Littell's Living Age/Volume 168

No. 2167. &mdash; January 2, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) Poetry and Politics, by Andrew Lang, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 2) Mrs. Dymond - Part XII., by Mrs. Ritchie, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 3) A Visit to Tsusima: an Incident of Russian Aggression, by Laurence Oliphant, Blackwood's Magazine
 * 4) The Opium-Poppy Cultivation of Bengal, by C. T. Buckland, B.C.S., National Review
 * 5) A House Divived against Itself - Part XLIVIII., by Mrs. Oliphant, Chambers' Journal
 * 6) A Strategical View of Turkey, by Hobart Pasha, Chambers' Journal
 * 7) Auber, by L. E., Temple Bar
 * 8) Bulgaria and Servia, by Edward A. Freeman, Contemporary Review
 * 9) Boy Kings, Spectator
 * 10) King Thebaw, London Times
 * 11) The Collapse of Burmah, Spectator

Poetry.
 * "Science and Politics", by H. M., Spectator
 * A Winnower's Song to the Winds, by Joachim du Bellay, Blackwood's Magazine
 * Idylle. - Galatee, by Vauquelin de la Fresney, Blackwood's Magazine
 * "Two Birds within one Nest", by Dora Greenwell

Miscellany.
 * On the Square bamboo, by D. J. Macgowan, M.D., Chinese Recorder

No. 2168. &mdash; January 9, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) The Coming Contests of the World, Fortnightly Review
 * 2) Fortune's Wheel - Part XVII., Blackwood's Magazine
 * 3) The Origin of the Alphabet, by A. H. Sayce, Contemporary Review
 * 4) Irish Shootings, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 5) Leopardi, by Constance Fletcher, Nineteenth Century
 * 6) A Walk in the Faroes, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 7) Contemporary Life and Thought in France, by G. Monod, Contemporary Review
 * 8) C. S. Calverley, Saturday Review

Poetry.
 * Night, by Victor Hugo, translated by C. E. Meetkerke, Argosy
 * The Highest Mountain, by S. M. B. Paitt
 * Good-bye, by G. B. Stuart, Argosy
 * Remembrance, by A. Mary F. Robinson, Athenæum
 * In the Winter Twilight, All The Year Round

Miscellany.
 * The Healthiness of London, Medical Press

No. 2169. &mdash; January 16, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) Poetry, Politics, and Conservatism, by George N. Curson, National Review
 * 2) Fortune's Wheel - Part XVIII., Blackwood's Magazine
 * 3) The Story of the Bab, by Mary F. Wilson, Contemporary Review
 * 4) Old Florence and Modern Tuscany, by Janet Ross, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 5) Dr. Barrere, by M. Oliphant, English Illustrated Magazine
 * 6) Germany's Industrial Progress, Saturday Review

Poetry.
 * A Bird's Song, All The Year Round
 * Youth and Age, by Michael Field, Contemporary Review
 * Pastorale, by Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, Blackwood's Magazine
 * Gorse, by William Allington, Athenæum

Miscellany.
 * Armstrong's Gun

No. 2170. &mdash; January 23, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) Disestablishment and Disendowment, by Dean Plumptre, Contemporary Review
 * 2) Oh - Madam! - Part I., Temple Bar
 * 3) The Poetic Imagination, by Arthur Tilley, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 4) A Strange Temptation - Part I., Macmillan's Magazine
 * 5) Reminiscences of an Attache - Part I., Blackwood's Magazine
 * 6) Frogs, by Phil Robinson, Gentleman's Magazine
 * 7) Similes, Temple Bar
 * 8) Ordeals and Oaths, by Douglas M. Ford, Antiquary

Poetry.
 * "Thought and Sorrow", by John Owen, Academy
 * On the Threshold, by A. H. Baldwin, Chambers' Journal

Miscellany.
 * The Palace of Urbino, by Julia Cartwright, Magazine of Art

No. 2171. &mdash; January 30, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) George Borrow, by George Saintsbury, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 2) Oh - Madam! - Part II., Temple Bar
 * 3) Moss from a Rolling Stone - Part I., by Laurence Oliphant, Blackwood's Magazine
 * 4) Frederi Mistral, by Arthur Symons, National Review
 * 5) Fortune's Wheel - Part XIX., Blackwood's Magazine
 * 6) Suns and Meteors, by Richard A. Proctor, Longman's Magazine
 * 7) An Irish Wit, Temple Bar
 * 8) Thibet and its Trade, Pall Mall Gazette
 * 9) Reading to Kill Time, Spectator
 * 10) Oil-Wells of the Caucasus, St. James's Gazette
 * 11) The Primate of all Ireland, Saturday Review
 * 12) Nautch Girls, St. James's Gazette
 * 13) Arctic Relics, Times

Poetry.
 * The Song of the Poplars, by Ruth Brindley
 * Christmas, by A. G. B., Spectator
 * Beloved, by Michael Field, Contemporary Review

No. 2172. &mdash; February 6, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) Oaths: Parliamentary and Judicial, by William Connor Magee, the Bishop of Peterborough, Contemporary Review
 * 2) A Strange Temptation - Part II., Macmillan's Magazine
 * 3) My Contested Election, Fortnightly Review
 * 4) The Little Ones and the Land, by Augustus Jessopp, Nineteenth Century
 * 5) Samanala and its Shadow, by J. Theodore Bent, Cornhill Magazine
 * 6) My Strange Mother-in-Law, Longman's Magazine
 * 7) Reminiscences of an Attache - Part II., Blackwood's Magazine
 * 8) South American Bird-Music, Nature
 * 9) Cheerfulness in Life and Art, by W. H. Hudson, St. James's Gazette
 * 10) Snow-Tracks, St. James's Gazette
 * 11) Job to Ecclesiastes: a Sermonette, St. James's Gazette

Poetry.
 * A Midnight Ascent of the Schwartzhorn, by John Addington Symonds, Academy
 * A Deserted Garden, Chambers' Journal

No. 2173. &mdash; February 13, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) Jane Taylor, Blackwood's Magazine
 * 2) The Grateful Ghosts - Part I., Blackwood's Magazine
 * 3) The Little Prophets of the Cevennes, by Richard Heath, Contemporary Review
 * 4) Colonial Governors, by William Greswell, National Review
 * 5) Wild-boar Shooting near the Heathen Wall of the Vosges, Blackwood's Magazine
 * 6) A New Year's Gift, by Charles Hervey, Argosy
 * 7) Two Evenings with Bismarck - Part II., Chamber's Journal
 * 8) Two Days with the Kachyens, by Shway Yoe, St. James's Gazette
 * 9) In the Catacombs at Kiev, St. James's Gazette
 * 10) Thawing a Village, St. James's Gazette
 * 11) The Crossbill, St. James's Gazette

Poetry.
 * Sea-Spells, by D. J. Robertson, Longman's Magazine
 * My Letter, All The Year Round

No. 2174. &mdash; February 20, 1886.
Contents. Poetry.
 * 1) Darwinism and Democracy, by W. S. Lilly, Fortnightly Review
 * 2) Miss Jollibert's Proposal, by the author of "Adonais, Q.C.", Argosy
 * 3) My Election Experiences, by Lady John Manners, National Review
 * 4) The Grateful Ghosts - Part II., Blackwood's Magazine
 * 5) The Country Banker, Quarterly Review
 * 6) Life, Art, and Nature in Bruges, by Henry Quilter, Contemporary Review
 * 7) Goethe as an Actor, by H. Schutz Wilson, Gentleman's Magazine
 * 8) London in the Snow, All The Year Round
 * 9) Canvas-Backs, Saturday Review
 * 10) Grasse, and the Manufacture of Scent, Spectator
 * In Westminster Abbey, by Charles Noble Gregory, Milwaukee Sentinel
 * "Though Many Cry", by Harold B. Harrison, Spectator
 * On Last Looking into Smiles' "Self-Help", by J. R. Mozley

Miscellany.
 * Water Wolves, Saturday Review
 * Cremation
 * Consilidation a New Embankment, Nature

No. 2175. &mdash; February 27, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) The Earl of Shaftesbury, London Quarterly Review
 * 2) Her Brother Ephraim, Cassell's Magazine
 * 3) A Pilgrimage to Sinai - Part I., by Isabella Bird Bishop, author of "Unknown Tracks in Japan," "A Lady's Ride in the Rocky Mountains," etc., Leisure Hour
 * 4) Small Talk and Statesmen, by T. H. S. Escott, Fortnightly Review
 * 5) Valentina, Argosy
 * 6) Home Rule in Austria-Hungary, by David Kay, Nineteenth Century
 * 7) Alternative Policies in Ireland, by James Bryce, Nineteenth Century
 * 8) Hereditary Stature, Nature
 * 9) Winter in Florence, Saturday Review
 * 10) The New German and Slav Quarrel, Spectator

Poetry.
 * Life's Philosophy. - 1886, by A. G. B., Spectator
 * "O Golden Sun", by J. R. Mozley
 * To a Plum-Pudding, by J. S. D., Spectator
 * January, 1886, Sunday Magazine

No. 2176. &mdash; March 6, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) William Cobbett, by Charles Milnes Gaskell, Nineteenth Century
 * 2) Fortune's Wheel - Part XX., Blackwood's Magazine
 * 3) On the Pleasure of Reading, Contemporary Review
 * 4) Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 5) On a Far-off Island, Blackwood's Magazine
 * 6) Bishop Thirlwall, Temple Bar
 * 7) Try the Bahamas, by Henry Arthut Blake, Fortnightly Review
 * 8) A Faroe Fete Day - Part I., All The Year Round
 * 9) The Bannatyne Club, Chambers' Journal

Poetry.
 * Carn-Gluze (The Grey Rock), by C. G. Fagan, Academy
 * Snowdrop, All The Year Round
 * "I, who have lived as if the blessed light", by F. D. Blomfield, Academy
 * "Desultory Reading", by F. M. P.

No. 2177. &mdash; March 13, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) What Boys Read, by G. Salmon, Fortnightly Review
 * 2) Harry's Inheritance, by Grant Allen, English Illustrated Magazine
 * 3) Some Aspects of Home Rule, by Edward A. Freeman, Contemporary Review
 * 4) Moss from a Rolling Stone - Part II., by Laurence Oliphant, Blackwood's Magazine
 * 5) The Babylonians at Home, by G. Bertin, Contemporary Review
 * 6) Henry Fawcett as a Man, by Alex. H. Japp, Gentleman's Magazine
 * 7) Poor Piluquesne, by John Coleman, Longman's Magazine
 * 8) A Faroe Fete Day - Part II., All The Year Round
 * 9) Two Evenings with Bismarck - Part II., Chamber's Journal
 * 10) What Boys Should Read, Saturday Review
 * 11) The No-Police Riots, Saturday Review
 * 12) Mahwa Flowers, by A. H. Church, Nature

Poetry.
 * Nobody - Somebody, by A. G. B., Spectator
 * After the Fall of Troy, by Florence Peacock, Academy
 * "When acorns fall and swallows troop for flight", by Alfred Austin, Athenæum

No. 2178. &mdash; March 20, 1886.
Contents.
 * 1) The Laws Relating to Land, by Sir James F. Stephen, National Review
 * 2) The Bewitched House, All The Year Round
 * 3) Lord Melbourne, Temple Bar
 * 4) A Champion of her Sex, by W. Minto, Macmillan's Magazine
 * 5) Through the States, by Theodore Child, Fortnightly Review
 * 6) This Man's Wife - Part I., by George Manville Fenn, Good Words
 * 7) The Sense of Touch and the Teaching of the Blind, Spectator
 * 8) The Synagogue in Bevis Marks, St. James's Gazette
 * 9) Mr. Ruskin's Early Theatre-going and Love-Making, St. James's Gazette

Poetry.
 * A Classic Landscape, by A. Mary F. Robinson, Athenæum
 * Footprints, Macmillan's Magazine
 * Winter, All The Year Round

Miscellany.
 * King Edward the Confessor
 * Early Years of Queen Victoria's Reign
 * Electric Lights on Locomotives, Nature

No. 2179. &mdash; March 27, 1886.
Contents. Poetry.
 * 1) Grattan, and the Irish Parliament, by W. J. O'N. Daunt, Westminster Review
 * 2) This Man's Wife - Part II., by George Manville Fenn, Good Words
 * 3) A Diary at Valladolid in the Time of Cervantes, by John Ormsby, Blackwood's Magazine
 * 4) Caroline, by Clementia Black, Belgravia
 * Casale Rotondo, by B. H. H., Spectator
 * Death Undisguised, by Frank T. Marzials, Academy
 * February Filldyke, Macmillan's Magazine
 * Le Papillon, by J. P. M., Blackwood's Magazine

Miscellany.
 * Rural England Now and Then, by William Cobbett