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CONTENTS.
PAGX
Brakespeare; or, the Fortunes of a Free Lance. By the Author of “Guy
Livingstone,” etc. ......... 1, 81, 161, 241, 321, 401, 481, 553, 625, 697, 814, 841
Charmian. By Robert Buchanan....
28
Dramatic Critics Criticised. By John Hollingshead........
30
A Wonderful Crab. By Ernest Griset. With Eight Illustrations ....
36
William Cullen Bryant and American Poetry. By W. Clark Russell........ 40
Flo's Fate. By Clement Scott
46
Holland House. By the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew
47, 151, 212
Falling in Love. By the Author of the “ Gentle Life”........
56
In the Season. By Edmund Yates
63
English Stabilities. By the Rev. C. W. Denison
69
Second Thoughts. By F.C. Burnand
74, 123, 234, 312, 466, 541
Amaranth. By H. Savile Clarke
80
Croquet. By W. S. Gilbert. With Six Illustrations
111
Mrs. Brown on Periodical Literature. By Arthur Sketchley
117
Nicholas at the Esposition
128
Amantium Iræ. By J. Ashby Sterry
135
Couleur de Rose. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Authoress of “George Geith,” etc... 136
The Water-Link of Europe and America. By the Rev. C. W. Denison........ 142
Anonymous Humbug. By John Hollingshead
148
Mary O'Mara. By Samuel Lover ......
160
Walt Whitman. By Robert Buchanan
188
Musical Critics Criticised. By John Edmund Cox........
196
Edith. By G. D. A.
203
Running down to Brighton. By W. W. Fenn
204
Bull in the Whale's Belly. By Smelfungus
220
The Broadway of New York. By Robert Tomes
227
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Love's Looking-Glass. By Astley H. Baldwin
240
The Secret Name. By S. II. Bradbury (“Quallon")...
273
Miseries of Dramatic Authorship. By a Dramatic Author
274
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By W. Clark Russell
282
The Skein. By Robert Buchanan....
288
From Regent Street to Broadway. By Henry Sedley
289
The Young Men of To-Day. By the Author of the “Gentle Life".
296
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish. By John Hollingshead.
303
A Confession. By Alice Cary
310
England to America : A Christmas Greeting. By II. Savile Clarke
350
Flesh and Tinsel
353
Choosing. By William Sawyer.....
362
A Word about Waits and Christmas Carols. By Thomas Archer
The Gallery at Drury Lane Theatre, London, on Boxing Night." By E. L.
Blanchard ........
369
Christmas in the Count's Folly. By Clement W. Scott
373
New Year's-Day in New York. By George Augustus Sala
381
A Strange Christmas Gume. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell...
391
Christmas Hymn for America
400
Public Statues in London. By Francis Turner Palgrave
429, 522
Emigrants in America. By Robert Tomes
437
Provincial Dramatic Critics Criticised
445
Mrs. Holmes Grey. By William M. Rossetti......
449
International Prejudices. By Henry Sedley
460
New York Theatres. By Molyneux St. John
473, 517, 801
A Valentine
480
London Newspapers. By Heury Sedley
500
Women's Novels
504
The Story of 'Lorn Light. By Tom Hood
512
Wall Street and American Finance. By Robert Tomes
532
Change. By Dora Greenwell
552
The New York Press. By Robert Tomes
582
The Land of Might Have Been. By the Rer. H. C. Adums.........
591
Trotting and Sleighing in New York. By George Augustus Sala
593
Theatrical Management. By John Hollingshead
602
Gages d'Amour: An Old Story. By J. Ashby Sterry
609
Early History of Nova Scotiu. By Charles Knight
610
Curtains. By W. W. Fenn
017
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Edgar's Wife." By Phæbe Cary....
623
The American View of the Copyright Question
656
Art Critics Criticised. By W. W. Fenn
668
How we Inaugurated Ensign M‘Nish. By Captain Laurence Lockhart 674, 753
Encores
686
The New York Associated Press.....
690
The History of the Guards' Memorial. By John Bell
694
For Music. By Gerald Massey.
696
Mr. Swinburne’s Essay on Blake
723
Debating Societies. By Alexander J. D. D'Orsey, B.D..........
731
Old Trinity and the American Church. By Robert Tomes
737
Burns's First Bosom Friend: A Forgotten Worthy. By Robert Buchunan ... 746
The Name in the Book
752
An Arab Love Song......
768
A Secret of the Confessional. By Hesba Stretton.........
769, 895
A Virtuoso's Collection of Autographs. By Evert A. Duyckinck
777
Nothing like Business. By M. Laing Meason....
790
Common Sense
808
The London Police ,
809
Peace hath her Victories. Written recentig at Paris
840
The American Literati at Home.......
869
IIow we Started the Unicorn
887
The Last of Lilian. By Clement Scott....
903
LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
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FRONTISPIECE and TITLE-PAGE.
He found himself set in saddle in the midst of a clump of spears...to face page
Holland House.......
In the Season
He came to the ground with a dull, ominous crash,
Nicholas at the Exposition
The room in which Addison died
At the first shock both horses sunk on their haunches, but only one recovered
himself
Running down to Brighton
The Bourreaux completed their office as quickly as might be, and bound the
prisoner's four limbs securely—each to a rope harness—with the leathern
thongs
The Skein ....
And the next instant the narrow stair was thronged with armed men
The Gallery of Drury Lane Theatre, London, on Boxing Night...........
Then from under the dark robe a bright flash ; and with one smothered shriek
the girl sank sideways to the ground......
“They stood beside the coffin's foot and head,
Both gazed in silence, with bowed faces-Grey
With bony chin pressed into bony throat”,
In a very few seconds, Brakespeare had wrenched himself loose, and one long
swing of his brawny arms launched the unhappy page sheer into the air,
like a stone from a petrary
The Story of 'Lorn Light
She stooped and kissed him twice or thrice
Trotting and Sleighing in New York.........
Messer Marco rose up too, and with his strong arm, thrust the priest back
rudely into his chair.......
The Free Companion dragged his victim across the deck, through the skirts of
the throng, and plunged over the weather bulwark.......
Trinity Church, New York
“Help!” screamed the Colonel. “ Murder! Police ! Fire! Thieves !"
I was leaning over the balustrade of the terrace, when I felt a little hand, soft
and warm as the breast of a dove, fall gently upon mine
The Academy of Music and the Old Bowery Theatre ....
401
481
553
625
697
674
769
800