No. 2271. — January 7, 1888. Contents. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, by Arch. Geikie, Contemporary Review The Magic Fan, by John Strange Winter, author of "Bootle's Baby," "A Siege Baby," etc., English Illustrated Magazine Mohammedanism in Africa, by R. Bosworth Smith, Nineteenth Century Lord Macaulay and Madame d'Arblay, by Coker Adams, National Review A Dramatic Effect, Blackwood's Magazine The Future of the Negro, Spectator Early English Navigators and their Nautical Instruments, St. James's Gazette New Names for New States, Spectator Old Silver, St. James's Gazette
Poetry. An April Day, by R. L. Binyon, Academy At Moonrise, by Sidney A. Alexander, English Illustrated Magazine Carmen Mysticum, Spectator Love and Death, by Edward F. Strange, Magazine of Art
Miscellany. Oil Calming a Troubled Sea, Chambers' Journal Poisonous Colors, English Mechanic
No. 2272. — January 14, 1888. Contents. Cæsar Borgia - Part I., by Charles Yriarte, Blackwood's Magazine Jims Meg, Murray's Magazine Count Leo Tolstoi, by Matthew Arnold, Fortnightly Review Beethoven, by L. E., Temple Bar Richard Cable, the Lightshipman - Part XXXII., by Sabine Baring-Gould, the author of "Mehalah," "John Herring," "Court Royal," etc., Chambers' Journal Moultrie's Poems, by H. S. Salt, Macmillan's Magazine Slipshod English, by I. G. S., National Review Lindley Murray, All The Year Round An Episode of the Long Vacation, by Roland Graham, Macmillan's Magazine A Panegyric on Sir Walter Scott, Pall Mall Gazette
Poetry. The Pixies' Garden, by E. Nesbit, Longman's Magazine The Prisoner, by B. L. Tollemache, Academy
No. 2273. — January 21, 1888. Contents. Two Bishops Of Manchester, Temple Bar Grey Fur - Part II., by E. Gerard, Longman's Magazine Sir Stafford Northcote, by Lord Coleridge, Macmillan's Magazine Peter Grant's Wooing, by Louisa Parr, Longman's Magazine Some Experiences of an Elephant-Kraal in Ceylon, by S. M. Burrows, Macmillan's Magazine Oysters, by C. Lloyd Morgan, Murray's Magazine The Thames, by Benjamin Ward Richardson, Fortnightly Review Rabbits in Australia, by C. G. N. Lockhart, Blackwood's Magazine Hares, St. James's Gazette Hibernian Imagery, Spectator
Poetry. The Mirage, by H. T. R., Spectator After Autumn, Cornhill Magazine Nature, by Will Foster, Spectator
No. 2274. — January 28, 1888. Contents. Peasant Properties in France, 1787 - 1887, by F. P. Verney, National Review Cass, Cornhill Magazine The Time it Takes to Think, by J. McK. Cattell, Nineteenth Century Richard Cable, the Lightshipman - Part XXXIII., by Sabine Baring-Gould, the author of "Mehalah," "John Herring," "Court Royal," etc., Chambers' Journal Notes by a Naturalist, Cornhill Magazine Mademoiselle Aisse, by Edmund Gosse, Fortnightly Review The Wreck of the Derry Castle, Chambers' Journal Manxland: its Laws and Customs, Westminster Review Secret Chambers, St. James's Gazette The Attractiveness of London, Spectator An Unvarnished Picture of Peking, St. James's Gazette Philologists versus Critics, by H. D. Traill, English Illustrated Magazine
Poetry. Matrimony, Temple Bar Bygones, by Charles Mackay, Temple Bar A Baby's Epitaph, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Fortnightly Review A Rhyme, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Fortnightly Review
No. 2275. — February 4, 1888. Contents. Right and Wrong, by W. S. Lilly, Fortnightly Review Such Pity as a Father hath, Blackwood's Magazine Rome and Malaria, by E. Strachan Morgan, National Review Dr. Johnson's Style, by G. Birkbeck Hill, Macmillan's Magazine William Powell Frith, R.A., Temple Bar The Story of the Assassination of Alexander II., by J. E. Muddock, Gentleman's Magazine Pictures at Sea, by W. Clark Russell, Macmillan's Magazine Centenary of the Times, Times The Explosion at Amoy, by Miss Gordon-Cumming, St. James's Gazette Christmas Island, by W. J. L. Wharton, Nature The Power and Speed of Flight in Birds, St. James's Gazette
Poetry. Advice to the Girl of the Period, by G. H. W., Temple Bar Irene, by William Canton, Academy Somewhere, by H. T. R., Spectator
Miscellany. Police Law in Russia, Public Opinion
No. 2276. — February 11, 1888. Contents. Shelley, by Matthew Arnold, Nineteenth Century Souvenirs of an Egoist, by Ernest C. Dowson, Temple Bar Elk-Hunting, by Henry Pottinger, Fortnightly Review Marlitt, by C. Baring Gould, Gentleman's Magazine Richard Cable, the Lightshipman - Part XXXIV., by Sabine Baring-Gould, the author of "Mehalah," "John Herring," "Court Royal," etc., Chambers' Journal A Magyar Musician, by Paul Sylvester, National Review Count Cavour, Westminster Review Perpetual Motion, Nature The Calamity in China, Spectator Professor Bonamy Price, Spectator