The Peepshow; or, The Old Theology and the New Charles Kingsley in the Saddle. By W. SENIOR. Club Life in Berlin. By HERBERT TUTTLE 710 559 687 Faëry Reaper, The. (From the Irish.) By ROBERT BUCHANAN Few More Old Dublin Recollections, A. By the KNIGHT OF Innishowen Fin Bec's Waif from the Schiller. Glance at the German Stage, A. By H. SCHUTZ WILSON Gnome, The. (A Fantasy.) By ROBERT BUCHANAN Peepshow, The; or, The Old Theology and the New. By ROBERT Physiology of Authorship, The. By R. E. FRANCILLON 325 Physiology of Esprit, The. By CAMILLE BARRÈRE 441 Poetry of Criticism, The: Mr. Matthew Arnold. By W. DAVENPORT Prince of Wales in India, The. By HORACE ST. JOHN, author of "The 682 Scrap of Crimean History, A. By D. CHRISTIE MURRAY Song of a Dream, A. By ROBERT BUCHANAN Spirit of the Snow, The: A Winter Idyll. By ROBERT BUCHANAN 355 171 555 426 584 Table Talk. By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gentleman . 127, 256, 387, 513, 644, Tobias Smollett. By GEORGE BARNETT SMITH . Tom Hood: A Biographical Sketch. By HENRY W. LUCY Trammels of Poetic Expression, The. Transmitting the War News By ARTHUR CLIVE 698 729 77 184 213 255 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE JANUARY, 1875. DEAR LADY DISDAIN. BY JUSTIN M'CARTHY, AUTHOR OF "LINLEY ROCHFORD," "A FAIR SAXON," "MY ENEMY'S DAUGHTER," &c. CHAPTER I. "L'INGÉNU." ROOM on the ground floor, octagonal in shape, with an old and picturesque fireplace filling up one of the narrower sides-stopping up the corner, if one may say so ---and with windows in two of its sides, is filled with the morning sunshine. The room and its furniture make an odd contrast, for the furniture is new and the room is old. The chimneypiece is of tiles that tell in their pictorial ornamentation many a scriptural story. The ceiling is painted in colours once gorgeous, now faded. A broad-backed and large-limbed goddess floats there, half clad in volumes of bright blue drapery, upon clouds solidlooking as her own substantial frame, and amid bulbous Cupids and masses of hothouse flowers. The walls are of a dark and closelygrained wood, and are all in panels of various sizes-two panels to each side of the octagon--and pictures, no doubt, once filled each compartment. The windows look upon trees and foliage so thickly set that a stranger suddenly dropped down in the room might fancy himself in the apartment of a palace adorned by Verrio and planted in the midst of a courtly park. He might have been right enough as to the palace, but a glance from the window will quickly dispose of the park. The trees are set in the gardens of the Thames Embankment, and the octagonal room with the goddess floating on the VOL. XIV., N.S. 1875. B |