Produced by Chuck Greif (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
Thanks are due to Messrs. Mitchell & Miller, Harper & Brothers, Charles Scribner’s Sons, The Century Company, Stone & Kimball, and The London Graphic, for their kind permission to reproduce a number of the drawings included in this collection.
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Copyright by HARPER & BROTHERS. Copyright by THE CENTURY COMPANY.
COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL.
THEY HAD BEEN IN THEIR ROOM BUT A MOMENT WHEN THEY WERE STARTLED BY A KNOCK.]
[Illustration: THE LEADING FEATURES OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION.]
[Illustration: THE MORNING AFTER ELECTION DAY.]
[Illustration: _First Shade:_ THERE’S ONE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS PLACE.
SHE HAS JUST PREVENTED HIS PROPOSING BY TELLING HIM SHE IS ENGAGED.]
[Illustration: “DID I UNDERSTAND YOU TO SAY, JOHN, THAT THE TENOR MARRIED THE CONTRALTO?“
“YES. THE CHOIR WAS TO BE DISBANDED, AND THAT WAS THE ONLY MEANS OF CONTINUING THEIR QUARREL.“]
[Illustration: _The Doctor:_ DID YOU GIVE MY NOTE TO MRS. BARTON?
“GREAT SCOTT! I THOUGHT IT WAS A PRESCRIPTION AND MADE IT UP FOR HER.“]
[Illustration: _Sympathetic plain friend to inconsolable young widow:_ THE LAST TIME I MET YOUR DEAR HUSBAND HE STOPPED AND SPOKE TO ME WITH SUCH A SUNNY GREETING THAT I WAS THE HAPPIER FOR IT ALL DAY LONG.
_Young widow_ (_still oblivious to everything except her loss_): YES, THAT WAS JUST LIKE DEAR DAVID. THERE WAS NO WOMAN SO HUMBLE OR HOMELY, OR UNATTRACTIVE, OR DULL, BUT THAT HE COULD FIND SOMETHING PLEASANT TO SAY TO HER, AND WOULD TAKE PAINS TO SAY IT.--]
[Illustration: THE DAY OF CARNOT’S FUNERAL.]
[Illustration: IN DAYS TO COME, WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THIS BOY?]
[Illustration: A COUNCIL OF WAR IN THE DAYS TO COME.]
[Illustration: IN DAYS TO COME THE CHURCHES MAY BE FULLER.]
[Illustration: HER FIRST GLIMPSE OF ROYALTY.]
“AND I FURTHER DIRECT THAT IN THE EVENT OF THE REMARRIAGE OF MY SAID WIFE SOPHIA, ALL HER SHARE AND INTEREST IN THE AFORESAID CAPITAL SUM OF 500,000 SHALL IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DETERMINE.“]
[Illustration: AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.
“NO; I’M GOING TO TAKE A HARLEM GIRL TO A THEATRE PARTY IN BROOKLYN.“]
[Illustration: GOLF IS NOT THE ONLY GAME ON EARTH.]