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... , IT is a little startling to read, as I do in the first number of a penny illustrated paper, devoted exclusively to the Balham Mystery, that particular (very particular) insurance offices make it a rule never to insure the lives of medical men's wives, because their husbands have special facilities for secret poisoning! What does the Faculty think of that? In fancy, I recall a bright-eyed ...

LORD ALINGTON

... GERARD STURT has become such a household word among turfites, that it will be some time before we shall be able to fall into the more euphonious title which has been his reward for long years of excellent service rendered to the Con servative causes. Born and bred a sportsman Lord Alington, on succeeding to his property found himself equally at home across the nastiest of countries, or ...

AMERICAN SCENERY

... . With the Yosemite Yalley, the Falls of Niagara, and the grandeur of American scenery generally, thousands of English men who have never yet crossed the Atlantic will doubtless make themselves familiar on the occasion of their visit to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. Wherefore the series of American views we commence this week may not be unacceptable. Following the usual route of ...

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... THROUGH the AGES a Psycho- _L logical Romance. By the Author of The Honey moon. 3 vols. [Feb. 4. MR. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. THE PRIME MINISTER, By JL ANTHONY TROLLOPE. To be completed in Eight Monthly Divisions, 5s. each. Third Division now- ready. MAJOR WHYTE-MEL VILLE' S NEW NOVEL. SISTER LOUISE or, the Story of a Woman's Repentance. By G. J. WHYTE- MELVILLE. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo, ...