No one who loves "Trilby" should fail to read the "autobiographic interview" with du Maurier which Mr. Robert H. Sherard contributed, with illustrations, to _McClure's Magazine_ for April, 1895. From this singularly intimate and interesting article, one learns that the author's first picture in _Punch_ represented himself and his chum Whistler[A]; also, that the studio in the Latin Quarter where Trilby visited the three English artists was drawn from that of his master, Gleyre. Mr. du Maurier's monogram, which appears on the title-page of this pamphlet, is reproduced from a carving on the table at which the staff contributors to _Punch_ dine once a week, and on which many of them have made similar inscriptions. We are indebted for it to _McClure's Magazine_. Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Whistler The first two or three of the following paragraphs appeared on the Lounger's page in _The Critic_ of 16 June, 1894, and were reprinted, with most of the Whistler-du Maurier items that succeed them, in the issue of Nov. 17. [Illustration: (From _The Westminster Budget_) MR. WHISTLER] Mr. Whistler has mastered two arts besides painting and sketching. One he has immortalized in that unique brochure, "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"; the other is the Gentle Art of Advertising Oneself. These two generalities are not always to be distinguished from each other. It is quite possible to make an enemy in advertising oneself; and nothing is easier than to draw general attention to oneself, by the same act that incurs the enmity of individual--especially if the individual be eminent. At the present moment M. du Maurier happens to be one of the most conspicuous figures in the field jointly occupied by Art and Letters. In choosing him as an object of clamorous attack, Mr. Whistler has shown himself a past-master of the art of advertising oneself. By identifying himself with one of the characters in a story that everyone is reading, he brings himself more conspicuously before the public than by painting a new picture. Moreover, in sending to an English newspaper a letter in which he vituperates his quondam friend and fellow-artist, he interrupts himself for but a moment in the pursuit of his legitimate calling as a painter.