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CONTENTS.
PAGE
Brakespeare; or, the Fortunes of a Free Lance. By the Author of "Guy
1, 81, 161, 241, 321, 401, 481, 553, 625, 697, 814, 841
Livingstone," etc.
Charmian. By Robert Buchanan
Dramatic Critics Criticised. By John Hollingshead..............................
A Wonderful Crab. By Ernest Griset. With Eight Illustrations
William Cullen Bryant and American Poetry. By W. Clark Russell............
Flo's Fate. By Clement Scott
Holland House. By the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew
Falling in Love. By the Author of the "Gentle Life".
In the Season. By Edmund Yates
English Stabilities. By the Rev. C. W. Denison.......
Second Thoughts. By F. C. Burnand
Amaranth. By H. Savile Clarke
28
30
36
40
46
Croquet. By W. S. Gilbert. With Six Illustrations
111
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........
Anonymous Humbug. By John Hollingshead
142
148
Love's Looking-Glass. By Astley H. Baldwin
The Secret Name. By S. H. Bradbury ("Quallon").............
Miseries of Dramatic Authorship. By a Dramatic Author
240
273
274
The Young Men of To-Day. By the Author of the "Gentle Life”.
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish. By John Hollingshead.
296
303
A Confession. By Alice Cary
310
England to America: A Christmas Greeting. By II. Savile Clarke
Flesh and Tinsel
350
353
Choosing. By William Sawyer.......
362
A Word about Waits and Christmas Carols. By Thomas Archer
1364
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
Change. By Dora Greenwell
A Strange Christmas Game. By Mrs. J. H. Riddell..
Christmas Hymn for America
Public Statues in London. By Francis Turner Palgrave
Emigrants in America. By Robert Tomes
Provincial Dramatic Critics Criticised
Mrs. Holmes Grey. By William M. Rossetti..........
International Prejudices. By Henry Sedley
New York Theatres. By Molyneux St. John
A Valentine
London Newspapers. By Henry Sedley
Women's Novels
The Story of 'Lorn Light. By Tom Hood
Wall Street and American Finance.
The New York Press. By Robert Tomes
The Land of Might Have Been. By the Rev. H. C. Adams.......................
Trotting and Sleighing in New York. By George Augustus Sala
391
400
429, 522
437
445
449
460
473, 517, 801
480
500
504
512
By Robert Tomes
532
552
582
591
593
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 Buchanan... 746
A Virtuoso's Collection of Autographs. By Evert A. Duyckinck
777
LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
FRONTISPIECE and TITLE-page.
He found himself set in saddle in the midst of a clump of spears...to face page
Holland House...
1
47
At the first shock both horses sunk on their haunches, but only one ne recovered
himself
174
Running down to Brighton
204
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
241
The Skein
288
And the next instant the narrow stair was thronged with armed men
321
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........
401
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
Messer Marco rose up too, and with his strong arm, thrust the priest back
rudely into his chair.......
625
The Free Companion dragged his victim across the deck, through the skirts of
the throng, and plunged over the weather bulwark....
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
769
The Academy of Music and the Old Bowery Theatre
800