Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8

ONCE A WEEK.

AN

Illustrated Miscellany

OF

LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.

VOLUME VIII.

DECEMBER, 1862, TO JUNE, 1863.

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. 183. December 27, 1862.

Illustrated by

The Notting Hill Mystery—Section V. By Charles Warren Adams.

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George du Maurier.

Astley's. By William Pinkerton.

Up the Alabama. By Thomas L. Nichols.

The New Zealand Census Returns. By Isabella Fenton.

Christmas Evergreens. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.

Verner's Pride (Part 27). By Mrs. Henry Wood.

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

Charles Keene.

The Atlantic Telegraph. By Andrew Wynter.

A Day at Selbourne. By Charles T. Browne.

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Percival Skelton.

Al Fin de la Jornada. By James Mew.

No. 184. January 3, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Notting Hill Mystery—Section VI. By Charles Warren Adams.

The Count of Vendel's Daughter. (From the Ancient Danish.) By George Borrow.

A New Kind of Wilful Murder. By Harriet Martineau.

Frozen In: Narrative of a Shetland Seaman. By Arthur Laurenson.

Endymion on Latmos. By R. N. Smith.

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J. E. Millais.

Verner's Pride (Part 28). By Mrs. Henry Wood.

A King under Difficulties. By Lascelles Wraxall.

Prince Hassan and the Ogre. By J. F. Brickdale.

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Phiz.

No. 185. January 10, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Notting Hill Mystery—Section VII. By Charles Warren Adams.

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George du Maurier.

Notes Taken at Hampden Concerning the Greatest Squire of That Ilk. By Henrietta Tindal.

Petticoat Lane. By Augustin B. Kelly.

Verner's Pride (Part 29). By Mrs. Henry Wood.

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Charles Keene.

Private Economy. By Harriet Martineau.

Astley's Horse. By Abraham Cooper.

A Peep into the Palatinate (Part 1). By G. C. Swayne.

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Thomas Sulman.

No. 186. January 17, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Notting Hill Mystery—Section VIII. By Charles Warren Adams.

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George du Maurier.

Terrific Combat Between a Gorilla and a Lion. By A. W. Harnett.

Mobs. By Harry Jones.

Vicissitudes of Families. By Edward Walford.

Twilight Dreams. By Louisa Crow.

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T. White.

Verner's Pride (Part 30). By Mrs. Henry Wood.

A Picture in Three Panels. By Louis Sand.

A Peep into the Palatinate (Part 2). By G. C. Swayne.

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Thomas Sulman.

No. 187. January 24, 1863.

Illustrated by

My Friend's Wedding Day. By John Harwood.

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Edward Poynter.

Prince Alfred's Romance. By Harriet Martineau.

A Destructive Cap. By John Lovell.

Verner's Pride (Part 31). By Mrs. Henry Wood.

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

Charles Keene.

Tar and Feathers. By William Hardman.

The Development of Human Food. By W. Bridges Adams.

Tapping for Toddy. By Frederick Arthur Neale.

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H. G. Hine.

No. 188. January 31, 1863.

Illustrated by

Of a Haunted House in Mexico. By George Lumley.

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Edward Poynter.

Something Worth Having. By Samuel Lover.

Photographic Portraiture. By Andrew Wynter.

Maids of Honour. By Peter Cunningham.

The Saturnalia. By Walter Thornbury.

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G. J. Pinwell.

Verner's Pride (Part 32). By Mrs. Henry Wood.

Bude Haven, and the Wreck of the Bencoolen. By William Maskell.

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Thomas Sulman.

No. 189. February 7, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Wrath of Mistress Elizabeth Gwynne. By Blomfield Jackson.

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Charles Green.

Four Pashas of Egypt. By Harriet Martineau.

The Ship of Mail. (From the German of Baron Littson.) By Baroness Blaze de Bury.

Fraudulent Trade Marks. By Andrew Wynter.

Recollections of a Retired Butler. By Mark Lemon.

Verner's Pride (Conclusion). By Mrs. Henry Wood.

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Charles Keene.

Tours and Mettray. By Mary Brotherton.

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Percival Skelton.

No. 190. February 14, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Old Man at D. 8. By Blomfield Jackson.

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G. J. Pinwell.

Sewing-Machines. By Manley Hopkins.

From Rangoon. By Rev. Frederick Poynder.

The Quality I Covet. By Lewis Hough.

Winter with the Gulf Stream. By Gerard Manley Hopkins.

The Hampdens (Part 1). By Harriet Martineau.

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J. E. Millais.

The Jack. By Astley H. Baldwin.

Etruscan Jewellery: Necklaces. By H. Noel Humphreys.

The Transformations of Our Southern Coast. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.

The Death of Winkelreid. By Walter Thornbury.

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Charles Green.

No. 191. February 21, 1863.

Illustrated by

Milly Leslie's Secret. By Anna Peake.

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Charles Green.

Strange Wills. By Sabine Baring-Gould.

A Walk out of Ravenna. By Michael Terry.

Dawn in an Eastern Jungle. By Thomas Steele.

The Hampdens (Part 2). By Harriet Martineau.

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J. E. Millais.

Our Raw Recruits. By Charles T. Browne.

Second Sight. By Mary S. Gove Nichols.

Meteorology—Its Present Condition. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.

England's Suttee. By Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell.

Inigo Jones and His Work: York Gate. By J. Wykeham Archer.

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J. Wykeham Archer.

No. 192. February 28, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Countess Gabrielle. By Miss Wodward.

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Charles Green.

The Restoration of Our Soil (Part 1). By Andrew Wynter.

Charade. By Ralph A. Benson.

A Return from the Threshold. By George Lumley.

Footsteps of Spring. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.

The Hampdens (Part 3). By Harriet Martineau.

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J. E. Millais.

Deaconess Life in Germany. By Mrs. Hope.

One Way of Looking at It. By Arthur J. Munby.

Up the Moselle (Part 1). By G. C. Swayne.

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

Thomas Sulman.

No. 193. March 7, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Hampdens (Part 4). By Harriet Martineau.

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

J. E. Millais.

The Wilful Murder Case: Pleas for the Defence. By Harriet Martineau.

Marriages of Princes of Wales. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.

Astley's Horse. By Philippus.

Pan Vinctus—Pan Victor. By Walter Thornbury.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 1). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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

George du Maurier.

A Fallen Fruit: The Quince. By Elizabeth Eiloart.

The Stratagems of the Lady Isolda. By Edward Yardley.

Up the Moselle (Part 2). By G. C. Swayne.

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

Thomas Sulman.

No. 194. March 14, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Hampdens (Part 5). By Harriet Martineau.

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

J. E. Millais.

The Light of Evening. By John Andrews.

The Restoration of Our Soil (Part 2). By Andrew Wynter.

An Afternoon at Auteuil. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.

Seasonable Wooing. By Louisa Crow.

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

G. J. Pinwell.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 2). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

My First Run. By Arthur Arnold.

Notes about Eels. By Astley H. Baldwin.

Up the Moselle (Part 3). By G. C. Swayne.

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

Thomas Sulman.

No. 195. March 21, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Hampdens (Part 6). By Harriet Martineau.

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

J. E. Millais.

A Foreign Sneer at England. By Harriet Martineau.

Return of the Rival Explorers. By William Campbell.

An Ice Storm. By Cornelia A. H. Crosse.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 3). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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

George du Maurier.

Brigands in Italy, Past and Present. By Charles Lever.

Our Salt-Cellars. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.

How Our Grandmother Stopped the Thief. By Blomfield Jackson.

Corporal Pietro Micca. By W. B. B. Stevens.

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

Charles Green.

No. 196. March 28, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Hampdens (Part 7). By Harriet Martineau.

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

J. E. Millais.

Blowing Bubbles. By John Lovell.

Sympathetic Surgery. By J. T. Nichols.

How Bluff King Harry's Bed Was Made. By George Lumley.

Nach Zehn Jahren (After Ten Years). (From Geibel.) By G. C. Swayne.

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

Frederick Walker.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 4). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

The Portrait. By Maresco Pearce.

A Bad Egg. By Arthur Locker.

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

G. J. Pinwell.

No. 197. April 4, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Hampdens (Part 8). By Harriet Martineau.

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

J. E. Millais.

Liberty of Private Charity. By Harriet Martineau.

The Dead Man's Hand. By John Andrews.

Anglo-India from a French Point of View. By Laura Valentine.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 5). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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

George du Maurier.

A Constantine Czarowicz in Warsaw (Part 1). By Emma Stanley.

Wetzlar on the Lahn (Part 1). By G. C. Swayne.

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

Thomas Sulman.

The Call. By Mrs. English.

No. 198. April 11, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Hampdens (Part 9). By Harriet Martineau.

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

J. E. Millais.

From the French of Malherbe. By Blomfield Jackson.

A Constantine Czarowicz in Warsaw (Part 2). By Emma Stanley.

The March of Arthur. (From the Breton.) By Tom Taylor.

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

Charles Keene.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 6). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

Our Sea Fisheries. By Arthur Arnold.

Dogs in Public. By Andrew Wynter.

Wetzlar on the Lahn (Part 2). By G. C. Swayne.

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

Thomas Sulman.

No. 199. April 18, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Hampdens (Part 10). By Harriet Martineau.

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

J. E. Millais.

A British Friendship. By Harriet Martineau.

The Fair of Ballinasloe. By Matilda Charlotte Houstoun.

Shakespeare's Birthday and Name. By Peter Cunningham.

Spring. By John Andrews.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 7). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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

George du Maurier.

A Constantine Czarowicz in Warsaw (Part 3). By Emma Stanley.

On Instincts. By Edward Jesse.

Ducie of the Dale. By Arthur J. Munby.

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

Edward Poynter.

No. 200. April 25, 1863.

Illustrated by

A Foggy Story. By Miss H. A. Rudall.

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

G. J. Pinwell.

The First-Born Prince of Wales. By Robert Stephen Hawker.

My First Duel. By Berkeley Smith.

A Royal Fruit: The Pomegranate. By Elizabeth Eiloart.

Damsel John. By Manley Hopkins.

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

Charles Green.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 8). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

A Danish Visit to England a Hundred Years Ago. By Laura Valentine.

Tobacco. By Thomas Croxen Archer.

The Neckar. By Manley Hopkins.

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

Thomas Sulman.

No. 201. May 2, 1863.

Illustrated by

My Golden Hole. By R. K. Hervey.

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

Charles Green.

Old and New Flittings. By Harriet Martineau.

Something about Mackerel. By Astley H. Baldwin.

Our Ride to Busaco. By John Wickey Stable.

A Celibate Consoled. By Ralph A. Benson.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 9). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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

George du Maurier.

Brown Seaweeds. By Charles Crump.

Left on the Battle Field. By Sarah T. Bolton.

Plucky Dick Pluckless. By Charles Temple.

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

A. W. Cooper.

No. 202. May 9, 1863.

Illustrated by

Five Days in Prison for Murder. By R. K. Hervey.

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

Charles Green.

Russian Ukases. By Emma Stanley.

Paddy O'Rafther. By Samuel Lover.

We All Saw It. By Charles Warren Adams.

Glimpses of French Village Life. By Miss Knox.

The Bay of the Dead. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.

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

Charles Keene.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 10). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

The Impurities of the Loaf. By Andrew Wynter.

Books of the Opera. By George Eric Mackay.

Song. By Evelyn Forest.

French Castles (Part 1). By Fanny Boothby.

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

Percival Skelton.

No. 203. May 16, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Queen's Messenger in Mexico. By John Harwood.

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

Charles Green.

Invasion of 1863: A Call for Volunteer Defence. By Harriet Martineau.

My Neighbour at the Theatre. By M. W. Hallett.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 11). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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

George du Maurier.

Working Men's Clubs. By Charles T. Browne.

Banbury Cakes and Banbury Cross. By John Timbs.

Answer to Charade in No. CXCII. By Ralph A. Benson.

French Castles (Part 2). By Fanny Boothby.

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

Percival Skelton.

No. 204. May 23, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Centurion's Escape: A Tale of the Egyptian Priesthood. By Colin Mackenzie.

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

Charles Green.

A Dreadful Bell. By Leopold Lewis.

Mawgan of Melluach, the Cornish Wrecker. By Robert Stephen Hawker.

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

J. D. Watson.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 12). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

The Antiquity of the Castanet. By Miss E. Brackenbury.

Baucis and Philemon (A Legend of an English Workhouse). By Walter Thornbury.

Yarrow and St. Mary's. By James Smail.

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

Percival Skelton.

The Seasons. By Evelyn Forest.

No. 205. May 30, 1863.

Illustrated by

My Brother's Story. By John Harwood.

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

Charles Keene.

Treasure Trove, at Home and Abroad. By Laura Valentine.

The Times Newspaper of 1798. By Andrew Wynter.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 13). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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

George du Maurier.

The War Instinct: What to Do with It. By Harriet Martineau.

Egeria. By James Mew.

A Modern Vivarium. By Edgar Sheppard.

The Linden Trees. By John Andrews.

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

M. J. Lawless.

No. 206. June 6, 1863.

Illustrated by

Blind. By Mary Eyles Gubbins.

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

G. J. Pinwell.

Lavinia Fenton. By Dutton Cook.

Ballad of the Page and the King's Daughter. (From Geibel.) By Ellen Cook.

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

Edward Poynter.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 14). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

A Day with the Coroner. By Andrew Wynter.

An Australian Explorer. By Francis Morton.

Gleanings from Spain (Part 1). By Mrs. Hope.

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

Percival Skelton.

No. 207. June 13, 1863.

Illustrated by

The Cry in the Dark. By Thomas Speight.

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

Charles Green.

Fish Growth. By James G. Bertram.

More Recollections of a Retired Butler. By Mark Lemon.

A Visit to Mauna Loa. By Richard Lee.

The Sisters. By George Eric Mackay.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 15). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

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

George du Maurier.

The Old Secret Out at Last. By Harriet Martineau.

Peruvian Bark and the Trees Which Yield It. By John Montgomery.

Tidings. (From Grün.) By Blomfield Jackson.

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

G. J. Pinwell.

No. 208. June 20, 1863.

Illustrated by

Out of the Body. By John Addis.

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

George du Maurier.

Spectral Analysis: A Message from the Sun. By James Carpenter.

Gifts. By Manley Hopkins.

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

M. J. Lawless.

Eleanor's Victory (Part 16). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

La Belle Dangerose. By Mark Lemon.

The Lass of Aben-Hall. By George Eric Mackay.

Cricket, as It Was and Is. By Frederick Gale.

Gleanings from Spain (Part 2). By Mrs. Hope.

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

Percival Skelton.

PAGE

Abenhall, The Lass of

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718

Afternoon at Auteuil, An

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319

Alabama, Up the

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11

Al Fin de la Jornada

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28

Alfred, Prince

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120

Analysis, Spectral

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708

Anglo-India from a French Point of View

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403

Answer to Charade

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585

Antiquity of the Castanet

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609

Arthur, March of

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433

Astley's

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7

Astley's Horse

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82, 294

Atlantic Telegraph, The

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23

Australian Explorer, An

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667

Auteuil, Afternoon at

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319

Bad Egg, A

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386

Ballad of the Page and the King's Daughter

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656

Ballinasloe, The Fair at

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456

Banbury Cakes and Banbury Cross

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583

Battle-field, Left on the

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527

Baucis and Philemon

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610

Bay of the Dead, The

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545

Bed, How King Harry's, was made

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377

Bell, A Dreadful

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596

Bencoolen, Wreck of the

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161

Blind

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645

Blowing Bubbles

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372

Books of the Opera

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553

Brigands in Italy

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357

British Friendship, A

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452

Brother's Story, My

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617

Brown Seaweeds

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524

Buckingham Gate

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251

Bude Haven

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161

Busaco, Our Ride to

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515

Butler, Recollections of a Retired

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179, 682

Cadell, Francis

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667

Call for Volunteer Defence, A

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569

Call, The

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420

Castanet, The

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609

Celibate consoled, A

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518

Census of New Zealand

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13

Centurion's Escape, The

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589

Charade

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261, 585

Charity, Liberty of Private

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397

Christmas Evergreens

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14

Clubs for Working Men

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581

Coast, Transformation of our Southern

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221

Constantine Czarowicz in Warsaw, A

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415, 428, 469

Cornish Wrecker, The

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601

Coroner, A Day with the

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664

Corporal Pietro Micca

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363

Count of Vendel's Daughter, The

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35

Countess Gabrielle, The

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253

Cricket, as it Was and Is

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718

Cry in the Dark, The

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673

Czarowicz in Warsaw

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415, 428, 469

Damsel John

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488

Dangerose, La Belle

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717

Danish Visit to England, A

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497

Dawn in an Eastern Jungle

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238

Day at , A

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25

Day with the Coroner, A

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664

Deaconess Life in Germany

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272

Dead Man's Hand, The

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401

Death of Winkelreid, The

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223

Destructive Cap, A

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123

Development of Human Food, The

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138

Dogs in Public

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444

Dreadful Bell, A

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596

Dreams, Twilight

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97

Ducie of the Dale

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475

Duel, My First

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484

Eastern Jungle, Dawn in an

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238

Eels, Notes on

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332

Egeria

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641

Egg, A Bad

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386

Egypt, Four Pachas of

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173

Egyptian Priesthood, Tale of the

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589

Eleanor's Victory,

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295, 323, 351, 379, 407, 435, 463, 491, 519, 547, 575, 603, 631, 659, 687, 713.

Endymion on Latmos

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41

England's Suttee

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251

Escape of the Centurion

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589

Etruscan Jewellery

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218

Evening, Light of

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316

Evergreens, Christmas

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14

Explorers, Return of the

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347

Fair of Ballinasloe, The

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456

Fallen Fruit, A

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303

Families, Vicissitudes of

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97

Fenton, Lavinia

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651

First-born Prince of Wales, The

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484

Fish Growth

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678

Fisheries, Sea

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442

Five Days in Prison for Murder

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533

Flittings, Old and New

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508

Foggy Story, A

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477

Footsteps of Spring

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265

Foreign Sneer at England, A

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344

Four Pashas of Egypt

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

173

Fraudulent Trade Marks

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177

French Castles

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557, 585

French Village Life

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543

Friendship, A British

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452

From Rangoon

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204

From the French of Malherbe

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428

Frozen In

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39

Gabrielle, the Countess

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253

Geibel, from the German of

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378

Germany, Deaconess Life in

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272

Ghost at the Polytechnic, The

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542

Gifts

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712

Gleanings from Spain

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670, 720

Glimpses of French Village Life

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543

Golden Hole, My

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505

Gorilla, Combat with a

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92

Grandmother, How our, stopped the Thief

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361

Grun, from the German of

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699

Gulf Stream, Winter with the

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210

Gwynne, Mistress Elizabeth

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169

Hampden, Notes taken at

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64

Hampdens, The,

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

211, 239, 267, 281, 309, 337, 365, 393, 421, 449

Harry, How King's, Bed was made

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

377

Hassan and the Ogre

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

53

Haunted House in Mexico, A

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

141

How Bluff King Harry's Bed was made

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

377

How our Grandmother stopped the Thief

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

361

Human Food, Development of

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

138

Ice Storm, An

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

349

Impurities of the Loaf, The

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

551

Inigo Jones

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

251

Instincts

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

473

Invasion of 1863

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

569

Isolda, Stratagems of the Lady

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

304

Italy, Brigands in

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

357

Jack, The

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

216

King under Difficulties, A

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

50

La Belle Dangerose

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

717

Lahn, Wetzlar on the

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

418

Lass of Abenhall, The

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

718

Latmos, Endymion on

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

41

Lavinia Fenton

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

651

Left on the Battle Field

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

527

Legend of a Workhouse

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

610

Leslie, Milly's, Secret

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

225

Liberty of Private Charity

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

397

Light of Evening, The

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

316

Linden Trees, The

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

644

Lion, Combat with a

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

92

Loaf, Impurities of the

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

551

Mackerel

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

512

Maids of Honour

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

150

Malherbe, From

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

428

March of Arthur, The

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

433

Marriages of Princes of Wales

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

291

Mauna Loa

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

685

Mawgan of Melluach

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

601

Message from the Sun, A

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

708

Messenger, The Queen's, in Mexico

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

561

Meteorology

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

249

Mettray

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

193

Mexico, a Haunted House in

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

141

Mexico, Queen's Messenger in

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

561

Milly Leslie's Secret

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

225

Mobs

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

95

Modern Vivarium, A

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

642

More Recollections of a Retired Butler

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

682

Moselle, The

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

275, 307, 334

Murder, a New Kind of Wilful

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

36

Murder, In Prison for

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

533

My Brother's Story

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

617

My First Duel

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

484

My First Run

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

327

My Friend's Wedding Day

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

113

My Golden Hole

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

505

My Neighbour at the Theatre

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

573

Nach Zehn Jahren

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

378

Narrative of a Shetland Seaman

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

39

Neckar, The

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

501

Necklaces, Etruscan

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

218

Neighbour, My, at the Theatre

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

573

New Kind of Wilful Murder, A

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

36

New Zealand Census Returns

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

13

Notes about Eels

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

332

Notes taken at Hampden concerning its Greatest Squire

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

64

Notting Hill Mystery, The,

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

1, 29, 57, 85

Of a Haunted House in Mexico

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

141

Old and New Flittings

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

508

Old Man at D 8, The

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

197

Old Secret out at Last, The

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

693

On Instincts

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

473

One Way of Looking at It

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

275

Opera, Books of the

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

553

Our Ride to Busaco

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

515

Our Salt-Cellars

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

359

Our Sea Fisheries

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

442

Out of the Body

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

701

Paddy O'Rafther

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

542

Page and the King's Daughter

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

656

Palatinate, a Peep into the

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

82, 109

Pan Vinctus—Pan Victor

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

294

Pashas of Egypt

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

173

Peep into the Palatinate, A

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

82, 109

Peruvian Bark and the Trees which yield It

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

697

Petticoat Lane

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

69

Photographic Portraiture

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

148

Picture in Three Panels, A

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

106

Pietro Micca

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

363

Plucky Dick Pluckless

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

527

Polytechnic, The Ghost at the

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

542

Pomegranate, The

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

487

Portrait, The

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

385

Prince Alfred's Romance

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

120

Prince Hassan and the Ogre

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

53

Prince of Wales, The First-born

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

484

Princes of Wales, their Marriages

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

291

Prison, Five Days in

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

533

Private Charity, Liberty of

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

397

Private Economy

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

79

Quality I covet, The

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

207

Queen's Messenger in Mexico, The

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

561

Quince, The

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

303

Rangoon, From

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

204

Raw Recruits

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

244

Recollections of a Retired Butler

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

179, 682

Restoration of our Soil, The

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

258, 316

Return from the Threshold, A

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

261

Return of the Rival Explorers

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

347

Royal Fruit, A

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

487

Run, My First

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

327

Russian Ukases

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

537

Salt-Cellars, Our

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

359

Saturnalia, The

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

153

Sea-Fisheries, Our

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

442

Seasonable Wooing

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

321

Seasons, The

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

616

Seaweeds, Brown

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

524

Second Sight

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

247

Secret, The Old, out at last

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

693

Selborne, a Day at

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

25

Sewing Machines

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

202

Shakespeare's Birthday and Name

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

460

Shetland Seaman's Narrative

Frozen in

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

39

Ship of Mail, The

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

176

Sisters, The

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

686

Soil, Restoration of our

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

258

Something about Mackerel

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

512

Something worth having

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

148

Song

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

557

Spain, Gleanings from

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

670, 720

Spectral Analysis

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

708

Spring

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

462

Spring, Footsteps of

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

265

Strange Wills

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

232

Stratagems of the Lady Isolda, The

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

304

Sun, A Message from the

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

708

Suttee, England's

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

251

Sympathetic Surgery

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

374

Tale of the Egyptian Priesthood

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

589

Tapping for Toddy

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

139

Tar and Feathers

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

134

Telegraph, The Atlantic

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

23

Terrific Combat between a Gorilla and a Lion

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

92

Theatre, My Neighbour at the

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

573

Thief, How our stopped the

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

361

Threshold, A Return from the

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

261

Tidings

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

699

Times of 1798, The

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

628

Tobacco

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

499

Toddy, Tapping for

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

139

Tours and Mettray

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

193

Transformations of our Southern Coast, The

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

221

Treasure Trove at Home and Abroad

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

626

Trifels, The Castle of

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

82

Twilight Dreams

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

97

Ukases, Russian

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

537

Up the Alabama

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

11

Up the Moselle

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

275, 307, 334

Vendel, The Count's Daughter

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

35

Verner's Pride,

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

15, 43, 71, 99, 127, 155, 183

Vicissitudes of Families

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

97

Village Life, French

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

543

Visit to Mauna Loa, A

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

685

Vivarium, A Modern

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

642

Volunteer Defence, A Call for

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

569

Wales, The First-born Prince of

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

484

Wales, Princes of, their Marriages

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

291

Walk Out of Ravenna, A

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

237

War Instinct, The

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

637

Warsaw, Czarowicz in

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

469

We all saw It

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

542

Wedding-Day, My Friend's

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

113

Wetzlar on the Lahn

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

418, 445

Wilful Murder, A new Kind of

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

36

Wilful Murder Case,—Pleas for the Defence

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

287

Wills, Strange

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

232

Winkelreid, Death of

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

223

Winter with the Gulf Stream

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

210

Wooing, Seasonable

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

321

Workhouse, Legend of a

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

610

Working Men's Clubs

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

581

Wrath of Mistress Elizabeth Gwynne, The

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

169

Wreck at Bude

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

161

Wrecker, The Cornish

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

601

Yarrow and St. Mary's

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

610

York Gate

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

251

Zealand, Census of New

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

13

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.

ARCHER, J. W.—252.
BROWNE, HABLOT K.—56.
COOPER, A. W.—530.
DU MAURIER, G.—1, 57, 85, 295, 351, 407, 463, 519, 575, 631, 687, 701.
GREEN, C.—169, 224, 225, 253, 264, 488, 505, 533, 561, 589, 673.
HINE, H. G.—139.
KEENE, C.—15, 71, 127, 183, 433, 545, 617.
LAWLESS, M. J.—644, 712.
MILLAIS, J. E.—42, 211, 239, 267, 281, 309, 337, 365, 393, 421, 449.
PINWELL, G. J.—154, 197, 321, 392, 477, 645, 700.
POYNTER, E. J.—113, 141, 476, 658.
SKELTON, P.—26, 27, 195, 559, 587, 615, 671, 723.
SULMAN, T.—84, 110, 111, 166, 168, 278, 308, 336, 418, 419, 445, 447, 503.
WATSON, J. D.—602.
WALKER, F.—378.
WHITE, T.—98.

DIAGRAMS AND MISCELLANEOUS.—62, 63, 218, 220, 610, 708, 709.