LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF W. M. THACKERAY. Frontispiece From a Drawing by Samuel Laurence. Engraved by Brown PORTRAIT OF ARCHDEACON THACKERAY To face page xxxvi PORTRAIT OF MRS. THACKERAY, WIDOW OF ARCHDEACON THACKERAY. PORTRAIT OF W. M. THACKERAY, THE GRANDFATHER (1749–1813) Xxxviii 66 xl INTRODUCTION ΤΟ MISCELLANIES 1840-1863 I BALLADS WHEN my father first published his "Ballads and Poems," he wrote a preface, dated Boston, October 27, 1855, saying: "These ballads have been written during the past fifteen years, and are now gathered by the author from his own books and the various periodicals in which the pieces appeared originally. They are published simultaneously in England and America, where a public which has been interested in the writer's prose stories, he hopes, may be kindly disposed to his little volume of verses." The next edition of the "Ballads" was that of 1861, when Messrs. Bradbury & Evans published the "Miscellanies." "The Chronicle of the Drum" came out in a little volume in 1841, and was published with the "Second Funeral of Napoleon." It was a cheap little book, costing a few pence; but I see that by one of those curious freaks of fashion, with which it is difficult to sympathise, a copy was sold lately at Sotheby's for £19; and another, so The Times states, realised forty guineas a little while ago. The Second Funeral of Napoleon" was reprinted in The Cornhill Magazine for January 1866, two years after my father's death, with a prefatory note by Mr. Greenwood. He writes: "The intelligent public of the time XV |