CONTENTS of VOL. CCLXX. PAGE Alaska, The Fur-Seal Fisheries of. By THOMAS SOUTHWELL, F.Z.S. 244 Algerian Hills, Rambles among. By Dr. J. E. TAYLOR, F.L.S. America in England: a Theatrical Retrospect. By W. J. LAWRENCE 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 154 Conversation, The Art of. By GEORGE WHALE 7 Court, The Inns of. By THOMAS H. B. GRAHAM 568 Crispi, Francesco. By H. J. ALLEN 286 Dandelion, The Parachute of the. By Rev. ALEX. S. WILSON, M.A., B.Sc. 22 Drinking Songs, Old English. By LAURA ALEX. SMITH 333 Dying Knight, The. By H. SCHÜTZ WILSON 322 Eating and Drinking, Some more Curiosities of. By Dr. ALFRED J. H. CRESPI 191 376 513 308 333 Pages on Plays. By JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY, M.P. 316, 423, 531, 636 Parachute, The, of the Dandelion. By Rev. ALEX. Paths, Invisible. By BASIL FIELD, B.A. Rambles among Algerian Hills. By Dr. J. E. TAYLOR, F.L.S. School, John Bright's. By A. ARTHUR READE Scotch Farm Kitchen, In a. By ALEXANDER GORDON. Scotch Kirk, In and Around a. 360 22 430 101 627 Scottish "Beadle," The, and his Humours. 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.AYS. 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 107 Can English Prose be Taught?-Painter's "Palace of 215 The Jews in Europe-Le Paroissien du Célibataire . 431 Tea Industry, The, of India. By Col. GEORGE CADELL Theatrical Retrospect, A: America in England. By W.J. LAWRENCE 457 82 University Extension. By HAMLET E. CLARK, B.A., LL.B. . THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. S 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. B |