CONTENTS of VOL. CCLXXXV. “Adam Bede,” Notes from the Country of. By JOHN HYDE. After Corn Harvest. By Alfred WellESLEY REES Ancestors, Lord Macaulay's. By W. C. MACKENZIE Angels, The, of the Divine Comedy. By C. T. Argonautic Expedition, The. By Rev. GEORGE ST. CLAIR Austrians, Bosnia under the. By W. MILLER, M.A. Basketful, A, of Dropped H's. By K. A. A. BIGGS Berkeley, George. By W. B. WALLACE, B.A. Beside the Dove. By JOHN HYDE . Beyle, Henri. By C. E. MEETKERKE Birthplace, The, of Buddhism. By KATHLEEN BLECHYNDEN Blind, The, and Paris. By E. C. PRICE. "Bohemia. .. near the Sea." By DORA CAVE Bosnia under the Austrians. By W. MILLER, M.A. Brain-Power, The, of Plants. By ARTHUR SMITH. Bulawayo, The, of To-day. By A RESIDENT . By the River. By F. B. DOVETON Central and Southern Utah. By P. BERESFORD EAGLE Charles Reade and His Books: A Retrospect. By W. J. JOHNSTON Deer Forest, Winter in a. By HECTOR FRASER Divine Comedy, The Angels of the. By C. T. Down Zabuloe Way. By W. F. ALEXANDER. Drift, The, of the Ocean. By G. W. BULMAN, M.A. 611 Faust Legend, The, and Shakespeare. By PROF. REDFORD, M.A. Great White Horse, The, of Yorkshire. By HARWOOD BRIERLEY 304 Involuntary Murderer, An. By VLADIMIR KOROLENKO Irish Industries, Some, Past and Present. BY GERALDINE LESLIE John Wilson Croker. By P. A. SILLARD "Justice of Peace, The, his Companion." By Rev. W. J. FERRAR. "Life, A, that for Thee was Resigned." By NORMAN STUART Look, A, Backwards. By PHILIP KENT. Man and his Walking-stick. By F. G. WALTERS. 417 North Sea Revolution, A. By WALTER WOOD Notes from the Country of "Adam Bede." By JOHN HYDE. Paper War, A. By CHARLES K. Moore Parish Registers. By WILLIAM BRADBROOK, M.R.C.S. Plants, The Brain-Power of. By ARTHUR SMITH. Post Office, The, and the Public in 1837. By W. B. PALEY Progress, The, of the Russian Empire. By EDWARD LUNN Record, The, of the Sikhs. By FREDERICK P. GIBBON PEDRICK Shadows. By EMILY CONSTANCE COOK By J. GALE Shakespeare and the Faust Legend. By Prof. REDFORD, M.A. MORLEY Strength, A, that Failed. By NEIL WYNN WILLIAMS By GEORGE Shakespeare's Earl of Pembroke-Mystery concerning Mr. Famine in India-What is Starvation ?-English Dealing with First Performance of a Play of Elizabethan Times-The Elizabethan Stage Society-Jonson's "Sad Shepherd The River Wharfe Water Spirits-The Worship of Stream and Wells-In Behalf of Birds-Remedies against Jonson's "May Lord" The Opening-out of Africa. speare's Sonnets-The Real W. H.-A Lame and Im Dedication. Tennyson, the Man. By C. FISHER By Rev. EDWARD PEACOCK, M.A. Tudor Garden, The. By F. G. WALTERS Tunnels and Railway Passengers. By JOHN PENDLETON Utah, Central and Southern. By P. BERESFORD EAGLE Walking-Stick, Man and his. By F. G. WALTERS Way, The, China is Governed. By E. H. PARKER Wayside Traffickers. By CHARLES HILL DICK White Horse, The Great, of Yorkshire. By HARWOOD BRIERLEY THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. JULY 1898. A STRENGTH THAT FAILED. A TALE OF THE MIDLANDS. BY NEIL WYNN WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF "THE BAYONET THAT CAME HOME," &C. HE road is a broad one. THE ton Green. white dust. PART I. It sweeps around an edge of MilverWhenever it is dry it is covered with a thick The road is level, and so is the wide green which it bounds. The space of the road and the green is pleasant for the eye to feed upon. By the curving side of the road and opposite to the green are little gardens, amongst whose plum and apple trees stand back cottages. They are poor, those people who live there. But when they look across the green they can see a great red house, whose polished windows often flash golden light through the decrepit branches of most ancient yews. It is a mansion that great red house, and the woods at its side stand stiffly with great trunks of poplar and fir. Towards the sweep of these woods as they proudly measure their height against a low oak paling which bounds the green, curves the road. And where they meet stands back the "Three Fishes," with its massive sign-post. To this inn the road has sent a broad path, ere it rules straightly by the side of the wood to another part of Buckinghamshire. The "Three Fishes" has a roof of reeds. The eaves of this roof draw cosily over windows set in whitewashed walls; and bats have VOL. CCLXXXV, NO. 2011. B |