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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
'but this: that in most marriages there are faults of both sides.'
"'Exactly so,' answered Caudle, 'and both I've known.'"
The "Breakfast Talk" so far as I am aware has not been reprinted in England, although it was issued with other of Douglas Jerrold's miscellaneous writings in America. (See Bibliography.)
Much idle gossip and conjecture has been written as to the "original" that Douglas Jerrold had in his mind's eye when he set about writing these Lectures—his own preface to them in collected form happily illustrates the inconsequent fashion in which an author comes upon his happy thoughts.
WALTER JERROLD.
