CONTENTS of VOL. CCLXXII. PAGE 570 550 Aborigines, The, of Europe's Playground. By A. E. WILLSON About a Portrait at Windsor. By HENRY W. WOLFF Ancients, The Malt Liquors of the. BY THOMAS H. B. GRAHAM. 415 Brains and Inches. By PHILIP KENT Carglen, A Poet in. By ALEXANDER GORDON Carglen, A Queen's Servant in. By ALEXANDER GORDON DAVIES By Dr. N. E. YORKE- Comte, The, de Fersen. By RACHEL GURNELL Dry Wit, A Professor of the. By PERCY FITZGERALD, M.A. Early Guilds. By GEORGE RADFORD Etymological Diversions. By GEORGE L. APPERSON Eylau Cemetery. From Victor Hugo. By C. E. MEETKERKE Fersen, The Comte de. By RACHEL GURNELL Fuel, The, of the Sun. By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S.. Gateway, The, of a Continent. By A. G. HYDE Golden Snail, The. By ARMIGER BARCZINSKY Gondoliers' Songs. By LAURA ALEX. SMITH Guilds, Early. By GEORGE RADFORD Hot Weather, Proper Diet for. By Dr. N. E. YORKE-DAVIES 486 187 Leaves from a Diary. By PERCY FITZGERALD, Literary Wife, A. By EMILY CONSTANCE Cook. Lost or Stolen? By EMILY FRANCES JENKINSON Malt Liquors, The, of the Ancients. By THOMAS H. B. GRAHAM 415 Man, The, with no Grit. By LYNN CYRIL D'OYLE Milky Way, The. By J. ELLARD GORE, f.r.a.s. ` "New" and Variable Stars. By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S. Oracles, A Chapter in the History of. By BASIL WILLIAMS, B.A. . 541 109 99, 206, 315, 421, 528, 629 Philip Bourke Marston, The Last Poems of. By the Author of Poet, A, in Carglen. By ALEXANDER GORDON 90 399 550 600 140 517 By HENRY W. WOLFF By Dr. N. E. YORKE-DAVIES Sir Henry Wotton: Gentleman and Schoolmaster. By FOSTER WATSON Snail, The Golden. By ARMIGER BARCZINSKY Stars, "New" and Variable. By J. ELLARD GORE, F.R.A.S. Students' Songs, On Some. By LAURA ALEX. SMITH Master and Servant-Servants' Epitaphs-The Title-Page—A Roumanian Folk-Songs-Their Origin and Inception-Speci- mens of Folk-Songs-Who Wrote "King Henry VIII."? -The Author of "King Henry VIII." is John Fletcher- Authority of the First Folio Shakespeare - Fate of Shakespeare's "King Henry VIII.” Mr. Andrew Lang on the Reading Public-Reprints of Seven- Maturin the Dramatist-Maturin the Novelist" Melmoth the 120 174 85 106 535 635 Two Roses, The. By JAY TURNER Voldomir, The Princess of. By MARY COSTELLO Walt Whitman: A Child-Poet. By PAULINE W. ROOSE Wotton, Sir Henry: Gentleman and Schoolmaster. By FOSTER Wye-land, June Days in. By C. PARKINSON 167 BROAD shallow lagoon in Minnesota, many square miles in area, half lagoon, half slough, and surrounded by a low flat monotonous country. Tall reeds and tufts of grass thrust up their heads everywhere athwart the surface, and in the spring and fall of the year immense numbers of water-fowl pushed about among them. Everywhere, too, rose small dome-shaped structures built of reeds. Here and there shone large open tracts of water, where the lagoon was deeper, and in them catfish, pickerel, and lake-herrings found a But it was now early winter; the reeds and rushes were dying down; the wild-fowl had left for the south; and only the permanent tenants, the musk-rats or musquash, remained in evidence. They lived in the dome-shaped houses dotted everywhere about the sur- face of the lagoon, at intervals of a few yards, like haycocks in a The rats were everywhere swimming, splashing, clambering about their houses, for it was their last day of liberty. There had been a And while they splashed and clambered, with their rudder-tails R |