THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK
OF MR. M. A. TITMARSH
THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK

THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK
OF MR. M. A. TITMARSH
AND
THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK

BY
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
With Illustrations by the Author
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1902

CONTENTS

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[An Invasion of France][1]
[A Caution to Travellers][12]
[The Fêtes of July][27]
[On the French School of Painting][35]
[The Painter’s Bargain][51]
[Cartouche][64]
[On some French Fashionable Novels][76]
[A Gambler’s Death][95]
[Napoleon and his System][104]
[The Story of Mary Ancel][116]
[Beatrice Merger][133]
[Caricatures and Lithography in Paris][139]
[Little Poinsinet][162]
[The Devil’s Wager][175]
[Madame Sand and the New Apocalypse][185]
[The Case of Peytel][208]
[French Dramas and Melodramas][233]
[Meditations at Versailles][251]
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[CHAPTER I]
A Summer Day in Dublin, or there and thereabouts [271]
[CHAPTER II]
A Country-house in Kildare—Sketches of an Irish Family and Farm[291]
[CHAPTER III]
From Carlow to Waterford[300]
[CHAPTER IV]
From Waterford to Cork[310]
[CHAPTER V]
Cork—The Agricultural Show—Father Mathew[319]
[CHAPTER VI]
Cork—The Ursuline Convent[327]
[CHAPTER VII]
Cork[334]
[CHAPTER VIII]
From Cork to Bantry; with an Account of the City of Skibbereen[345]
[CHAPTER IX]
Rainy Days at Glengariff[355]
[CHAPTER X]
From Glengariff to Killarney[362]
[CHAPTER XI]
Killarney—Stag-hunting on the Lake[370]
[CHAPTER XII]
Killarney—The Races—Mucross[377]
[CHAPTER XIII]
Tralee—Listowel—Tarbert[385]
[CHAPTER XIV]
Limerick[391]
[CHAPTER XV]
Galway—Kilroy’s Hotel—Galway Night’s Entertainments—First
Night: An Evening with Captain Freeny		[403]
[CHAPTER XVI]
More Rain in Galway—A Walk there—And the Second Galway
Night’s Entertainment		[419]
[CHAPTER XVII]
From Galway to Ballynahinch[442]
[CHAPTER XVIII]
Roundstone Petty Sessions[452]
[CHAPTER XIX]
Clifden to Westport[456]
[CHAPTER XX]
Westport[462]
[CHAPTER XXI]
The Pattern at Croagh-Patrick[466]
[CHAPTER XXII]
From Westport to Ballinasloe[470]
[CHAPTER XXIII]
Ballinasloe to Dublin[474]
[CHAPTER XXIV]
Two Days in Wicklow[478]
[CHAPTER XXV]
Country Meetings in Kildare—Meath—Drogheda[494]
[CHAPTER XXVI]
Dundalk[506]
[CHAPTER XXVII]
Newry, Armagh, Belfast—From Dundalk to Newry[519]
[CHAPTER XXVIII]
Belfast to the Causeway[529]
[CHAPTER XXIX]
The Giant’s Causeway—Coleraine—Portrush[538]
[CHAPTER XXX]
Peg of Limavaddy[550]
[CHAPTER XXXI]
Templemoyle—Derry[553]
[CHAPTER XXXII]
Dublin at last[565]

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DEDICATORY LETTER
TO
M. ARETZ, TAILOR, ETC.
27 RUE RICHELIEU, PARIS