PREFACTORY NOTE

In presenting under the title of “Brush, Pen, and Pencil” the series of books of which the present volume forms part, the publishers feel that they are meeting a demand which has long existed but has hitherto not been supplied.  It is an unfortunate circumstance of the conditions which affect the modern artist who chooses black and white for his principal medium, that as a general rule his work—­or, at all events, the reproduction of it—­is ephemeral only.  In respect of much that appears in the illustrated Press this is small matter for regret; but there is good reason to believe that opportunities of obtaining in permanent form some record of the work of the leading men amongst those artists who work for the Press would be welcomed.  It is to afford such opportunities that the present series is issued; and it is hoped that in the volumes composing it the public will have pleasure in finding representative examples of the work with brush, pen, and pencil of the men whose skill and fancy have from time to time delighted them.

For permission to reproduce a very large number of the drawings by Mr. Frank Reynolds which appear in the present volume the publishers wish to acknowledge the courtesy of the proprietors of the Sketch, in the pages of which they first appeared.  Their thanks are equally due to Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew & Co.  Ltd. for kind permission to reproduce three drawings from the pages of Punch.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

  Tony Weller of the Belle Sauvage
  the introduction
  frivolity
  the warrener

IN BLACK AND WHITE

  Study in pencil
  pen-and-ink drawing from “Punch”
  Working Paris at luncheon
  the Dare-devils
  “Chacun” With his “Chacune”
  Bethnal Green
  the real artist
  note from A Paris sketch-book
  the suburbanite
  first sketch for the suburbanite
  A good study
  pen-and-ink drawing from “Punch”
  A tragedy in miniature
  our club
  having the time of her life
  Le ’Igh Kick
  A speech against the government
  Felix of the “Lapin agile”
  Vive L’ARMEE
  “Gazed on Harold”
  From A Paris sketch-book
  the des(S)ERTS of Bohemia
  Going it!