¶Sadleir 64; Wolff 194. Although there is no internal evidence, this copy was purchased from the descendants of Paul-Emile Daurand-Forgues, the French writer & translator, known as 'Old Nick'. Austin, 1835-1913, appointed Poet Laureate in 1896. This is one of his three novels; the others are Five Years of It (1858), and Won by a Head (1866).