CONTENTS. 


Drawn by 
A Modern Masquerade... ee ee ° oe «- Adelaide Claxton 
Admiral Sir John Hawkins - . oe oe 
An Actor’s Story ee ee ee ee ee «» W. M*Connell 209, 2 
An April Fool . e 
An Hour with a Geske- Charmer 
An Old-fashioned Valentine 
A Railway Battle at St. Stephen's, Westminster 
Art in the Auction Room ee ° ee oe ee 
At Swindon .. ee oe . ee oe > Ge Ellen Edwards 
Cheap Switzerland .. - ee ee ee os C. A. Doyle 
Christmas with Grampus ee +. Alfred Crowquili 
Costume of English, Flemish, Prassian, and Venetian "Mer- 
chants of the Sixteenth Century .. ee es ee _ 
Dr. John Black, Editor and Political Economist oo os ee 
Highgate Archway .. oe oe -» 2. M. Wimperis 120 
How Charlie Blake went in for ‘the Heiress oe -» G.du Maurier 385 
How the Shareholders’ Money goes... oe a H. Sanderson 193 
In Rotten Row Three Years Ago ee ° oe os E. H. Corbould 80 
London Opera Directors :— 
Signora Faustina ee ee : ee ee 289 
Aaron Hill e ee ee oe ° ee 400 
Francois Xavier Geminiani es oe ee ee 401 
Veracini .. ee * ee oe oe oe 404 
Felici Giardini .. ee ee oe ee oe 409 
tee a ee ee ne ae ae Phiz 176 
Little Golden Hair... es ee ee es R, Barnes 268 
Lovely Lady Coventry es ee ee ° 353 
Love's Weatherglass  .. ee es ee oe os E. F Weir 112 
May in the Park oe ee oe es oe ee F. J. Skill 424 
Mephistopheles and the Geese .. oe ee oe - H Sanderson = 481 
Midsummer Lyric as es oe ° ee -- Robert Jefferson 503 
Miss Morton's Mince Pies os ee - -- Kenny Meadows 93, 96 
Mrs. Honiton gives her hand to Perkins +. Adelaide Claxton 320 
Mrs, Spencer's Party ., oe ee C, A. Doyle 192 


MAR 22 1897 


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No Admission under £300 per annum 
Not for You .. ee ee 

Our Croquet Party 
Our Entertainment 


Poor David! .. * ee 
Preparing for ‘ The Der’ by’ ee se 
Rival Charms 


Shakespeare, from the ete ol ‘Guin Portraits, 


with Sketches at Stratford 
Ships of the Sixteenth Century 
Sir Richard Whittington 


Drawn by Page 
+» Florence Claxton 178 


- HM. J, Lawless 85 
oo F. J. Skill 496 


C. ‘A. Doyle, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 


(313, 314, 315, 316, 317 
-» XM, Ellen Edwards 277 
-» Cuthbert Bede 467 
«» 4M, Ellen Edwards 538 


ee ° ee 416 
ee +. 531, 538 
a 328 


Sir Thomas Gresham’s Tomb in St, Helen’ s Church, Bishopsgate 460 


Society on its Feet * ee 
St. Valentine’s Day in Leap Ter ee 


The Bay Window ‘of Our Club 
The Dream becomes — eo 
The Duet 


The Electric Telegraph : ee Allegory 


The First Day of the Season .. 

The Forlorn Hope and the Damask Rose 
The Inner Life ° ° ° 
The Maiden’s Lament ee 

The Railway: An Allegory .. 

The Snowy Christmas ° 

The Study of Astronomy 

The Two Valentines 

Tom Probus and his V: eile 
Turning Over a New Leaf 

Types of English Beauty 

What is my Love like?.. 
Whittington’s House 

William Makepeace Thackeray 


A iain Christmas, The tie 
Inn, Ironstown 

An Actor’s Story 

An April Fool . - 

Christmas with Grampus - ° 

How Charlie Blake went in for the 
Heiress . ‘ 


38 
Just. as it happened : "A Tale of Two 


Valentines .. 
Lovely Lady Coventry. The Story of 


a Belle .. ee ae 353 


Miss Morton’s Mince "Pies. 

Our Croquet Party .. 

The Snowy Christmas... 

The Ordeal for Wives, A Story of 
London Life. By the Author of 
‘The Morals of Mayfair’ :— 

Chap. 1, At Swindon * 
11, On the Coach-box .. 
st. A Muscular Heroine 
1v. The Fleming Blood 





Florence Claxton 6 

- Phiz 176 
eo C. A. Doyle 558 
.. M. Ellen Edwards 350 
aa J.D. Watson 268 
.- From Echter’s Fresco 364 
Phiz 113, 117 

M. Ellen Edwards 151 
Louis Desanges 4 Frontispiece 
eco 40 

en Echter’s Fresco 265 

-» Rosa Mulholland 65 
-» MM. Ellen Edwards 428 
oe G, H. Thomas 169 


7. Morten and W. M‘Connell 97,103, 105 


«»  W. M'Connell 1 
Lucy Meadows 
-- E.. Johnson 


. A Forlorn Hope 
. Concerning Fly-fishing .. 
. Esther’s Knowledge of the 


World a « « 3 


. The Disorder called Love 270 
. Poor David! .. .. - 277 
. Oliverasa Hero .. .. 280 
. Miss Joanna evinces her 


Strength of Mind .. 283 
A Pharisee comme il faut 338 


. The First Infidelity .. 347 
. The Study of Astronomy 425 
- Scruples.. ..  .. 431 
. The Trials of Toad-eating 433 
. An Unknown Rival .. 439 
- Calumniated .. .. .. 538 
- A Serious Bringing-up - 541 
. Fifty Thousand Pounds., 545 
- Rival Charms.. ..  ., 553 





Contents. 


Hketches, 


Page 
A Chat about Valentines .. . 178 
Christmas and New Year's agi in 
Paris... 
How the Shareholders’ Money goes . 
London Papers and London Editors :— 
No. 1v. John Sterling, Dr. Joha 
Black, William Jerdan *.. 
Mrs. Spencer’s Party, and how the 
People amused themselves .. .. 184 
My Rowing Days .. .. «. «+. 368 
Our Entertainment .. oo oe 904 
Picturesque London :— 
No. 1. From the Golden Gallery .. 
1, From Highgate Arch on 
Christmas Day - 120 
ut, Hyde Park . 419 
Society on its Feet .. 6 
The First ad of the © Season, a and its 
Results . 113 


193 


73 


233 | 


Page 
The London Opera Directois :— 

289 
. 401 
. 513 

The Merchant Princes of England ~_ 
Chap. 1. Early English Commerce 129 
11, The De la Poles of Hull 256 
ut, Richard Whittington of 
Londo’ >» oo aa 
vi. The Canthings of of Bristol... 332 
v. The Greshams of London 449 
vi. The Hawkinses of Plymouth 527 


The Playgrounds of Europe. Fear: 
Switzerland .. 

| Tom Probus and his Valentines. 

Turning over a New Leaf... 





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97 
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Miscellaneous Papers. 


A oi on Garden Games—Quoits 
Bowls, Summer Skates, and Child- 
ren’s Garden Games ‘ 
An Hour with a Snake-cha: mer 
Art in the Auction Koom . 
Art in a Railway Station :— 
Echter’s Fresco—The Railway... 
» —The Electric Tele- 
raph .. 


At Thackeray’s Grave 
At the Westminster Play .. 
Christmas in the Colonies .. 
Easter Eve at St. Petersburgh... 
Football at Rugby, Eton, and Harrow ‘ 
From Putney to Mortlake with the 
University ‘ Eights’ 
How some Folk prepare for the Derby 467 
How they ‘ get up’ a Company .. 481 
In the Water :— 
Chap. 1, A Fatal Negligence.— What 
it has Cost us -» 487 


, In the Water—continued, 

Chap. 11. The Ladies’ Swimming 
School on the Seine, 
and the Ladies’ Bath 
in Marylebone .. 

111, Society in the Sea .. 
Ladies’ Work .. 
Notes Drawn on the “Avon, Bank for 

General Circulation . 

Notes on Dre=s at a Fancy Ball 
Parisian Promenades .. © 
Searching for Summer Quarters ise 
Social Pioneers—Charles — and 

the Penny Press . 5 

St. David's Day 

The Gullibility of Man .. 

The School of Musketry at F leet wood 
The Story of Thekla.. . os 
Young England’s College : Sports: A 

Day with the Champion Athletes of 

the Universities .. .. 


81 
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375 


Poetry. 


A Bundle of Contradictions .. 

A Bundie of Answers to a Bundle ‘of 
Con ns f = “s 

Ad Lanam os - +: 

Albert the Good ‘os 

An Old-fashioned Valentine 

Little Golden-Hair’s gal 

New Year’s Eve ee 

a for You 


a Valentine 


A 

- 176 
. 557 
268 


St. Valentine's Day in Leap Year. 
Solemn Warning to Single Men 

The Bay-window of our Club . 

The Duet ..  .. - 

The Spirit Child. "A Br idegroom’ s 
Tale of the New Year .. 

The Under-Current ..  .. 

Two April Pictures .. 

Types of English Beauty 

What is my Love like 








