od's Magazine,' which, like the Bon Gaultier Ballads, were
collected, added to, and published in a volume a year or two afterwards.
In 1845 I left Edinburgh for London, and only met Aytoun at intervals
there or at Homburg in the future years; but our friendship was kept
alive by active correspondence. Literature was naturally his vocation,
and he wrote much and well, with exemplary industry, enlivening his
papers in 'Blackwood,' till his death in August 1865, with the same manly
sense, the same playfulness of fancy and flow of spontaneous humour,
which made his society and his letters always delightful to his friends.

"Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit,
Nulli flebilior quam mihi!"

The first edition of this book, now very rare, appeared in 1845. It was
illustrated by Alfred Henry Forrester (Alfred Crowquill). In the
subsequent editions drawings by Richard Doyle and John Leech, in a
kindred spirit of fanciful extravagance, were added, and helped
materially towards the attractions of the volume. Its popularity
surpassed the utmost expectations of the authors. To them not the least
pleasant feature of its success was that it was widely read both in the
Navy and the Army, and was nowhere more in demand than in the trenches
before Sebastopol in 1854.

THEODORE MARTIN.

31 ONSLOW SQUARE,
_October_ 1903.

LIST OF EDITIONS
OF THE
BON GAULTIER BALLADS.
Edition.
1 1845 16mo Illustrated by
ALFRED CROWQUILL.
2 1849 sm. 4to Illustrated by
ALFRED CROWQUILL and
RICHARD DOYLE. With
Portrait of "Bon
Gaultier,"
Illuminated
Title-page, and
Ornamental Borders.
3 [1849] " Illustrated by
ALFRED CROWQUILL,
RICHARD DOYLE, and
JOHN LEECH. First
edition w