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... HARRINGTON'S FORTUNES, by Mr. Alfred Randal I (Samue Tinsley), is a novel which few will have the patience to wade through. It is quite possible that, self-exiled from his native land, the author ma ...
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... nr. THE North American Review opens with a paper by M. de Lesseps on the Panama Canal, which he does not hesitate to declare will be easier to begin, to finish, and to maintain, than the Suez Canal. ...
THE GHOST'S LAST SHOT. A STORY FOR THE WINTER FIRESIDE: CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II
... THE GHOST'S LAST SHOT. A STORY FOR THE WINTER FIRESIDE. BY A. H. Wail. CHAPTER I. A sad tale's best for winter I have one of sprites and poblins. Shakespeare. ONCE upon a time, when the year was 1848, the month December, and the day one of the coldest I remember, my friend John Lyndsey-- well known under his assumed name as actor and artist-- was riding with myself in an out-of-the-way part of ...
My Luck: THE STORY OF A FORTUNATE MAN IN FOUR CHAPTERS
... Mn i-nd; THE STORY OF A FORTUNATE MAN In Four Chapters I. I WAS an only child, my name was Orlando Pybell, and my father's name was Orlando Pybell also. My father had an only brother, and he-- Marmadu ...
LADIES ON HORSEBACK: PART III.--(Continued.)
... LADIES ON HORSEBACK. MAENINO, PAEK-EIDING, ANn HUNTING, WITH HINTS UPON COSTUME, AND NUMEEOUS ANECDOTES. By Hes. Poweb O'Donoghue Authoress of The Knave of Clubs, Horses and Horsemen, Grandfather's Hunter, One in Ten Thousand, Spring Leaves, Thoughts on the Talmud, c., e. Begun in No. 350, October 2.) Paet III. Continued I said in the beginning of these columns that I should offer ...
New Novels
... DAIREEN, by F. Frankfort Moore (Smith and Elder).-- Mr. Moore deserves ample credit for his power of invention. Rarely have we met with a novel so full of incident, and one which at the same time ca ...
New Novels
... STEADFAST UNTO DEATH: a Tale of the Irish Famine of To-day, by Mrs. Berens (1 vol., Remington and Co.).-- The plot of this tragic anecdote is dramatically imagined, and the story fairly well told. I ...
BARRISTERS' BOYS
... I WONDER if every barrister goes through a course of boys. (You will understand what I mean presently.) I never went the length of making that inquiry of any other member of the Bar ...
LADIES ON HORSEBACK: LEARNING, PARK-RIDING, AND HUNTING, WITH HINTS UPON COSTUME, AND NUMEROUS ANECDOTES
... LADIES ON HORSEBACK. LEARNING, PARK-BIDING, AND HUNTING, WITH HINTS UPON COSTU2IE, AND NUMEROUS ANECDOTES. By Mrs. Power O'Donoghue Authoress of The Knave of Clubs, Horses and Horsemen, Grandfather's Hunter, One in Ten Thousand, Spring Leaves, Thoughts on the Talmud c., e. (Begun in Ko. 350, October 2.) Part III. Continued .1 I would desire particularly to impress upon you that if your ...
THE GHOST'S LAST SHOT: THE LEGEND OF WITHRINGTON GRANGE; THE GHOST'S LAST SHOT
... THE GHOST'S LAST SHOT. By A. H. Wail. CHAPTER III. The traditional story of the ghost's shot I here append as the landlord of the village inn in which we were so cosily sheltered told it on the following morning. The Leoend of Withkington Geange. It was some time in the reign of that merry monarch, King Charles II.-- as I've heard say-- that Sir Charles Withrington fell in love with the ...
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... from the scene of this story, and Scarlet, the guard, brought the news, which was given to a boy waiting on a pony to ride over to rhinhurv and let the sportsmen know what had happened. What's the time? Five o'clock? Gets dark early, doesn't it? jolly old Driller said. What's that? I hear a horse-- it no t.hn hov alreadv. The little barber looked out of the window. It's some of the ...