behind the Scenes--Titiens--My First and Last Appearance in a Play--My Journey to London--My Companion--A Coincidence _pp._ 1-29 CHAPTER II. BOHEMIAN CONFESSIONS. I arrive in London--A Rogue and Vagabond--Two Ladies--Letters of Introduction--Bohemia--A Distinguished Member--My Double--A Rara Avis--The Duke of Broadacres--The Savages--A Souvenir--Portraits of the Past--J. L. Toole--Art and Artists--Sir Spencer Wells--John Pettie--Milton's Garden _pp._ 30-53 CHAPTER III. MY CONFESSIONS AS A SPECIAL ARTIST. The Light Brigade--Miss Thompson (Lady Butler)--Slumming--The Boat Race--Realism--A Phantasmagoria--Orlando and the Caitiff--Fancy Dress Balls--Lewis Wingfield--Cinderella--A Model--All Night Sitting--An Impromptu Easel--"Where there's a Will there's a Way"--The American Sunday Papers--I am Deaf--The Grill--The World's Fair--Exaggeration--Personally Conducted--The Charnel House--10, Downing Street--I attend a Cabinet Council--An Illustration by Mr. Labouchere--The Great Lincolnshire Trial--Praying without Prejudice _pp._ 54-87 CHAPTER IV. THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ILLUSTRATOR--A SERIOUS CHAPTER. Drawing--"Hieroglyphics"--Clerical Portraiture--A Commission from General Booth--In Search of Truth--Sir Walter Besant--James Payn--Why Theodore Hook was Melancholy--"Off with his Head"--Reformers' Tree--Happy Thoughts--Christmas Story--Lewis Carroll--The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson--Sir John Tenniel--The Challenge--Seven Years' Labour--A Puzzle MS.--Dodgson on Dress--Carroll on Drawing--Sylvie and Bruno--A Composite Picture--My Real Models--I am very Eccentric--My "Romps"--A Letter from du Maurier--Caldecott--Tableaux--Fine Feathers--Models--Fred Barnard--The Haystack--A Wicket Keeper--A Fair Sitter--Neighbours--The Post Office Jumble--Puzzling the Postmen--Writing Backwards--A Coincidence _pp._ 88-130 CHAPTER V. A CHAT BETWEEN MY PEN AND PENCIL. What is Caricature?--Interviewing--Catching Caricatures--Pellegrini--The "Ha! Ha!"--Black and White _v._ Paint--How to make a Caricature--M.P.'s--My System--Mr. Labouchere's Attitude--Do the Subjects Object?--Colour in Caricature--Caught!--A Pocket Caricature--The Danger of the Shirt-cuff--The Danger of a Marble Table--Quick Change--Advice to those about to Caricature _pp._ 131--153 CHAPTER VI. PARLIAMENTARY CONFESSIONS.