# Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 8

ONCE A WEEK.
AN
Illustrated Miscellany
OF
LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.
VOLUME VIII.
DECEMBER, 1862, TO JUNE, 1863.
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. 183. December 27, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Astley's. By William Pinkerton.
* Up the Alabama. By Thomas L. Nichols.
* The New Zealand Census Returns. By Isabella Fenton.
* Christmas Evergreens. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* The Atlantic Telegraph. By Andrew Wynter.
* Al Fin de la Jornada. By James Mew.
| No. 184. January 3, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* The Notting Hill Mystery—Section VI. By Charles Warren Adams.
* The Count of Vendel's Daughter. (From the Ancient Danish.) By George Borrow.
* A New Kind of Wilful Murder. By Harriet Martineau.
* Frozen In: Narrative of a Shetland Seaman. By Arthur Laurenson.
* Verner's Pride (Part 28). By Mrs. Henry Wood.
* A King under Difficulties. By Lascelles Wraxall.
| No. 185. January 10, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Notes Taken at Hampden Concerning the Greatest Squire of That Ilk. By Henrietta Tindal.
* Petticoat Lane. By Augustin B. Kelly.
* Private Economy. By Harriet Martineau.
* Astley's Horse. By Abraham Cooper.
| No. 186. January 17, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Terrific Combat Between a Gorilla and a Lion. By A. W. Harnett.
* Mobs. By Harry Jones.
* Vicissitudes of Families. By Edward Walford.
* Verner's Pride (Part 30). By Mrs. Henry Wood.
* A Picture in Three Panels. By Louis Sand.
| No. 187. January 24, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Prince Alfred's Romance. By Harriet Martineau.
* A Destructive Cap. By John Lovell.
* Tar and Feathers. By William Hardman.
* The Development of Human Food. By W. Bridges Adams.
| No. 188. January 31, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Something Worth Having. By Samuel Lover.
* Photographic Portraiture. By Andrew Wynter.
* Maids of Honour. By Peter Cunningham.
* Verner's Pride (Part 32). By Mrs. Henry Wood.
| No. 189. February 7, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Four Pashas of Egypt. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Ship of Mail. (From the German of Baron Littson.) By Baroness Blaze de Bury.
* Fraudulent Trade Marks. By Andrew Wynter.
* Recollections of a Retired Butler. By Mark Lemon.
| No. 190. February 14, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Sewing-Machines. By Manley Hopkins.
* From Rangoon. By Rev. Frederick Poynder.
* The Quality I Covet. By Lewis Hough.
* Winter with the Gulf Stream. By Gerard Manley Hopkins.
* The Jack. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* Etruscan Jewellery: Necklaces. By H. Noel Humphreys.
* The Transformations of Our Southern Coast. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.
| No. 191. February 21, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Strange Wills. By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* A Walk out of Ravenna. By Michael Terry.
* Dawn in an Eastern Jungle. By Thomas Steele.
* Our Raw Recruits. By Charles T. Browne.
* Second Sight. By Mary S. Gove Nichols.
* Meteorology—Its Present Condition. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.
* England's Suttee. By Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell.
| No. 192. February 28, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* The Restoration of Our Soil (Part 1). By Andrew Wynter.
* Charade. By Ralph A. Benson.
* A Return from the Threshold. By George Lumley.
* Footsteps of Spring. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.
* Deaconess Life in Germany. By Mrs. Hope.
* One Way of Looking at It. By Arthur J. Munby.
| No. 193. March 7, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* The Wilful Murder Case: Pleas for the Defence. By Harriet Martineau.
* Marriages of Princes of Wales. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* Astley's Horse. By Philippus.
* Pan Vinctus—Pan Victor. By Walter Thornbury.
* A Fallen Fruit: The Quince. By Elizabeth Eiloart.
* The Stratagems of the Lady Isolda. By Edward Yardley.
| No. 194. March 14, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* The Light of Evening. By John Andrews.
* The Restoration of Our Soil (Part 2). By Andrew Wynter.
* An Afternoon at Auteuil. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* Eleanor's Victory (Part 2). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
* My First Run. By Arthur Arnold.
* Notes about Eels. By Astley H. Baldwin.
| No. 195. March 21, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* A Foreign Sneer at England. By Harriet Martineau.
* Return of the Rival Explorers. By William Campbell.
* An Ice Storm. By Cornelia A. H. Crosse.
* Brigands in Italy, Past and Present. By Charles Lever.
* Our Salt-Cellars. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.
* How Our Grandmother Stopped the Thief. By Blomfield Jackson.
| No. 196. March 28, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Blowing Bubbles. By John Lovell.
* Sympathetic Surgery. By J. T. Nichols.
* How Bluff King Harry's Bed Was Made. By George Lumley.
* Eleanor's Victory (Part 4). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
* The Portrait. By Maresco Pearce.
| No. 197. April 4, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Liberty of Private Charity. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Dead Man's Hand. By John Andrews.
* Anglo-India from a French Point of View. By Laura Valentine.
* A Constantine Czarowicz in Warsaw (Part 1). By Emma Stanley.
* The Call. By Mrs. English.
| No. 198. April 11, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* From the French of Malherbe. By Blomfield Jackson.
* A Constantine Czarowicz in Warsaw (Part 2). By Emma Stanley.
* Eleanor's Victory (Part 6). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
* Our Sea Fisheries. By Arthur Arnold.
* Dogs in Public. By Andrew Wynter.
| No. 199. April 18, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* A British Friendship. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Fair of Ballinasloe. By Matilda Charlotte Houstoun.
* Shakespeare's Birthday and Name. By Peter Cunningham.
* Spring. By John Andrews.
* A Constantine Czarowicz in Warsaw (Part 3). By Emma Stanley.
* On Instincts. By Edward Jesse.
| No. 200. April 25, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* The First-Born Prince of Wales. By Robert Stephen Hawker.
* My First Duel. By Berkeley Smith.
* A Royal Fruit: The Pomegranate. By Elizabeth Eiloart.
* Eleanor's Victory (Part 8). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
* A Danish Visit to England a Hundred Years Ago. By Laura Valentine.
* Tobacco. By Thomas Croxen Archer.
| No. 201. May 2, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Old and New Flittings. By Harriet Martineau.
* Something about Mackerel. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* Our Ride to Busaco. By John Wickey Stable.
* A Celibate Consoled. By Ralph A. Benson.
* Brown Seaweeds. By Charles Crump.
* Left on the Battle Field. By Sarah T. Bolton.
| No. 202. May 9, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Russian Ukases. By Emma Stanley.
* Paddy O'Rafther. By Samuel Lover.
* We All Saw It. By Charles Warren Adams.
* Glimpses of French Village Life. By Miss Knox.
* Eleanor's Victory (Part 10). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
* The Impurities of the Loaf. By Andrew Wynter.
* Books of the Opera. By George Eric Mackay.
* Song. By Evelyn Forest.
| No. 203. May 16, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Invasion of 1863: A Call for Volunteer Defence. By Harriet Martineau.
* My Neighbour at the Theatre. By M. W. Hallett.
* Working Men's Clubs. By Charles T. Browne.
* Banbury Cakes and Banbury Cross. By John Timbs.
* Answer to Charade in No. CXCII. By Ralph A. Benson.
| No. 204. May 23, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* A Dreadful Bell. By Leopold Lewis.
* Eleanor's Victory (Part 12). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
* The Antiquity of the Castanet. By Miss E. Brackenbury.
* Baucis and Philemon (A Legend of an English Workhouse). By Walter Thornbury.
* The Seasons. By Evelyn Forest.
| No. 205. May 30, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Treasure Trove, at Home and Abroad. By Laura Valentine.
* The Times Newspaper of 1798. By Andrew Wynter.
* The War Instinct: What to Do with It. By Harriet Martineau.
* Egeria. By James Mew.
* A Modern Vivarium. By Edgar Sheppard.
| No. 206. June 6, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Lavinia Fenton. By Dutton Cook.
* Eleanor's Victory (Part 14). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
* A Day with the Coroner. By Andrew Wynter.
* An Australian Explorer. By Francis Morton.
| No. 207. June 13, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Fish Growth. By James G. Bertram.
* More Recollections of a Retired Butler. By Mark Lemon.
* A Visit to Mauna Loa. By Richard Lee.
* The Sisters. By George Eric Mackay.
* The Old Secret Out at Last. By Harriet Martineau.
* Peruvian Bark and the Trees Which Yield It. By John Montgomery.
| No. 208. June 20, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Spectral Analysis: A Message from the Sun. By James Carpenter.
* Eleanor's Victory (Part 16). By Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
* La Belle Dangerose. By Mark Lemon.
* The Lass of Aben-Hall. By George Eric Mackay.
* Cricket, as It Was and Is. By Frederick Gale.
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
ARCHER, J. W.—252. BROWNE, HABLOT K.—56. COOPER, A. W.—530. DU MAURIER, G.—1, 57, 85, 295, 351, 407, 463, 519, 575, 631, 687, 701. GREEN, C.—169, 224, 225, 253, 264, 488, 505, 533, 561, 589, 673. HINE, H. G.—139. KEENE, C.—15, 71, 127, 183, 433, 545, 617. LAWLESS, M. J.—644, 712. MILLAIS, J. E.—42, 211, 239, 267, 281, 309, 337, 365, 393, 421, 449. PINWELL, G. J.—154, 197, 321, 392, 477, 645, 700. POYNTER, E. J.—113, 141, 476, 658. SKELTON, P.—26, 27, 195, 559, 587, 615, 671, 723. SULMAN, T.—84, 110, 111, 166, 168, 278, 308, 336, 418, 419, 445, 447, 503. WATSON, J. D.—602. WALKER, F.—378. WHITE, T.—98.
DIAGRAMS AND MISCELLANEOUS.—62, 63, 218, 220, 610, 708, 709.