Railroad Stockholders Talking Dividends

Frontispiece: "This costs but a bagatelle..."

Snow Scene

I tell of my neighbors' surprise / My fortune in different times / And I am still finding its debris / In sweeping the five floors, p. 81

Ath. L. Charles Coquerel

Taking Advantage of the Right Moment, convincing the Chinese to accept being Paid Two Hundred Millions in Opium

"Oh, so you find my latest novel is not entirely at the level of those by George Sand....! Adelaide, I will never see you again in my entire life!"

Mr. Berthe

Abusing Freedom

"It seems to me we're about to derail..."

Landscape Number 52

Landscape, Remarque: Bat

This proves to us how perfectly useless it is to recite gracious compliments to the public in the final couplet of a play.