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"If he would come to-day, to-day, to-day,
 O, what a day to-day would be!"
                                                                         C
HRISTINA ROSSETTI.
―――♦―――


A SELECTION

FROM

THE ARGOSY.

[Edited (1865-66)  by Isa Craig.]


―――♦―――


POETRY.


MIDSUMMER VOLUME, 1866.


"Fly on wings, like the wings of a dove;
    Changed to a dove, with her wings of white!
Leaving him, faint with the longing of love,
    Unable to follow her flight."

ISA CRAIG.

TITLE

POET

EDITION

PAGE

Sand Martins

JEAN INGELOW

Dec. 1865

20.

On Board the Argosy

ISA CRAIG

»

37.

Hermionι

R. B.

»

47.

Civitas Dei

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

Jan. 1866

133.

The Earl O' Quarterdeck

ANON.*

»

145.

Artist and Model

ROBERT BUCHANAN

»

186.

The Future

M. B. S.

Feb.

214.

Fair Play

ISA CRAIG

»

241.

Who Shall Deliver Me?

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

»

288.

The Ladder of Fame

WILLIAM HENRY HARWOOD

Mar.

312.

If

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

»

336.

John Bohun Martin
(Captain of the "London.")

SYDNEY DOBELL

»

368.

Too Late

JEAN INGELOW

Apr.

389.

Cape Ushant (A Ballad)

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

»

408.

In London, March 1866

ROBERT BUCHANAN

»

451.

A Spring Chanson

ALEXANDER SMITH

May

485.

The Vision of Sheik Hamil

ISA CRAIG

»

500.

The Bachelor Dreams

ROBERT BUCHANAN

»

530.


Ed.* GEORGE MACDONALD;
       
 probably MANELLA BUTE SMEDLEY.

――♦――

CHRISTMAS VOLUME, 1866.


"Windy and grey the morning,
     Lifeless and low the light,
 A woman wandered by me,
     And oh, her cheeks were white!"

MANELLA SMEDLEY.
 

TITLE

POET

EDITION

PAGE

To Plutus

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

June

23.

The Coming in of the "Mermaiden"

JEAN INGELOW

»

52.

The Sighing of the Shell

GEORGE MACDONALD

»

64.

Cuckoo Song

JOHN BANKS

July

129.

The Round of Play

W. BLANCHARD JERROLD

»

168.

The Mortal Immortal

MARGUERITE AGNES POWER

Aug.

195.

Autumn Tourists

D. W.

»

217.

A Recollection

MATILDA BETHAM-EDWARDS

»

236.

Song

W. A.

Sept.

268.

A London Lyric

ROBERT BUCHANAN

»

289.

Up in an Attic

P.*

Oct.

346.

The Poet at his Wife's Grave

MATILDA BETHAM-EDWARDS

»

378.

The Love of Years

MANELLA BUTE SMEDLEY

»

398.

Agnes

R. B.*

Nov.

433.

The Lead-Melting

ROBERT BUCHANAN

»

456.

Convent-Robbing

WALTER HUTCHESON

»

486.


* Ed. ― ROBERT BUCHANAN.



 

"BELL from the North hath journey'd hither,
 She brings the scent of heather with her,
     To show in what sweet glens she grew,—
 Where'er she trips in any weather,
 She steps as if she trod on heather,
     And leaves a sense like dropping dew.

ROBERT BUCHANAN.

――♦――
 

"Even the fourth-rate work of a master has always some suggestion of the masterly about it, which is beneficial to those not yet trained to appreciate other than fourth-rate work.  I rejoice when men of genius like Alexander Smith, or George MacDonald, become Occasional Easy-writers, and do an "On," "About," or "Concerning."  Their pot-boilers may not always be "first chop," to use a vulgar expression; but be sure if they do three of them, one will be a work of merit—"

J. F. MCLENNON,
from. . . . 'Concerning Easy Writing.'

 

PROSE.


MIDSUMMER VOLUME, 1866.


TITLE

AUTHOR

EDITION

PAGE

A Journey Rejournyed (I.)

GEORGE MACDONALD

Dec. 1865

53.

An Essay on an Old Subject

ALEXANDER SMITH

»

63.

The Argosy's Log

JASON JONES

»

91.

A Journey Rejournyed (II.)

GEORGE MACDONALD

Jan. 1866

127.

A Hidden Treasure

MARGARET OLIPHANT

»

149.

Hero: a Metamorphosis

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI

»

156.

The Land of Gossip

BESSIE RAYNER PARKES

Feb.

236.

On Forming Opinions of Books

MATTHEW BROWNE*

»

242.

Concerning Easy Writing

JOHN FERGUSON MCLENNON

Mar.

325.

On Being Sentimental

MATTHEW BROWNE*

»

357.

On Dreams and Dreaming

ALEXANDER SMITH

Apr.

390.

A Roman Supper

ROBERT BUCHANAN

»

433.

The Tent, and its Inhabitants

ARMENIUS VΑMBΙRY

May

488.

Mr. Carlyle at Edinburgh

ALEXANDER SMITH

»

504.


* Ed. nom de plume of William Brighty Rands.

――♦――
 

"I kneel to my father for his grace,
    Right lowly on my knee;
But I stand and look the king in the face,
    For the skipper is king o' me."

She turned and she sprang upo' the deck,
    And the cable splashed in the sea.
The good ship spread her wings sae white,
    And away with the skipper goes she.

 

GEORGE MACDONALD.

 


CHRISTMAS VOLUME, 1866.


TITLE

AUTHOR

EDITION

PAGE

Bride Catching

JOHN FERGUSON MCLENNON

June

31.

The Undertaker's Man

WILLIAM GILBERT

»

53.

Theatres and Music Halls

MATTHEW BROWNE*

Jul.

117.

Lotta Schmidt

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

»

130.

Poetry on Twelve Shillings a Week

by THE EDITOR

»

157.

An Old French City

BESSIE RAYNER PARKES

Aug.

197.

Garibaldi

HUGH REGINALD HAWEIS

»

207.

A Stroke of Good Fortune

by the author of "SHIRLEY HALL"

»

224.

Bella's Exciting Day

MATTHEW BROWNE*

»

237.

Garibaldi (second paper)

HUGH REGINALD HAWEIS

Sep.

269.

The Misfortunes of Frederic Pickering

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

»

292.

Sydney Dobell

ALEXANDER SMITH

»

313.

Personal Adventures with Garibaldi

HUGH REGINALD HAWEIS

Oct.

349.

Poachers and Poaching

HENRY W. HOLLAND

»

399.

George Eliot and Poetry

MATTHEW BROWNE*

Nov.

437.

Port in a Storm

GEORGE MACDONALD

»

477.


Ed.
*    Nom de plume of William Brighty Rands.
    Isa Craig ― the unnamed subject of her paper is J. R. Withers.
   Probably William Gilbert, father of W. S. Gilbert.



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