BELGRAVIA.

An Illustrated London Magazine.

Contents of No. 119, for SEPTEMBER.

CHARLES READE'S Good Stories of Man and other Animals. Nos. IV. and V. Illustrated by PERCY MACQUOID,

Swedenborg's Visions of Other Worlds. By RICHARD A. PROCTOR. The G. B. C.: A Tale of a Telegram. By JAMES PAYN.

Quips and Cranks at our Club Window. By AN OLD ENTHUSIAS and A YOUNG CYNIC.

Joshua Haggard's Daughter. Chaps. XXVIII.-XXX. By M. E BRADDON. Illustrated by H. FRENCH.

Lady Troubadours and Courts of Love. By FRANCIS HUEFFER A Ballad of Dreamland. By ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE From Dreams to Waking. Chaps. VI.-VII. By E. LYNN LINTOX This Day Last Year. Illustrated by LAURA BLOOD.

The New Republic. Book III. Chaps. I., II.

Juliet. Chaps. XIII.-XV. By H. LOVETT CAMERON. Illustrated by VALENTINE BROMLEY.

With numerous Illustrations, price ONE SHILLING.
THE EXTRA

HOLIDAY NUMBER OF BELGRAVIA

For Midsummer, 1876.

Brighton out of the

The Severed Hand.
The Blue Feather.

Contents.

Season. By GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.

By F. TALBOT. Illustrated by J. MAHONEY. Illustrated by E. R. BUCKMAN.

Sebastian. By M. E. BRADDON.

A Summer Sketch. By J. A. STERRY. Illustrated by F. S. WALKER Known at Last. By PHILIP B. MARSTON.

By a Leap. By MARY CECIL HAY.

The Life Brigade. By M. MACKAY. Illust. by J. W. MACINTYRE Giulia Varani; or, St. Peter's Day at Belluno. By T. A. TROLLOPE The Rector's Second Daughter. Illustrated by M. FITZGERALD. Little Miss Brown. Illustrated by J. MAHONEY.

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"We at once take an opportunity of offering our thanks, as well as those of all visitors to the Exhibition, to Mr. Blackburn for his very carefully executed review of the Academy pictures, illustrated by some 100 woodcut memoranda of the principal pictures, almost half of them from the pencils of the painters themselves. A cheaper, prettier, or more convenient souvenir of the Exhibition it would be difficult to conceive and unreasonable to expect."-Times.

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"The author combines the powers of Thackeray with those of Albert Smith. The salt is rubbed in with a native hand-one which has the gift of tickling.”—Saturday Review.

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"These tales are pure and healthful; they will shed over childhood a rosy light, and strew the path with stars and flowers, the remembrance of which will last through life."-Preface.

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"A work of considerable research and labour; an instructive contribution to the history of the enormous wealth of the city of London."-Academy.

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"Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediæval documents and works from which the origin and development of surnames can alone be satisfactorily traced. He has furnished a valuable contribution to the literature of surnames, and we hope to hear more of him in this field.”—Times.

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BRET HARTE'S CHOICE WORKS in Prose and Poetry. With Introductory Essay by J. M. BELLEW, Portrait of the Author, and 50 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 75. 6d.

66 Not many months before my friend's death, he had sent me two sketches by a young American writer (Bret Harte), far away in California (The Outcast of Poker Flat, and another), in which he had found such subtle strokes of character as he had not anywhere else in late years discovered; the manner resembling himself, but the matter fresh to a degree that had surprised him; the painting in all respects masterly, and the wild rude thing painted a quite wonderful reality. I have rarely known him more honestly moved."-FORSTER'S Life of Dickens.

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"The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect-the dialect of plain working men-was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we could so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed. We are not afraid to

say that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. One of those minds produced the 'Paradise Lost,' the other, the 'Pilgrim's Progress.'"MACAULAY.