# Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4

ONCE A WEEK.
AN
Illustrated Miscellany
OF
LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.
VOLUME IV.
DECEMBER, 1860, TO JUNE, 1861.
LONDON: BRADBURY & EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET.
[The Right of translating Articles from “Once a Week” is reserved by the Authors.]
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS (For an alphabetical and subject index, see below)
| No. 79. December 29, 1860 | Illustrated by |
* Abraham Lincoln, President Elect of the United States. By Walter Thornbury.
* Widow Hogarth and Her Lodger. By Dutton Cook.
* Beggars in Italy. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* Curiosities in Natural History. By Edward Jesse.
* Old Ficulea. By Francis Carton.
* Water-Pipes and Frost. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 80. January 5, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Soldier and Sailor: Their Health. By Harriet Martineau.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 81. January 12, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* New Year’s Eve. By Arthur J. Munby.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 82. January 19, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Niobe. (From the Greek.) By Edgar Alfred Bowring.
* The Fate of Tan-King-Chin, a British Subject. By Miss E. Piper.
* Raphael and Michel Angelo. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 83. January 26, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Aged: Their Health. By Harriet Martineau.
* Women’s Work: Designing Patterns. I. By Sarah Stickney.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 84. February 2, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Cambridge Wranglers. By Henry Hall Dixon.
* The Water Stoppage. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Our Modern Mercury. By Andrew Wynter.
* What Is Electricity? By Anne Gilchrist.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 85. February 9, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Frosts on the Thames. By Robert Bell.
* How I Did Not Prevent Sea-Sickness. By Godfrey Turner.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 86. February 16, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Women—Wives: Madame Lavalette, Lady Fanshawe, Mrs. Patton. By Harriet Martineau.
* Recent Explorations in Australia by John MacDougall Stuart. By William Campbell.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 87. February 23, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Life at Charleston: In Quiet Times. By Harriet Martineau.
* Women’s Work: Designing Patterns. II. By Sarah Stickney.
* Fishes. By Edward Jesse.
* Who Is Mr. Reuter? By Andrew Wynter.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 88. March 2, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Trimmings and Trimmers. By Isabella Kentish.
* Time Tables. By William Cookson.
* The Annual Fair at Ostrovna. By W. K. Westly.
* The Nervous System of the Metropolis (Part 1). By Andrew Wynter.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 89. March 9, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Life on an Alabama Plantation. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Turkish Bath. By Andrew Wynter.
* Women’s Work: Designing Patterns. III. By Sarah Stickney.
* Insect Appetite. By Harry Jones.
* Voltaire and M. Chapeau. By J. Wilson.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 90. March 16, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Nervous System of the Metropolis (Part 2). By Andrew Wynter.
* Animal Instinct. By Edward Jesse.
* Cannibalism in Galicia. By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* Sir James Bland Burgess.
* Quackery in 1551. By Louis J. Jennings.
* An Old Man’s Musings. By Henry Righton.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 91. March 23, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Men—Courtier-Philosophers: Bacon, Leibnitz, Voltaire, Goethe, Humboldt. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Trapping of Wild Animals by the Tchuvashes of Simbirsk. By W. K. Westly.
* Explorations in Australia. By J. Lort Stokes.
* Look After Brown. By Mark Lemon.
* The Beginning of the Russian Navy. By W. K. Westly.
* Last Week. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 92. March 30, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Ocular Stereoscopy. By Daniel Pidgeon.
* Sir Joshua’s Pupil. By Dutton Cook.
* The Beard Movement. By James Stuart Vaughan.
* Anecdotes of the General Alexander, Count Suvaroff. By W. K. Westly.
* Our Dogs. By Sarah Stickney.
* Sonnet from Petrarch. By Miss E. White.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 93. April 6, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Life in Illinois. By Harriet Martineau.
* Steer N.W.
* Mr. Train and the Bayswater Tramway. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Tuscan Nooks and Bye-Paths (Part 1). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 94. April 13, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Pisciculture in France. By Anna Blackwell.
* The Dung-Beetle. By Hans Christian Andersen, translated by G. W. Dasent.
* François de Civille. By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* A Word on Wages. By John Plummer.
* The History of a Love-Letter. By Miss Overton.
* The “Outer Barbarians,” from a Chinese Point of View. By G. G. Alexander.
* Ana—Eugene Aram. By Edward Jesse.
* King Olaf. By Arthur Laurenson.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 95. April 20, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Men—Scientific Explorers: Burckhardt, Barth, Franklin. By Harriet Martineau.
* A Fossil Piano. By Anna Blackwell.
* The Jester’s Passing Bell. By Walter Thornbury.
* The Epping Hunt. By Frederick Gale.
* On the Cards. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.
* Shade.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 96. April 27, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Life in Massachusetts. By Harriet Martineau.
* Captain Macheath. By Dutton Cook.
* “Wanted a Secretary!”
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 97. May 4, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Tuscan Nooks and Bye-Paths (Part 2). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* Our Nicknames at Playingfield College. By Philip S. Fletcher.
* Spring in Devonshire. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 98. May 11, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* A Forgotten Poet. By John Plummer.
* The Cholera Bed. By John Harwood.
* Thieves and Thieves’ Children. By Mark Lemon.
* Our Birds of Spring. By Edward Jesse.
* Shanklin. By Arthur J. Munby.
* The Roadside Inn. By Louisa Crow.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 99. May 18, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Volunteer Drill—An Adjutant’s Diary. I. By William Cookson.
* Representative Men—Social Reformers: Pentalozzi, the Combes, Rowland Hill. By Harriet Martineau.
* Japanese Gardeners. By Edward Jesse.
* The First Bleeding in Russia. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* The Dirge of Adonis. (From Bion.) By Edwin Arnold.
* Temperance Societies in Germany in the Sixteenth Century. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 100. May 25, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* A Bottle of Water. By Charles Crump.
* Card Sharping. By Lascelles Wraxall.
* Volunteer Drill—An Adjutant's Diary. II. By William Cookson.
* My Uncle’s Handbook.
* The Forts of the United States. By Francis Morton.
* Serfdom in Russia: “The White Husbandmen.” By W. K. Westly.
* A Chapter of Chinese History: The Minister’s Stratagem. By G. G. Alexander.
* Ana—The Napoleon Vine. By Edward Walford.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 101. June 1, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Larger Than Life. By Daniel Pidgeon.
* Volunteer Drill—An Adjutant’s Diary. III. By William Cookson.
* June. By Edwin Arnold.
* Wrestling at Whitsuntide. By Frederick Gale.
* Lyrical Lines. By Eliza Cook.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 102. June 8, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Spiders. By E. Smith.
* Representative Men—Social Reformers. II. John Howard, Elizabeth Fry, William Lloyd Garrison. By Harriet Martineau.
* Volunteer Drill—An Adjutant’s Diary. IV. By William Cookson.
* Our Critic upon Cricket: First Innings. By Henry Silver.
* Confession. By W. W. Follett Synge.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 103. June 15, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Verrio and Laguerre. By Dutton Cook.
* An Experience of Jersey Law: My Imprisonment and Escape. By William Wake.
* The Doomed Cottage. By Miss Overton.
* The Poles and Their Prison. By Vivian Dering Majendie.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 104. June 22, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* America Militant (Part 1). By Francis Morton.
* Count Cavour: In Memoriam. By Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell.
* The Aeroliths (Meteor-Stones) in the Village Juvinas, in France. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* A Northern Crystal Palace.
* Last Week. By Harriet Martineau.
* PAGE
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
BROOKS, J. W.—572, 574. BROWN, HABLOT K.—25, 109, 193, 220, 302. DU MAURIER, G.—41, 134, 165, 210, 378, 603, 668. GREEN, C.—52, 53, 357, 359, 361, 529. HARVEY, W.—697. HINE, H. G.—63, 92, 129, 131, 182, 183, 184, 639, 659. KEANE, C.—19, 45, 155, 158, 330, 332, 378, 466, 519, 547, 713. LAWLESS, M. J.—14, 15, 208, 406, 407, 687. LEECH, J.—238. MACQUOID, T. R.—79, 176, 315. MILLAIS, J. E.—98, 126. MORTEN, T.—323. SANDYS, F.—71, 350, 434. SHIELDS, F. J.—491. SKELTON, P.—555. SWAIN, J.— 147, 149. TAYLOR, MISS.—217. TENNIEL, J.—1, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169, 197, 225, 253, 281, 294, 295, 309, 337, 365, 393, 421, 449, 477, 505, 533, 561, 589, 617, 645, 673, 701. WEIR, HARRISON.—721. WOLF, J.—462.
DIAGRAMS.—275, 276, 277, 371, 372, 373, 472, 624. CHINESE SKETCHES (after originals).—442, 443, 444, 608, 609, 610. PORTRAITS.—A. Lincoln, 7; Ross, Mr., 53; Reuter, Mr. 244.