... THE STORY OF OLD DRURY. By A. LI. Wall. CHAPTER. I. THE PHCEN1X AND COCKPIT. (Continued from page 202 AMONGST the most popular of the dramatists whom Charles the First honoured was his poet-laureate, Sir William Davenant, Shak speare's godson, or perhaps, as he shamelessly boasted, his natural son. He was a dissipated courtier of considerable talent, who had fought and suffered in the Royal ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STORY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER V. FURNISHES A FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND AND FINAL I'ART OF THE GLORIOUS ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN HEATHER THORP AND SHIPLEY AND SHOWS HOW THE DOCTOR FARED WITH HIS WAGER. THE happy despatch of Mr. Reginald Woodridge occurred when the June sun was at its hottest, and the scouts were reduced to the verge of utter exhaustion. His dismissal ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STORY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER VII. DEALS WITH A TRIANGULAR DUEL, A PATERNAL EBULLITION, A SENTENCE OF DOMESTIC EXPATRIATION, AND A SHOWER OF TEARS DESCRIBES HOW THE DOCTOR CUNNINGLY BLENDED THE EXERCISE OF ONE GENTLE CRAFT WITH THAT OF ANOTHER, AND AFFORDS A PROSPECT OF THE RETURN MATCH BETWEEN HIM AND MR. REGINALD WOODRIDGE. KATE could not sleep for thinking of the ...

... . (By Richard Dowling.) THE stream Aspenore, before it falls into the river Ladeway, tumbles through a damp, dim, pine glen, then expands a little, and is presently gathered to the side of a mill by a weir, like a would-be truant child tethered by an apron-string to the waist of a mother. Below the mill the little stream is deep, placid, con tent. Here it seems to feel as though it had had its ...

... . BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. Chapter NIL FROM the time I first sailed a toy boat at Bognor, in the gullies left when the tide was receding, to the year 1866, when I owned the Loadstar cutter of 48 tons, I passed a great portion of my spare time upon the water. Since the latter period, I have enjoyed many a delightful sail in the Arrow, the Zouave, the Zara, the Iolanthe, the Zuleika, the Mars, ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STO RY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER VIII. CONTAINS NOTES OF THE VISIT TO SCARBOROUGH RENEWS CHEERFUL INTERCOURSE WITH SOME EARLY FRIENDS EN DEAVOURS TO DEPICT A REMARKABLE MARKET-DINNER AT THE SURSINGLE ARMS; AND DESCRIBES THE DRAWING-UP OF ARTICLES FOR THE RETURN MATCH BETWEEN GREEK AND GREEK OTHERWISE DOCTOR AND IRONMASTER. FAITHFUL to the spirit of her promise, Sylvia ...

... . By Harriet Fisher. ABOUT the close of the year 1813, an orphan family of young people were living in the town of Northenden, then a far different place from the busy city of to-day. The river, which now flows black as ink between high ranks of mills and warehouses, was not then pent within such narrow bounds, nor had it yet attained its present sooty hue. There were even paths beside its ...

... . ON Monday next the season of Fat Stock Shows culminates with the holding of the Cattle Show par excellence of the year-- that promoted by the Smithfield Club. The forthcoming exhibition of fat cattle will derive some importance from the fact that it is the hundredth of the series, and possibly the executive of the club-- the Prince of Wales is president for the year-- would have been glad if ...

... THE MA JOE'S MESS CLOTHES. A TRUE STORY. By E. E. Cutiiell. IN Major Munnie, paymaster of the Royal Scilly Islanders, was to be seen one of those few remaining specimens of Crimean officers still to be found floating about the subordinate ranks of the British army. His contemporaries, the men with whom he had scaled the heights of the Alma or shivered in the trenches before Sebastopol, had ...

... SPORTING DRAMATIC STORIES. ISABELLE, By the Author of An M.D.'s Tale, etc. CHAPTER I. Fair encounter Of two iuoht rare affections Hoavena rain grace On that which breeds betweon 'em 1-- The Tempest. FEW places look more lonely than a country house in an evening in November. The road to it is strewn with leaves and they and the trees above, from which they have just fallen, are drenched and ...

... . Chapter XV. HALLAM, in his History and Government of Europe during the Middle Ages, gives the following description of the tourna ment: --Tournaments may be considered to have arisen about the middle of the eleventh century; for though every martial people have found diversion in representing the image of war, yet the name of tournaments, and the laws that regulated them, cannot be traced ...

... . By J. Palobaye Simpson. CHAPTER I. THE odds were terribly against me-- they were ten to one. But I was resolved to make the running. Cheer up, old boy, I had said to poor Archie Clevedon, as he wrung my hand at the window of my railway carriage, I will win the stakes or own myself a duffer for the rest of my life. My journey was to Hampshire as it had been arranged that I should spend my ...