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CONTENTS of VOL. CCLXX.

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Commercial Panic, The Sources of. By B. D. MACKENZIE

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Conversation, The Art of. By GEORGE WHALE

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Court, The Inns of. By THOMAS H. B. GRAHAM

568

Crispi, Francesco. By H. J. ALLEN

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Dandelion, The Parachute of the. By Rev. ALEX. S. WILSON,

M.A., B.Sc.

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Drinking Songs, Old English. By LAURA ALEX. SMITH

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Dying Knight, The. By H. SCHÜTZ WILSON

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Eating and Drinking, Some more Curiosities of. By Dr. ALFRED

J. H. CRESPI

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Pages on Plays. By JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY, M.P. 316, 423, 531, 636
Pains and Penalties. By W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS.

Part. I.

Part II.

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School, John Bright's. By A. ARTHUR READE

Scotch Farm Kitchen, In a. By ALEXANDER GORDON.

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Scottish "Beadle," The, and his Humours.

HADDEN

Severn, Elvers in the. By C. PARKINSON

Some more Curiosities of Eating and Drinking.

J. H. CRESPI

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 GORE, 1.K.AYS.
Stellar Evolution. By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S.

Surgeons, The Barber, of London. By J. A. J. HOUSDEN

Table Talk. By SYLVANUS URBAN:--

The Perfecting of the Book-The Venetian Press-A Fifteenth
Century Bookseller

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Can English Prose be Taught?-Painter's "Palace of
Pleasure"-Roger Ascham on "English Italians"

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University Extension. By HAMLET E. CLARK, B.A.,
Village Obituary, A. By GEORGE EYRE-TODD
Weighing the Stars. By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S.
Wimborne and Bournemouth. By Dr. ALFRED J. H. CRESPI

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THE

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

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JANUARY 1891.

TWO PICTURES.

By LYNN C. DOYLE.

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.

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