CONTENTS.

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Lovel the Widower. (With an Illustration.) 385
Chapter IV.A Black Sheep.
Colour Blindness 403
Spring. By Thomas Hood 411
Inside Canton 412
William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time 417
III.—A long Ladder, and Hard to Climb.
Studies in Animal Life 438
Chapter IV.An extinct animal recognized by its tooth: how came this to be possible?—The task of classification—Artificial and natural methods—Linnæus, and his baptism of the animal kingdom: his scheme of classification—What is there underlying all true classification?—The chief groups—What is a species?—Re-statement of the question respecting the fixity or variability of species—The two hypotheses—Illustration drawn from the Romance languages—Caution to disputants.
Strangers Yet! By R. Monckton Milnes 448
Framley Parsonage. (With an Illustration.) 449
Chapter X.—Lucy Robarts.
XI.—Griselda Grantly.
XII.—The Little Bill.
Ideal Houses 475
Dante 483
The Last Sketch—Emma (a fragment of a Story by the late Charlotte Brontë) 485
Under Chloroform 499
The How and Why of Long Shots and Straight Shots 505

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