I.NTELLA 1 S34-91; ). An English artist and novelist. horn in Paris. On his father's side he was of French deseent : his mother was 'Eng lish. Ills boyhood was passed in Paris. Belgium. and London, and at the age of seventeen his father placed hint in University College, London. expecting to make a scientist of him. On the death of his father (1856). Du Maurier adopted art as his profession, studying in Paris under Gleyre, and in Antwerp under De Kaiser and Van Lerins. to 1.(Aidon, he began drawing for Once u Wed:, Punch, and the Corn hill Magazine. and on the death of Leech (1864) he became permanently attached to Punch, to whose pages he contributed those examples of social satiric art now so well known. For his drawings he himself composed the (-lever legends. He also illustrated Thackeray's H(»ry Esmond and Ballads, Foxe's Hook. of Martyrs, and works by Henry James, Thomas Ilardy, George Mere dith, and others. To Harper's Magazine he con tributed a series of drawings and two novels— Peter /bbctson (1891) and Trilby (1894). The
former, a fanciful romance of dream life. was widely read—chiefly. it would appear, through interest in the autobiographic record of the au thor's life at Passy. The latter, whose scene is the Quartier Latin, met with phenomenal success, and was dramatized in both England and Ameri ca. Whatever may be thought of the melodra matic presence of Svengali, the study of the artist trio, occupying the earlier portion of the story, is generally regarded as a genuine achieve ment. Subsequent to Du Mangier'- death a third novel. The Martian, appeared in Harper's (1896 97 ). He was also a skillful writer of light verse. specimens of which appeared in Punch and dis persed through his books. But his reputation will chiefly rest upon that illustrative work for Punch through which he smilingly assailed the snobbish and the mean. His drawings possess much grace, charm. and finish, and his peculiar type of wo man became known everywhere.