Littell's Living Age/Volume 172

No. 2219. — January 1, 1887.

Contents.

1. Mobs and Revolutions, by W. W. Knollys, Fortnightly Review
2. A Secret Inheritance - Part III., by B. L. Farjeon, English Illustrated Magazine
3. Mrs. John Taylor, of Norwich, by Anne Ritchie, Macmillan's Magazine
4. A Siege Baby, by J. S. Winter, the author of "Bootle's Baby," etc., English Illustrated Magazine
5. France as it is and was: Government and Society, by a Parisian, National Review
6. Mohammedanism in Central Africa, by Joseph Thomson, Contemporary Review
7. A Pilgrimage to Selborne, by Henry Waring Kidd, Leisure Hour

Poetry.

November at the Lakes, by H. D. Rawnsley, Spectator

Miscellany.

Autumn Song, by Alfred Perceval Graves, Spectator

Left Behind, All The Year Round

To Sleep, by Patrick Proctor Alexander

No. 2220. — January 8, 1887.

Contents.

1. Sea Phrases, by W. Clark Russell, Contemporary Review
2. "Unstable as Water", by Amy Layard, Temple Bar
3. History in Punch - Part II, by F. C. Burnand and Arthur A. Beckett, Fortnightly Review
4. Extracts From the Diary of a Young Lady - Part II, Argosy
5. Canon Kingsley as a Naturalist and Country Clergyman, by bis, National Review
6. Life in the Alleghany Mountains, Macmillan's Magazine
7. The Modern English Post-Office, by Archibald Granger Bowie, Time
8. The Late Master of Trinity, by J. S. P., Temple Bar
9. Napoleon in Tor Bay, Chambers' Journal
10. Domesday, St. James's Gazette

Poetry.

A Bright Day in November, by J. H., Chambers' Journal

Departed Glory, by Genevieve Irons, Sunday Magazine

A Memory, by Arthur G. Wright, Time

Keepsakes, Macmillan's Magazine

Miscellany.

Epitaph, Notes and Queries

Hours of Labor in Germany, Economist

Jewish and Christian Butchers, Jewish Chronicle

No. 2221. — January 15, 1887.

Contents.

1. Domesday Survivals, by Isaac Taylor, Contemporary Review
2. Nancy Dedman, Macmillan's Magazine
3. Fred. Archer, by Alfred Allison, Time
4. The Boss of Barangaroo, by A. Werner, Temple Bar
5. Life at the Scottish Universities, by J. Leys, National Review
6. Loyalty of the Indian Mohammedans, by W. H. Gregory, Nineteenth Century
7. Madame Geoffrin, Temple Bar
8. Dante; Dean Plumptre's Translation, by W. B. Ripon, Contemporary Review
9. Marie Antoinette at Trianon, by Charles Hervey, Gentleman's Magazine
10. Just Before Winter, by Richard Jefferies, author of "The Gamekeeper at Home," etc., Chambers' Journal
11. The Humors of Cork, Spectator
12. The Palissy of Calico-Printing, by T. E. Thorpe, Nature

Poetry.

The Lingering Look of Love, by Alexander Lamont, Sunday Magazine

Rondeau, by Arthur G. Wright, Time

Autumn, by H. G. Keene

Latet Anguis, by F. W. B., Spectator

"If this poor name of mine", Macmillan's Magazine

After Horace, by Harold A. Perry, National Review

Miscellany.

How Lightning is Kindled, Science for All

No. 2222. — January 22, 1887.

Contents.

1. The Aurora Borealis, Edinburgh Review
2. A Secret Inheritance - Part IV., by B. L. Farjeon, English Illustrated Magazine
3. Lady Duff Gordon, Temple Bar
4. The Letters of Charles Lamb, by Alfred Ainger, Macmillan's Magazine
5. Irish Characteristics, Spectator
6. South-Italian Courtship, Saturday Review
7. Incidents of Rent-Collection in Ireland, Chambers' Journal
8. The Caravanserai in Persia, St. James's Gazette
9. Foreign Ministers and Foreign Languages, by Anti-Gallicus, London Times

Poetry.

The Lover's Reasoning, Temple Bar

"When thou must home to shades of underground", by Campion, Elizabethan Songs

After Reading "Sir Percival", Spectator

The Two Seas, by J. B. S., Chambers' Journal

"Were I a king, I might command content", by Edward Vere, Elizabethan Songs

"The love of change hath changed the world throughout", by R. Carlton, Elizabethan Songs

Miscellany.

A Picture of Ancient Babylon

No. 2223. — January 29, 1887.

Contents.

1. Emin Bey: Gordon's Lieutenant, by J. T. Wills, Fortnightly Review
2. The Philosopher's Window, by Lady Lindsay, Temple Bar
3. A Plea for an Old Friend, Temple Bar
4. Major and Minor - Part I., by W. E. Norris, Good Words
5. Convicts in Parliament, by E. Strachan Morgan, Time
6. Sunderland and Sacharissa, Macmillan's Magazine
7. "Locksley Hall" and the Jubilee, by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Nineteenth Century

Poetry.

Snow, St. James's Gazette

A City Courtship, by Frederick Langbridge, Spectator

"Brown is my love, but graceful", Songs from Elizabethan Song-Book

No. 2224. — February 5, 1887.

Contents.

1. The Zenith of Conservatism, by Matthew Arnold, Nineteenth Century
2. The Land of Darkness - Part I., Blackwood's Magazine
3. Benvenuto Cellini's Character, by J. Addington Symonds, Fortnightly Review
4. Rural Life in Russia, by F. P Verney, Nineteenth Century
5. The Strange Story of Margaret Beauchamp - Part I., by George Fleming, Macmillan's Magazine
6. The Seventh Earl of Shafterbury: Incidents in his Life and Labors - Part I., Leisure Hour
7. French Finance, Spectator
8. An Ancestor of the Czar, St. James's Gazette
9. Pio Nono's Will, Spectator
10. The Excavation of the Great Sphinx, Times
11. On a Jury, Globe

Poetry.

The Children's Week, by J. C. B., Academy

A Christmas Sonnet, by H. D. Rawnsley, Spectator

"I saw my lady weep", by John Dowland, Elizabethan Songs

No. 2225. — February 12, 1887.

Contents.

1. The Present Position of European Politics - Part I., Fortnightly Review
2. The Land of Darkness - Part II., Blackwood's Magazine
3. China, by Marquis Tseng, Asiatic Quarterly Review
4. Some Recollections of Charles Stuart Calverley, Temple Bar
5. Richard Cable, the Lightshipman - Part I., by Sabine Baring-Gould, the author of "Mehalah," "John Herring," "Court Royal," etc., Chambers' Journal
6. Jubilee Reigns in England, by Arthur Burney, National Review
7. Some Narrow Escapes, All The Year Round
8. Lord Iddesleigh, Spectator
9. Farm Life in the North a Century Ago, St. James's Gazette
10. The Progress of Savage Races, Spectator
11. Ipecacuanha Cultivation in India, Nature

Poetry.

A Frosty Sunrise, by F. A. Prideaux, Spectator

"Reparabit Cornua Phœbe", by James Wilkie, Chambers' Journal

The Old Cottage, Good Words

Among the Tombs, by Michael Field, Academy

Epitaph on Agnes Jones; Buried in Fahan Churchyard, by Bishop Alexander,

No. 2226. — February 19, 1887.

Contents.

1. The Greeks in Asia, by C. W. Wilson, Asiatic Quarterly Review
2. Jack and Minory: a Tale of Christmas-Tide, Blackwood's Magazine
3. Last Words with General Gordon, by Gerald Graham, Fortnightly Review
4. Le Nomme W., by Stanley J. Weyman, Macmillan's Magazine
5. The Indian Bourbons, by W. Kincaid, Asiatic Quarterly Review
6. The Highlands of San Paulo, by M. Mulhall, Month
7. A Few Manchester Worthies, by Rev. George Huntington, Temple Bar
8. The "Man-Eating Elephant of Mundla", Chambers' Journal
9. The Pilgrimage to Kerbela, St. James's Gazette
10. How General Gordon Saved my Life, by A Free Lance, Pall Mall Gazette

Poetry.

Killed on the Telegraph-Wire, Chambers' Journal

Lord Iddesleigh, Punch

"Lead, Kindly Light," Latine Redditum, by J. P. M., Blackwood's Magazine

No. 2227. — February 26, 1887.

Contents.

1. Lord Shaftesbury's Life and Work, Quarterly Review
2. The Robbers' Cave, Argosy
3. Moss from a Rolling Stone - Part VIII., by Laurence Oliphant, Blackwood's Magazine
4. The Wellesleys in India, Asiatic Quarterly Review
5. Richard Cable, the Lightshipman - Part II., by Sabine Baring-Gould, the author of "Mehalah," "John Herring," "Court Royal," etc., Chambers' Journal
6. A Belgian Christmas Eve, All The Year Round
7. Pirates Present and Past, Daily Telegraph
8. Amateur Art in the Seventeenth Century, Spectator
9. Robbing a Train in Texas, Daily Telegraph

Poetry.

At Rest, Daily News

By the North Sea, English Illustrated Magazine

An Epitaph to E. W. Godwin, by W. G. Wills, Athenæum

The Owl, Spectator

Miscellany.

Hailstones as Large as Cricket Balls

A Baboo Coming to Cut a Figure in the World

No. 2228. — March 5, 1887.

Contents.

1. The House of Douglas, Edinburgh Review
2. Major and Minor - Part II., by W. E. Norris, Good Words
3. Among the Transylvanian Saxons, Blackwood's Magazine
4. The Strange Story of Margaret Beauchamp - Part II., by George Fleming, Macmillan's Magazine
5. The Seventh Earl of Shafterbury: Incidents in his Life and Labors - Part II., Leisure Hour
6. A Lover of Leisure, Temple Bar
7. An Old Couple, by Michael Field, Contemporary Review

Poetry.

The Ship of Dreams, Longman's Magazine

A Mile and a Bittock, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Leisure Hour

She is my Lady, O She is my Love, Academy

January, by Mary Rowles, Leisure Hour

"Lo, the day begins to rise", by Joseph Skipsey

No. 2229. — March 12, 1887.

Contents.

1. Robert Southey, National Review
2. A Secret Inheritance - Part V., by B. L. Farjeon, English Illustrated Magazine
3. About Fiction, by H. Rider Haggard, Contemporary Review
4. Richard Cable, the Lightshipman - Part III., by Sabine Baring-Gould, the author of "Mehalah," "John Herring," "Court Royal," etc., Chambers' Journal
5. The Evangelical Revival of the Eighteenth Century, by George C. Brodrick, Macmillan's Magazine
6. Wit and Wits, Temple Bar
7. The Doctor: an Old Virginia Foxhunter, by A. G. Bradley, Blackwood's Magazine
8. The Dead Cities of Belgium, by Percy Fitzgerald, Gentleman's Magazine
9. An Obscure Archipelago, Leisure Hour

Poetry.

February Filldyke, by Edmund Ollier, Temple Bar

"The King of Love my Shepherd is," Latine Redditum, by J. P. M., Blackwood's Magazine

The Violet and the Rose, by Joseph Skipsey

Roses, Temple Bar

Miscellany.

Date of the End of the World

No. 2230. — March 19, 1887.

Contents.

1. The Present Position of European Politics - Part II., Fortnightly Review
2. Richard Cable, the Lightshipman - Part IV., by Sabine Baring-Gould, the author of "Mehalah," "John Herring," "Court Royal," etc., Chambers' Journal
3. Earthquakes, by G. H. Darwin, Fortnightly Review
4. A Social Difficulty, Cornhill Magazine
5. Mary, Countess Cowper, Temple Bar
6. The Cannings, All The Year Round
7. Some Odd Advertisements, Chambers' Journal
8. Rhymes on Panes, Chambers' Journal

Poetry.

Bring out the wine, cupbearer!, by Hafiz, translated from the Persian by E. S., Spectator

At Cana of Galilee, by L. F. Field, Spectator

How the King Came Home, by Florence Tylee, Chambers' Journal

Stafford Henry Northcote, by Alfred Austin

No. 2231. — March 26, 1887.

Contents.

1. Notes and Queries on the Irish Demand, by Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Nineteenth Century
2. Richard Cable, the Lightshipman - Part V., by Sabine Baring-Gould, the author of "Mehalah," "John Herring," "Court Royal," etc., Chambers' Journal
3. William Barnes and his Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, by F. T. Palgrave, National Review
4. Major and Minor - Part III., by W. E. Norris, Good Words
5. Philip Bourke Marston, by Theodore Watts, Athenæum
6. A Bundle of Letters: 1603-1607, St. James's Gazette
7. The French Soldier at Home, St. James's Gazette

Poetry.

"Fiery Honey", by A. Nairne, Chambers' Journal

Going, All The Year Round

Sleep - a Sonnet, by Rose Howard, Chambers' Journal

Hope, Macmillan's Magazine