A Book Plate for
J. L. Propert, Esq.
By Aubrey Beardsley
A Book Plate for
Major-General Gosset
By R. Anning Bell
Reproduced by Messrs. Carl Hentschel & Co.
The Fool’s Hour
The First Act of a Comedy
By John Oliver Hobbes
and George Moore
Characters of the Comedy
Lord Doldrummond
Cyril, his Son (Viscount Aprile)
Sir Digby Soame
Charles Mandeville, a tenor
Mr. Banish, a banker
The Hon. Arthur Featherleigh
Mr. Samuel Benjamin, a money-lender
Lady Doldrummond
Julia, an heiress
The Hon. Mrs. Howard de Trappe, her mother, a widow
Sarah Sparrow, an American prima donna