... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...