Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1

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)

No. 1. July 2, 1859.

Illustrated by

Once a Week. By Shirley Brooks.

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John Leech.

Man Among the Mammoths. By T. H. Huxley.

Audun and His White Bear. (From the Old Norse.) By George Webbe Dasent.

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John Tenniel.

Snakes and Their Prey: An African Adventure. By Arthur Clarence.

English Projectiles (Part 1). By W. Bridges Adams.

Magenta. By Tom Taylor.

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J. E. Millais.

A Good Fight (Part 1). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

The Tail of a Tadpole. By G. H. Lewes.

The Original Bun House. By A. Armstrong.

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John Leech.

No. 2. July 9, 1859.

Illustrated by

The Astronomer’s Discovery. By Henry Owgan.

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John Tenniel.

Garibaldi. By A. A. Knox.

An Election Story. By Shirley Brooks.

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John Leech.

English Projectiles (Part 2). By W. Bridges Adams.

The Spider-Crab. By Edward Jesse.

The Song of Courtesy. By George Meredith.

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John Tenniel.

A Good Fight (Part 2). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

Night and Morning. By Ralph A. Benson.

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John Leech.

Our Farm of Two Acres—Terrain and Tillage. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 3. July 16, 1859.

Illustrated by

The Grandmother’s Apology. By Alfred Tennyson.

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J. E. Millais.

Our Farm of Two Acres—Dairy and Bacon. By Harriet Martineau.

English Projectiles (Part 3). By W. Bridges Adams.

Ana.

Sketching the Castle. By Shirley Brooks.

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John Leech.

A Good Fight (Part 3). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

Wine. By A. A. Knox.

The Queen of the Arena. By A. Stewart Harrison.

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John Leech.

My Friend the Governor: A Colonial Incident.

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John Tenniel.

No. 4. July 23, 1859.

Illustrated by

Guests at the Red Lion. By Thomas Speight.

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Charles Keene.

Spontaneous Generation. By G. H. Lewes.

On the Water. By Herbert Clarke.

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J. E. Millais.

A Good Fight (Part 4). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

An Old Church Library. By Charles Knight.

Candle Making. By Andrew Wynter.

No. 5. July 30, 1859.

Illustrated by

The Valley of the Innocents. By William Cooper.

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John Leech.

Bessemer and Gun-Metal. By W. Bridges Adams.

Running the Hood. By W. W. Wilson.

Eckart the Trusty. (From Goethe.) By Theodore Martin.

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John Tenniel.

A Good Fight (Part 5). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

The Three Maidens. By George Meredith.

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Phiz.

Our Farm of Two Acres—The Poultry-Yard. By Harriet Martineau.

No. 6. August 6, 1859.

Illustrated by

The White Apron. By Emily Crawford.

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John Tenniel.

Racing by Steam. By Daniel Pidgeon.

A Talk About Rydal Mount. By Thomas Blackburne.

Baron Jauïoz. (From the Breton.) By Tom Taylor.

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Phiz.

A Good Fight (Part 6). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

Man and the Horse. By A. A. Knox.

Sebastopol Villa. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.

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Phiz.

A Penny for Your Thought. By James Franklin Fuller.

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John Leech.

No. 7. August 13, 1859.

Illustrated by

In and Out: A Tourist’s Souvenir. By Harry Leroy Temple.

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H. G. Hine.

English Railway Artillery. By W. Bridges Adams.

Retrospective. By C. P. William.

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John Leech.

A Good Fight (Part 7). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

My First Literary Success: A Statement of Account. By John Elliott.

Dumb Mouths. By John Clyne.

Milford Haven. By Jelinger C. Symons.

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Edwin Weedon.

The Round Tower at Jhansi—June 8, 1857. By Christina Rossetti.

No. 8. August 20, 1859.

Illustrated by

A Fatal Gift. By Augustus William Dubourg.

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Charles Keene.

Nest-Building Fish. By Charles Strange.

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H. G. Hine.

River Scenes in China (Part 1). By Harriet Martineau.

The Belle of the Season. By Ralph A. Benson.

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John Leech.

Ana.

A Good Fight (Part 8). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

The Strike. By W. Bridges Adams.

Ship-Lifting or Unlaunching. By W. Bridges Adams.

Domestic Servants in Hamburgh. By George A. Jackson.

Over the Hills. By George Meredith.

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Phiz.

No. 9. August 27, 1859.

Illustrated by

Tom Rocket. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.

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Phiz.

Orchards in Cheapside. By Andrew Wynter.

A Ramble in the Forest of Dean.

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H. G. Hine.

Lament for Eros. By Fanny Aikin-Kortright.

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John Tenniel.

A Good Fight (Part 9). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

Stale Bread. By G. H. Lewes.

River Scenes in China (Part 2). By Harriet Martineau.

Ned Stokes’s Carol on Cottages. By Rev. J. Steadman.

Vanitas, Vanitas! By J. Palgrave Simpson.

The Crow of Ceylon. By Edward Jesse.

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Joseph Wolf.

No. 10. September 3, 1859.

Illustrated by

The Lost Child: A Chinese Story. By William Pinkerton.

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John Leech.

The Wreck of the Alma. By John Bowring.

The Last Words of Juggling Jerry. By George Meredith.

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Phiz.

A Good Fight (Part 10). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

Herod in the Nineteenth Century. By Harriet Martineau.

Clover. By William Cookson.

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John Leech.

No. 11. September 10, 1859.

Illustrated by

Uncle Simkinson and Mrs. Mountelephant. By A. Armstrong.

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Charles Keene.

The Great Eastern. By W. Bridges Adams.

Withered. By James Smart Linwood.

Amwell and Its Quaker Poet. By Charles Knight.

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William Harvey.

The Fortune-Teller: A Seaport Ditty. By Mary Brotherton.

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F. J. Skill.

A Good Fight (Part 11). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

Volcanoes for the Million. By Edmund Edwards.

Bread-Making in Spain. By E. Brackenbury.

The Artificial Man. By Andrew Wynter.

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H. G. Hine.

No. 12. September 17, 1859.

Illustrated by

How Phil Considine Met the Banshee. By William Cooper.

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Phiz.

Representative Cafés. By H. Sutherland Edwards.

The Glaciers of Great Britain. By G. Phillips Bevan.

Scarborough—1859. By S. Reynolds Hole.

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John Leech.

A Good Fight (Part 12). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

Two Partings. By Ralph A. Benson.

An Evening in “the City of Palaces.” By Robert Morrison.

A Terrible Revenge. By S. Reynolds Hole.

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John Leech.

Stone Pine. By Edward Jesse.

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H. G. Hine.

No. 13. September 24, 1859.

Illustrated by

The Devil’s Horse-Shoe. By Walter Campbell.

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Edwin Weedon.

Châlets in the Jura. By Percival Skelton.

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Percival Skelton.

Effie Campbell. By Joseph Truman.

The Chameleon’s Colour. By G. H. Lewes.

The Schooling of the Great Eastern. By W. Bridges Adams.

The King of Thule. (From Goethe.) By Theodore Martin.

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John Tenniel.

A Good Fight (Part 13). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

School for Life or Death. By Harriet Martineau.

A Day at Whitewall House. By Wyndham Smith.

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John Leech.

No. 14. October 1, 1859.

Illustrated by

Hern Castle. By Harry Leroy Temple.

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John Leech.

The Great Ship’s Trials. By Edward J. Reed.

The Gentleman in the Plum-Coloured Coat. By Dutton Cook.

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Charles Keene.

The Peiho, 1859. By Edmund Boger.

A Good Fight (Part 14). By Charles Reade.

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Charles Keene.

The Isles of Scilly. By Jelinger C. Symons.

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Edwin Weedon.

Ocean Horticulture. By Andrew Wynter.

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H. G. Hine.

Mary. By E. H. Pember.

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Phiz.

Ana.

No. 15. October 8, 1859.

Illustrated by

A Railroad Journey. By Constance Saunderson.

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John Tenniel.

New Westminster Bridge. By Daniel Pidgeon.

Cannibalism in Europe. By Robert Hudson.

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H. G. Hine.

Round the Hop-Bin. By E. D. Freeman.

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Louis Huard.

One Night on the Stage (Part 1). By Helen Downes.

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F. J. Skill.

Follies in Food. By Harriet Martineau.

Sulphurwell. By G. H. Lewes.

La Fille Bien Gardée. By Shirley Brooks.

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J. E. Millais.

No. 16. October 15, 1859.

Illustrated by

Rose Street. By Robert Bell.

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W. R. Woods.

Reliques of the Lost. By Edmund Boger.

Revivals. By Thomas Blackburne.

Deer-Stalking Extraordinary. By Henry Rumpton.

Spanish Cabrestos. By E. Brackenbury.

The Plague of Elliant. (From the Breton.) By Tom Taylor.

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J. E. Millais.

One Night on the Stage (Part 2). By Helen Downes.

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F. J. Skill.

Ana—Pitt’s Death-Bed; Skeleton Strata.

Confessions of a Toadstool Eater. By Percival Leigh.

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John Leech.

How to Learn to Swim. By Harriet Martineau.

Shoreward. By George John Cayley.

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Phiz.

No. 17. October 22, 1859.

Illustrated by

Bradmere Pool. By Louisa Stewart.

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Phiz.

The Cook or the Doctor?. By Harriet Martineau.

The Swineherd Painter. By Amy Colville.

The Last Voyage of Sir John Franklin (Part 1). By Sherard Osborn.

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Walter W. May.

Coldstream. By Vaughan Morgan.

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John Leech.

Hands and Machines: An Episode in Progress. By W. Bridges Adams.

Our Tame Hedgehog. By Emily Crawford.

The Song of the Survivor. By William Calvert.

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Charles H. Bennett.

No. 18. October 29, 1859.

Illustrated by

Crossbones’ Father. By C. P. William.

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Phiz.

Young France. By Baroness Blaze de Bury.

Prawn Curry. By James Stiff.

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H. G. Hine.

Black Monday. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.

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John Leech.

The Last Voyage of Sir John Franklin (Part 2). By Sherard Osborn.

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Walter W. May.

Robert Stephenson. By Edward Walford.

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W. R. Woods.

In Memoriam: Isambard K. Brunel, Robert Stephenson. By George R. Taylor.

No. 19. November 5, 1859.

Illustrated by

How I Became a Hero (Part 1). By Gertrude Parsons.

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Phiz.

An American Apple Frolic. By Francis Morton.

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H. G. Hine.

Ana—Scotch to the Back-Bone; A Word About Hungerford Market; Cornwallis and Pitt on the Duke of Wellington.

Maude Clare. By Christina Rossetti.

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J. E. Millais.

The Search for Sir John Franklin. By Sherard Osborn.

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Walter W. May.

Dress and Its Victims. By Harriet Martineau.

The Yaks in France. By D. W. Mitchell.

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Joseph Wolf.

“Six of the One, and Half-a-Dozen of the Other.” By J. Roy.

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Phiz.

No. 20. November 12, 1859.

Illustrated by

A Night with the Boobies. By T. E. Southee.

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Joseph Wolf, F. J. Skill.

The Swimming-School for Women at Paris. By Harriet Martineau.

Fairy May. By C. W. Goodhart.

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Helen H. Coode.

Our Page. By C. P. William.

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John Leech.

English War-Ships and Their Uses (Part 1). By W. Bridges Adams.

How I Became a Hero (Part 2). By Gertrude Parsons.

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Phiz.

The Sprig of Lavender. By Herbert Clarke.

No. 21. November 19, 1859.

Illustrated by

How an Advertisement Got a Wife. By Mrs. Davis.

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E. H. Corbould.

Home or Hospital. By Harriet Martineau.

The Horned Snake. By George Paris Salmon.

Needlemaking. By Andrew Wynter.

Footsteps of Day. By Alsager Hay Hill.

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Phiz.

Benjamin Harris and His Wife Patience (Part 1). By Henrietta Keddie.

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Charles Keene.

English War-Ships and Their Uses (Part 2). By W. Bridges Adams.

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Edwin Weedon.

My Friend the Doctor. By Frederick Arthur Neale.

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John Tenniel.

Young Nimrod’s First Love. By Ralph A. Benson.

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John Leech.

Ana—Longevity Among the Peerage.

No. 22. November 26, 1859.

Illustrated by

Where? There and Thereafter! By Samuel Langley.

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Frederic Smallfield.

“England Expects Every Man to Do His Duty.” By Harriet Martineau.

An Incident of Dartmoor. By John F. Collier.

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John Tenniel.

The Lord of Nann and the Fairy. (From the Breton.) By Tom Taylor.

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E. H. Corbould.

Benjamin Harris and His Wife Patience (Part 2). By Henrietta Keddie.

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Charles Keene.

Wild Asses. By D. W. Mitchell.

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Joseph Wolf.

The Death Day of an Infant in Spain. By E. Brackenbury.

Tamise Ripe. By Cholmeley A. Leigh.

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Percival Skelton.

No. 23. December 3, 1859.

Illustrated by

Savernake and Forty-Five. By Shirley Brooks.

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John Leech.

Autumn Even-Song. By George Meredith.

The First Play-House. By Robert Bell.

The Palimpsest. By Manley Hopkins.

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Clara Lane.

Benjamin Harris and His Wife Patience (Part 3). By Henrietta Keddie.

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Charles Keene.

Woman’s Battle-Field. By Harriet Martineau.

The Recent Volcanic Eruptions in Hawaii. By Manley Hopkins.

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H. G. Hine.

A Lost Love. By Ralph A. Benson.

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J. E. Millais.

No. 24. December 10, 1859.

Illustrated by

The Foundation of My Picture-Gallery. By S. O. Mahony.

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Charles Keene.

Insurrection at Harper’s Ferry. By Harriet Martineau.

Mock Auctions. By Andrew Wynter.

Bought and Sold. By Ralph A. Benson.

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Phiz.

Rachel. By Isabella Percy.

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John Leech.

How to Improvise a Rifle-Gallery. By S. R. Lock.

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H. G. Hine.

Mountstuart Elphinstone: In Memoriam. By John William Kaye.

Sad Words. By Manley Hopkins.

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Alfred Thompson.

No. 25. December 17, 1859.

Illustrated by

Sentiment from the Shambles. By Caroline Woolmer Leakey.

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M. J. Lawless.

Newspaper “Canards.” By Samuel Langley.

Self-Murder. By Harriet Martineau.

St. Bartholomew. By Henry C. E. Malet.

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J. E. Millais.

Chips’s Ghost Story. By Richard Rowe.

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Phiz.

Women’s Work. By Sarah Stickney.

How to Convert London into a Garden. By W. Bridges Adams.

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H. G. Hine.

Real and Sham Vaccination. By John Rose Cormack.

Learning to Swim. By Harriet Martineau.

The Blind Woman of Manzanares. By John Bowring.

The Shadow Kiss. By Rev. J. Steadman.

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Phiz.

No. 26. December 24, 1859.

Illustrated by

An Old-Fashioned Christmas-Eve. By Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by G. W. Dasent.

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J. A. Fitzgerald.

The Mistletoe Bough; or, the Romance of the Rose. By Mary Eliza Rogers.

The German Fair. By Andrew Wynter.

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H. G. Hine.

A Story-Telling Party. By George Meredith.

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Phiz.

A Merry Christmas. By Louis Sand.

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Charles Keene.

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American Apple Frolic, An

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377

Amwell and its Quaker-Poet

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207

Ana

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149, 49, 437, 377, 284, 322

Artificial Man, The

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218

Astronomer’s Discovery, The

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21

Audun and his White Bear (from the Old Norse)

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4

Autumn Even Song

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464

Baron Jauioz (from the Breton)

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109

Belle of the Season, The

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149

Benjamin Harris and his Wife Patience

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427, 449, 471

Bessemer and Gun-Metal

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85

Black Monday

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360

Blind Woman of Manzanares, The

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525

Bought and Sold

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492

Bradmere Pool

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329

Bread-making in Spain

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217

Candle Making

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78

Cannibalism in Europe

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292

Châlets in the Jura

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244

Chameleon’s Colour, The

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248

Chips’s Ghost-Story

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515

Clover

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199

Coldstream

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342

Confessions of a Toadstool-Eater

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323

Cook or the Doctor, The

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331

Crossbones’ Father

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351

Crow of Ceylon, The

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180

Day at Whitewall House

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259

Death Day of an Infant in Spain, The

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458

Deer-Stalking Extraordinary

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313

Devil’s Horseshoe, The

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241

Domestic Servants in Hamburgh

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159

Dress and its Victims

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387

Dumb Mouths

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136

Eckart the Trusty (from Goethe)

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89

Effie Campbell

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247

Election Story, An

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25

Elphinstone, M.

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502

“England expects every Man to do his Duty”

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442

English Projectiles

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8, 28, 47

English Railway Artillery

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127

English War-Ships and their Uses

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409, 430

Evening in “The City of Palaces,” An

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235

Fairy May

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404

Fatal Gift, A

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141

First Play-House, The

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464

Follies in Food

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299

Footsteps of Day

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426

Fortune-Teller, The

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210

Foundation of My Picture-Gallery, The

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483

Garibaldi

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24

Gentleman in the Plum-coloured Coat, The

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266

German Fair, The

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532

Glaciers of Great Britain

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227

Good Fight, A

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11, 31, 51, 71, 91, 111, 131, 151, 171, 191, 211, 231, 251, 273

Grandmother’s Apology, The

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41

Great Eastern, The

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205

Great Ship’s Trials, The

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264

Guests at the Red Lion

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61

Hands and Machines

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346

Hawaii, Volcanic Eruptions in

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479

Hern Castle

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263

Herod in the Nineteenth Century

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195

Home or Hospital

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419

Horned Snake, The

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423

How an Advertisement got a Wife

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417

How I became a Hero

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373, 412

How Phil Considine met the Banshee

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221

How to Convert London into a Garden

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519

How to Improvise a Rifle-Gallery

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501

How to Learn to Swim

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327

In and Out (a Tourist Souvenir)

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121

In Memoriam

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372

Incident of Dartmoor, An

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445

Insurrection at Harper’s Ferry

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484

Isles of Scilly, The

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277

King of Thule, The

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250

La Fille Bien Gardée

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305

Lament for Eros

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170

Last Voyage of Sir John Franklin, The

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338, 361

Last Words of Juggling Jerry, The

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189

Learning to Swim

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524

Lord of Nann and the Fairy, The

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447

Lost Child, The

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181

Lost Love, A

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482

Magenta

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10

Man among the Mammoths

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3

Man and the Horse

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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

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

225

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

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

328

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

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

350

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); 470.
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.