Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4

ONCE A WEEK.

AN

Illustrated Miscellany

OF

LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.

VOLUME IV.

DECEMBER, 1860, TO JUNE, 1861.

LONDON:
BRADBURY & EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET.

[The Right of translating Articles from “Once a Week” is reserved by the Authors.]

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
(For an alphabetical and subject index, see below)

No. 79. December 29, 1860

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 8). By Shirley Brooks.

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John Tenniel.

Abraham Lincoln, President Elect of the United States. By Walter Thornbury.

Widow Hogarth and Her Lodger. By Dutton Cook.

The Death of Œnone. By Horace Moule.

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M. J. Lawless.

Sam Bentley’s Christmas (Part 3). By T. Matthews.

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Charles Keene.

Beggars in Italy. By Edward H. Michelsen.

Curiosities in Natural History. By Edward Jesse.

What? By W. H. Boughton.

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H. K. Browne.

Old Ficulea. By Francis Carton.

Water-Pipes and Frost. By W. Bridges Adams.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 80. January 5, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 9). By Shirley Brooks.

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John Tenniel.

The Soldier and Sailor: Their Health. By Harriet Martineau.

Indian Juggling. By F. Swanwick.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

George du Maurier.

Under the Fir-Trees: A Harvest Romance. By Louisa Crow.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

Sam Bentley’s Christmas (Part 4). By T. Matthews.

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Charles Keene.

A Day’s Deer-Stalking with the Champion of the Rifles.

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Charles Green.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 81. January 12, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 10). By Shirley Brooks.

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John Tenniel.

The Heart of Voltaire, Living and Dead. By Marguerite A. Power.

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Frederick Walker.

The Dying Heroes. (From Uhland.) By Arthur Laurenson.

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Frederick Sandys.

The Fan. By Charles Henry Butcher.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

The Months—January. By Harriet Martineau.

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T. R. Macquoid.

New Year’s Eve. By Arthur J. Munby.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 82. January 19, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 11). By Shirley Brooks.

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John Tenniel.

A Run upon the Chesil Bank. By Daniel Pidgeon.

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H. G. Hine.

Niobe. (From the Greek.) By Edgar Alfred Bowring.

The Fate of Tan-King-Chin, a British Subject. By Miss E. Piper.

Raphael and Michel Angelo. By Edward H. Michelsen.

Iphis and Anaxarete. By Mary C. F. Münster.

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J. E. Millais.

“Bring Me a Light!” By Jane Margaret Hooper.

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Frederick Walker.

Love’s Photograph. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.

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H. K. Browne.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 83. January 26, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 12). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

The Aged: Their Health. By Harriet Martineau.

Women’s Work: Designing Patterns. I. By Sarah Stickney.

Thorr’s Hunt for His Hammer. (From the Edda.) By George Webbe Dasent.

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J. E. Millais.

Heidelberg, at Fair-Time. By Cornelia A. H. Crosse.

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H. G. Hine.

The Black Spot. By John Harwood.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

George du Maurier.

She Never Told Her Love. By John Begg Shaw.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

H. K. Browne.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 84. February 2, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 13). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Baths of Aix and Annexation of Savoy. By Harriet Ludlow Clarke.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Joseph Swain.

Cambridge Wranglers. By Henry Hall Dixon.

The Mazed Fiddler. By W. J. Prowse.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Keene.

The Water Stoppage. By W. Bridges Adams.

Our Modern Mercury. By Andrew Wynter.

What Is Electricity? By Anne Gilchrist.

A Life Story.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

George du Maurier.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 85. February 9, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 14). By Shirley Brooks.

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John Tenniel.

The Months—February. By Harriet Martineau.

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T. R. Macquoid.

Frosts on the Thames. By Robert Bell.

A General Practitioner in California. By John Harwood.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

How I Did Not Prevent Sea-Sickness. By Godfrey Turner.

Aux Bien-Aimées. By Ralph A. Benson.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

H. K. Browne.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 86. February 16, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 15). By Shirley Brooks.

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John Tenniel.

Representative Women—Wives: Madame Lavalette, Lady Fanshawe, Mrs. Patton. By Harriet Martineau.

Confessions of St. Valentine. By Mary Eliza Rogers.

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M. J. Lawless.

My Adventure in Search of Garibaldi. By John Harwood.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

George du Maurier.

Recent Explorations in Australia by John MacDougall Stuart. By William Campbell.

Take Warning. By N. Joseph.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Miss Taylor.

The Story of the Three Wonderful Companions. By W. Bruce.

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H. K. Browne.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 87. February 23, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 16). By Shirley Brooks.

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John Tenniel.

Life at Charleston: In Quiet Times. By Harriet Martineau.

The Maiden Masque. By Samuel Lover.

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John Leech.

Women’s Work: Designing Patterns. II. By Sarah Stickney.

Fishes. By Edward Jesse.

Who Is Mr. Reuter? By Andrew Wynter.

The Parish Clerk’s Story. By George Meredith.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 88. March 2, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 17). By Shirley Brooks.

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John Tenniel.

Trimmings and Trimmers. By Isabella Kentish.

“The Magnolia, for London, with Cotton.” By A. Stewart Harrison.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

Time Tables. By William Cookson.

The Annual Fair at Ostrovna. By W. K. Westly.

The Nervous System of the Metropolis (Part 1). By Andrew Wynter.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 89. March 9, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 18). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Life on an Alabama Plantation. By Harriet Martineau.

Fair Rosamond. By Owen Meredith.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

The Turkish Bath. By Andrew Wynter.

Women’s Work: Designing Patterns. III. By Sarah Stickney.

Insect Appetite. By Harry Jones.

The Grassy Sea. By Katharine S. MacQuoid.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

H. K. Browne.

Voltaire and M. Chapeau. By J. Wilson.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 90. March 16, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 19). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

The Months—March. By Harriet Martineau.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

T. R. Macquoid.

The Nervous System of the Metropolis (Part 2). By Andrew Wynter.

Animal Instinct. By Edward Jesse.

Swift and the Mohawks. By Walter Thornbury.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Thomas Morten.

Cannibalism in Galicia. By Sabine Baring-Gould.

Sir James Bland Burgess.

Quackery in 1551. By Louis J. Jennings.

An Old Man’s Musings. By Henry Righton.

In Re Mr. Bubb. By Thomas Speight.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Keene.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 91. March 23, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 20). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Representative Men—Courtier-Philosophers: Bacon, Leibnitz, Voltaire, Goethe, Humboldt. By Harriet Martineau.

The Trapping of Wild Animals by the Tchuvashes of Simbirsk. By W. K. Westly.

From the German of Uhland. By Julia Goddard.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Sandys.

Explorations in Australia. By J. Lort Stokes.

Look After Brown. By Mark Lemon.

The Beginning of the Russian Navy. By W. K. Westly.

Algerine Interiors. By Bessie Rayner Parkes.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Green.

Last Week. By A. A. Knox.

No. 92. March 30, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 21). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Ocular Stereoscopy. By Daniel Pidgeon.

Sir Joshua’s Pupil. By Dutton Cook.

The Beard Movement. By James Stuart Vaughan.

The Beggar’s Soliloquy. By George Meredith.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Keene.

Anecdotes of the General Alexander, Count Suvaroff. By W. K. Westly.

Our Dogs. By Sarah Stickney.

A Night Ride to the Guillotine. By George Lumley.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

George du Maurier.

Sonnet from Petrarch. By Miss E. White.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 93. April 6, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 22). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Life in Illinois. By Harriet Martineau.

Steer N.W.

Effie Gordon. By B. S. Montgomery.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

M. J. Lawless.

Mr. Train and the Bayswater Tramway. By W. Bridges Adams.

Tuscan Nooks and Bye-Paths (Part 1). By T. Adolphus Trollope.

Dangerous! By Albany Fonblanque Jr.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 94. April 13, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 23). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Pisciculture in France. By Anna Blackwell.

The Dung-Beetle. By Hans Christian Andersen, translated by G. W. Dasent.

François de Civille. By Sabine Baring-Gould.

The Sailor’s Bride. By Marian James.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Sandys.

A Word on Wages. By John Plummer.

The History of a Love-Letter. By Miss Overton.

The “Outer Barbarians,” from a Chinese Point of View. By G. G. Alexander.

Ana—Eugene Aram. By Edward Jesse.

King Olaf. By Arthur Laurenson.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 95. April 20, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 24). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Representative Men—Scientific Explorers: Burckhardt, Barth, Franklin. By Harriet Martineau.

A Fossil Piano. By Anna Blackwell.

The Swallow. By Edward Jesse.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Joseph Wolf.

The Jester’s Passing Bell. By Walter Thornbury.

Mundic and Barytes: A Tale of the Squashmore Mine. By Frederick Gale.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Keene.

The Epping Hunt. By Frederick Gale.

On the Cards. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.

Shade.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 96. April 27, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 25). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Life in Massachusetts. By Harriet Martineau.

Captain Macheath. By Dutton Cook.

An Hour with the Dead. By Louisa Crow.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederic Shields.

“Wanted a Secretary!”

An Old Boy’s Tale. By Mrs. Bell.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 97. May 4, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 26). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Tuscan Nooks and Bye-Paths (Part 2). By T. Adolphus Trollope.

A Model Strike. By Dutton Cook.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Keene.

Our Nicknames at Playingfield College. By Philip S. Fletcher.

Spring in Devonshire. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.

The Finishing Touch. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Green.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 98. May 11, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 27). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

A Forgotten Poet. By John Plummer.

The Cholera Bed. By John Harwood.

The Two Norse Kings. By Walter Thornbury.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Keene.

Thieves and Thieves’ Children. By Mark Lemon.

Our Birds of Spring. By Edward Jesse.

Shanklin. By Arthur J. Munby.

The Roadside Inn. By Louisa Crow.

A Visit to Tintagel. By Eyre Turquand.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Percival Skelton.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 99. May 18, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 28). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Volunteer Drill—An Adjutant’s Diary. I. By William Cookson.

Alnwick Castle. By Cuthbert Bede.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

J. W. Brooks.

Representative Men—Social Reformers: Pentalozzi, the Combes, Rowland Hill. By Harriet Martineau.

Japanese Gardeners. By Edward Jesse.

The First Bleeding in Russia. By Edward H. Michelsen.

The Dirge of Adonis. (From Bion.) By Edwin Arnold.

Romance of the Cab-Rank. By Frank Percival.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

Temperance Societies in Germany in the Sixteenth Century. By Edward H. Michelsen.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 100. May 25, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 29). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

A Bottle of Water. By Charles Crump.

Card Sharping. By Lascelles Wraxall.

Volunteer Drill—An Adjutant's Diary. II. By William Cookson.

On Her Death-Bed: A Lullaby. By Arthur J. Munby.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

George du Maurier.

My Uncle’s Handbook.

The Forts of the United States. By Francis Morton.

Serfdom in Russia: “The White Husbandmen.” By W. K. Westly.

A Chapter of Chinese History: The Minister’s Stratagem. By G. G. Alexander.

Ana—The Napoleon Vine. By Edward Walford.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 101. June 1, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 30). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Larger Than Life. By Daniel Pidgeon.

Volunteer Drill—An Adjutant’s Diary. III. By William Cookson.

June. By Edwin Arnold.

The Jewel-Case. By Emma Jane Cave.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Frederick Walker.

Sir James Tillie, of Pentillie. By J. L. Stackhouse.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

H. G. Hine.

Wrestling at Whitsuntide. By Frederick Gale.

Lyrical Lines. By Eliza Cook.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 102. June 8, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 31). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Spiders. By E. Smith.

Representative Men—Social Reformers. II. John Howard, Elizabeth Fry, William Lloyd Garrison. By Harriet Martineau.

Maidenhead and Cliefden. By Edward Jesse.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

H. G. Hine.

Volunteer Drill—An Adjutant’s Diary. IV. By William Cookson.

Our Critic upon Cricket: First Innings. By Henry Silver.

A Portuguese Tragedy. By George Lumley.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

George du Maurier.

Confession. By W. W. Follett Synge.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 103. June 15, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 32). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

Verrio and Laguerre. By Dutton Cook.

An Experience of Jersey Law: My Imprisonment and Escape. By William Wake.

The Cavalier's Escape. By Walter Thornbury.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

M. J. Lawless.

The Doomed Cottage. By Miss Overton.

The Poles and Their Prison. By Vivian Dering Majendie.

The Illuminations at Heidelberg. By Charles Knight.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

William Harvey.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 104. June 22, 1861.

Illustrated by

The Silver Cord (Part 33). By Shirley Brooks.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

John Tenniel.

America Militant (Part 1). By Francis Morton.

Count Cavour: In Memoriam. By Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell.

The Aeroliths (Meteor-Stones) in the Village Juvinas, in France. By Edward H. Michelsen.

The Revenue Officer's Story. By John Harwood.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Charles Keene.

A Northern Crystal Palace.

In the Woods. By Harrison Weir.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Harrison Weir.

Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.

PAGE

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

7

Adjutant’s Diary, An

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

567, 590, 626, 660

Adonis, Dirge of

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

582

Aeroliths, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

712

Aged, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

119

Alabama Plantation, Life on an

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

287

Algerine Interiors

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356

Alnwick Castle

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

571

America Militant

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

707

Ana

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326, 445, 607

Anecdotes of the General Alexander, Count Suvaroff

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

379

Animal Instinct

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

321

Annual Fair at Ostrovna, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

274

Australia, Explorations in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

214, 351

Aux Bien-Aimées

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

193

Bacon

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

343

Barbarians, The Outer

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

440

Barth

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455

Baths of Aix and Annexation of Savoy

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

147

Bayswater Tramway, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

407

Beard Movement, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

377

Beggars in Italy

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

23

Beggar’s Soliloquy, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

378

Beginning of the Russian Navy, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

355

Black Spot, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

132

Bleeding in Russia

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

581

Bottle of Water, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

595

“Bring me a Light!”

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

99

Burckhardt

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

455

Burgess, Sir J. B.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

326

California, General in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

186

Cambridge Wranglers

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

151

Cannibalism in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

324

Captain Macheath

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

487

Card Sharping

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

597

Cavalier’s Escape, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Cavour, Count

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

712

Chapter of Chinese History, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

607

Charleston, Life at

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

231

Chesil Bank, A Run on the

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

91

Cholera Bed, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

541

Combes, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

575

Confession

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

669

Confessions of St. Valentine

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

669

Courtier Philosophers

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

343

Cricket, Our Critic on

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

664

Crystal Palace, A Northern

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

720

Curiosities in Natural History

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

24

Dangerous!

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

415

Day’s Deer-Stalking, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

52

Death of Œnone, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

14

Deer-Stalking

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

52

Devonshire, Spring in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

527

Dirge of Adonis, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

582

Dogs, Our

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

381

Doomed Cottage, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

687

Dung-Beetle, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

428

Dying Heroes, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

71

Effie Gordon

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

406

Electric Telegraph in London

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

275, 319

Epping Hunt, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

468

Escape from Jersey, My

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

681

Experience of Jersey Law, An

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

681

Explorations in Australia

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

214, 351

Eugene Aram

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

445

Fair Rosamond

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

293

Fan, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

72

Fanshawe, Lady

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

652

Fate of Tan-King-Chin, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

95

February

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

175

Ficulea, Old

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26

Finishing Touch, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

529

First Bleeding in Russia, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

581

Fishess

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242

Forgotten Poet, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

539

Forts of the United States, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

604

Fossil Piano, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

459

François de Civille

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

431

Franklin

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

455

From the German of Uhland

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

350

Frosts on the Thames

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

180

Fry, Elizabeth

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

652

, Cannibalism in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

324

Garibaldi, My Adventure in Search of

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

209

Garrison, W. L.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

652

General Practitioner in California, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

186

Göthe

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

343

Grassy Sea, The

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301

Guillotine, A Night Ride to the

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

384

Health of the Soldier and Sailor

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

35

Heart of Voltaire, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

63

Heidelberg, at Fair Time

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

128

Heidelberg, „The Illuminations at

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

696

Hill, Sir Rowland

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

575

History of a Love-Letter, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

696

Hogarth, The Widow

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10

Hour with the Dead, An

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

491

How I did not Prevent Sea-Sickness

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

191

Howard, John

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

652

Humboldt, Baron

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

343

Illinois, Life in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

399

Illuminations at Heidelberg, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

696

Imprisonment in Jersey, My

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

681

Indian Juggling

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40

In Re Mr. Bubb

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

328

In the Woods

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

721

Insect Appetite

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

300

Iphis and Anaxarete

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

98

January

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

76

Japanese Gardeners

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

581

Jersey Law

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681

Jester’s Passing Bell, The

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462

Jewel Case, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

630

June

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629

King Olaf

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

445

Larger than Life

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

623

Last Week

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

28, 54, 82, 110, 138, 166, 194, 222, 250, 278, 306, 334, 362, 390, 418, 446, 474, 502, 530, 558, 586, 614, 642, 670, 698, 722

Lavalette, Madame

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

652

Leibnitz

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

343

Life at Charleston

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

231

Life „in Illinois

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

399

Life „in Massachusetts

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

483

Life „on an Alabama Plantation

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

287

Life Story, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Lincoln, Abraham

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

7

Look after Brown

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Love’s Photograph

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

109

Lyrical Lines

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

641

“Magnolia, for London, with Cotton, The”

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

262

Maiden Masque, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

236

Maidenhead and Cliefden

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

658

March

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

315

Massachusetts, Life in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

483

Mazed Fiddler, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

154

Men, Representative

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

343, 455, 575, 652

Mercury, Our Modern

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

160

Model Strike, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

515

Mohawks, Swift and the

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

322

Months, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

76, 175, 315

Mundic and Barytes

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

463

My Adventure in Search of Garibaldi

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

209

My Uncle’s Handbook

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

604

Napoleon Vine, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

607

Natural History, Curiosities in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

24

Nicknames at Playingfield College

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

520

Nervous System of the Metropolis, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

275

New Year’s Eve

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

81

Night Ride to the Guillotine, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

384

Niobe

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Northern Crystal Palace, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

720

Ocular Stereoscopy

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

371

Olaf, King

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

445

Old Boy’s Tale, An

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

497

Old Ficulea

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

26

Old Man’s Musings, An

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

327

On her Death-Bed

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

603

On the Cards

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

469

Ostrovna, Fair at

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

274

Our Birds of Spring

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

550

Our Critic upon Cricket

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

664

Our Dogs

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

381

Our Modern Mercury

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

160

Our Nicknames at Playingfield College

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

520

“Outer Barbarians,” The, from a Chinese Point of View

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

440

Parish Clerk’s Story, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

246

Pattern-Designing

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

298

Patton, Mrs.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Pentillie, Sir J. Tillie of

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

639

Pestalozzi

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

575

Petrarch, Sonnet from

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

384

Pisciculture in France

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

427

Playingfield College, Our Nicknames at

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

520

Poet, A Forgotten

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

539

Poles and their Prisons, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

694

Portuguese Tragedy, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

665

Quackery in 1551

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

326

Raphael and Michael Angelo

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

97

Recent Explorations in Australia

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

214, 351

Representative Men

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

343, 455, 575, 652

Representative Women

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

203

Reuter, Mr.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

243

Revenue officer’s Story, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

713

Roadside Inn, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

552

Romance of the Cab-Rank

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

583

Run upon the Chesil Bank, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

91

Russia, The First Bleeding in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

581

Russia, Serfdom in

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

606

Russian Navy, Beginning of the

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

355

Sailor’s Bride, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

433

Sam Bentley’s Christmas

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

16, 44

Scientific Explorers

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

455

Sea-Sickness

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

191

Serfdom in Russia

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

606

Shade

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

473

Shanklin

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

551

She Never Told Her Love

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

137

Silver Cord, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169, 197, 225, 253, 281, 309, 337, 365, 393, 421, 449, 477, 505, 533, 561, 589, 617, 645, 673, 701

Sir James Tillie, of Pentillie

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

639

Sir Joshua’s Pupil

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

373

Social Reformers

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

575, 652

Soldier and Sailor, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

35

Sonnet from Petrarch

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

384

Spiders

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

651

Spring in Devonshire

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

527

Squashmore Mine, A Tale of the

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

463

Steer N. W.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

404

Story of the Three Wonderful Companions, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

217

Suvaroff, Anecdotes of

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

379

Swallow, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

461

Swift and the Mohawks

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

322

Take Warning

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

216

Tan-King-Chin, Fate of

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

95

Tchuvashes, Trapping of Wild Animals by the

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

349

Telegraph, The London Electric

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

275, 319

Temperance Societies in Germany

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

583

Thames, Frosts on the

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

180

Thieves and Thieves’ Children

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

548

Thorr’s Hunt for his Hammer

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

125

Tillie, Sir James

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

639

Time Tables

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

271

Tintagel, A Visit to

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

553

Train, Mr., and the Bayswater Tramway

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

407

Trapping of Wild Animals by the Tchuvashes, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

349

Trimmings and Trimmers

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

259

Turkish Bath, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

296

Tuscan Nooks and Bye-paths

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

409, 511

Two Norse Kings, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

547

Uhland, From the German of

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

350

Under the Fir-Trees

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

43

United States, the Forts of

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

604

Valentine, Confessions of St.

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

207

Verrio and Laguerre

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

679

Visit to Tintagel, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

553

Voltaire

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

343

Voltaire, The Heart of

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

63

Volunteer Drill

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

, 626, 660

Wages, A Word on

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

434

“Wanted a Secretary!”

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

492

Water-pipes and Frost

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

27

Water Stoppage, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

159

What?

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

25

What is Electricity?

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

163

White Husbandry, The

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

606

Whitsuntide, Wrestling at

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

640

Who is Mr. Reuter?

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

243

Widow Hogarth and her Lodger

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

10

Women, Representative

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

203

Women’s Work

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

124, 241, 298

Word on Wages, A

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

434

Wranglers

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

151

Wrestling at Whitsuntide

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

640

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.

BROOKS, J. W.—572, 574.
BROWN, HABLOT K.—25, 109, 193, 220, 302.
DU MAURIER, G.—41, 134, 165, 210, 378, 603, 668.
GREEN, C.—52, 53, 357, 359, 361, 529.
HARVEY, W.—697.
HINE, H. G.—63, 92, 129, 131, 182, 183, 184, 639, 659.
KEANE, C.—19, 45, 155, 158, 330, 332, 378, 466, 519, 547, 713.
LAWLESS, M. J.—14, 15, 208, 406, 407, 687.
LEECH, J.—238.
MACQUOID, T. R.—79, 176, 315.
MILLAIS, J. E.—98, 126.
MORTEN, T.—323.
SANDYS, F.—71, 350, 434.
SHIELDS, F. J.—491.
SKELTON, P.—555.
SWAIN, J.— 147, 149.
TAYLOR, MISS.—217.
TENNIEL, J.—1, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169, 197, 225, 253, 281, 294, 295, 309, 337, 365, 393, 421, 449, 477, 505, 533, 561, 589, 617, 645, 673, 701.
WEIR, HARRISON.—721.
WOLF, J.—462.

DIAGRAMS.—275, 276, 277, 371, 372, 373, 472, 624.
CHINESE SKETCHES (after originals).—442, 443, 444, 608, 609, 610.
PORTRAITS.—A. Lincoln, 7; Ross, Mr., 53; Reuter, Mr. 244.