Down, T. C.: Through to the Klondike K.C.B.: Du Cane, Major-General Sir Edmund F., K.C.B. 1, 145, 289, 433, 577, 72 62 Famous Trials. By J. B. Atlay: The King against Burke and Fitchett, Rev. W. H.: The Battle of Minden, an Anniversary Study Fortescue, Hon. J. W.: Agincourt, an Anniversary Study Genesis of Gold-Fields Law in Australia (The). By Rolf Boldrewood 61 Graves, Alfred Perceval: Tennyson in Ireland, a Reminiscence. V. Duelling in the British Isles Harries, Henry: The Great Storm of 1703, an Anniversary Study How to Scan a Prospectus. By Hartley Withers Humorous Side of Clerical Life (The). By the Rev. Stewart F. L. In an Orchard. By John A. Bridges In Kedar's Tents. By Henry Seton Merriman. (Chapters XIX-XXX.) 120. Laughing Aspen. By G. L. Calderon Legal Proceedings against Animals. By Dr. E. T. Withington 526 Leigh Hunt: An Unpublished Letter from-Aurora Leigh. Lord Gilberthorpe's Proposal. By Horace Rawdon PAGE . 738 171 Loss of the Philip Herbert' (The). By A. H. Norway Concerning Clothes Mackail, J. W.: Piers Ploughman and English Life in the Fourteenth Maitland, Ella Fuller: The Thoughts of Clara Goodall Merriman, Henry Seton: In Kedar's Tents (Chapters XIX-XXX.), 126, 270, 414, 559 More Humours of Clerical Life. By the Rev. Stewart F. L. Bernays 805 Peninsula and Waterloo (The), Memories of an Old Rifleman. Major-General Sir Edmund F. Du Cane, K.C.B.. Piers Ploughman and English Life in the Fourteenth Century. By 389 198 Redemption of the 'Friends' Adventure' (The). By Walter Wood Shand, A. I.: A Wit of the Regency, Lord Alvanley Poverty of the Clergy (The). By the Rev. H. C. Beeching Shiel, M. P.: A Night in Venice. Silvester, Katharine: Bella's Mr. Borwick Sir Charles Murray's Adventures with the Pawnees Some Fragments from the Recollections of the late Sir Charles Murray Stock Exchange, The Mechanism of the Strachey, Sir Edward, Bart.: Charles Buller PAG 50 9 62 63 221 29 520 Sullivan's Bargain. By B. M. Croker . 59 Thoughts of Clara Goodall (The). By Ella Fuller Maitland Tavender's Last Term. By G. H. Powell Tennyson in Ireland, a Reminiscence. By Alfred Perceval Graves Through to the Klondike. By T. C. Down . Triangular Duet (A). By Mrs. H. Meyer Henne 336 Vaughan, Rev. John: French Prisoners at Portchester 217 Vibart, Colonel E.: The Sepoy Revolt at Delhi, May 1857, a Personal Why John Dowlande went Over-sea. By J. S. Ragland Phillips 240 161 105 68 654 THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. JULY 1897. THE ENGLISHMAN'S CALENDAR. JULY. 1 The defeat of Hyder Ali by Sir Eyre Coote, 1781. The Dominion of Canada formed, 1867. 2 Battle of Marston Moor, 1644. Sir Robert Peel, statesman, d. 1850. 3 York Minster completed, 1472. 4 Sir Henry Lawrence, Indian statesman, d. 1857. 5 Abolition of the Star Chamber, 1641. 6 Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor, executed, 1535. Lord Chancellor Cottenham appointed the second time, 1836. 7 Waverley published, 1814. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist and orator, d. 1816. 8 Robert South, divine, d. 1716. Tom Cribb, pugilist, b. 1781. 9 John Bull, musician, 1586. 10 Sir William Blackstone, judge and legal writer, b. 1723. 11 Lord Metcalfe, Indian civilian, appointed Governor of Jamaica, 1839. 12 Patent for Hargreaves' spinning jenny, 1770. 13 Lord Russell tried for high treason, 1683. 14 Richard Bentley, scholar and critic, d. 1742. 15 Charter of the Royal Society, 1662. Inigo Jones, architect, b. 1573. 16 Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter, b. 1723. 17 The second Earl Grey, statesman, d. 1845. Defeat of Nana Sahib at Cawnpore by Havelock, 1857. 18 William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist, b. 1811. Jane Austen, novelist, d. 1817. 19 Spanish Armada sighted in the Channel, 1588. 20 Sir Richard Owen, naturalist, b. 1804. 21 Matthew Prior, poet, b. 1661. Robert Burns, poet, d. 1796. 22 Sir Thomas Cavendish, circumnavigator, 1586. 23 Capture of Gibraltar by Admiral Sir George Rooke, 1704. 24 John Philpot Curran, lawyer and orator, b. 1750. 25 Charles Dibdin, song writer, d. 1814. VOL. III.-NO. 13, N.S. 1 25 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher, d. 1831 28 Source of the Nile discovered by Speke and Grant, 1862. 29 John Caius, physician and scholar, d. 1573, 30 The defence of Arrah, 1857. 31 Defeat of Van Tromp by Monk, 1653. (2) Of all the battles of the Civil War, this is memorable having first proved the quality of Cromwell's Ironsides. Englis men of whatever party must be proud of the invincible warrio sprung from the very substance of the nation. (8) South is of of the best of our prose writers. His style in its perfect lucidit witty common sense, and light touch of unemphasised irony, nearer Voltaire's than that of any other Englishman. Tom Cri stands as the representative of a sport so peculiarly Englis which played for long so important a part in our nation development, and was supported and fostered by so many of o great men, that it deserves a niche in the national remembranc Mr. Boase, in his account of Cribb in the National Biography says that as a professor of his art he was matchless, and in h observance of fair play he was never excelled; he bore a charact of unimpeachable integrity and unquestionable humanity (9) The date on which Bull took his musical degree at Oxfor (22) Cavendish started on this day for his voyage round t world. (30) This is the story of how a dozen or so of English men, none of them soldiers, with fifty Sikhs, defended themselv for a week in a two-storeyed billiard-room against some ten thousand foes, until relieved by Sir Vincent Eyre. eight J. M. S. |