From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Sketches and "Causeries" of various kinds gathered from different periodicals :—
1. DEUX INFANTICIDES.
2. POÈTES, PEINTRES ET MUSICIENS.
3. DÉSIR ET POSSESSION.
4. UNE MÈRE.
5. LE CURÉ DE BOULOGNE.
6. UN FAIT PERSONNEL.
7. COMMENT J'AI FAIT JOUER À MARSEILLE LE DRAME DES "FORESTIERS."
8. HEURES DE PRISON.
9. JACQUES FOSSE.
10. LE CHÂTEAU DE PIERREFONDS.
11. LE LOTUS BLANC ET LA ROSE MOUSSEUSE.
Nos. 3. 8 and 11 appeared first in "Le Mousquetaire." Nos. 1,4,5,6,7.9 and 10 were first printed in "Le Monte-Cristo." No. 5 may also be found narrated in "Mes Mémoires," Chapter CLXIX.
"Heures de Prison" concerns the famous Lafarge case. Dumas had known Mme. Lafarge intimately as Marie Capelle when a child.
Original edition : Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 2 vols., 12mo. , 1861.
It now forms one volume in the standard Calmann-Lévy edition, and one in their "Musée Littéraire."
In Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré," it forms part of Vol. XX. as one collection.
