ONCE A WEEK.
AN
Illustrated Miscellany
OF
LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.
VOLUME I.
JULY TO DECEMBER, 1859.
LONDON:
BRADBURY & EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET.
[The Right of translating Articles from “Once a Week” is reserved by the Authors.]
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
(For an alphabetical and subject index, see below)
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No. 1. July 2, 1859.
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Illustrated by |
| John Leech. |
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Audun and His White Bear. (From the Old Norse.) By George Webbe Dasent.
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John Tenniel. |
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Snakes and Their Prey: An African Adventure. By Arthur Clarence.
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Magenta. By Tom Taylor.
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J. E. Millais. |
| Charles Keene. |
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The Tail of a Tadpole. By G. H. Lewes.
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| John Leech. |
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No. 2. July 9, 1859.
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The Astronomer’s Discovery. By Henry Owgan.
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John Tenniel. |
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Garibaldi. By A. A. Knox.
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An Election Story. By Shirley Brooks.
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John Leech. |
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The Spider-Crab. By Edward Jesse.
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The Song of Courtesy. By George Meredith.
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John Tenniel. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Night and Morning. By Ralph A. Benson.
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John Leech. |
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No. 3. July 16, 1859.
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The Grandmother’s Apology. By Alfred Tennyson.
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J. E. Millais. |
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Ana.
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| John Leech. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Wine. By A. A. Knox.
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The Queen of the Arena. By A. Stewart Harrison.
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John Leech. |
| John Tenniel. |
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No. 4. July 23, 1859.
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Guests at the Red Lion. By Thomas Speight.
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Charles Keene. |
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Spontaneous Generation. By G. H. Lewes.
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On the Water. By Herbert Clarke.
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J. E. Millais. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Candle Making. By Andrew Wynter.
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No. 5. July 30, 1859.
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The Valley of the Innocents. By William Cooper.
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John Leech. |
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Bessemer and Gun-Metal. By W. Bridges Adams.
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Running the Hood. By W. W. Wilson.
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| John Tenniel. |
| Charles Keene. |
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The Three Maidens. By George Meredith.
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Phiz. |
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No. 6. August 6, 1859.
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The White Apron. By Emily Crawford.
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John Tenniel. |
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Racing by Steam. By Daniel Pidgeon.
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| Phiz. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Man and the Horse. By A. A. Knox.
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Sebastopol Villa. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.
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Phiz. |
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A Penny for Your Thought. By James Franklin Fuller.
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John Leech. |
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No. 7. August 13, 1859.
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In and Out: A Tourist’s Souvenir. By Harry Leroy Temple.
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H. G. Hine. |
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English Railway Artillery. By W. Bridges Adams.
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Retrospective. By C. P. William.
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John Leech. |
| Charles Keene. |
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My First Literary Success: A Statement of Account. By John Elliott.
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Dumb Mouths. By John Clyne.
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Milford Haven. By Jelinger C. Symons.
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Edwin Weedon. |
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No. 8. August 20, 1859.
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Illustrated by |
| Charles Keene. |
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Nest-Building Fish. By Charles Strange.
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H. G. Hine. |
| John Leech. |
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Ana.
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| Charles Keene. |
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Ship-Lifting or Unlaunching. By W. Bridges Adams.
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Domestic Servants in Hamburgh. By George A. Jackson.
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Over the Hills. By George Meredith.
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Phiz. |
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No. 9. August 27, 1859.
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Tom Rocket. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.
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Phiz. |
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Orchards in Cheapside. By Andrew Wynter.
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| H. G. Hine. |
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Lament for Eros. By Fanny Aikin-Kortright.
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John Tenniel. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Stale Bread. By G. H. Lewes.
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Ned Stokes’s Carol on Cottages. By Rev. J. Steadman.
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Vanitas, Vanitas! By J. Palgrave Simpson.
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The Crow of Ceylon. By Edward Jesse.
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Joseph Wolf. |
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No. 10. September 3, 1859.
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| John Leech. |
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The Wreck of the Alma. By John Bowring.
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The Last Words of Juggling Jerry. By George Meredith.
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Phiz. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Herod in the Nineteenth Century. By Harriet Martineau.
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Clover. By William Cookson.
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John Leech. |
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No. 11. September 10, 1859.
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| Charles Keene. |
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The Great Eastern. By W. Bridges Adams.
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Withered. By James Smart Linwood.
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| William Harvey. |
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The Fortune-Teller: A Seaport Ditty. By Mary Brotherton.
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F. J. Skill. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Volcanoes for the Million. By Edmund Edwards.
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The Artificial Man. By Andrew Wynter.
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H. G. Hine. |
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No. 12. September 17, 1859.
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How Phil Considine Met the Banshee. By William Cooper.
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Phiz. |
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Representative Cafés. By H. Sutherland Edwards.
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The Glaciers of Great Britain. By G. Phillips Bevan.
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Scarborough—1859. By S. Reynolds Hole.
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John Leech. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Two Partings. By Ralph A. Benson.
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An Evening in “the City of Palaces.” By Robert Morrison.
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A Terrible Revenge. By S. Reynolds Hole.
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John Leech. |
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Stone Pine. By Edward Jesse.
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H. G. Hine. |
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No. 13. September 24, 1859.
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The Devil’s Horse-Shoe. By Walter Campbell.
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Edwin Weedon. |
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Châlets in the Jura. By Percival Skelton.
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Percival Skelton. |
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Effie Campbell. By Joseph Truman.
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The Chameleon’s Colour. By G. H. Lewes.
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The Schooling of the Great Eastern. By W. Bridges Adams.
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| John Tenniel. |
| Charles Keene. |
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A Day at Whitewall House. By Wyndham Smith.
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John Leech. |
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No. 14. October 1, 1859.
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Hern Castle. By Harry Leroy Temple.
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John Leech. |
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The Great Ship’s Trials. By Edward J. Reed.
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The Gentleman in the Plum-Coloured Coat. By Dutton Cook.
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Charles Keene. |
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The Peiho, 1859. By Edmund Boger.
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| Charles Keene. |
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The Isles of Scilly. By Jelinger C. Symons.
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Edwin Weedon. |
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Ocean Horticulture. By Andrew Wynter.
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H. G. Hine. |
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Mary. By E. H. Pember.
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Phiz. |
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Ana.
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No. 15. October 8, 1859.
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| John Tenniel. |
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Cannibalism in Europe. By Robert Hudson.
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H. G. Hine. |
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Round the Hop-Bin. By E. D. Freeman.
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Louis Huard. |
| F. J. Skill. |
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Follies in Food. By Harriet Martineau.
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Sulphurwell. By G. H. Lewes.
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| J. E. Millais. |
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No. 16. October 15, 1859.
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Rose Street. By Robert Bell.
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W. R. Woods. |
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Reliques of the Lost. By Edmund Boger.
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Revivals. By Thomas Blackburne.
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| J. E. Millais. |
| F. J. Skill. |
| John Leech. |
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How to Learn to Swim. By Harriet Martineau.
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Shoreward. By George John Cayley.
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Phiz. |
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No. 17. October 22, 1859.
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Bradmere Pool. By Louisa Stewart.
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Phiz. |
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The Cook or the Doctor?. By Harriet Martineau.
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The Swineherd Painter. By Amy Colville.
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| Walter W. May. |
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Coldstream. By Vaughan Morgan.
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John Leech. |
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Our Tame Hedgehog. By Emily Crawford.
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The Song of the Survivor. By William Calvert.
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Charles H. Bennett. |
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No. 18. October 29, 1859.
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Crossbones’ Father. By C. P. William.
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Phiz. |
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Prawn Curry. By James Stiff.
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H. G. Hine. |
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Black Monday. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.
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John Leech. |
| Walter W. May. |
| W. R. Woods. |
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In Memoriam: Isambard K. Brunel, Robert Stephenson. By George R. Taylor.
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No. 19. November 5, 1859.
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| Phiz. |
| H. G. Hine. |
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Maude Clark. By Christina Rossetti.
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J. E. Millais. |
| Walter W. May. |
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Dress and Its Victims. By Harriet Martineau.
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The Yaks in France. By D. W. Mitchell.
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Joseph Wolf. |
| Phiz. |
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No. 20. November 12, 1859.
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A Night with the Boobies. By T. E. Southee.
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Joseph Wolf, F. J. Skill. |
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The Swimming-School for Women at Paris. By Harriet Martineau.
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Fairy May. By C. W. Goodhart.
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Helen H. Coode. |
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Our Page. By C. P. William.
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John Leech. |
| Phiz. |
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The Sprig of Lavender. By Herbert Clarke.
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No. 21. November 19, 1859.
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How an Advertisement Got a Wife. By Mrs. Davis.
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E. H. Corbould. |
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Home or Hospital. By Harriet Martineau.
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The Horned Snake. By George Paris Salmon.
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Needlemaking. By Andrew Wynter.
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Footsteps of Day. By Alsager Hay Hill.
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Phiz. |
| Charles Keene. |
| Edwin Weedon. |
| John Tenniel. |
| John Leech. |
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No. 22. November 26, 1859.
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Where? There and Thereafter! By Samuel Langley.
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Frederic Smallfield. |
| John Tenniel. |
| E. H. Corbould. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Wild Asses. By D. W. Mitchell.
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Joseph Wolf. |
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The Death Day of an Infant in Spain. By E. Brackenbury.
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Tamise Ripe. By Cholmeley A. Leigh.
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Percival Skelton. |
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No. 23. December 3, 1859.
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Savernake and Forty-Five. By Shirley Brooks.
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John Leech. |
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Autumn Even-Song. By George Meredith.
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The First Play-House. By Robert Bell.
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| Clara Lane. |
| Charles Keene. |
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Woman’s Battle-Field. By Harriet Martineau.
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The Recent Volcanic Eruptions in Hawaii. By Manley Hopkins.
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H. G. Hine. |
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A Lost Love. By Ralph A. Benson.
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J. E. Millais. |
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No. 24. December 10, 1859.
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The Foundation of My Picture-Gallery. By S. O. Mahony.
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Charles Keene. |
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Mock Auctions. By Andrew Wynter.
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Bought and Sold. By Ralph A. Benson.
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Phiz. |
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Rachel. By Isabella Percy.
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John Leech. |
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How to Improvise a Rifle-Gallery. By S. R. Lock.
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H. G. Hine. |
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Mountstuart Elphinstone: In Memoriam. By John William Kaye.
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Sad Words. By Manley Hopkins.
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Alfred Thompson. |
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No. 25. December 17, 1859.
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Illustrated by |
| M. J. Lawless. |
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Self-Murder. By Harriet Martineau.
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St. Bartholomew. By Henry C. E. Malet.
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J. E. Millais. |
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Chips’s Ghost Story. By Richard Rowe.
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Phiz. |
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Women’s Work. By Sarah Stickney.
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How to Convert London into a Garden. By W. Bridges Adams.
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H. G. Hine. |
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Real and Sham Vaccination. By John Rose Cormack.
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Learning to Swim. By Harriet Martineau.
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The Blind Woman of Manzanares. By John Bowring.
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The Shadow Kiss. By Rev. J. Steadman.
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Phiz. |
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No. 26. December 24, 1859.
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J. A. Fitzgerald. |
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The Mistletoe Bough; or, the Romance of the Rose. By Mary Eliza Rogers.
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| H. G. Hine. |
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A Story-Telling Party. By George Meredith.
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Phiz. |
| Charles Keene. |
American Apple Frolic, An 377
Amwell and its Quaker-Poet 207
Ana 149, 284, 322, 377, 437
Artificial Man, The 218
Astronomer’s Discovery, The 21
Audun and his White Bear (from the Old Norse) 4
Autumn Even Song461
Baron Jauioz (from the Breton) 109
Belle of the Season, The 149
Benjamin Harris and his Wife Patience 427, 449, 471
Bessemer and Gun-Metal 85
Black Monday 360
Blind Woman of Manzanares, The 525
Bought and Sold 492
Bradmere Pool 329
Bread-making in Spain 217
Candle Making 78
Cannibalism in Europe 292
Châlets in the Jura 244
Chameleon's Colour, The 248
Chips's Ghost-Story 515
Clover 199
Coldstream 342
Confessions of a Toadstool-Eater 323
Cook or the Doctor, The 331
Crossbones' Father 351
Crow of Ceylon, The 180
Day at Whitewall House 259
Death Day of an Infant in Spain, The 458
Deer-Stalking Extraordinary 313
Devil's Horseshoe, The 241
Domestic Servants in Hamburgh 159
Dress and its Victims 387
Dumb Mouths 136
Eckart the Trusty (from Goethe) 89
Effie Campbell 247
Election Story, An 25
Elphinstone, M. 502
"England expects every Man to do his Duty" 442
English Projectiles 8, 28, 47
English Railway Artillery 127
English War-Ships and their Uses 409, 430
Evening in "The City of Palaces," An 235
Fairy May 404
Fatal Gift, A 141
First Play-House, The 461
Follies in Food 299
Footsteps of Day 426
Fortune-Teller, The 210
Foundation of My Picture-Gallery, The 483
Garibaldi 24
Gentleman in the Plum-coloured Coat, The 266
German Fair, The 532
Glaciers of Great Britain 227
Good Fight, A, 11, 31, 51, 71, 91, 111, 131, 151, 171, 191, 211, 231, 251, 273
Grandmother's Apology, The 41
Great Eastern, The 205
Great Ship's Trials, The 264
Guests at the Red Lion 61
Hands and Machines 346
Hawaii, Volcanic Eruptions in 479
Hern Castle 263
Herod in the Nineteenth Century 195
Home or Hospital 419
Horned Snake, The 423
How an Advertisement got a Wife 417
How I became a Hero 373, 412
How Phil Considine met the Banshee 221
How to Convert London into a Garden 519
How to Improvise a Rifle-Gallery 501
How to Learn to Swim 327
In and Out (a Tourist Souvenir) 121
In Memoriam 372
Incident of Dartmoor, An 445
Insurrection at Harper's Ferry 484
Isles of Scilly, The 277
King of Thule, The 250
La Fille Bien Gardée 305
Lament for Eros 170
Last Voyage of Sir John Franklin, The 338, 361
Last Words of Juggling Jerry, The 189
Learning to Swim 524
Lord of Nann and the Fairy, The 447
Lost Child, The 181
Lost Love, A 482
Magenta 10
Man among the Mammoths 3
Man and the Horse 114
Mary 283
Maude Clare 381
Merry Christmas, A 542
Milford Haven 138
Mistletoe Bough, The 531
Mock Auctions 490
Mountstuart Elphinstone 502
My First Literary Success 135
My Friend the Doctor 435
My Friend the Governor (a Colonial Incident) 60
Ned Stokes's Carol on Cottages 178
Needlemaking 424
Nest-building Fish 145
New Westminster Bridge 289
Newspaper "Canards" 509
Night and Morning 36
Night with the Boobies, A 395
Ocean Horticulture 281
Old Church Library, An 74
Old-fashioned Christmas Eve, An 527
On the Water 70
"Once a Week" (Introductory) 1
One Night on the Stage 295, 317
Orchards in Cheapside 165
Original Bun House, The 17
Our Farm of Two Acres (Terrain and Tillage) 37
Our Farm of Two Acres (Dairy and Bacon) 44
Our Farm of Two Acres (the Poultry Yard) 96
Our Page 405
Our Tame Hedgehog 349
Over the Hills 160
Palimpsest, The 469
Peiho, The 272
Penny for your Thought, A 120
Plague of Elliant, The 316
Prawn Curry 358
Queen of the Arena, The . . 56
Rachel 494
Racing by Steam 104
Railroad Journey, A 285
Ramble in the Forest of Dean, A 167
Real and Sham Vaccination 523
Recent Volcanic Eruptions in Hawaii, The 479
Reliques of the Past 311
Representative Cafés 223
Retrospective 129
Revivals 312
River Scenes in China 146, 176
Robert Stephenson 368
Rose Street 307
Round the Hop-Bin 294
Round Tower at Jhansi, The 140
Running the Hood 88
Sad Words 504
Savernake and Forty-Five 461
Scarborough, 1859 229
School for Life or Death 254
Schooling of the Great Eastern, The 248
Search for Sir John Franklin, The 383
Sebastopol Villa 117
Self-Murder 510
Sentiment from the Shambles 505
Shadow Kiss, The 526
Ship-Lifting or Unlaunching 157
Shoreward 283
Six of One and Half a-dozen of the Other 394
Sketching the Castle 50
Snakes and their Prey (an African Adventure) 7
Song of Courtesy, The 30
Song of the Survivor, The 360
Spanish Cabrestos 314
Spider Crab, The 29
Spontaneous Generation 66
Sprig of Lavender, The 416
Stale Bread 175
St. Bartholomew 514
Stephenson, Robert 368
Stone Pine 239
Story-telling Party, A 535
Strike, The 155
Sulphurwell 303
Swimming-School for Women at Paris, The 403
Swineherd Painter, The 335
Tail of a Tadpole, The 15
Talk about Rydal Mount, A 107
Tamise Ripe 459
Terrible Revenge 237
Three Maidens, The 96
Tom Rocket 161
Two Partings 235
Uncle Simkinson and Mrs. Mountelephant 201
Valley of the Innocents, The 81
Vanitas, Vanitas 179
Volcanic Eruptions in Hawaii 479
Volcanoes for the Million 215
Wellington, Birth-place of 49
Where? There and Thereafter 439
White Apron, The 101
Wild Asses 454
Wine 54
Withered 206
Woman's Battle-Field 474
Women's Work 517
Wreck of the Alma, The 185
Yaks in France, The 391
Young France 354
Young Nimrod's First Love 437
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
BENNETT, G. H.—350.
BROWNE, Hablot K.—96, 110, 117, 160, 161, 163, 190, 221, 284, 328, 329, 331, 351, 353, 373, 394, 414, 416, 426, 492, 493, 526, 536, 537.
COODE, Miss—404.
CORBOULD, E. H.-417, 448.
FITZGERALD, J. A.— 527, 530.
HARVEY— 207.
HINE, H. G.—121, 126, 145, 146, 167,
218, 219, 220, 240, 283, 293, 359, 377,
381, 479, 481, 501, 519, 523, 532, 535.
HUARD—294.
KEENE, C.—11, 31, 51, 61, 65, 71, 91,
111, 131, 141, 151, 171, 191, 201, 203,
211, 231, 251, 254, 270, 273, 427, 449,
471, 483, 544.
LANE, Miss—470.
LAWLESS, M. J.—505, 507, 509.
LEECH, John—1, 2, 17, 27, 36, 50, 56,
59, 81, 84, 120, 130, 150, 181, 183, 199,
230, 238, 262, 263, 323, 326, 342, 360,
405, 408, 438, 461, 463, 495, 499.
MAY, W.—338, 339, 361, 362, 364, 365, 383, 386, 387.
McQUOID, T. R.—iii. (Index.)
MILLAIS—10, 41, 70, 306, 316, 382, 482, 514.
ROGERS, W. Harry— iv. (Index); 469
SCOTT, T.—4, 372.
SKELTON, Percival—244, 246, 460.
SKILL, F. J.—210, 295, 297, 317, 322, 401.
SMALLFIELD, F.—439.
TENNIEL, John—4, 5, 21, 30, 60, 90, 101, 103, 170, 250, 285, 435, 446.
THOMPSON, A.—504.
WEEDON, E.—138, 140, 241, 279, 430.
WOLF—180, 392, 395, 400, 455.
WOODS, W. R.— 307, 368.