CONTENTS of VOL. CCLXX. Alaska, The Fur-Seal Fisheries of. By THOMAS SOUTHWELL, F.Z.S. M.A., B.SC. Drinking Songs, Old English. By LAURA ALEX. SMITH HADDEN Beer, Something about. By HENRY W. WOLFF Before Emancipation in the Dutch West Indies. By LOUIS PHILIP Commercial Panic, The Sources of. By B. D. MACKENZIE Crispi, Francesco. By H. J. ALLEN Dandelion, The Parachute of the. By Rev. ALEX. S. WILSON, Dr. ALFRED PAGE 244 IOI Eating to Live, and Living to Eat. By Dr. YORKE-DAVIES Extension, University. By HAMLET E. CLARK, B.A., LL.B.. Fur-Seal Fisheries, The, of Alaska. By THOMAS SOUTHWELL, F.Z.S. John Bright's School. By A. ARTHUR READE 415 Life on a Sugar Plantation. By A. J. JUKES-BROWNE Living to Eat and Eating to Live. By Dr. YORKE-DAVIES London before the Great Fire. By WILLIAM CONNOR SYDNEY,M.A. 613 518 Macaulay. By Dr. ALFRED J. H. CRESPI Madame la Commandante. By A. WERNER. Magical Music. By RICHARD MÅRSH Media, In the Mountains of. By J. THEODORE BENT Meteoritic Hypothesis, The. By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S. Obituary, A Village. By GEORGE EYRE-TODD Old English Drinking Songs. By LAURA ALEX. SMITH Pages on Plays. By JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY, M.P. 316, 423, Paths, Invisible. By BASIL FIELD, B.A. "Plotters" and "Incendiaries." By JAMES HUTTON Roma Victrix-Græcia Capta. By Dr. J. E. TAYLOR, F.L.S. HADDEN Severn, Elvers in the. By C. PARKINSON Some more Curiosities of Eating and Drinking. Something about Beer. By HENRY W. WOLFF Sources, The, of Commercial Panic. By B. D. MACKENZIE Stars, Weighing the. By J. ELLARD GORE, 1.K.AS. Sugar Plantation, Life on a. By A. J. JUKES BROWNE Parachute, The, of the Dandelion. By Rev. ALEX. S. WILSON, 333 531, 636 360 495 Frenchwomen of the last Century On Public Speaking- University Extension. By HAMLET E. CLARK, B.A., LL.B. . By Dr. ALFRED Books First Editions Tea Industry, The, of India. By Col. GEORGE CADELL Theatrical Retrospect, A: America in England. By W.J. LAWRENCE Travellers and Tourists. By EMILY CONSTANCE COOK Two Pictures. By LYNN C. D'OYLE The Perfecting of the Book-The Venetian Press-A Fifteenth "" Can English Prose be Taught? Painter's "Palace of Pleasure"-Roger Ascham on "English Italians The Jews in Europe-Le Paroissien du Célibataire . 209 75 457 82 237 185 396 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. S JANUARY 1891. TWO PICTURES. By LYNN C. D'OYLE. THEN. OCIETY in Slush Street was mixed. It had its one clergyman, its one (reputed) "gentleman," its one (palpable) idiot; one farrier, one baker, one cobbler, one shop, and one besetting sin; a church, a chapel, and a Chequers. What it had beside these did not (as our cousins say) amount to much. The majority of the inhabitants were stricken with the worst of all evils that this frail flesh of ours is heir to; the hardest of all things to get out of one's system, and, worse still, an hereditary evil-handed down frequently to the third and fourth generation (and more); it has a knack, too, of running in families, like consumption-and in a multitude of cases the diagnosis is one and the same. Yes, they were a poverty-stricken community. As this particular October evening wore drearily on, the slipshod (and some entirely unshod) children returned from school (and from what not), all sense of fun drenched out of their ill-clad bodies; the greasy lamplighter lit up the scanty lamps, a few children watching him as though they would give a kingdom (three buttons and a "jumble"!) to hold such a responsible position; and then the street became deserted-those in legitimate business had ceased to traverse it, and it was as yet too early for those whose traffic is less legitimate. The wind tried hard to sweep the dirty street, and, although it was not raining, the high-pressure of a great city seemed to condense upon the roofs of the smoke-cured houses, and descended, drip, drip, dripping to the areas-there to breed all manner of ills. VOL. CCLXX. NO. 1921. B |
