_Though an extra edition was struck off, the call for this number has at last exhausted the supply; and the present pamphlet, containing among its many items of interest a majority of those that have found a place in the columns of The Critic, may fairly claim to be issued in response to a popular call._ _J.B. & J.L. GILDER._ TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE "Trilby: a Novel" 1 Mr. du Maurier as a Draughtsman 4 "Trilby" on the Stage 8 Personalia 11 Mr. du Maurier and Mr. Whistler 15 "Trilby" Entertainments 19 Miscellanea 22 Songs 30 A Search for Sources 35 Nodier's "Trilby," le Lutin d'Argail 37 ILLUSTRATIONS Mr. du Maurier's Monogram Title-page Mr. du Maurier's First Drawing for _Punch_ Frontispiece Portrait of Mr. du Maurier from a Photograph Face 16 Portrait of Mr. du Maurier by Himself 11 Portrait of Mr. Whistler 15 "Platt, the New Svengali" 25 Mr. du Maurier's House on Hampton Heath Face 27 "Trilby: a Novel" _By George du Maurier. With Illustrations by the Author. Harper & Brothers._ When "TRILBY" began to appear as a serial in _Harper's Monthly_, January 1894, Mr. Henry James prophesied that it would prove to be a glorification of "the long leg and the twentieth year." The prophecy was soon verified. At the outset, indeed, it seemed as if the glorification were to be, not so much of the long leg, as of the large and shapely foot. The whole story rested for a while on one of Trilby's feet. We say one, for it was only one of them--the left one--that Little Billee immortalized by drawing on the wall of the studio in the Place St. Anatole des Arts; but they were equally perfect. As the young woman who had the happiness of standing on this foot proclaims, kicking off one of the big slippers in which she is introduced to us, "It's the handsomest foot in all Paris: there's only one in all Paris to match it, and here it is"--and off goes the other slipper. The sketch of it that proves Little Billee already a master of his art is not shown till near the end of the book; and neither this nor Mr. du Maurier's own portrait of the _pieds nus_ on page 21 fully realizes one's notion of the thing's unapproached perfection.