# Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6

ONCE A WEEK.
AN
Illustrated Miscellany
OF
LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.
VOLUME VI.
DECEMBER, 1861, TO JUNE, 1862.
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. 131. December 28, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Coming Year. By Harriet Martineau.
* Visit to the Irish Convict Prisons—No. II. Smithfield. By Mary Carpenter.
* Mrs. Fuller’s Christmas-Day. By A. Stewart Harrison.
* Christmas, and How It Was Kept. By Mackenzie Walcott.
| No. 132. January 4, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Ballads of the Isle of Man—Brown William; Mollie Charane. By George Borrow.
* André Chénier. By Lascelles Wraxall.
* Sketches at Brighton—No. IV. A Boarding-House. By Sydney Whiting.
* A Trip to the Timber Makers. By E. J. Andrews.
* The Fate of Wong-Wan. By G. G. Alexander.
* Rushton Hall. By John Plummer.
* The Old Year. By Mary C. F. Münster.
| No. 133. January 11, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* As Old as the Hills. By G. Phillips Bevan.
* Cheap Lodgings. By R. M. Hayley.
* John Brown at Woolwich. By R. B. McCrea.
* The Wood Echo. By Walter Thornbury.
* The Russian Bal Masqué and the Coachmen. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* A Tuscan Wedding (Part 1). By Isa Blagden.
* Ana—George Canning and His Mother; The Diatonic Scale. By Edward H. Michelsen.
| No. 134. January 18, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* A Tuscan Wedding (Part 2). By Isa Blagden.
* The Pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence. By Dutton Cook.
* The Two Champions. By Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell.
* Representative Men—Men of Letters: Abelard, Petrarch, the Scaligers, Herder, Gibbon. By Harriet Martineau.
* Arrested on Board. By A. Stewart Harrison.
| No. 135. January 25, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Much Right and Much Wrong. By Harriet Martineau.
* “Up Vesuvius.” By W. H. Biedermann.
* On the Chinese Religion. By James Mew.
* Cartes de Visite. By Andrew Wynter.
| No. 136. February 1, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* The Slave Difficulty in America. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Ten Yard Seam. By Daniel Pidgeon.
* Walled Up Among the Alleghany Mountains. By John Harwood.
* Prospective Retrospects. By Shirley Brooks.
* American Newspapers. By John Nicholls.
| No. 137. February 8, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Visit to the Irish Convict Prisons—No. III. Mountjoy. By Mary Carpenter.
* The Clerk of the Weather. By Andrew Wynter.
* The Harley Pit Hecatomb. By W. Bridges Adams.
* The Whip and the Night-Hunters. By Mark Lemon.
* The Beggar Saint. By Thomas Heaphy.
| No. 138. February 15, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Madame Bonjour’s Protégés. By Anna Blackwell.
* Ana—The Marquis of Westminster’s Diamonds; The Alchymist; Napoleon and the Governor of Sevilla.
* The Fratricide. By Algernon Charles Swinburne.
* The Victorian Exploring Expedition. By William Campbell.
* A New Britain in the West. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 139. February 22, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* The Waterloo Palace and Winter Garden. By W. Bridges Adams.
* The Prophecy of Jacques Cazotte. By Lascelles Wraxall.
* The Child of Care. (From Herder.) By Julia Goddard.
* Spring’s First Minstrel. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.
* An Extraordinary Story. By Shirley Brooks.
* “All Down the River.” By E. J. Andrews.
* A Photograph of Pesth. By Richard S. Maurice.
* Syrian Legends. I—The Ants’ Rock, and the Fisherman Who Thought He Was Wiser Than God. By George Grove.
| No. 140. March 1, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Russian Princes in America. By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* Curiosities of Leech Culture. By James G. Bertram.
* A Few Hallucinations. By Harriet Martineau.
* “Little Wife.” By R. F. Sketchley.
* Croker’s Queen Anne’s Farthings. By Frederick W. Madden.
* Syrian Legends. II—The Grapes of Darâya. By George Grove.
| No. 141. March 8, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Burns’s Birthday and Bowl. By Peter Cunningham.
* The Three Goblets. By Cradock Newton.
* Russian Popular Tales—Emelian the Fool. By George Borrow.
* An Extraordinary Story and Its Extraordinary Sequel. By Shirley Brooks.
* The Latest from Spirit Land (Part 1). By Shirley Brooks.
* My Experiences in Parma with a Theodolite and a “Dumpy” (Part 1). By Samuel Bevan.
* Ana—Irish Craniums.
| No. 142. March 15, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* My Experiences in Parma with a Theodolite and a “Dumpy” (Part 2). By Samuel Bevan.
* Ana—Statistics of Human Life. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* Wives and Sisters: How They Opine. By Harriet Martineau.
* A Winter in a Tipperary Household Fourteen Years Ago (Part 1). By Mary C. F. Münster.
* Coin Collecting. II—Forgeries. By Reginald Stuart Poole.
* The First Flowers. By Astley H. Baldwin.
| No. 143. March 22, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* A Winter in a Tipperary Household Fourteen Years Ago (Part 2). By Mary C. F. Münster.
* The Latest from Spirit Land (Part 2). By Shirley Brooks.
* The Commune of the Murderer Dumollard. By Elizabeth Moss.
* A Madman’s Story. By Matilda Betham-Edwards.
| No. 144. March 29, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Insect Warfare. By Harry Jones.
* Working the Oracle. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* Something More about Obelisks. By Reginald Stuart Poole.
* Mr. Pierce’s Ten Thousand Clients. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Double Robbery. By W. H. Cooke.
| No. 145. April 5, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* A Night with the Trawl-Fishers. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* The Savages of Europe. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* Bric-à-brac. By Sydney Whiting.
* The Case of Mr. Kemmidge. By Thomas Speight.
* From the Field of Jena. By G. C. Swayne.
* Chinese Dinners and Morning Calls. By James Mew.
* Negrophobia. By Thomas L. Nichols.
| No. 146. April 12, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* A Late Female French Dramatist and Relic of the Ancien Régime. By Emily Crawford.
* Border Gipsies. By James Smail.
* The Merrimac and the Monitor. By W. Bridges Adams.
* The University Boat Race. By Walker Bailey.
* Stays. By John Plummer.
| No. 147. April 19, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* The Wild Flowers of Spring. By Louisa Crow.
* Where the Flag, There the Family. By Harriet Martineau.
* Rome on the Pincian. By Michael Terry.
* A Very Strange Story (Part 1). By John Delaware Lewis.
* A Day’s Dredging. By Daniel Pidgeon.
* Male and Female Eggs. By Astley H. Baldwin.
| No. 148. April 26, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* The English in India. By E. West.
* What May Come of the Exhibition, 1862. By Harriet Martineau.
* Ichneumon Flies and Their Predatory Larvæ. By H. Noel Humphreys.
* A Very Strange Story (Part 2). By John Delaware Lewis.
* Urn Burial. By John Brent.
* Looking Back. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.
| No. 149. May 3, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Turin and Its “Chamber.” By Michael Terry.
* Guns and Armour. By W. Bridges Adams.
* A Seeress at Fault. By Percy Greg.
* New Orleans. By Thomas L. Nichols.
* Widow Houet. By Blomfield Jackson.
* Rags for the Ragged. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* Love v. Beauty. By Astley H. Baldwin.
| No. 150. May 10, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Dinners. By Wyndham Smith.
* The May-Fly. By Edward Jesse.
* Wanted a Partner. By Lewis Hough.
* Seedtime and Harvest. By Harriet Martineau.
* Portable Fire-Arms of the Olden Time. By Percy G. B. Lake.
| No. 151. May 17, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* John Horner, Esquire, on the Exhibition Building and Its Opening. By Andrew Wynter.
* Russian Popular Tales—The Story of Yvashka with the Bear’s Ear. By George Borrow.
* Mrs. Moore’s Manuscript (Part 2). By Miss Spooner.
| No. 152. May 24, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* The Dolours of a Dinner Table.
* Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Alpine and Polar Plant World. By Harland Coultas.
* A Day Among the Shakers. By Thomas L. Nichols.
* The Angler in May. By Edward Jesse.
| No. 153. May 31, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* John Horner, Esquire, on British Pictures at the International Exhibition. By Andrew Wynter.
* Down in Donegal. By G. Phillips Bevan.
* Ophelia. By John Addis.
* A Spring Salad. By Charles Augustus Cole.
* How to Make a Fernery. By Miss Kingscote.
* Teaching Our Grandmothers. By John Hollingshead.
| No. 154. June 7, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Night and the “Lucciole.” By Michael Terry.
* The Fens and Their Fickleness. By Harriet Martineau.
* Irish Convict System—No. IV. Female Prisons. By Mary Carpenter.
* Further Notes about the “Cuckoo.” By Astley H. Baldwin.
* A Shadowed Life. By Louisa Crow.
| No. 155. June 14, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* Fugitive Slaves in Ohio. By Sarah Ellen Blackwell.
* A New Chapter in Photography. By George Lumley.
* Satirical Medals of the Time of the Reformation. By H. Noel Humphreys.
* Michelet. By Lascelles Wraxall.
* Ana—Fast Doings at Rome; The Misericordians. By Michael Terry.
| No. 156. June 21, 1862. | Illustrated by |
* A Question of Democratic Ability. By Harriet Martineau.
* Out of the World (Part 2). By G. H. Haydon.
* Shenstone and the Leasowes. By Edward Jesse.
Abelard |104
Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia | 599
Admiral's Daughters, The |1, 29, 57
Adventures of Prince Lulu, The |488
"All Down the River"
Alchemist, The
Alleghany Mountains, Walled up amongst the |156
Alpine and Polar Plant World, The
America, Russian Princes in
America, The Slave Difficulty in
American Newspapers |168
Ana |S3, 215, 304, 317, 697
Andréa Chénier | 39
Ants' Rock and the Fisherman, The |251
Angler in May, The | 611
Arrested on Board an Actual Adventure in Chicago |110
As Old as the Hills | 62
At Crutchley Prior |266
Austria, Two Months in Upper |470
Convict Prisons, Irish .11, 176, 664 304
Craniums, Irish
Croker's Queen Anne's Farthings 273
Crusader's Wife, The
Crutchley Prior, At 545 266 516, 666 259
Cuckoo, The
Curiosities of
Leech Culture
Ballads
Months in Upper
of the Isle of Man
Barbara, Lady Battle of the Thirty, The
Beggar Saint, The
Border Gipsies
Bourg Bric-ii-Brac . Brighton, Sketches at . Brington and the Washington
Family British Sepulture Burial, Urn
Burns's Birthday and Bowl
442
.209
37 224 154
.189
Boat-Race, The University
Bon jour, Madame
110 62 £66 470
431 358 402 43
Daraya, The Grapes of. Day Among the Shakers, Day's Dredging,
A
Dead Bride, The
83
Democratic Ability, A Question of Diamoi.ds of the Marquis of Westminster
Diatonic ScalC; The
Dinners Dinner-Table, The Dolours of a Dreadful Ghost. A Dolours of a Dinner-Table, The Donegal, Down in
Cartes de Visite Case of Mr. Kemmidgs, The Castle by the Sea, The .
Caumont, Jacques de Gazette, The Prophecy of
Celtic Sepulture
J.
Cbampions, The Two Change of Heads, The Chartiat, The Old Chase of the Syren, The Cheap Lodgings
Chenier, A Cliild of Care, The China, The Great Wall of
Chinese Dinners and Morning Calls Chinese History, The Romance of Chinese Religion, The Christmas, and How It was Kept Christmas-Day, Mrs. Fuller's Clerk of the Weather, Tho Coin Collect' ng Columbia, 'Slavery in .
Coming Year, The
Commuie derer.
of
The
Farewell,
My
make
a
Halluciiiatious, A . Field of Jena, From the
A Dreadful
The Latest Thing iu Gibbon, E. Gipsies, Border Goblets, The Three Grandmothers, Teaching our Grapes of Daraya, The
239 378 697
654 640 262 413 353 658
336 326 215 413
(iSO
606
Guus and Armour
Ghosts,
tho Field of Jena Fugitive Slaves iu Ohio Further Notes about tho Cuckoo
Ghost,
From
Heads, Change of Hecatomb, The Hartley Pit
211 99
109 431 -89
668 184 550
.71
Herder
184 109
Horner, John, Esq., on the Great Exhibition . . 568, 623 23 Hotel Garden, The How to make a Fernery 640 .
Human
Lite, Statistics of
Ho wet. Widow Ichneumon
Flies
and
317 624
their Preda-
tory Larvae India, Ihe English in Insect Warfare Irish Convict System. Irish Craniums
494 484 373 11,176,664 394
Jacobite. The Fair Jacques de Caumont Jena, Tlio Field of
John Brown at Woolwich John Horner, Esq., ou the Ex-
hibition Building Johnson, Dr., his Penance
239 (il2
413 67
568, 623
14
14 . Kaer-Is, Drowning of 408 Kemmidge, Case of Mr. 322 at the . .The Gate, King Kleinundeugreich, A Page from . the History of .530
Latest from Spirit Land, The
Filey and its Fishermen Fire Arms, Portable . First Flowers, The Forgeries in Coin Collecting
The
Hecatomb, The
Harvest, Seedtime and
.205
Few
Fratricide.
Lady
.420
Fens and their Fickleness, Tho to
Lady's
How
Hartley
Pit
Bai-bara .
224 351
Late Female
French Uramatist and Relic of the Ancien Regime,
A
Fernery,
358
500 98
Fast Doings at Rome. Federal Army, The
Dumollard the Mur
597 62o 3S4 625 14 426 466 686 358
84 612 234
••326
215 83 541 597
. 470 Eggs, Male and Female Emelian the Fool 289 .484 English in India, The 399 Europe, The Savages of Exhibition, What may come of the 491 " 364 Experientia Docet". 239 Extraordinary Story, An Extraordinary Story and its Extra295 . ordinary Sequel
407 134 408
182 629 64 39 236 668 417 51 125 25 15 179
714
.211 .
Drowning of Kaer-Is, The Dumollard the Murderer
Fair Jacobite, The Fairies, The
71
Double Robbery, The Down in Donegal Dr. Johnson's Penance Dramatist, A Late French Dredging
280 610 466
.461
Canning, George Carlisle, A Legend of
446 600 600 286
A
Great Wall of China, The
426
Latest from Spirit Land, The Latest Thing iu Ghosts, The Lawrence, The Pupil of Sir T. Leasowes, The Leech Culture
295
99 94 722 259
Legend of Carlisle, A: The Scottish Gate " Little Wife " at the Federal Army,
Look
Looking Back Love V. Beauty.
A
Verdict for the
Plain tilf Lucciole, The
Lulu, Adventures of Prince
Lundy
Island
Madame
Bonjour's Protdgtis
Made to Order Madman's Story,
A
Major's Daughter,
The Male and Female Kggs Man, Ballads <>t tho Isle of .
641
Manuscript, Mrs. Moore's . Man^uis of Westminster's
280 613
May
monds, Fly,
Tlio
Tho
407 266 205 504
209 574 358 . 710 . 470 37 553, 584 Dia215 . 644 532 654 488 137 ​INDEX. PAGE 691 Mei-rimac and the Monitor, The 433,582 294 Metempsychosis 694 Michelet 697 . Misericoidians, The at Convict Prison 170, 664 Mountjoy, Mr. Pierce's Ten Thousand Clients 379 15 Mrs. Fuller's Christmas-Day Mrs. Moore's Manuscript 553, 584 Much Eight and Much Wrong 118 tiou
My Experiences
Parma with a
in
TheodoUte and a
"Dumpy
My My
Lady's Farewell Schoolfellow's Friend Mysterious Supper- Party,
A
Napoleon and the Governor of Sevilla
215 418 219 688 522 168 654 398 602
680
Negrophobia
New New New
Britain in the West, A Chapter in Photography,
A
Orleans
Newspapers, American " " Night and the Lucciole Night with the Trawl-Fishers, A Daimou Nips
Ohio, Fugitive Slaves in Old Chartist, The Old Year, The Ophelia .
Oracle, Working the Orleans, New Out of the World
.182
420 329 658
56 631 374 522 097, 718 .
Page from the History of Kleinundengreich,
A
Parent by Proxy, A Parma, My Experiences in Patty Penance of Dr. Johnson, The Per I'Amore d'una Douna
Pesth. a Photogi-aph of
530 454 298, 315 126 14 . . 385 249 ]06 .
Petrarch
.249 Photograph of Pesth, A 688 Photography, A New Chapter in Polar Plant World, The 608 Portable Firc-Arms of the Olden Time 558
Prodigal Son, The, 449, 477, 505, 533,
A W
man. The
Saint, The Beggar
Reformation Savages of Europe, The Scaligers, The Schwertini;- of
Saxony
Seedtime and Harvest
A
Seeress at Fault,
Shadowed Life, A Shakers, The Shenstoue and the Leasowes .
Wren, Chase of the Sir Tristem Sister Anna's Probation, 309, 337, .
691 399 108 42 550 519
Vesuvius, Up Victorian Exploring
273 714
216
Walled up among
the Alleghany
Mountains
610 722 629 343
156
Wanted a Partner
.547
446 Washington Family, The Waterloo Palace and Winter Gar232 The den, 179 Weather, The Clerk of the .
Wedding, A Tuscan Westminster, Diamonds Marquis of
304 43 145 599 11
A
Life".
Tasmania, The Sketchcr in Teaching Our Grandmothers The Ten Yard Seam The Three Goblets Three Score and Ten .
A
Trip to the
112 641 148
Year, The Coming. Year, The Old Yvashka with the
.289 .
644
47
Sir
141, 169, 197, 225, 253, 2S1.
Wong- Wan, The Tale of Wood Echo, The AVoolwich, John Brown Working the Oracle
275, 3ij4 .
232
723 456
323, 314
Winter-Garden on Waterloo Bridge How they Wives and Sisters Opine I Woman (The) Loved, and the Woman who Loved Me, 85, 113,
.251,280
491
Wife and I Wild Klowers of Spring, The Winter in a Tipperary Household,
215 191
Where the Flag, there the Family 456 Whip and the Night-Hunters, The 185 524 Widow Howet
89
the
1862
of
What Befel Me at the Assizes What May Come of the Exhibition,
78,
582 377 351 638 237 Statistics of Human Life 317 445 Stays 402, 496 Story, A Very Strange 23'.', 295 Story, An Extraordinaiy with Bear's of Yvashka the Story 572 Ear, The 658 Supper- Party, A Mysterious
Timber-Makers,
Expedition,
A
234 166 94
462, 496 121
The
365, 393, 421.
Sketch er in Tasmania, The 275, . Sketches at Brighton. Slave Difficulty in America, The Slavery in Columbia Smithfield, Convict Prison at Some Further Particulars of the Fight between the Men-imac and Monitor Something more about Obelisks Sph'it Land, The Latest from Spring Salad, A Spring's First Minstrel
Syrian Legends
251
In Nine
Visit to Lundy Island, . 137 Visits to Irish Convict Prisons 11,176,664
.667
442 121
500
Valentine, Very Strange Story, A. Chapters
of the
Celtic
A
638
Time
9S 470
Sepulchres
.189
A
Salad, Sirring Satirical Medals of the
256
78, 89
University Boat-Race, The "Up Vesuvius" Urn Burial. British and
289, 572
78
Russian Popular Tales Russian Princes in America
A
Two Champions. The. Two Moutiis in Upper Austria
Tuscan Wedding,
Queen Anne's Farthings Question of Democratic Ability,
"Taken from
561, 589, 617, 645, 673, 701.
Prophecy of Jacques Cazotte, The . Prospective Retrospects. Papil of Sir Thomas Lawrence, The
PAGB Tipperary, Winter in 323, -344 398 Trawl-Fishers, A Night with the A . 47 Trip to the Timber-Makers, Turin and its "Chamber " 512 . 162 Turner, J. M.
for the Ragged . 528 Reformation, Satirical Medals of the 691 .103 Representative Men Romauceof Chinese History. The Fate of Wong- Wan 51 . Rome on the Pincian .460 . 697 Rome, Fast Doings at Rusbton Hall 55 Russian Bal Masque and the Ccach.
298, 815
PAGB
Rags
Medals, Satirical, of the Keforma-
at .
51
70 67
.374
Bear's
Story of
Ear, J72
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. ARCHER, W.-163, 165. BROWN, HABLOT K.— 112, J.
364.
DOBELL,
224, 252,
C—420.
DU MAURI ER, G.—1,
24,
29,
57,
71,
99, 294, 390, 435, 644. G. 699.
HAYDON,
H.—
LAWLESS, M. J.— 14, 194, 462. MAY, W. W.— 583. MILLAIS, J. E.—43, 155, 239, 809,
337, 350, 305. 393, 421, 546, 630. 687. 278, 305, 307, 471, 473, 670, 671. E. J.— 84, 724. SANDYS, 183, 322, 614. TENNIEL. J.— 267, 379, 490, 575. 126, 127, 211, 449, 477. 505, 533, 561, 589, 617, 645, 673, 701.
PROUT, S.— 276,
HINE, H. G.— 139,
POYNTER, F.—
GREEN, KEENE,
WALKER. F.—
C—
2:>6,
C—85,
354, 556, 447, 448. 555,
113, 141, 169, 197, 225, 253, 281, 834, 407, 531, 603, 659.
WHISTLER, J.WOLF, J.— 518,
DIAGRAMS.— 149, i
I
151, 232, 233, 367, 515, 559. 560, 568, 509, 570, 571. 404, 432. 495, 496, 501, 502, 503, 504, 692, 693, 694.
MISCELLANEOUS.— 55,