# Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5

ONCE A WEEK.
AN
Illustrated Miscellany
OF
LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.
VOLUME V.
JUNE TO DECEMBER, 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. 105. June 29, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* America Militant (Part 2). By Francis Morton.
* Blondin. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.
* The Bashkirs. By W. K. Westly.
* Some Notes on the Tobacco College of King Frederick William the First of Prussia. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* What Is Coal? By Mrs. Taylor.
* Only a Penny. By Harry Jones.
| No. 106. July 6, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Men—Progressive Statesmen: Canning, Huskisson, Peel. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Great Fire at London Bridge. By Andrew Wynter.
* The Mill on the River Mole. By Louisa Crow.
* Sagartia Anemones, or My Drawing-Room Pets. By Selina Jane Macleod.
* Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Blind Man!. By Louis Sand.
* The Congress at Rhinocorura. By Edward H. Michelsen.
| No. 107. July 13, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Deaths by Fire. By Harriet Martineau.
* Slapton. By James Stuart Vaughan.
* My Burglary. By Wyndham Smith.
* "Cato" on the Boards. By Dutton Cook.
* The Origin of the Lake of Gidden. By W. K. Westly.
* Our Schools of Design. By Isabella Kentish.
* A Definition. By Horace Moule.
| No. 108. July 20, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Queer Culprits. By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* Shady Valley. By Arthur J. Munby.
* Count de St. Germain. By Lascelles Wraxall.
* How I Invested My Legacy in the Purchase of Leasehold Property, and What Came of It. By Thomas King.
| No. 109. July 27, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Worthies of Twickenham. By Edward Jesse.
* Tartars and Taepings: A Personal Narrative of the Recent Expedition up the Yangtze Kiang. By Alexander Michie.
* Souvenirs. By Robert Buchanan.
* How We Saved Our Madeira. By Robert Reece.
* The Comet of 1861. By R. B. McCrea.
* Relics of Byron.
| No. 110. August 3, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Fourth of July, 1861. By Harriet Martineau.
* "Bell's Life," and Our Sports and Pastimes. By Andrew Wynter.
* The Turkish Almanac (Takvim). By Edward H. Michelsen.
* The Alibi.
* The Docks and the Dock-Gates. By John Plummer.
* Mother Shipton: Her Life and Prophecies. By George Lumley.
* An Old Story of Old Gibraltar. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.
* A Ballad of the Five Rivers. By Edwin Arnold.
| No. 111. August 10, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* What Women Are Educated For. By Harriet Martineau.
* Our Critic upon Cricket: Second Innings. By Henry Silver.
* Usury and Usurers. By Frederick Gale.
* Among the Deaths. By Annie Edwardes.
* The Literature of the Shop. By Cuthbert Bede.
* The Ghost That My Grandmother Saw. By Bianca Bertoni.
* Sketches from My Italian Household. By Isa Blagden.
| No. 112. August 17, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Men—Merchants: The Polos, Sir Josiah Child, Sir Dudley North, the Rothschilds, John Jacob Astor. By Harriet Martineau.
* A Day's Fishing. By Frederick Gale.
* Cotton and the Cotton-Supply (Part 1). By E. P. Vardon.
* A Prima Donna. By Dutton Cook.
| No. 113. August 24, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* American Soldiering. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Spring of Clear Water. By W. K. Westly.
* Welsh Eisteddfods. By G. Phillips Bevan.
* Cotton and the Cotton-Supply (Part 2). By E. P. Vardon.
* Misapplied Ornamentation. By Andrew Wynter.
* The Russian as a Shopkeeper. By Edward H. Michelsen.
| No. 114. August 31, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Half Hours at the Kensington Museum (Part 1). By Andrew Wynter.
* Green Seaweeds. By Charles Crump.
* Our First English Regatta. By G. G. Alexander.
* The Suction Post. By Bedford Pim.
* Our First Curate. By Miss Overton.
| No. 115. September 7, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Men—Political Philosophers: Machaivelli, Montesquieu, De Tocqueville. By Harriet Martineau.
* Town Transit—the Air Line. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Guilbert Fitz-Richard. By W. B. B. Stevens.
* Cagliostro. By Lascelles Wraxall.
| No. 116. September 14, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Harvest. By Harriet Martineau.
* A Phase of the Paper Question: The Rag Merchant in Brittany. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* The Cinque Ports and the Bredenstone at Dover. By Edward Walford.
* A "Medium" in 1772. By Louis Sand.
* Ramparted War-Ships and Smooth Bore Guns. By W. Bridges Adams.
* Pasquin and Marforio. By Walter K. Kelly.
| No. 117. September 21, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Ireland and Her Queen. By Harriet Martineau.
* The New Zealand Difficulty. By Isabella Fenton.
* The Lass of Richmond Hill. By Edward Jesse.
* The Cockhorse Regiment. By Edward H. Michelsen.
* Railway Risks: Horse Feet and Road—Engine Feet and Rails. By W. Bridges Adams.
* The Channel Fleet in the Clyde.
* Within Twenty Miles of London in the Nineteenth Century. By Louisa Crow.
* September the Third. By Horace Moule.
| No. 118. September 28, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* What Is Flint? By Daniel Pidgeon.
* How to Steal a Feather-Bed. By Lovell Burchett Clarence.
* The Tale He Told the Marines. By G. Phillips Bevan.
* How the Rains Come upon Us in India. By Vivian Dering Majendie.
* Fairy Children. By John Addis.
* Old English Prodigies. By Louis J. Jennings.
* Allan Ramsay, Junior. By Dutton Cook.
* Ana.
| No. 119. October 5, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Men—Self-Made Men: Richard Grainger. By Harriet Martineau.
* Civile Bellum. By Charles D. Shanly.
* Dinner. By Harry Jones.
* The Montenegrins. By H. R. Fox Bourne.
| No. 120. October 12, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Footprints on the Sands. By Mrs. Taylor.
* The Domestic Service Question. By Harriet Martineau.
* How the O'Donnells First Went to Spain (Part 2). By William Bernard McCabe.
* A Day at Woolwich. By Mackenzie Walcott.
* Fish and Fowl at the Land's End. By Charles Elton.
* Not Yet. By S. W. Williams.
* The Steelyard (postscript). By J. Wykeham Archer.
| No. 121. October 19, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Our Peasantry in Progress. By Harriet Martineau.
* Why I Left the Volunteers. By W. H. R. Simpson.
* By the Rosanna. By George Meredith.
* Revenge for a Lady. By Shirley Brooks.
* A Solo on the Serpent. By Albany Fonblanque Jr.
* Ana.
* Richer Than Ever: A Wife's Story. By Louisa Crow.
| No. 122. October 26, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Last of the Condés. By R. M. Hayley.
* Hopping in Kent. By Isabella Kentish.
* Justine’s Gage d’Amour. By Mark Lemon.
* Knocking Down an Old Friend. By W. D. Parish.
* Red Seaweeds. By Charles Crump.
* Ana—Serfdom and Emancipation in Russia; A Reverse of Fortune; Ready, Aye Ready!
* Richard Grainger (postscript). By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 123. November 2, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Prince Kaunitz. By Lascelles Wraxall.
* My Long Vacation. By Frederick Gale.
* The Hostelry. By John Francis O'Donnell.
* Deep Calling to Deep. By Harriet Martineau.
* Awake at Last. By Vaughan Morgan.
* The Temple Chrysanthemums. By C. B. Borradaile.
* A Walk from Rochester to Maidstone.
* Professor Bessel and His Tailor. By Edward H. Michelsen.
| No. 124. November 9, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Representative Men—The Soldier: The Maccabees, Wallentstein, the Napiers. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Foundry at Moorfields.
* "And Back Again." By Shirley Brooks.
* Our Lodgers from Abroad. By Louisa Crow.
| No. 125. November 16, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* An American Boarding-House in Havana. By Robert Temple.
* Coin Collecting. By Reginald Stuart Poole.
* One Moment of Suspense. By Thomas Heaphy.
* Half Hours at the Kensington Museum (Part 2). By Andrew Wynter.
* A Medal from the Royal Humane Sociey, and How It Was Won. By Miss H. A. Rudall.
* Chevalier d'Eon. By Lascelles Wraxall.
| No. 126. November 23, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* An Electrotype Wedding. By Shirley Brooks.
* Phantasy. By George Meredith.
* Education: The Racing Season. By Harriet Martineau.
* High Days in the Temple. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* Birds and Insects. By Edward H. Michelsen.
| No. 127. November 30, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Messages under the Sea. By Andrew Wynter.
* "Othello" at the Princess's. By Charles Henry Butcher.
* Sketches at Brighton—No. II. The Joneses of Montpelier. By Sydney Whiting.
* New Phase of the American Strife. By Harriet Martineau.
* Ana—Can a Clergyman Marry Himself?; Russian Discipline.
| No. 128. December 7, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* "Irene" at Drury Lane. By Dutton Cook.
* Visits to the Irish Convict Prisons—No. I. By Mary Carpenter.
* Three Hours Underground. By Arthur Arnold.
* The Confession of a Tea-Kettle; or, a Hint to Housewives. By Charles Strange.
* Duplicate Security. By Thomas King.
* Our Chase. By John Alfred Langford.
| No. 129. December 14, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* The Last Sheffield Outrages. By Harriet Martineau.
* The Cattle Show: Its Last Year in Baker Street. By Robert Black.
* Unfashionable Preachers. By John Plummer.
* Sketches at Brighton—No. III. A Reception. By Sydney Whiting.
* A Bit of Practical Entomology. By Louis Sand.
* Representative Men—Political Agitators: Rienzi, Cade, Lafayette, O'Connell, Mazzini, John Bright. By Harriet Martineau.
| No. 130. December 21, 1861. | Illustrated by |
* Mudie's Circulating Library. By Andrew Wynter.
* Fechter's "Othello." By Charles Henry Butcher.
* My Arrival in Australia. By Harriet Cawse Fiddes.
* Meg of Meldon. By T. Wemyss Reid.
* Chinese Poetry. By James Mew.
* The Invasion of Yorkshire. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* Dulce Domum! By John Francis O'Donnell.
* PAGE
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
BROWN, HABLOT K.—28, 154.
BROOKS, J. W.—668, 669. DU MAURIER, G.—356, 361, 445, 463, 547, 722. FROLICK, L.—350, 713.
GREEN, C.—518, 519.
HINE, H. G.—53, 55, 108, 109, 110, 166, 167, 222, 223, 224, 278, 280, 331, 390, 503, 556, 557, 614, 615, 643. KEENE, C.—43, 251, 266, 281, 309, 337, 365, 393, 686. LAWLESS, M. J.—420, 532, 575, 700.
LEECH, J.—183, 391, 407, 603.
MILLAIS, J. E.—211, 434.
MORTEN, T.—71.
ROGERS, W. H.—329.
SANDYS, F.—238, 491, 631.
SHIELDS, F. J.—378.
SKELTON, P.—299, 301. SULMAN, T.—643.
TENNIEL, J.—1, 29, 57, 85, 113, 141, 169, 197, 225, 253, 659. WALKER, F.—15, 83, 127, 133, 306, 323, 421, 449, 477, 505, 533, 561, 589, 617, 645, 673, 701. WELLS, MISS.—98.
WOLF, J.—295.
DIAGRAMS.—334, 373, 375, 501, 558, 666. MISCELLANEOUS.—139, 193, 196, 474, 475, 476, 576, 577, 587.