Produced by Chris Curnow, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK OF MR. M. A. TITMARSH THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK [Illustration] THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK OF MR. M. A. TITMARSH AND THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY _With Illustrations by the Author_ London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1902 CONTENTS THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK PAGE An Invasion of France 1 A Caution to Travellers 12 The Fêtes of July 27 On the French School of Painting 35 The Painter’s Bargain 51 Cartouche 64 On some French Fashionable Novels 76 A Gambler’s Death 95 Napoleon and his System 104 The Story of Mary Ancel 116 Beatrice Merger 133 Caricatures and Lithography in Paris 139 Little Poinsinet 162 The Devil’s Wager 175 Madame Sand and the New Apocalypse 185 The Case of Peytel 208 French Dramas and Melodramas 233 Meditations at Versailles 251 THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK PAGE CHAPTER I A Summer Day in Dublin, or there and thereabouts 271 CHAPTER II A Country-house in Kildare--Sketches of an Irish Family and Farm 291 CHAPTER III From Carlow to Waterford 300 CHAPTER IV From Waterford to Cork 310 CHAPTER V Cork--The Agricultural Show--Father Mathew 319 CHAPTER VI Cork--The Ursuline Convent 327 CHAPTER VII Cork 334 CHAPTER VIII From Cork to Bantry; with an Account of the City of Skibbereen 345 CHAPTER IX Rainy Days at Glengariff 355 CHAPTER X From Glengariff to Killarney 362 CHAPTER XI