d post-mortem rooms."--_Medical Journal_.

[Illustration: SIR ANDREW CLARK.
_From a Painting by G.F. Watts, R.A._]

Happily there are two portraits of Sir Andrew. The last beautifully
painted picture by Mr. Watts (which by the great kindness of the artist
is allowed to be reproduced in this sketch) was only finished a few days
before Sir Andrew was taken ill--for he could only sit from eight till
nine a.m. It is one of the series Mr. Watts is so generously giving to
the nation, and he "thinks it one of his best." Sir Andrew himself was
delighted with it, saying in his hearty way to Mrs. Watts: "Why, it
_thinks_!" The position in the picture by Frank Holl is unfortunate.

Very imperfectly I have described the varied work of a man of limitless
energy, with an exceptionally keen appreciation of men and things. A
great man has passed away, and we are poorer in consequence.

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_Beauties:--Children._

[Illustration: Winnifred Emma Heale.
_From a Photo. by Heath & Bradnee, Exeter._]

[Illustration: Edith Marguerite Dickinson.
_From a Photo. by J. Hargreaves, Barrow-in-Furness._]

[Illustration: Myrta Vivienne Stubbs.
_From a Photo. by Medringtons, Ltd., Liverpool._]

[Illustration: Kathleen Keyse
_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: Madge Erskine
_From a Photo. by Allison & Allison, Belfast._]

[Illustration: Dorothy Birch Done
_From a Photo. by Stanley Hurst, Wrexham._]

[Illustration: Evelyn Mary Dowdell.
_From a Photo. by G. Ridsdale Cleare, Lower Clapton, N. E._]

[Illustration: Nelly M. Morris.
_From a Photo. by J. W. Thomas, Colwyn Bay._]

[Illustration: Aligander Smith.
_From a Photo. by Norman, May, & Co., Ltd., Malvern._]

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_The Signatures of Charles Dickens (with Portraits)._

FROM 1825 TO 1870.

(Born 7th February, 1812; died 9th June, 1870.)

BY J. HOLT SCHOOLING.

"Everybody knows what Dickens's signature is like"--says the reader who
bases acquaintance with it upon the familiar, gold-impressed facsimile
on the well-known red covers of his works--"a free, dashing signature,
with an extensive and well-graduated flourish underneath." (No. 1.)

Aye! But have you ever seen an original Dickens-letter? Have you ever
handled, not one, but hundreds of his documents--letters, franked
envelopes, cheques signed by Dickens, cheques indorsed by him, legal
agreements bearing his signature, and the original