PAGE PAGB An Old Wife's Song, by Jean Ingelow Good Cheer ... 32 Early Wooing ......... All the Year Round , 160 A School of Cookery ....... Chambers's Journal . 121 1865 - 1866, by Alfred Tennyson... Adrance Sheets , 256 A Christmas Scene at Rome .... Echoes from the Clubs 128 Epitaphs, French and English, by F. Anarchy and Authority, by Matthew P. Cobbe . .......... Temple Bar. ... 271 Arnold ........ The Cornhill Mag. 131, 262, 801 English Royal Authors, ..... All the Year Round . 310 Ave atque Vale, by C. A. Swinburne. Fortnightiy Review . 158 Eclipse ........... All the Year Round , 327 Astronomers before the Great Pyramid Revue des Deur Mondes 241 Easter Week, by Charles Kingsley .. The Argosy ... 544 After the Battle ........ Belgravia . . . . 288 English, The Teaching of ..... Macmillan's Mag. . 655 Agassiz, Prof., in Brazil. ..... Journal of Travel and English Eyes on French Work ... All the Year Round . 759 Natural History , 303 English Theatres ........ Tinsley's Mag. .. 814 A Surprise ............ St. Paul's .... 416 London Paper . . . 480 Boucicault ......... Advance Sheets. . 1, 33, A Visit to the Geyser ........ Familien-Journal. . 487 65, 97, 129, 193, 225, 257, 289, 321, 353, 385, 417, American Lecture System . ..... Macmillan's Mag. . 489 449, 481, 513, 545, 577, 609, 641, 673, 705, 737, 769 Andromache . . . . Macmillan's Mag. . 512 Foundation-Stone, Laying a, .... Good Words ... 64 Americans Abroad ....... The Saturday Review 569 Foreign Notes ......... Our Erchanges 29, 63, 94, A Pleasant Reflection ...... The Leader .... 590 126, 157, 190, 223, 255, 284, 319, 350, 383, 414, 447, 478, A Legal Romance. ....... The London Scotsman 597 510, 542, 573, 605, 637, 670, 702, 735, 766, 778, 798, 825 A Pre-Raphaelite Magazine .... The London Student 618 Fruit . ........... Chambers's Journal , $23 A Mahomedan Version of Bible History Pall Mall Gazette. . 624 An Episode of the Balaclava Charge. The London Scotsman 626 Girls and Wives ........ The Spectator ... 25 A London Lyric, by Robert Buchanan Advance Sheets .. 672 Ghosts, Family, by James Hannay. . Cassell's Annual . . 27 A Visit to a Despised Novelist ... Die Gartenlaube . . 679 Grandfather's Pet. ....... Chambers's Journal. 64 A Three-Legged Impostor, .... Chambers's Journal . 696 | Gayferog and Melisendra ...... The Chronicle . . . 78 Advertising, The Art of,..... Cassell's Magazine . 732 Ghost-Talk, Latest ....... All the Year Round . 203 A Plea for More Universities . ... The London Student . 780 Good Matches ......... The Imperial Review 373 A Debt of Honor, by Charles Dickens. All the Year Round . 825 Giants. Traces of the . . . Hardwicke's Science-Gossip 446 A Nice Correspondent ...... Saint Paul's ... 828 | Cirl of the Period, The ....... The Saturday Review 476 Gibson the Sculptor, Recollections of. Cornhill Magazine . 686 Buttons, Billy, by Norman Macleod. . Good Choer. ... 11 Great Men, The Morality of .... The Saturday Reviero 728 Bright, Mr., On Ireland ..... The Spectator ... 309 Gypsy Camp, The ....... Advance Sheets, . . 768 Bores, The Virtues of, ...... The Saturday Revieo 344 Gentle Alice Brown ....... London Fun ... 800 Brewster, Sir David . ...... The London Revier .' 349 Bath-Chair Man's Story, The .. Temple Bar. ... 432 How Fashions are Made ..... Translation. ... 175 By Express . . . . . . . . . . Cassell's Magazine . 448 Household Service, by F. P. Cobbe. , Fraser's Mag., . . 179 Billiards and Billiard-Players .... London Society .. 503 Hurricane, the Typhoon, and the TorBumble versus Dickens. ..... The London Review , 572 nado, The.......... Pop. Science Revier 216 Battle of the Val-des-Dunes, The ... All the Year Round . 614 Hawking Party, The....... Belgravia .... 415 Boat-Race, The University . . . London Society. . 647 Blackwood's Mag. . 681 Bastille ........... The Gentleman's Mag. 711 Hotels, English ......... Tinsley': Mag. . . 691 Brougham, Lord, ......... The Spectator . . . 741 Byron from a New Point of View The Alhenaum. .. 745 “ Ifs" of History, The ...... The Saturday Review 464 Broken Idols .......... The Saturday Revier 762 Idols........... The Saturday Revier 622 Identification, The Difficulties of : . The Spectator ... 635 Christmas, The First Good Cheer, ... 32 Colored Suns . . . . . . . . . Fraser's Magazine . 144 Jack the Giant-Killer, by Miss Thackeray Cornhill Mag. . 150, 161 Confession, Paul Gosslett's . . . . . Saint Paul's Saint Paul's . ... 295 | Jewelled Snuff Box, The ..... The Guest Meal . . 169 Chambers's Journal . 538 Kassala . . . . . . . . . . Colburn's New Monthly 88 Coulisses . ....... The London Review . 591 Knights of the Chandelier, The ... Die Gartenlaube . 102 Carona .......... The Argosy. ... 808 Kean, Charles ......... Pall Mall Gazette. . 251 Kean, Charles, and the Modern Stage Blackwood's Mag. . 552 De Profundis .... St. James's Mag.. . 192 King Louis of Bavaria ...... 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The Sensing Reise 653 Journal of Choice Reading; CHAPTER I. insinuated another, and seemed models of grave dis cretion : but were known to be all ears, and bound THERE are places which appear at first sight in- by a secret oath to carry down each crumb of diaaccessible to romance: and such a place was Mr. logue to the servants' hall, for curious dissection, and Wardlaw's dining-room in Russell Square. It was boisterous ridicule. very large, bad sickly green walls, picked out with At last, however, those three smug hypocrites realdermen, full length; heavy maroon curtains; ma- tired, and, by good luck, transferred their suffocathogany chairs; a turkey carpet an inch thick : anding epergne to the sideboard ; so then father and was lighted with wax candles only. son looked at one another with that conscious air In the centre, bristling and gleaming with silver which naturally precedes a topic of interest; and and glass, was a round table, at which fourteen Wardlaw senior invited his son to try a certain decould have dined comfortably; and at opposite sides canter of rare old port, by way of preliminary. of this table sat two gentlemen, who looked as neat, While the young man fills his glass, hurl we in his grave, precise, and unromantic, as the place; Mer- antecedents. chant Wardlaw, and his son. At school till fifteen, and then clerk in his father's Wardlaw senior was an elderly man, tall, thin, office till twenty-two, and showed an aptitude so reiron-gray, with a round head, a short, thick neck, a markable, that John Wardlaw, who was getting tired, good, brown eye, a square jowl that betokened reso- determined, sooner or later, to put the reins of governlution, and a complexion so sallow as to be almost ment into his hands. But he conceived a desire cadaverous. Hard as iron : but a certain stiff dig- that the future head of his office should be an uninity and respectability sat upon him, and became versity man. So he announced his resolution, and him. to Oxford went young Wardlaw, though he had not Arthur Wardlaw resembled his father in figure, looked at Greek or Latin for seven years. He was, but his mother in face. He had, and has, hay-col- however, furnished with a private tutor, under whom ored hair, a forehead singularly white and delicate, he recovered lost ground rapidly. The Reverend pale blue eyes, largish ears, finely chiselled fea- Robert Penfold was a first-class man, and had the tures, the under lip much shorter than the upper; gift of teaching. The house of Wardlaw bad pecubis chin oval and pretty, but somewhat receding; liar claims on him, for he was the son of old Mihis complexion beautiful. In short, what nineteen chael Penfold, Wardlaw's cashier; he learned from people out of twenty would call a handsome young young Wardlaw the stake he was playing for, and, man, and think they had described him. instead of merely giving him one hour's lecture per Both the Wardlaws were in full dress, according day, as he did to his other pupils, he used to come to to the invariable custom of the house; and sat in a his rooms at all hours, and force him to read, by dead silence, that seemed natural to the great, sober reading with him. He also stood his friend in a seroom. rious emergency. Young Wardlaw, you must know, This, however, was not for want of a topic; on was blessed or cursed with Mimicry; his powers in the contrary, they had a matter of great importance that way really seemed to have no limit, for he to discuss, and in fact this was why they dined tête- could imitate any sound you liked with his voice, à-tête : but their tongues were tied for the present; and any form with his pen or pencil. Now, we in the first place, there stood in the middle of the promise you, he was one man under his father's eye, table an epergne, the size of a Putney laurel-tree; and another down at Oxford; so, one night, this neither Wardlaw could well see the other, without gentleman, being warm with wine, opens his wincraning out his neck like a rifleman from behind dow, and, seeing a group of undergraduates chatterhis tree: and then there were three live suppressors ing and smoking in the quadrangle, imitates the of confidential intercourse, two gorgeous footmen, peculiar grating tones of Mr. Champion, vice-presiand a sombre, sublime, and, in one word, episcopal, dent of the college, and gives them various reasons butler; all three went about as softly as cats after a why they ought to disperse to their rooms and study. robin, and conjured one plate away, and smoothly | “But, perhaps,” says he, in conclusion, "you are too |