CONTENTS of VOL. CCLXXXIV. Advertising, Old-fashioned. By R. B. Appointments, The, of Manor Houses in the Seventeenth Century. By COMPTON READE, M.A. Ballads, Old-World, and Ballad Music. By F. S. LEFTWICH. Books, Some Fatal. By the Rev. P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A. . Cornelys, Mrs. Theresa. By EDWARD WALFORD, M.A. English Township, The. By THOMAS H. B. GRAHAM, M.A. "For the Glory has Departed." By KENNETH J. SPALDING. Impostor, An. By KATHARINE WYLDE. Johnson's, Dr., Conversation. BY DORA CAVE Knightly Orders, The, of France. By J. F. MORRIS FAWCETT Kongo, From the, to the Niger. By F. A. EDWARDS, F.R.G.S. Law, The, of Nations. By J. E. R. STEPHENS 445 437 598 224 598 269 30 Manor Houses, The Appointments of, in the Seventeenth Century. By COMPTON READE, M.A. Matteo Falcone. By PROSPER MERIMÉE. Translated by E. M. Minister's Man, The. By ALEX. W. STEWART Mountains, The, of the English Lake District. By CHARLES Mrs. Fenimore. By J. W. SHERER, C.S.I. Mrs. Theresa Cornelys. By EDWARD WALFORD, M.A. Old-World Ballads and Ballad Music. By FRED. S. LEFTWICH Peacham, Henry, the Younger, as an Educationist (1622). By FOSTER WATSON, M.A. Peter and the Interviewer. By PENLEY REYD WHEELWRIGHT. PAGE By EDITH GRAY 578 Political Phrases, Some Famous. By JAMES SYKES Proctor the Drunkard. By LOUIS BECKE Prosody, English. By T. S. OMOND Prosper Mérimée. By C. E. MEETKERKE Restoration, The, of Aunt Eliza. By KATHARINE SILVESTER Seed Farms, Worcestershire. By JAMES CASSIDY. Shakespeare's "Tempest." By J. W. HALES, M.A. Shakespearian Pantomime, A. By W. J. LAWRENCE Some Famous Political Phrases. By JAMES SYKES Some Fatal Books. By the Rev. P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A. Some Vanished Victorian Institutions. By W. J. KECHIE Story, The, of a Famous Society. By F. G. KITTON ΙΟΙ Mr. J. H. McCarthy's "French Revolution "-Its Scheme- The National Constituent Assembly-An Estimate of Mirabeau-A Continuation of Mr. McCarthy's Work to be Desired-The Last (?) French Bull Fight Thornbury's Life of Turner-Turner and Garrick-Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland-Did Falkland Commit Suicide? 206 "The Authoress of the 'Odyssey' "The "Odyssey" written The "Ruba'iyat" of Omar Khayyam-M. Zola's " Paris "The Teaching of Robert Louis Stevenson-Advantages of Cheer- Taffles. By QUINTON GORDON Thomas Grantham: the Brainbreaker's Breaker (1644). By FOSTER WATSON, M.A. Township, The English. By T. H. B. GRAHAM, M.A.. Veddahs, The, of Ceylon. By E. O. WALKER, C.I.E.. Victorian Institutions, Some Vanished. By W. J. KECHIE William Moon, Clerk. By HARRY DAVIES Worcestershire Seed Farms. By JAMES CASSIDY Wordsworth, The Birds of. By JOHN HOGBEN 308 517 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. JANUARY 1898. PROCTOR THE DRUNKARD. BY LOUIS BECKE. ROCTOR, the ex-second mate of the island-trading brig PROBE Bandolier, crawled out from under the shelter of the overhanging rock where he had passed the night, and brushing off the thick coating of dust which covered his clothes from head to foot, walked quickly through the leafy avenues of Sydney Domain, leading to the city. Sleeping under a rock in a public park is not a nice thing to do, but Proctor had been forced to do it for many weeks past. He didn't like it at first, but soon got used to it. It was better than having to ask old Mother Jennings for a bed at the dirty lodginghouse, and being refused with unnecessary remarks upon his financial position. The Sailors' Home was right enough; he could get a free bed there for the asking, and some tucker as well. But then at the Home he had to listen to prayers and religious advice, and he hated both, upon an empty stomach. No, he thought, the Domain was a lot better; every dirty "Jack Dog" at the Home knew he had been kicked out of sundry ships before he piled up the Bandolier, and they liked to comment audibly on their knowledge of the fact while he was eating his dinner among them-it's a way which A.B.'s have of "rubbing it in" to an officer down on his beam ends. Drunkard? Yes, of course he was, and everybody knew it. Why, even that sour-faced old devil of a door-keeper at the Home put a tract on his bed every evening. Curse him and his Drunkard, beware!" and every other rotten tract on intemperance. |