The International Magazine of Literature, Art, and Science
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The Italian singing-master was a peculiar man, and well worthy of a few words in description. He was tall and thin, but well built; and his face had probably once been very hand...
14. CHAPTER VI.Mr. Egerton glanced over the pile of letters placed beside him, and first he tore up some, scarcely read, and threw them into the waste-basket. Public men have such odd out-of-t...
3. Book III. Chapters xiii. to xxvii. 542_Scientific Miscellany._--Hydraulic Experiments in Paris, 430.--French Populations, 430.--African Exploring Expedition, 430.--The Hungarian Academy, 430.--Gas from Water, &c., 4...
4. CHAPTER I.Let me take you into an old-fashioned country house, built by architects of the early reign of James the First. It had all the peculiarities--I might almost say the oddities--of...
5. CHAPTER II.I must not dwell long upon the youthful scenes of the lad I have just introduced to the reader; but as it is absolutely needful that his peculiar character should be clearly und...
7. CHAPTER IV.Enough of boyhood and its faults and follies. I sought but to show the reader, as in a glass, the back of a pageant that has past. Oh, how I sometimes laugh at the fools--the cr...
6. CHAPTER III.The stone which covered the vault of the Hastings family had been raised, and light and air let into the cold, damp interior. A ray of sunshine, streaming through the church win...
13. CHAPTER V.The morning after this visit of Frank Hazeldean's to Rood Hall, the Right Honorable Audley Egerton, member of parliament, privy councillor, and minister of a high department in...
10. CHAPTER II."It is a sweet pretty place," thought Frank, as he opened the gate which led across the fields to the Casino, that smiled down upon him with its plaster pilasters. "I wonder, th...
11. CHAPTER III.Frank looked right ahead, and saw a square house, that in spite of modern sash-windows was evidently of remote antiquity--a high conical roof; a stack of tall quaint chimney-pot...
2. VOLUME II. DECEMBER TO MARCH, 1850-51._Arts, The Fine._--Munich and Schwanthaler's "Bavaria," 26.--Art in Florence, 27.--W.W. Story's Return from Italy, 27.--Les Beautes de la France, 27.--History of Art Exhibitions...
9. BOOK II.--INITIAL CHAPTER:--INFORMING THE READER HOW THIS WORK CAME TO"There can't be a doubt," said my father, "that to each of the main divisions of your work--whether you call them Books or Parts--you should prefix an Initial or Introductory Ch...
12. CHAPTER IV.Mrs. Leslie came up in fidget and in fuss; she leant over Randal's shoulder and read the card. Written in pen and ink, with an attempt at imitation of printed Roman character, t...
1. VOLUME II.On completing the second volume of the International Magazine, the publishers appeal to its pages with confidence for confirmation of all the promises that have been made with r...