[The seven volumes preceding the present are incorrectly numbered: instead of being volumes ccxl. to ccxlvi., they should be ccxlii. to ccxlviii. The present volume is correctly described as the Two Hundred and Fortyninth from the commencement of the Magazine in 1731.]

CONTENTS OF VOL. CCXLIX.

About Nothing. By W. E. NORRIS

Aerial Exploration of the Arctic Regions. By W. MATTIEU
WILLIAMS.

After Eight Months. By THE MEMBER FOR THE CHILTERN
HUNDREDS

Among the Sugar-canes. By REDSPINNER

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Canada, The Fishes of. By ALFRED RIMMER

Captive, The, of Castile. By ALEX. C. EWALD, F.S.A.

Charles Kean. By DUTTON COOK.

Charles Kingsley as a Fisherman. By Rev. M. G. WATKINS, M.A. 671
City of the Saints, In the. By IZA DUFFUS HARDY
Court Rolls. By JOHN AMPHLETT.

Cremorne to Westminster, From. By PERCY FITZGERALD
Czarina Anne, The. By JAMES FORFAR

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Dryden, A Relic of. By ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE

416

Eclipse, The, of Shakespeare. By DUTTON COOK.

Fasting, The Philosophy of. By BENJAMIN W. RICHARDSON, M.D. 348
Felix, Rachel. By DUTTON Cook.

188

Fishes, The, of Canada. By ALFRED RIMMER

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Folk-Lore, The, of the Moon. By T. F. THISELTON DYER

Holiday, A Scotch. By Rev. M. G. WATKINS, M.A.

Hospitaller Work at St. John's Gate in 1880. By Major FRANCIS

In the City of the Saints. By IZA DUFFUS HARDY
Kean, Charles. By DUTTON COOK.

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Kernel, A Perished. By ALEX. C. EWALD, F.S.A..
Kingsley, Charles, as a Fisherman. By Rev. M. G. WATKINS, M.A. 671
Likenesses, The Science of, and its Meanings. By ANDREW

Moon, The, and its Folk-Lore. By T. F. THISELTON DYER

Netley Hospital. By E. LYNN LINTON .

New Study, A, of "Love's Labour's Lost." By S. L. LEE

Nothing, About. By W. E. NORRIS

Parliament and the Press. BY THE MEMBER FOR THE CHILTERN

HUNDREDS

Perished Kernel, A. By ALEX. C. Ewald, F.S.A.

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Philosophy, The, of Fasting. By BENJAMIN W. RICHARDSON, M.D. 348

Queen Cophetua. By R. E. FRANCILLON :

Rachel Felix. By DUTTON Cook .

Relic, A, of Dryden. By ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE

St. John's Gate in 1880, Hospitaller Work at. By Major FRANCIS

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Saints, In the City of the, By IZA DUFFUS HARDY

Science Notes. By W. MATTIEU WILLIAMS, F.R.A.S. :
Introductory Note-A New Development of Photography-
Arctic Ballooning-A Steam-engine Worked by the Sun-
Balloon Photographs-Geological Convulsions-Eye-Memory
-The Under Crust of the Earth-The Immateriality of Matter
-Unpleasant Researches-The Muscular Education of Animals
-A New Vinegar-Sunshine and Railway Accidents
Chemical Transformations-The World's Growth-Mineral Ana-
tomy-The New Branch of the British Museum-The Earth's
Magnetism-The "Darwinian" Theory-An Unsuccessful At-
tempt at Martyrdom-The Perspiration of Plants-The Air of
Stove-heated Rooms ..

The Photophone-London Fogs-A Novelty in Leather - Prac-
tical Science in France-A Perforated Mountain
Lava Floods without Volcanoes-Electric Hair-Underground
Waters The Progress of the Photophone-Electricity and
Salted Herrings

Science of Likenesses, The, and its Meanings. By ANDREW WILSON,

F.R.S.E.

Scotch Holiday, A. By Rev. M. G. WATKINS, M.A.

Shakespeare as a Prose Writer. By J. CHURTON COLLINS

Shakespeare, The Eclipse of. By DUTTON COOK.

Société, Vers de. By ALEX. H. JAPP

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Study, A New, of "Love's Labour's Lost." By S. L. LEE
Success, Literary, a Hundred Years Ago. By MARGARET HUNT.
Sugar-canes, Among the. By REDSPINNER
Table Talk, By SYLVANUS URBAN :—

The late Mr. Planché-The Use of Small Birds-Unfortunate

Servants of the Commonwealth-Advance of Histrionic Art in

London-Antiquity of Hissing-Mr. Hollingshead's "Plain

English "-His New "Definitions"-A Proposal from the New

Shakspere Society-A Curious Dream-The Electric Light

in Ships-London and its Houses-A Story of Balzac-The

London Water Supply

A Fresh-water Jellyfish-M. Sarcey and Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt
on English Acting-Dutch Players in London-Fairies and
their Size-Professor Mommsen's Calamity-Tom Taylor's Plays 251
The Jesuits and Theatricals-Dr. Horace H. Furness and the
Tower of London-The Index Society-A Statue to Rabelais-
Bret Harte's Works-Spanish Cruelty

Animal Sympathy with Humanity-"Where Ignorance is Bliss,"

its Origin-A Story of a Judge-Teetotal Literature- Merciful

Death for Animals-" The City of Dreadful Night "-The

Indian Romance "Ramáyana "- "Parliament Joan"-Sugges-

tions as to a Library of Reference-Mr. Ruskin's Collected

Letters

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