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. [Illustration: If] If I confess as a caricaturist, surely I need not caricature my confessions by any mock-modesty. Although I have illustrated novels, short stories, fairy tales, poems, parodies, satires, and _jeux d'esprit_, for the realistic, the fanciful, the weirdly imaginative and the broadly humorous, as my _Punch_ colleague, E. T. Milliken, wrote, my more distinctive, natural and favourite _metier_ is that of graphic art. This intimate friend, in publishing his "appreciation" of me, put in his own too highly-coloured opinion of my black and white work in this direction. I blush to quote it: [Illustration: MAJUBA HILL. DRAWN BY HARRY FURNISS. _Reproduced by permission of the proprietors of the "Illustrated London News."_] "And they are in error who imagine Mr. Furniss's powers to be substantially limited to political satire or Parliamentary caricature. Much of the work he has already given to the public, and perhaps more of that which he has not yet published, but of which his chosen familiars are aware, will prove that in more serious or imaginative work, in strong, vivid realism as well as in frolic fancy, in landscape as well as in life, in the picturesque as well as in the humorous, he can display a notable mastery."