CONTENTS of VOL. CCLXX. Alaska, The Fur-Seal Fisheries of. By THOMAS SOUTHWELL, F.Z.S. 209 273 . Before Emancipation in the Dutch West Indies. By Louis PHILIP Comet Lore. By FRANCIS HENRY BAKER Commercial Panic, The Sources of. By B. D. MACKENZIE Court, The Inns of. By THOMAS H. B. GRAHAM Crispi, Francesco. By H. J. ALLEN Dandelion, The Parachute of the. By Rev. ALEX. S. WILSON, Drinking Songs, Old English. By LAURA ALEX. SMITH Dying Knight, The. By H. SCHÜTZ WILSON Eating and Drinking, Some more Curiosities of. By Dr. ALFRED Eating to Live, and Living to Eat. By Dr. YORKE-DAVIES 588 452 Evolution, Stellar. By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S. Extension, University. By HAMLET E. CLARK, B.A., Fur-Seal Fisheries, The, of Alaska. By THOMAS SOUTHWELL, F.Z.S. Hair and Hair Fashions. By M. R. DAVIES. Historical Aspect, The, of Burglary. By THOMAS T. GREG In and Around a Scotch Kirk. By ALEXANDER GORDON In a Scotch Farm Kitchen. By ALEXANDER GORDON. "Incendiaries" and "Plotters." By JAMES HUTTON India, The Tea Industry of. By COL. GEORGE CADELL Inns, The, of Court. By THOMAS H. B. GRAHAM. Life on a Sugar Plantation. By A. J. JUKES-BROWNE Macaulay. By Dr. ALFRED J. H. CRESPI Madame la Commandante. By A. WERNER. Magical Music. By RICHARD MARSH Media, In the Mountains of. By J. THEODORE BENT Old English Drinking Songs. By LAURA ALEX. SMITH Pages on Plays. By JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY, M.P. 316, 423, Pains and Penalties. By W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS. Part. I. Parachute, The, of the Dandelion. By Rev. ALEX. S. WILSON, Paths, Invisible. By BASIL FIELD, B.A.' School, John Bright's. By A. ARTHUR READE Scotch Farm Kitchen, In a. By ALEXANDER GORDON. By ALEXANDER GORDON Scottish "Beadle," The, and his Humours. HADDEN Severn, Elvers in the. By C. PARKINSON Something about Beer. By HENRY W. WOLFF Sources, The, of Commercial Panic. By B. D. MACKENZIE Spa. By PERCY FITZGERALD Stars, Weighing the. By J. ELLARD GOKI, 1.K.YS. Sugar Plantation, Life on a. By A. J. JUKES BROWNE Surgeons, The Barber, of London. By J. A. J. HOUSDEN The Perfecting of the Book-The Venetian Press-A Fifteenth Can English Prose be Taught? Painter's "Palace of Frenchwomen of the last Century On Public Speaking- Theatrical Retrospect, A: America in England. By W. J. LAWRENCE Revival of Pantomime Tea Industry, The, of India. By Col. GEORGE CADELL Tramps and their Ways. By PEREGRINUS Travellers and Tourists. By EMILY CONSTANCE COOK Tree, A, of Justice. By J. FIELD Two Pictures. By LYNN C. D'OYLE University Extension. By HAMLET E. CLARK, B.A., LL.B.. Wimborne and Bournemouth. By Dr. ALFRED J. H. CRESPI THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. 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 |