BENTLEY'S

MISCELLANY.

VOL. XXXIV.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1853.

OLE

LONDON:

Printed by WoODFALL and KINDER. Angel Court, Skinner Street.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Aspen Court, and who lost and who won it. A Tale of our Own Time.

By Shirley Brooks,

1, 119, 229, 343, 457

Loitering among the Bavarian and Tyrolean Lakes, in the Years 1851

and 1852,

Chloroform,

The Duchess of Orleans,

Adventures of a First Season,-Coming to Town,-Lovers,

The Crisis of My Existence. By an Old Bachelor,

Reminiscences of Henley Regatta. By an Oxford-Man,

Turkey, its Hopes and Perils,

The Last Years of the Emperor Charles the Fifth.

By F. A. Mignet,

89, 182, 254

A Journey from Westminster Abbey to St. Peter's, 96, 174, 304, 388, 506

Life of an Architect,-London again, I become professionally engaged,

-My Sojourn at Bath,-Mr. Soane,

Contemporary Literature,

107, 402, 541

115

Memorials of Indian Government; being a selection from the Papers of Henry St.

George Tucker, late Director of the East India Company.-Memoirs and Cor.

respondence of Dr. Henry Bathurst, Lord Bishop of Norwich-Narrative of

an Explorer in Tropical South Africa. - Solitary Rambles and Adventures of

a Hunter in the Prairies,

Dining-out for the Papers. By W. H. Russell,

Camps and Bivouacs, at Home and Abroad. By Mrs. Ward,

Sonnet. By Cuthbert Bede,

India and its Administration,

A Railway Incident. By One of the Old School,

Russia, its Court and Cabinet,

Charade, Wine and Water,-Pleasant Days,-À qui la Faute? By

207, 342, 540, 653

208

222

Intermittent Rhapsodies on the Quashee Question.

By Jerman Jumbell,

225

245

261, 375

273

Chaka-King of the Zulus. By Angus B. Reach,

292

Practical Jokes.-Ben Backstay. By Mrs. Moodie,

Notes on Foreign Literature,

299, 410

312

The Crisis in the Affairs of the Lord of Misrule.

324

The Rooks, the Raven, and the Scarecrow. A Fable,

A Gossip about Laurels and Laureates,

328

330

A Juicy Day' in Kensington Gardens. By Alfred W.

Reviews:-Facts and Faces, -Van Owen's Decline of Life,

Original Anecdotes, Social and Political, collected during the last Half

Century. By a distinguished French Authoress,

432