TUSSAUD’S DURING THE WAR--CHAMELEON CROWDS--THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COURAGE--MEN OF ST. DUNSTAN’S--POIGNANT MEMORIES--OUR WATCHMAN’S SOLILOQUY 326 CHAPTER XLVII THREE HEROES OF THE WAR: NURSE CAVELL, JACK CORNWELL, V.C., CAPTAIN FRYATT--LORDS ROBERTS AND KITCHENER--QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S STICK AND VIOLETS--THE DUKE OF NORFOLK’S TIP 335 CHAPTER XLVIII A CRINOLINE COMEDY--MR. BRUCE SMITH’S STORY--AN AMERICAN LADY’S SHILLING--MY FATHER’S MEETING WITH BARNUM--THE “CHERRY-COLOURED” CAT--“PAGANINI” AND THE TAILOR--GEORGE GROSSMITH POSES 341 CHAPTER XLIX WE VISIT THE OLD BAILEY FOR MEMENTOES--A MOCK TRIAL--RELICS OF OLD NEWGATE--TWO FAMOUS CELLS--THE NEWGATE BELL 346 CHAPTER L TUSSAUD’S IN VERSE--TOM HOOD’S QUATRAIN--“ALFRED AMONG THE IMMORTALS”--A REFUGE FOR CABINET MINISTERS--TWO DIALOGUES--“THIS IS FAME” 352 CHAPTER LI LAST SCENE OF ALL--MADAME TUSSAUD’S APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER--HER MEMOIRS PUBLISHED IN 1838--HER LAST WORDS 356 ILLUSTRATIONS MADAME TUSSAUD _at the age of 85_ _Frontispiece_ PAGE JOHN THEODORE TUSSAUD 32 CHRISTOPHER CURTIUS 56 LOUIS XVI AND THE DUKE OF ORLÉANS 56 THREE VIEWS OF VOLTAIRE’S HEAD 57 “THE DYING SOCRATES” 57 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 57 MADAME TUSSAUD _at the age of 20_ 72 MARIE ANTOINETTE, THE DAUPHIN, AND THE DUCHESSE D’ANGOULÊME 72 MADAME ELIZABETH OF FRANCE 73 MADAME ELIZABETH OF FRANCE, SISTER OF LOUIS XVI 73 MODEL OF THE BASTILLE 73 M. NECKER 73 CAMILLE DESMOULINS 88 THOMAS CARLYLE 88 MARIE ANTOINETTE 88 JEAN BAPTISTE CARRIER 88 KNIFE, LUNETTE AND CHOPPER OF THE ORIGINAL GUILLOTINE 88 THE GUILLOTINE 89 CHARLOTTE CORDAY 89