... UNFAIRLY WON. BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback, dsc. [Commenced January 29th. No. 368.) CHAPTER XIII.- (Continued.) The following morning, whilst the family were sitting at breakfast--with the exception of Lady Chandos, who always rose late--a servant entered with a letter, which he gave to Sir Jeffrey. Ivy, who was sitting next her father--not eating, but ministering ...

... ROVE'S VICTORY. A DRAMATIC STORY Adapted expressly for th is paper. By Howard Paul. CHAPTER XXIII. PAUL folded Gabrielle to his heart and asked her to give him an account of the past two years. She did so, and when she related the incidents in which Sir Peabody was concerned, De Najac interrupted her with,-- That villain shall answer for this with his life Wretches like him do not die by the ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STORY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER II. TREATS OF CERTAIN PRELIMINARIES TO A MEMORABLE GAME AT CRICKET, CONCERNING WHICH CLUB SCORE-BOOKS AND LOCAL REPORTERS ARE SILENT; AND SHOWS THAT, IF DOCTOR SUTTON HAS WON HIS MATCH FOR LIFE, HE HAS YET TO RECEIVE THE STAKES. Summer reaches us so late in the year we can generally depend upon gracing the Feast of St. Grouse with the ...

... ROBERT EUDE, A STORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLAND. By A. H. Waix. PART THREE CHAPTER IV. S2Joc foort|>, tooc-foortb fimfub foooi £(jat tbtr ifjou grcfo on a irtt gar nolo l^ia ban tjioo art ran bait, Hit bootc hibtn tbou sboulb be. Old Ballad. In the calm pensive twilight, when the outlines of the motion- less leaves stood sharp and clear against the grandly solemn sky, the downcast townsmen ...

... THE BRITISH BADGER. HIS CLAIMS FOR PROTECTION. Part II. LIKE the bear, the badger remains during the winter months, and especially in a hard frost, curled up in the furthest recesses of his earth in a semi- torpid state, and he is invariably found in excellent condition. He is a very expert excavator, as has been above stated. He makes the most extraordinary subterranean abodes with diverse ...

... HUSH By J. 1'aloeave Sisipsox. IT was a large Christmas party that had been assembled at Hadlow Hall, the hospitable mansion of my father's old friend, Guy Cranworth. I was not one of the family, not even a distant relative; but I was welcomed as if I had been one of the former, on the strength of the simple fact that I was my father's son; and I felt almost like a boy going home for the ...

... . (From Our Own Correspondent.) in. HAVING seen more of the inner life of theatricals over here-- and I have lost no opportunity of visiting every class of theatre --I am more than ever convinced that the importation of a few good stage-managers would benefit the American stage. The system practised here is ruinous to art, though it may be com plimentary to individual vanity. There is a ...

... DOLLY DUMPLETON'S HARRIERS. Author of Sporting Sketches etc IX THREE CHAPTERS. CHAPTER II. ME. ROBERT DAVIES, M.F.H. By Finch Mason. AFTER a week's correspondence between our young friend Adolphus and R. D. or his agent, and a good deal of haggling about a fi'pun note, R. D. wanting thirty pounds and Dolly declining to give more than twenty-five, the deal was at last brought to a satisfactory ...

... SPORTING DRAMATIC STORIES. A STRING- OP TRIPLES. By Montf. A TRIFLE! Why, life is mainly made up of trifles, said Loftus Egerton as he stretched out his hand to take an apple from the basket-shaped blue china dish of pippins in front of him. It was a glorious September afternoon in the days when George the Second was King by the gra^e of God and the apathy of the English Jacobites. The ...

... A HAPPY NEW YEAE. Concluded from our last.) THE old man watched her, as he twisted and untwisted his lank fingers, and a shade of something akin to remorse passed over his face; but if any such feeling glimmered in his breast he quickly extinguished the feeble spark, and could Alice Fairlie have read his thoughts they would have spoken to her in this wise-- I wronged her father years ago when ...

... . By G. A. Henty. WE were sitting over our wine after a quiet dinner in my chambers, the we being Lennox and Harris, both of the Middle Temple, my uncle Dick, an old Indian officer, and myself. The subject of conversation had been wraiths, and, looking at the numerous authenticated instances of appearances at the moment of death to relatives or friends far distant, we had concluded that the ...

... , IN this month's Theatre there is an article by Mr. Frederick Hawkins, which has been re-published in the Daily Telegraph. It is called Shylock and other Stage Jews, and it contains some very curious statements, leading up, very strangely, to some very odd conclusions. I have just read it, and have been trying hard to find by reference to Mr. Malone's works where he published his asser tion ...