Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material at the Internet Archive.) TRILBYANA [Illustration: MR. DU MAURIER'S FIRST DRAWING IN "PUNCH" _Showing himself (smooth face) and Mr. Whistler (with eyeglass)._ (_See page 14._) PHOTOGRAPHER.--"_No smoking here, Sir!_" DICK TINTO.--"_Oh! A thousand pardons! I was not aware that---- _" PHOTOGRAPHER [interrupting with dignity]."--_Please to remember, Gentlemen, that this is not a Common Hartist's studio!_" [N. B.--Dick and his friends, who _are_ Common Artists, feel shut up by this little aristocratic distinction, which had not occurred to them.]] TRILBYANA The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel NEW YORK THE CRITIC CO. MDCCCXCV COPYRIGHT 1895 BY THE CRITIC CO. _This edition is limited to 250 copies, of which this is No._ 194. _It is many a year since a book has attained the popularity of Mr. du Maurier's second novel, "Trilby" (printed as a serial in Harper's Monthly, from January to August, inclusive, and then issued in book-form, on Saturday, 8 September, 1894). Several others have sold as well--some even better; but neither "Looking Backward" nor "Ben Hur" (to name but these two) has captivated the public in the same manner or in the same degree as this romance, this fairy-tale of the three British artists, the blanchisseuse who posed for "the altogether," the Parisian masters of painting, and the trans-Rhenish masters of music, in the Latin Quarter of the early fifties. It is a story written out of the author's very heart, and it finds its way straight to the hearts of his readers. This is the secret of its unique success. Its charm is emotional rather than intellectual. With all its art, it impresses one as essentially ingenuous. It is a book to be loved, not merely to be liked or admired._ _On 16 June, 1894, The Critic printed, with comment, a letter in which Mr. Whistler protested to the editor of an English newspaper against the libellous likeness of himself to be found in the character of Joe Sibley, one of the minor personages in the story of "Trilby." In the fall there were so many sporadic calls for this number of the paper as soon to exhaust the supply carried over from the summer. There seemed to be a general desire on the part of our readers to bind up the Whistler letters, etc., with the text and pictures of "Trilby" as printed in Harper's Monthly, the American artist's protest having led to a slight revision of the story before its appearance in book-form. The hint was acted upon; and two pages of "Trilbyana" were printed in The Critic of Nov. 17._