Such is the truth about Tristrem Varick. In metropolitan drawing-rooms it was noticed that since Miss Raritan's return from Europe the quality of her voice had deteriorated. Mrs. Manhattan said that for her part she did not approve of the French method. THE END. EDGAR SALTUS' WRITINGS "_Mr. Saltus is the prose laureate of pessimism._"--THE ARGUS. _MR. INCOUL'S MISADVENTURE_ _THE ANATOMY OF NEGATION_ _THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISENCHANTMENT_ _BALZAC_ IN PREPARATION _EDEN_ End of Project Gutenberg's The Truth About Tristrem Varick, by Edgar Saltus