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 wonder how it came to be included amid so much finely imaginative work. Well, without consulting Mr. Rackham I will give a guess (which, when you are concerned with fantasy, is often more useful than knowing), and if my guess be right, this No. 22 is a very significant drawing indeed. All I know of it is what Mr. Rackham’s modesty deigns to tell me: that it originally appeared in The Century Magazine, when it accom­panied—but did not profess to illustrate—an article by Lady St. Helier on “.” I have not read that article, but the artist might well have meant to illustrate its abhorrent title. You observe that by the rails of the Broad Walk he actually allows “grown-ups” to stalk unchecked, like respectability at Chicago: and as for the three well-dressed little girls