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ILLUSTRATED INTERVIEWS.
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him. Many are the letters I have received asking for the name of 'the doctor,' whilst one came from somebody who was ill, assuring me that she would be very thankful to have his address, for if she only had a doctor like him to attend her she felt sure she should soon get better!"

We left the summer-house, and on returning to the studio I saw an engraving of the picture of which we had just been talking. I looked at the doctor's face, then at Mr. Fildes. I compared them again, and yet again. There was no mistaking it. Numerous people had posed for the medical man, many were the borrowed features, but unwittingly the eminent Royal Academician had—at any rate, to my mind—chronicled on the canvas what his own face will probably look like ten years hence!

Harry How.


The Casuals.
(By kind permission of the Governors and Trustees of the Royal Holloway College, Egham.)

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