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THE

STRAND MAGAZINE.

FEBRUARY, 1891.




CONTENTS


  The Pistol Shot.
  A Night with the Thames Police.
  The Maid of Treppi.
  Our Money Manufactory.
  Slap-Bang.
  Portraits of Celebrities at different times of their Lives.
  Letters from Artists on Ladies' Dress.
  How the Redoubt was Taken.
  Actors' Dressing Rooms.
  The Minister's Crime.
  At the Children's Hospital.
  Fac-simile of the Notes of a Speech by John Bright.
  A Passion in the Desert.
  Barak Hageb and His Wives.




[Illustration: "SILVIO! _YOU_ KNEW SILVIO?"]




_The Pistol Shot._

FROM THE RUSSIAN OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN.


We were stationed at the little village of Z. The life of an officer in
the army is well known. Drill and the riding school in the morning