The Mahogany Tree

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mahogany Tree, by William Makepeace Thackeray
This book cover image was restored and the printing added by the transcriber, and it is placed in the public domain.


This characteristic picture of the author of The Mahogany Tree is reproduced from a drawing made by the distinguished illustrator, Mr. Edmund Dulac, for the cover of the menu of a dinner of the Titmarsh Club of London. It is reprinted here by Mr. Dulac's very kind permission.

NEW YORK
PRIVATELY PRINTED
CHRISTMAS 1910

Some years since said Thackeray in a public speech, when I was younger, and used to frequent jolly assemblies, I wrote a Bacchanalian song to be chanted after dinner; and a contemporary record has preserved a note of the radiant gratification of his face whilst Horace Mayhew sang The Mahogany Tree, perhaps the finest and most soul-stirring of Thackeray's social songs.
In seeking a Souvenir of this Christmas season the ballad of The Mahogany Tree lends itself most felicitously to the present purpose which is to