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

ONCE A WEEK.
AN
Illustrated Miscellany
OF
LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.
VOLUME I.
JULY TO DECEMBER, 1859.
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. 1. July 2, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Man Among the Mammoths. By T. H. Huxley.
* Snakes and Their Prey: An African Adventure. By Arthur Clarence.
* English Projectiles (Part 1). By W. Bridges Adams.
* The Tail of a Tadpole. By G. H. Lewes.
| No. 2. July 9, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Garibaldi. By A. A. Knox.
* English Projectiles (Part 2). By W. Bridges Adams.
* The Spider-Crab. By Edward Jesse.
* Our Farm of Two Acres—Terrain and Tillage. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 3. July 16, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Our Farm of Two Acres—Dairy and Bacon. By Harriet Martineau.
* English Projectiles (Part 3). By W. Bridges Adams.
* Ana.
* Wine. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 4. July 23, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Spontaneous Generation. By G. H. Lewes.
* An Old Church Library. By Charles Knight.
* Candle Making. By Andrew Wynter.
| No. 5. July 30, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Bessemer and Gun-Metal. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Running the Hood. By W. W. Wilson.
* Our Farm of Two Acres—The Poultry-Yard. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 6. August 6, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Racing by Steam. By Daniel Pidgeon.
* A Talk About Rydal Mount. By Thomas Blackburne.
* Man and the Horse. By A. A. Knox.
| No. 7. August 13, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* English Railway Artillery. By W. Bridges Adams.
* My First Literary Success: A Statement of Account. By John Elliott.
* Dumb Mouths. By John Clyne.
* The Round Tower at Jhansi—June 8, 1857. By Christina Rossetti.
| No. 8. August 20, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* River Scenes in China (Part 1). By Harriet Martineau.
* Ana.
* The Strike. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Ship-Lifting or Unlaunching. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Domestic Servants in Hamburgh. By George A. Jackson.
| No. 9. August 27, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Orchards in Cheapside. By Andrew Wynter.
* Stale Bread. By G. H. Lewes.
* River Scenes in China (Part 2). By Harriet Martineau.
* Ned Stokes’s Carol on Cottages. By Rev. J. Steadman.
* Vanitas, Vanitas! By J. Palgrave Simpson.
| No. 10. September 3, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* The Wreck of the Alma. By John Bowring.
* Herod in the Nineteenth Century. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 11. September 10, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* The Great Eastern. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Withered. By James Smart Linwood.
* Volcanoes for the Million. By Edmund Edwards.
* Bread-Making in Spain. By E. Brackenbury.
| No. 12. September 17, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Cafés. By H. Sutherland Edwards.
* The Glaciers of Great Britain. By G. Phillips Bevan.
* Two Partings. By Ralph A. Benson.
* An Evening in “the City of Palaces.” By Robert Morrison.
| No. 13. September 24, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Effie Campbell. By Joseph Truman.
* The Chameleon’s Colour. By G. H. Lewes.
* The Schooling of the Great Eastern. By W. Bridges Adams.
* School for Life or Death. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 14. October 1, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* The Great Ship’s Trials. By Edward J. Reed.
* The Peiho, 1859. By Edmund Boger.
* Ana.
| No. 15. October 8, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* New Westminster Bridge. By Daniel Pidgeon.
* Follies in Food. By Harriet Martineau.
* Sulphurwell. By G. H. Lewes.
| No. 16. October 15, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Reliques of the Lost. By Edmund Boger.
* Revivals. By Thomas Blackburne.
* Deer-Stalking Extraordinary. By Henry Rumpton.
* Spanish Cabrestos. By E. Brackenbury.
* Ana—Pitt’s Death-Bed; Skeleton Strata.
* How to Learn to Swim. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 17. October 22, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* The Cook or the Doctor?. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Swineherd Painter. By Amy Colville.
* Hands and Machines: An Episode in Progress. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Our Tame Hedgehog. By Emily Crawford.
| No. 18. October 29, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Young France. By Baroness Blaze de Bury.
* In Memoriam: Isambard K. Brunel, Robert Stephenson. By George R. Taylor.
| No. 19. November 5, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Ana—Scotch to the Back-Bone; A Word About Hungerford Market; Cornwallis and Pitt on the Duke of Wellington.
* Dress and Its Victims. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 20. November 12, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* The Swimming-School for Women at Paris. By Harriet Martineau.
* English War-Ships and Their Uses (Part 1). By W. Bridges Adams.
* The Sprig of Lavender. By Herbert Clarke.
| No. 21. November 19, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Home or Hospital. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Horned Snake. By George Paris Salmon.
* Needlemaking. By Andrew Wynter.
* Ana—Longevity Among the Peerage.
| No. 22. November 26, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* “England Expects Every Man to Do His Duty.” By Harriet Martineau.
* The Death Day of an Infant in Spain. By E. Brackenbury.
| No. 23. December 3, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Autumn Even-Song. By George Meredith.
* The First Play-House. By Robert Bell.
* Woman’s Battle-Field. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 24. December 10, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Insurrection at Harper’s Ferry. By Harriet Martineau.
* Mock Auctions. By Andrew Wynter.
* Mountstuart Elphinstone: In Memoriam. By John William Kaye.
| No. 25. December 17, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* Newspaper “Canards.” By Samuel Langley.
* Self-Murder. By Harriet Martineau.
* Women’s Work. By Sarah Stickney.
* Real and Sham Vaccination. By John Rose Cormack.
* Learning to Swim. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Blind Woman of Manzanares. By John Bowring.
| No. 26. December 24, 1859. | Illustrated by |
* The Mistletoe Bough; or, the Romance of the Rose. By Mary Eliza Rogers.
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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
BENNETT, G. H.—350. BROWNE, Hablot K.—96, 110, 117, 160, 161, 163, 190, 221, 284, 328, 329, 331, 351, 353, 373, 394, 414, 416, 426, 492, 493, 526, 536, 537. COODE, Miss—404. CORBOULD, E. H.—417, 448. FITZGERALD, J. A.—527, 530. HARVEY—207. HINE, H. G.—121, 126, 145, 146, 167, 218, 219, 220, 240, 283, 293, 359, 377, 381, 479, 481, 501, 519, 523, 532, 535. HUARD—294. KEENE, C.—11, 31, 51, 61, 65, 71, 91, 111, 131, 141, 151, 171, 191, 201, 203, 211, 231, 251, 254, 270, 273, 427, 449, 471, 483, 544. LANE, Miss—470. LAWLESS, M. J.—505, 507, 509. LEECH, John—1, 2, 17, 27, 36, 50, 56, 59, 81, 84, 120, 130, 150, 181, 183, 199, 230, 238, 262, 263, 323, 326, 342, 360, 405, 408, 438, 461, 463, 495, 499. MAY, W.—338, 339, 361, 362, 364, 365, 383, 386, 387. McQUOID, T. R.—iii. (Index.) MILLAIS—10, 41, 70, 306, 316, 382, 482, 514. ROGERS, W. Harry—iv. (Index); 470. SCOTT, T.—4, 372. SKELTON, Percival—244, 246, 460. SKILL, F. J.—210, 295, 297, 317, 322, 401. SMALLFIELD, F.—439. TENNIEL, John—4, 5, 21, 30, 60, 90, 101, 103, 170, 250, 285, 435, 446. THOMPSON, A.—504. WEEDON, E.—138, 140, 241, 279, 430. WOLF—180, 392, 395, 400, 455. WOODS, W. R.—307, 368.