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to Mr. I. as you always have been to "Yours, while

"J. L. Toole."

So the letter ran.

Mr. Yates's Father.

In addition to other pictures there is the original drawing for the cover of "Time" by Luke Fildes, works by John Leech, a Whistler and Linley Sambourne, and "Pellegrini," by himself. A massive silver bowl is engraved: "Presented to Edmund Yates on completing three-score years, by three Score friends and well-wishers, 3rd July, 1891." A small statuette of Thackeray has a place all to itself on a table, and the assurance was given that it was "the best ever done of him." Ouless's portrait of Edmund Yates is in the centre of the mantel-board, and amongst the many knickknacks about is Mr Frank Lockwood, Q.C.'s, last year's Christmas card. A striking terra-cotta bust of Voltaire, by Carrier Belleuse, has a small history distinctly its own. It was smashed into a thousand pieces by a careless servant. Every fragment was collected—sent across to Paris from whence it came in 1878—and in a month's time it came back as it is now!

George IV. at Brighton.
From an Engraving.

"Fine picture, that of Fred Burnaby, eh?" Mr. Yates remarked, as we stood for a moment looking at a striking portrait of the gallant colonel who lived and died in harness. "We used to chaff very much about a day or two he spent with us. He was just falling in love, and about to stand for Birmingham. He came to spend Saturday till Monday with us, at our house, The Temple, near Goring-on-Thames. On the Sunday we went on a launch excursion; but Burnaby was much preoccupied, and kept referring to two different papers which he had