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IV. A DAY WITH LISZT IN 1880. By Rey. H. R. HAWEIS. Belgracia Magazine...
V. A PERSIAN APOLOGUE. BY AUSTIN DOBSON.,
Cornhill Magazine.....
VI. SOME FACTS ABOUT FISHES. By W. S. DALLAS, F.L.S. Popular Science Review..
ON SOME OF SHAKESPEARE'S FEMALE CHARACTERS.

VII.

.....Blackwood's Magazine....

By HELEN FAUCIT MARTIN. II. PORTIA.
OLD MARRIAGE CUSTOMS. By T. F. THISELTON DYER. Leisure Hour.......
IX, THE BISHOP ASTRAY....

VIII.

X. ET TU IN ARCADIA VIXISTI.

Blackwood's Magazine.

By R. L. STEVENSON. Cornhill Magazine...

XI. KITH AND KIN. A Novel. By JESSIE FOTHERGILL,

author of "The First Violin." Chaps. IV. to VI...... Temple Bar

XII, LORD CAMPBELL'S MEMOIRS. By A. HAYWARD,.....Quarterly Review.....
XIII. WOMAN'S CLAIM. By EMILY PFEIFFER.

XIV. FRANK BUCKLAND, THE NATURALIST. By SPENCER

WALPOLE...

XV. MR. WHYMPER'S ASCENT OF CHIMBORAZO..

Contemporary Review..

Macmillan's Magazine..
Leisure Hour.......

XVI. THE TRACTARIANS. BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE....Good Words.
XVII. ATHLETICS AND EDUCATION. BY HELY HUTCHINSON

ALMOND........

XVIII. THOMAS CARLYLE..

XIX. FAT-BEHIND-THE-EYE. BY JULIUS BEERBOHM.
XX. LITERARY NOTICES....

Macmillan's Magazine....
The Spectator....
Temple Bar...

Fyffe's History of Modern Europe-Oliphant's Land of Gilead-Select Works of
Edgar Allan Poe, Poetical and Prose-Chandler's Memoir and Reminiscences of
Governor Andrew-Forney's New Nobility.

XXI, FOREIGN LITERARY NOTES.
XXII. SCIENCE AND ART.....

Habits of Insects-Electric Lighting-Hairless Australian Aboriginals-Designs from Frost-Fleuss's System of Diving-Colossal Jawbone of a Prehistoric Child -Effects of Frosts and Thaws upon Plants-Mind in Work.

XXIII. MISCELLANY.....

The Origin of London-The Pool of Siloam-Japanese Art Shakespeare as a Prose
Writer-A Farewell to Poetry.

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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER.

I. ON THE STUDY OF HISTORY. BY EDWARD A. FREEMAN. Fortnightly Review....... 577
II. LORD CAMPBELL'S MEMOIRS. By A. HAYWARD. (Con-

PAGE

VIII. ON SOME OF SHAKESPEARE'S FEMALE CHARACTERS.

By One Who Has Personated Them (HELEN FAUCIT
MARTIN). III. DESDEMONA.

Contemporary Review.... 632

...Blackwood's Magazine........... 643

IX. MISFORTUNES IN METAPHOR. By HENRY W. LUCY. .Belgravia Magazine.....
X. HELEN IN THE WOOD. By A. MARY F. ROBINSON....Cornhill Magazine..
XI, JOHN HENRY NEWMAN.-A LETTER. By JAMES AN-
THONY FROUDE, M. A.

660

663

.Good Words............. 664

XII. ON THE MORAL CHARACTER OF MAN. (The Unity of
Nature, No. VI.) By the DUKE OF ARGYLL........Contemporary Review.... 670
A Novel. By JESSIE FOTHERGILL,
author of "The First Violin." Chaps. VII. to X...

XIII. KITH AND KIN.

XIV. NATURAL HISTORY NOTES....

XV. CARLYLE'S REMINISCENCES.

XVI. RETROSPECT.

XVI. LITERARY NOTICES.

Ward's English Poets-Analytical and Classed Catalogue of the Brooklyn Library-
Great Singers, from Malibran to Titiens-Animal Life as Affected by the Natural
Conditions of Existence-Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot.

XVIII. FOREIGN LITERARY NOTES...
XIX. SCIENCE AND ART..............

Sound and Heat-Electric Watch-Remedy for Diphtheria-Life in Meteorites- Arti-
ficial Propagation of Sponges-The Amoeba-Localization of Sound by the Blind-
Dyna-magnite-Sleep and Sleeplessness-The Chronology of Bronze Implements.

XX. MISCELLANY.

The Eider Duck-How Artificial Pearls are Made-How Birds Eat Snakes-A Chinese
Thank-offering-Eggs of Insects as Food-Artificial Light-The Declaration.

715

716

718

PUBLISHER'S NOTE.

Subscribers who have not yet remitted for this year are requested to do so without further delay.
We will send the ECLECTIC as a "trial subscription" for three months, to any address, on receipt of $1.
The ECLECTIC and any $4 publication will be sent to one address for $8, and a proportionate reduction will be
made when clubbed with any other publication.

The postage on the ECLECTIC is prepaid by the publisher.

Green cloth covers for binding two volumes per year will be furnished at 50 cents each, or $1 per year, or sent by mail on receipt of price; and the numbers will be exchanged for bound volumes in library style, for $2.50 per year, or in green cloth for $1.50 per year.

Mr. J. Wallace Ainger is our general Business Agent.

COMPLETE SET OF ECLECTIC.-We have for sale a complete set of ECLECTIC, from 1844 to 1881, elegantly bound in library style, and comprising ninety-nine volumes. Price, $300. For a public or private library the abov set is invaluable, as many of the older volumes have long been out of print. and are extremely difficult to procure.