d to show you my respect I will to-morrow find room for you--in
the births column."

Now do not let any editor imagine these pages are my professional
obituary,--my autobiography. If by mistake he does, then let him place
me immediately in their births column. I am in my forties, and there is
quite time for me to prepare and publish two more volumes of my
"Confessions" from my first to my second birth, and many other things,
before I am fifty.

[Illustration: Faithfully yours
Harry Furniss]

LONDON, 1901.

[The Author begs to acknowledge his indebtedness to the Proprietors
and the Editor of _Punch_, the Proprietors of the _Magazine of Art_,
the _Graphic_, the _Illustrated London News_, _English Illustrated
Magazine_, _Cornhill Magazine_, _Harper's Magazine_, _Westminster
Gazette_, _St. James' Gazette_, the _British Weekly_ and the _Sporting
Times_ for their kindness in allowing him to reproduce extracts and
pictures in these volumes.]

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

CONFESSIONS OF MY CHILDHOOD--AND AFTER.

Introductory--Birth and Parentage--The Cause of my remaining a
Caricaturist--The Schoolboys' _Punch_--Infant Prodigies--As a
Student--I Start in Life--_Zozimus_--The Sullivan
Brothers--Pigott--The Forger--The Irish "Pathriot"--Wood
Engraving--Tom Taylor--The Wild West--Judy--Behind the
Scenes--Titiens--My First and Last Appearance in a Play--My Journey to
London--My Companion--A Coincidence _pp._ 1-29

CHAPTER II.

BOHEMIAN CONFESSIONS.

I arrive in London--A Rogue and Vagabond--Two Ladies--Letters of
Introduction--Bohemia--A Distinguished Member--My Double--A Rara
Avis--The Duke of Broadacres--The Savages--A Souvenir--Portraits of
the Past--J. L. Toole--Art and Artists--Sir Spencer Wells--John
Pettie--Milton's Garden _pp._ 30-53

CHAPTER III.

MY CONFESSIONS AS A SPECIAL ARTIST.

The Light Brigade--Miss Thompson (Lady Butler)--Slumming--The Boat
Race--Realism--A Phantasmagoria--Orlando and the Caitiff--Fancy Dress
Balls--Lewis Wingfield--Cinderella--A Model--All Night Sitting--An
Impromptu Easel--"Where there's a Will there's a Way"--The American
Sunday Papers--I am Deaf--The Grill--The World's
Fair--Exaggeration--Personally Conducted--The Charnel House--10,
Downing Street--I attend a C