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THE
WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY
BY
GRACE AND PHILIP WHARTON
New Edition with a Preface
BY
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY, M.P.
_And the original illustrations by_
H. K. BROWNE AND JAMES GODWIN
TWO VOLS.--VOL. I.
New York
WORTHINGTON CO., 747 BROADWAY
1890
[Illustration: WHARTON'S ROGUISH PRESENT.]


DEDICATION.

DEAR MR. AUGUSTIN DALY,
May I write your name on the dedication page of this new edition of an
old and pleasant book in token of our common interest in the people and
the periods of which it treats, and as a small proof of our friendship?
Sincerely yours,
JUSTIN HUNTLY M'CARTHY.
LONDON, _July, 1890._


CONTENTS.

PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION p. xi
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION p. xxv
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION p.
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