H S3 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY THIS BOOK IS ONE OF A COLLECTION MADE BY BENNO LOEWY 1854-1919 AND BEQUEATHED TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY DATE : DUE . tuJ _^,^«--^ r -***■■" ■■ ■■ it .-»—^ftMhB**8Wst: Tour notlcea of Thackerayana suggest two ob- serrations— Firit, Mr. Theodore Taylor has not mentioned how the Snob came to an untimely end. I am aurprised he never heard that hit of Cantab tradition from tfie othtr T. Taylor. It waa thua : On» day the Snob contained this gnome, or aphorism : j "A Guess at TnuTn.— WhenoTer I hear a man I tallc of an eternal truth, I always think of an Infernal lie." I This iras presumed to be a hit at the Rererend (afterwards Archdeacon) Hare, author of a work called " Guesses at Truth," and then a dignitary of Trinity College. He raised such a 'breeze about it that the Snoh had to shut up shop. Secondly, Thackeray's ballad of " Little Billee," Is evidently an imitation of, though a decided im- provement on, a French ditty, well known in ateliers as a sck (a song repeated over and over again indefinitely) and not altogether unknown in , the nursery. The subject (a shipwrecked sailor- ^lad in danger of being eaten by his comrades), t_the metre and the continuous rhyme are the same. ' I subjoin the first three stanzas, which will pro- bably be enough for your readers : '' li ctait an petit navlre (5i«) Qui u'avait ja-ja-jamaia naviguw, Cui n'avait jamais navigae. An boat de cinq ou sis: seinaiues (bU) Les vines vin-vm-vinrent manqaer. Les Tines vmrent a manqaer. On tiralt a la courte paille (fm) Ponr voir qui de-de-devait etre devoro Pour voir qui devait Stre devOfS." &c., &c.i &c., Cabl Benson. Not Thackeray's. — In 1840 a melo- Jrama, arrangecl with considerable alter- itions from the English original, and called 'L'Abbaye de Penraarch," was produced it the ThSatre St. Antoine, in Paris, with moderate success, the names of the adapt- ers being announced in the bills as Messrs. Tournemine and Thackeray. On the ap- pearance a few years ago of a bibliography Df the author of "Vanity Fair" this not rery brilliant item was incorrectly includ- 3d among his works ; a fact quite ButHcient lO rendei" its acquisition an indispeneable aecessity to the numerous collectors of •'Thackerayana. "Every unsold cony.to the rreat delight of Mme. Tresse, in the Palais ftoyal, by whom the long-f orgottea piece ivas justly regarded as a dead weight, was immediately bought up by London specu- lators, and advertised in booksellers' cata- logues at prices varying from 1 to 2 guin- eas, at which rate they were easily dis- posed of, the majority finding their way aorosa tUo AiJantlo- Unf ortiuiatetr. aa lib . happened, the ai- horahip of the dram^ had been previous. y a-ioertained by a lit- erary compatriot residing in Pttr^a at the time of its production to ne due, not to ths Celebrated novelist, but to his cousin, Thomas James Thaokei-ay, the writer of ' g. libretto of Barnett's "Mouutain |bh" and otlier pieces, and this being maotorily proved, the purchasers di- |fjOE.TE.^IT J>.XTJ3 IIjIiXrSTE.A.TI01SrS. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 443 & 445 BEOADWAT. 1864. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. A BEOEHT PHOTOGBAPH BY ERNEST EDWABD8, Ji. A. His Besidekce in Kensington Palace Gardens, Built after a favourite design in red brick, and similar in style to Old Kensington Palace close by, whlcli was finished in the reign of Queen Anne. MR. THACKERAY AND THE AGE OF QUEEN ANNE, (An Imaginary sketoh made at the Garriok Club many years ago. This por- trait of Mr. Thackeray as he nsod to appear, 12 or 15 years since, is remarkable for its singular excellence, although the hair is represented slightly different from Its appearance in later years.) THE THACKERAY ARMS. (The professional pen and pencil are made to take the place of a Falcon, the proper family crest ; and the favourite spectacles, so generally observed in Mr. Thackeray's early sketches, do service as the motto.) FAC-SIMILE OF M? THACKERAY S HAND-WRITINQ. (^oAS-B.. thomas thackebat, head- MASTEB OP HABKOW — BISHOP HOADLBT— THB0D08IA WOOD-WABD THE OEIOra OF THE CONNEXION OF THE THACKBBATS WITH INDIA — BIETH OF THE FUTUBE NOV- ELIST TOTAGB TO ENGLAND — ^EECOLLBCTION OF NA- POLEON AT ST. HELENA — THE DEATH OF THE PBINOESS CHAELOTTE — HADLE Y — THE CHABTEEHOITSB — PABTICU- LABS OF HIS CABEEB THEEE — CAMBBIDGE — CONDUCTS "the snob," a CAMBBIDGE FACETIOUS MAGAZINE — SPECIMENS OF HIS EABLT C0NTEIBUTI0N8 TO " THE SNOB "^TENNYSON AND JOHN MITCHELL KEMBLB — SO- JOUBN AT 'WEIMAE — ^BECOLLBCTIONS OF GOETHE — VISIT TO BOMB — DESTINED FOB THE BAB — ABT-STUDIBS IN PAEIS — FBIENDSHIP FOB LOUIS MAETY — THACKEEAy'S CEITICISMS ON THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE PAINTEES. The fondness of Mr. Thackeray for lingering amidst the scenes of a boy's daily life in a pnblic grammar school, has generally been attributed to 1 Thackeray / the Hwrnov/rist his early education at the Charterhouse, that celebrated monastic-looking establishment in the neighbourhood of Smithfield, which he scarce- ly disguised from his readers as the original of the familiar " Grey Friars " of his works of fiction. Most of our novelists hare given us in various forms their school reminiscences ; but none have reproduced them so frequently, or dwelt upon them with such manifest bias towards the subject, as the author of " Vanity Fair," "The Newcomes," and "The Adventures of Philip." It is pleasing to think that this habit, which Mr. Thackeray was well aware had been frequently censured by his critics as carried to excess, was, like his partiality for the times of Queen Anne and the Georges, in some degree due to the traditional reverence of his family for the memory of their great-grandfather. Dr. Thomas Thackeray, the well-remembered head- master of Harrow. No memoir of William Makepeace Thackeray should begin with any other name than that of this excellent man, who was in every sense the founder of his family. If the evil which men do finds its unliappy conse- and the Mem of Letters. quences in the generations that come after, it is no less true that the life "benl acta, sows seeds of good of which none can foretell the final fruit. It would not, perhaps, be " considering too curiously," to trace something of the success of his great descendant to that meritorious life of studious industry which secured to the good doctor's family the means of giving to their children, and through them to their children's children, the benefits of culture and good habits. The memory of Dr. Thomas Thackeray is still held in honour at HaiTow among those of the masters who have most contributed to raise the school to the high" character it has long enjoyed. The Thackerays came originally from Hamps- thwaite, near Knaresborough, in the West Hiding of Yorkshire. In this little village Dr. Thomas, the future head-master of Harrow, was born. Of the position in life of the Thackeray family at Hampsthwalte we are not able to give any account ; but it is probable that they were of humble means. At all events, Thomas was admitted on the founda- tion to Eton, from which school he was elected to a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, in TlMokeray ; the Hwnourist 1711. The Yorkshire lad took degrees and reaped honours rapidly. He was A.B. in 1715, and A.M. in 1719. Subsequently he returned as assistant- master to the school to which he owed his early education, and was a candidate for the provostship of King's College in 1744, when Dr. George was elected. Dr. Thackeray, however, was in most things a fortunate man. In 1746 he succeeded to the head-mastership of HaiTOW, where he soon made powerful friends. The renown of the school rapidly increased under his rule. He obtained several livings, became Archdeacon of Surrey, and was appointed chaplain to Frederick^ Prince of "Wales, the dull and despicable father of George HI., whom the author of the " Lectures on the Four Georges " sketches with so strong a hand. Dr. Edmund Pyle, of Lynn, in a letter dated 1756, gives some interesting particulars of the Master of Harrow's history. He says: "Dr. Thackeray, who keeps a school at Harrow-on-the-Hill, has one living and fourteen children : a man bred at Eton, and a great scholar in the Eton way, and a good one every way ; a true Whig, and proud to be so by some special marks of integrity. He and the Mem of Letters. was candidate for the headship of King's, and would have beat all men but George, and George too, if Sir Eobeit "Walpole had not made George's promotion a point. Since this disappointment he took the school at Harrow, to educate his own and other people's children, where he has performed all along with great reputation. The Bishop of Winchester never saw this man in his life, but had heard so much good of him, that he resolved to serve him some way or other if ever he could, but said nothing to anybody. On Friday last, he sent for this Dr. Thackeray, and when he came into the room my Lord gave him a parchment, and told him he had long heard of his good cha- racter, and long been afraid he should never be able to give him any serviceable proof of the good opinion he had conceived of him : that what he had put into his hands was the Archdeaconry of Surrey, which he hoped would be acceptable to him, as he might perform the duty of it yearly at the time of his leisure in the Easter holidays. Dr. Thackeray was so surprised and overcome with this extraordinary manner of doing him a favour, that he was very near fainting as he was giving 6 Thackeray y the Mwmowrist him institution."* This Bishop was the cele- brated Hoadley, if we are not mistaken ; but Mr. Thackeray conld hardly have been aware of this family anecdote when, in his " Lectures on the Four Georges," he somewhat harshly described this unlucky mark for the, controversial pamph- leteers of his time as " creeping from bishopric to bishopric." Dr. Thackeray's death is announced in the " Gentleman's Magazine " for October, 1760. His widow survived him nearly half a cen- tury, and died in January, 1797, in her 90th year. The Doctor had doubtless courted and won her at Eton, in the early days of his studious life. She was Theodosia, the daughter of John "Woodward, Esq., of that town and of Butler's Merston, an- other of whose daughters married Dr. Nicholas Boscawen, Canon of Windsor. Theodosia bore the Doctor six sons and ten daughters, one of whom, the Kev. Elias Thackeray, was Vice-Pro- vost and Bursar of King's College, Cambridge ; another son was chaplain at St. Petersburg; another held an appointment in the Custom- house for forty years ; and two became Doctors * Richards's " History of Lynn." 1813. cmd the Man of Letters. of Medicine, and settled at Cambridge and Windsor. The marriages of two of the danghtera seem to have laid the foundation of the connexion of the Thackeray s with India. Jane married Major Eennell of the East India Company's Service, and Surveyor-General of Bengal ; and Henrietta, James Harris, Esq., of the East India Company's Civil Service, and chief of Dacca. The grand- father of the author of " Yanity Eair " was tlie youngest son of this large family. He was christened, for what reason we do not know, William Makepeace ; and it was doubtless by the interest of his sisters' husbands that he also ob- tained an appointment in the East India Com- pany's Service. William Makepeace married a Miss Webb,* and subsequently retired to England with a competency, leaving behind him his son, Eichmond Thackeray, to follow the same career. Eichmond obtained a writership in 1797, and suc- * Mr. Hannay tells us that this lady was of the old English family to which the Brigadier Webb of Marl- borough's wars belonged, whose portrait is drawn with something of the geniality of kinsmanship in "Esmond." Thackeray / the Hwmowrist cessively officiated as Judge and Magistrate of Eanghyr, Secretary to the Board of Kevenue at Calcutta, and Collector of tlie House Tax at Cal- cutta. Here his son, William Makepeace, the future novelist, was bom in 1811 — the year be- fore that which gave to the world his illustrious contemporary and fellow-labourer in the field of fiction — Charles Dickens. Mr. Thackeray's father died in Calcutta on the 13th of September, 1816, the very year of the battle of "Waterloo, the his- tory of which is so wonderfully interwoven with the story of " Yanity Fair." The son, after re- maining in India for some time with his widowed mother, finally bade adieu forever to that country, and was brought to England in 1817. His mother, who had subsequently married Major Carmichael Smyth, still survives, a lady of more than eighty years of age, whose vigorous health and cheerful spirits are proverbial in her son's family. Sketches of Indian life and Anglo-Indians generally are abundantly interspersed through Mr. Thackeray's writings, but he left India too early to have profited much by Indian experi- a/nd the Mam, of Letters. ences. He is said, however, to have retained so strong an impression of the scene of his early childhood, as to have long wished to visit it, and recal such things as were still renaembered by him. In his seventh year he was sent to England, when the ship having touched at St. Helena, he was taken np to have a glimpse of Bowood, and there saw that great Captain at whose name the rulers of the earth had so often trembled. It is remarkable that in his little account of the second funeral of Napoleon, which he witnessed in Paris in 1840, no allusion to this fact appears ; but he himself has described it in one of his latest works. " When I first saw England," he says, " she was in mourning for the young Princess Charlotte,* the hope of the empire. I came from India as a child, and our ship touched at an island on our way home, where my black servant took me a long walk over rocks and hills, until we reached a garden where we saw a man walking. 'That is he ! ' cried the black man ; ' that is Bona- parte ! He eats three sheep every day, and all the children he can lay hands on 1 ' With the * The Princess Charlotte died 6 Nov. 1817. 1* 10 ThoGkeray / the Hwmouriet same childisli attendant," he adds, " I remember peeping through the colonnade at Carlton House, and seeing the abode of the Prince Regent. I can yet see the guards pacing before the gates of the palace. The palace 1 What palace ? The palace exists no more than the palace of Nebuchadnez- zar. It is but a name now." * We fancy that Mr. Thackeray was placed under the protection of his grandfather, William Makepeace Thackeray, who had settled with a good fortune, the fruit of his industry in India, at Hadley, near Chipping Bamet, a little village in the churchyard of which lies buried the once- read Mrs. Chapone, the authoress of the " Letters on the Improvement of the Mind," the corre- spondent of Eichardson, and the intimate friend of the learned Mrs. Carter and other blue-stocking ladies of that time. In the course of time — we believe in his twelfth year — Mr. Thackeray was sent to the Charter- house School, and remained there as a boarder in the house of Mr. Penny. He appears in the Charterhouse records for the year 1822 as a boy * " The Four Georges," p. 111. a/nd the Mom of Letters. 11 on the tenth form. In the next year we find him promoted to the seventh form ; in 1824 to the fifth ; and in 1828, when he had become a day- boy, or one residing with his friends, we find him in the honourable positions of a first-form boy and one of the monitors of the school. He was, how- ever, never chosen as one of the orators, or those who speak the oration on the Foimder's Day, nor does he appear among the writers of the Charter- house odes, which have been collected and printed from time to time in a small volume. The school then enjoyed considerable reputation under the head-mastership of Dr. Kussell, whose death happened in the same year as that of his illustrious pupil. No one who has read Mr. Thackeray's novels can fail to know the kind of life he led here. He has continually described his expe- riences at this celebrated school — the venerable archway into which, in Charterhouse-square, still preserves an interesting token of the old monkish character of the neighbourhood. Only a fort- night before his death he was there again, as was his custom, on the anniversary of the death of Thomas Sutton, the munificent founder of the 12 Thackerwy / the Hwmov/rieA school. " He was there," says one who has de- scribed the scene, " in his usual back seat in the quaint old chapel. He went thence to the oration in the Governor's room ; and as he walked up to the orator with his contribution, was received with such hearty applause as only Carthusians can give to one who has immortalized their school. At the banquet afterwards he sat at the side of his old friend and artist-associate in ' Punch,' John Leech ; and in a humourous speech proposed, as a toast, the noble founder tion which he had adorned by his literary fame, and made popular in his works." " Divine ser- vice," says another describer of the scene, for ever memorable as the last appearance of Mr. Thackeray in private life, " took place at four o'clock, in the quaint old chapel ; and the appear- ance of the brethren in their black gowns, of the old stained glass and carving in the chapel, of the tomb of Sutton, could hardly fail to give a peculiar and interesting character to the service. Prayers were said by the Kev. J. J. Halcombe, the reader of the house. There was only the usual parochial chanting of the Nrnic DimitUs ; and the Mom of Letters. 13 the familiar Commemoration-day psalms, 122 and 100, were sung after the tMrd collect and before the sermon ; and before the general thanks- giving the old prayer was offered up expressive of thankfulness to God for the bounty of Thomas Sutton, and of hope that all who enjoy it might make a right use of it. The sermon was preached by the Eev. Henry Earle Tweed, late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, who prefaced it with the ' Bidding Prayer,' in which he desired the con- gregation to pray generally for all public schools and colleges, and particularly for the welfare of the house 'founded by Thomas Sutton for the support of age and the education of youth.' " From Charterhouse School Thackeray went to Trinity College, Cambridge, about 1828, the year of his leaving the Charterhouse, and among his fellow-students there, had Mr. John Mitchell Eemble, the great Anglo-Saxon scholar, and Mr. Tennyson. "With the latter — then un- known as a poet — he formed an acquaintance which he maintained to the last, and no reader of the Poet-laureate had a more earnest admiration of his productions than his old Cambridge associate 14 TJhOGkeray / the JHuinov/rist Mjl. Thackeray. At college, Thackeray kept seven or eight terms, bat took no degree ; though he was studious, and his love of classical literature is apparent in most of his vrritings, either in his occasional apt two words from Horace, or in the quaint and humorous adoption of Latin idioms in which, in his sportive moods, he sometimes in- dulged. A recent writer tells us that his knowledge of the classics — of Horace at least — was amply sufficient to procure him an honourable place in the " previous examination." The earliest of his literary efforts are associated with Cambridge. It was in the year 1829 that he commenced, in conjunction with a friend and fellow-student, to edit a series of humorous papers, published in that city, which bore the title of " The Snob : a Literary and Scientific Journal." The first number appeared on the 9th of April in that year, and the publication was continued weekly. Though affecting to be a periodical, it was not originally intended to pubhsh more than one number ; but the project was carried on for eleven weeks, in which period Mr. Lettsom had resigned the entire management and the Man of Letters. 15 to his friend. The contents of each number — which consisted only of four pages of about the size of those of the present volume — were scanty and slight, and consisted entirely of squibs and humorous sketches in verse and prose, many of which, however, show some germs of that spirit of wild fun which afterwards distinguished the " Yellowplush " papers in " Fraser." When completed, the papers bore the following title : — THE SNOB: A LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL. NOT Conducted By Members of the University." TVfyre, tupatulcR recubans sub tegminefagi Sylvestrem. Viegil. CEatnbribge : PUBLISHED BT W. H. SMITH, EOSB CEBBCENT. 1829. 16 ThackeroA/ ; the Hwmov/nst A few specimens of the contents of this curions publication cannot but be interesting to the reader. The first specimen we shall select is a clever skit upon the Cambridge Prize Poem, as follows : TIMBUCTOO. TO THE EDITOE OF THE " SNOB." SrB, — Though your name be " Snob,'' I trust you vdll not refuse this tiny " Poem of a Gownsman,'' which was unluckily not finished on the day appointed for delivery of the several copies of verses on Timbuc- too. I thought. Sir, it would be a pity that such a poem should be lost to the world ; and conceiving " The Snob " to be the most widely-circulated periodical in Europe, I have taken the liberty of submitting it for insertion or approbation. I am. Sir, yours, &c. &c. &c. TnHBUCTOO. — PABT I. Tlw Bituatvm. In Africa (a quarter of the world), Men's skins are black, their hair is crisp and curl'd, Lines 1 and 3. — See Guthrie's Geography. The site of Timbuctoo is doubtful ; the Author has neatly expressed this in the poem, at the same time giving us some slight hints relative to its situation. amd the Man of Letters. 17 And somewhere there, tmknowii to public view, A mighty city lies, called Timbuctoo. The natural history. There stalts the tiger, — ^there the lion roars, 5 Who sometimes eats the luckless blackamoors ; All that he leaves of them the monster throws To jackals, vultures, dogs, cats, kites, and crows ; His hunger thus the forest monster gluts. And then lies down 'neath trees called cocoa nuts. 10 The lion hunt. Quick issue out, with musket, torch, and brand. The sturdy blackamoors, a dusky band 1 The beast is found — pop goes the musketoons — The lion falls covered with horrid wounds. Line 5. — So Horace : " leonum arida nutrix." Line 8. — Thus Apollo : OiamoKTi re naai. Lines 5-10. — ^How skilfully introduced are the ani- mal and vegetable productions of Africa 1 It is worthy to remark the various garments in which the Poet hath clothed the lion. He is called, 1st, the " Lion ; " 2nd, the " Monster " (for he is very large) ; and 3rd, the " Forest Monarch," which undoubtedly he is. Lines 11-14. — The author confessed himself under peculiar obligations to Denham's and Clapperton's Trav- els, as they suggested to him the spirited description con- tained in these lines. Line 13. — "Pop goes the musketoons." A learned 18 Thackeray / the Hwmourist Their lives at Twme. At home their lives in pleasure always flow, 15 But many have a diflferent lot to know 1 At/road. They're often caught, and sold as slaves, alas ! Bejleetions on the foregoing. Thus men from highest joys to sorrow pass. Yet though thy monarchs and thy nobles boil Rack and molasses in Jamaica's isle ; 20 Desolate Afric 1 thou art lovely yet ! 1 One heart yet beats which ne'er thee shall forget. What though thy maidens are a blackish brown, Does virtue dwell in whiter breasts alone ? Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no 1 35 It shall not, must not, cannot, e'er be so. The day shall come when Albion's self shall feel Stem Afiic's wrath, and writhe 'neath Afric's steel. I see her tribes the hill of glory mount, And sell their sugars on their own account. 30 While round her throne the prostrate nations come. Sue for her rice, and barter for her rum ! 33 friend suggested " Bang " as a stronger expression, but as African gunpowder is notoriously bad, the Author thought " Pop " the better word. Lines 15-18. — A concise but affecting description is here given of the domestic habits of the people. The infamous manner in which they are entrapped and sold as slaves is described, and the whole ends with an appropriate moral sentiment. The Poem might here finish, but the spirit of the bard penetrates the veil of am,d the Man of Letters. 19 This concludes with a like vignette in the " Tit- marsh " manner, representing an Indian smoking a pipe of the type once commonly seen in the futurity, and from it cuts off a bright piece for the hitherto unfortunate Africans, as the following beautiful lines amply exemplify. It may perhaps be remarked that the Author has here " changed his hand." He answers that it was his inten- tion to do so. Before, it was his endeayour to be ele- gant and concise, it is now his wish to be enthusiastic and magniflcent. He trusts the Keader will perceive the aptness with which he has changed his style ; when he narrated facta he was calm, when he enters on prophecy he is fervid. The enthusiasm which he feels is beautifully expressed in lines 25 and 36. He thinks he has very successfully imitated in the last six lines the best manner of Mr. Pope ; and in lines 13-26, the pathetic elegance of the author of " Australasia and Athens." The Author cannot conclude without declaring that his aim in writing this Poem will be fully accomplished, if he can infuse into the breasts of Englishmen a sense of the danger in which they lie. Tes — ^Africa 1 If he can awaken one particle of sympathy for thy sorrows, of love for thy land, of admiration for thy virtue, he shall sink into the grave with the proud consciousness that he has raised esteem, where before there was contempt, and has kindled the flame of hope on the mouldering ashes of despair ! 20 TKackeTOty / the Humourist shape of a small carved image at the doors of tobacconists' shops. In another paper we find the following pretended ADVERTISEMENT. This day is published, price 3s. 6ady do you know the tune? Ah, we all of us have hummed it! I've an old guitar has thrummed it. Under many a changing moon. Shall I try iti? Do, Re, Mi.... What is this ? Mafoi, the fact is That my hand is out of practice. And my poor old fiddle cracked is, And a man — I let the truth out,— Who's had almost every tooth out, Cannot sing as once he sung, When he was young as you are young. When he was young and lutes were strung, And love-lamps in the casement hung." Wtt.t.tam Maeepeage Thackekat. 'ItUtS MAMOQANY TKUii. Chriatmas in here ; Winds whistle shriH> ley and chill, Little care we ; Little wo fear, Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Troe, Once on the boughs ^^ -Birds of rare plume Bang, in its bloom ; Night-birds are we ; Here we carouse, Singing, Uke them, - Perched roupd the atom Of the jolly old tree. Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit ; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short- When wo are gone, Let them sing on. Bound the old tree. Evenings we knew, Happy as this ; Faces we miss. Pleasant to see. Kind hearts and true, Gentle and just. Peace to your dust 1 We sing round the tree. Care, Uke a dun. Lurks at the gate : Let the dog wait ; Happy we'll be I Drink, every one ; Pile up the coals. Fill the red bowls, Bound the old tree I Drain we the cup. Friend, art afraid f Spirits are laid In the Red Sea. Mantle it up ; Empty it yet ; Let us forget, Bound the old tree. Sorrows, begone I Life and its ills. Duns and thfiir bills, Bid wo to flee. Come with the dawn. Blue-devil sprite. Leave us to-night. Bound the old tree. W. M. Thaoketut. Cornell University Library PR5631.H83 Thackeray the humourist and the man of I 3 1924 012 968 925