# Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 10

ONCE A WEEK.
AN
Illustrated Miscellany
OF
LITERATURE, ART, SCIENCE, & POPULAR INFORMATION.
VOLUME X.
DECEMBER, 1863, TO JUNE, 1864.
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. 235. December 26, 1863. | Illustrated by |
* Winter. By Charles Warren Adams.
* The Haddock and John Doree. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* Christmas Carols. By Edmund Sedding.
* Curiosities of Cats. By Rev. M. G. Watkins.
* Exploded Superstitions. By Thomas L. Nichols.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 12). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* "Weep Thou No More!" By James Mew.
| No. 236. January 2, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 13). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* Duties on Playing-Cards. By Harry Jones.
* Jack the Giant Killer Married and Settled. By J. F. Brickdale.
* A Funeral Feast. By Robert Reece.
* Architecture of Birds. By Edward Jesse.
* A Night in a Snowdrift. By Edward Duron.
| No. 237. January 9, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* M. le Comte de Pontis de Sainte-Hélène. By Alfred Marks.
* Our Bankers. By E. P. Vardon.
* The Austrians at Home. By W. Bertram Edwards.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 14). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* The Mullet and the Gurnard. By Astley H. Baldwin.
| No. 238. January 16, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Green and Dry. By Arthur J. Munby.
* Schloss Schaubek. By Matilda Betham-Edwards.
* The Smelt. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 15). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* The Shakespeare Jubilee. By Dutton Cook.
* Treasure-Trove. By John Andrews.
| No. 239. January 23, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Winter Memories. By James Mew.
* A Crinoline Manufactory. By Frederick H. Whymper.
* The Story of Sir Arnulph. By George Murray.
* British Pearl Fishers. By J. Hamilton Fyfe.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 16). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
| No. 240. January 30, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Our Great Iron-Workers. By Andrew Wynter.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 17). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* New Year's Day in China. By W. H. Medhurst.
* At Copenhagen. By Charles Elton.
| No. 241. February 6, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Four-and-Twenty Hours in a Newspaper Office (Part 2). By Charles T. Browne.
* Machine Tool-Makers. By Andrew Wynter.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 18). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* Round the Irish Coast (Part 3). By G. Phillips Bevan.
| No. 242. February 13, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Fishing at Philæ. By Mrs. Hibbert.
* Dipsomania, or Thirst-Madness. By Andrew Wynter.
* Wheels in Workshire. By George Burton.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 19). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
| No. 243. February 20, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* The Burlesque of Life. By Edward Dicey.
* The Concierge in Paris. By Blanchard Jerrold.
* Notes on Dandies (Part 1). By Dutton Cook.
* Round the Irish Coast (Part 4). By G. Phillips Bevan.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 20). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* Merlin and the White Death. By Robert Buchanan.
| No. 244. February 27, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Titled and Untitled Aristocracy. By Edward Walford.
* Valentine's Day. By W. J. Linton.
* Body-Snatching and Burking. By Alfred Marks.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 21). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* The Widowed Queen of the Sandwich Islands. By W. W. Follett Synge.
| No. 245. March 5, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Notes on Dandies (Part 2). By Dutton Cook.
* A Skating Rink in Canada. By Reginald Fowler.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 22). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* Every Inch a King. By Manley Hopkins.
* The Carp. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* Waiting for the Spring. By Walter J. Lawrence.
| No. 246. March 12, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Learnt by Heart. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* Sweets for the Million. By Andrew Wynter.
* Beppo, the Conscript (Part 23). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* Mademoiselle Clemence, Cook. By Blanchard Jerrold.
* The Foundling Hospital at Moscow. By Walter Thornbury.
* Sleep and Death. By E. King Harman.
| No. 247. March 19, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Beppo, the Conscript (conclusion). By T. Adolphus Trollope.
* Pawns, Pawners, and Pawnbrokers. By George Dodd.
* The Brothers Moginié (Part 1). By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 1). By Ellen Wood.
* Obsolete Card-Games. By Harry Jones.
* The Battle Painter. By Walter Thornbury.
| No. 248. March 26, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* "A Crowning In": A Story of the Black Country. By Alice MacDonald Kipling.
* A Suppressed Art. By James Carpenter.
* The Brothers Moginié (Part 2). By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 2). By Ellen Wood.
* Studios in Florence (Part 2). By Isa Blagden.
| No. 249. April 2, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Johann Zoffany. By J. Wykeham Archer.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 3). By Ellen Wood.
* "An Apostle Indeed." By Edward Walford.
* Days in the Black Forest (Part 2). By G. C. Swayne.
| No. 250. April 9, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* London Omnibuses. By Andrew Wynter.
* Clerical Costume. By Dutton Cook.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 4). By Ellen Wood.
* The Roach. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* Out with McClellan. By George Manville Fenn.
* In Memoriam. J.A.M. By B. G. Johns.
| No. 251. April 16, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Piper's Spectral Illusion. By Dutton Cook.
* A Fruitful Vine. By Edward Walford.
* "April." By Anne Devas.
* German Co-operative Societies. By Burton S. Blyth.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 5). By Ellen Wood.
| No. 252. April 23, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* A Night's Lodging in Paris. By Blomfield Jackson.
* The Seasons in Italy. By Isa Blagden.
* Shakspeare's Gloves. By Dutton Cook.
* Three Days at Portland, U.S. By Wiltshire Stanton Austin.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 6). By Ellen Wood.
| No. 253. April 30, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Lobsters. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* Marshal Storck: Who Was He? By C. M. Ingleby.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 7). By Ellen Wood.
* The Modern Pulpit. By Charles B. Gibson.
* The Midge-Lake (Part 2). By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* May-Day Prayer. By Paul Richardson.
| No. 254. May 7, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Weights and Measures. By George Lumley.
* Legends of the Nursery. By Ernest R. Seymour.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 8). By Ellen Wood.
* Italy and England. By Laura Valentine.
* On Spring. By Edward Jesse.
* My Double-Blossoming Cherry-Tree. By Henrietta Tindal.
| No. 255. May 14, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Maïa. By Astley H. Baldwin.
* "The Greater Light." By James Carpenter.
* "Blacklegs." By Dutton Cook.
* Garrick's Mulberry Tree. By John Plummer.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 9). By Ellen Wood.
* Parallel Passages. By Dutton Cook.
* Hrolf Krake. By Sabine Baring-Gould.
* "Confidence." By Richard George Holland.
| No. 256. May 21, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* An Extraordinary Sect. By Walter Thornbury.
* A Poor Clerk's Story. By Robert Reece.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 10). By Ellen Wood.
* The Thames Embankment. By Andrew Wynter.
* Adventures in the Wilds of Connemara (Part 1). By Charles B. Gibson.
| No. 257. May 28, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* Mrs. David Garrick. By Dutton Cook.
* A Day's Fishing on the Avon. By Edward Jesse.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 11). By Ellen Wood.
* The Three Hunters. (From Uhland.) By Blomfield Jackson.
* The Downs. By E. P. Vardon.
* "The Glove." By A. M. Beamish.
| No. 258. June 4, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* How to Buy Your Own House or Land. By Andrew Wynter.
* Fossil Thunder and Lightning. By G. Phillips Bevan.
* The Love-Cheat. By John Alfred Langford.
* Ch-ng P-ng; or, the Sphinx of Pekin. By Edward Smith.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 12). By Ellen Wood.
* The Sheffield River System. By W. Martin Wood.
* The Legend of Covenham Bridge. By Louisa Crow.
| No. 259. June 11, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* The Skipper's Wife. By Randolph Pigott.
* Typographical Errors. By David MacRae.
* Meyerbeer. By George Lumley.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 13). By Ellen Wood.
* "Our Once-Fat Friend." By Andrew Wynter.
* Columbus. By J. C. Hordern.
| No. 260. June 18, 1864. | Illustrated by |
* A Lesson on Bogs. By G. Phillips Bevan.
* An Old Chapter in Cookery. By Ernest R. Seymour.
* Lord Oakburn's Daughters (Part 14). By Ellen Wood.
* Plots for Plays. By Alexander C. Fraser.
* The Earth to the Sea. By T. Farrow.
A'Beckett's Troth 573 Adventures in the Wilds of Connemara 614 Agony, A Long 127
Apostle Indeed, An 415
"April" 456
Architecture of Birds 47
Aristocracy, Titled and Untitled 261
Arnulph, The Story of Sir 126
Art, A Suppressed 368
At Copenhagen 164
Aunt Tricksy, My 393
Austrians at Home, The 72
Avon, Fishing on the 628
Bacchus and the Water-Thieves 657
Bankers, Our 65
Banting, Mr. 696
Battle Painter, The 364
Beppo, the Conscript 21, 29, 79, 100, 132, 145, 189, 221, 248, 273, 298, 323, 337 Birds, Architecture of 47
Black Forest, Days in the 390, 418
"Blacklegs" 570
Blacksmiths of Holsby, The 113, 154
Body-Snatching and Burking 261
Bogs, A Lesson on 705
Border Wooing, A 268
Bracken Hollow 57, 85
British Pearl Fishers 130
Brothers Moginié, The 345, 371
Burking 261
Burlesque of Life, The 232
Calypso 183
Canada, A Skating Rink in 296
Card Games, Obsolete 362
Cards, Playing 34
Carnival at Venice, The 685
Carols, Christmas 10
Carp, The 306
Castle of Monetier, Legend of the 14
Cats, Curiosities of 16
Charles V., Expiation of 99
Cherry Tree, My Double-Blossoming 560
China, New Year's Day in 151
Ch-ng P-ng; or, The Sphinx of Pekin 654
Christmas Carols 10
Clemence, Mademoiselle, Cook 327
Clerical Costume 431
Clerk’s Story, A 598
Coast Guardsman's Tale, The 561
Coity, The Heiress of 376
Columbus 699
Comte, M. Le 62
Concierge in Paris, The 234
"Confidence" 588
Connemara, Adventure in 614
Cook, Mademoiselle Clemence, 327
Cookery, An Old Chapter in 708
Co-operative Societies in Germany 457
Copenhagen, At 164
Corporal, The Old 461
Costume, Clerical 431
Courtship, A Painter's 589, 617
Covenham Bridge, Legend of 671
Crinoline Manufactory, A 124
"Crowning In, A" 365
Curiosities of Cats 16
Dandies, Notes on 240, 288
Dartmoor Streams 473
Day, Valentine's 261
Day's Fishing on the Avon, A 628
Days in the Black Forest 390, 418
Derby, The 640
Detur Digniori 505, 533
Downs, The 640
Duties on Playing-Cards 34
Earth to the Sea, The 724
Embankment, The Thames 611
Epsom Downs 640
Every Inch a King 304
Expiation of Charles V., The 99
Exploded Superstitions 18
Extraordinary Sect, An 595
Father Mathew 415 Feast, A Funeral 41 Fielding's Grave 559 Fishing at Philæ 206 Fishing on Dartmoor 473 Fishing on the Avon 628 Florence, Studios in 388 Fossil Thunder and Lightning 652 Foundling Hospital at Moscow, The 330 Four-and-Twenty Hours in a Newspaper Office 178 Fruitful Vine, A 456 Funeral Feast, A 41
Games at Cards, Obsolete 362 Garrick, Mrs. D. 622 Garrick's Mulberry Tree 571 Gentleman with the Lily, The 169, 197 German Co-operative Societies 457 "Glove, The" 644 Gloves, Shakespeare's 483 Grange, The Lady of the 141 "Greater Light, The" 565 Greek Church, The 595 Green and Dry 90 Guestford, Norman's Visit to 1, 43 Gurnard, The 82
Haddock and John Doree, The 8 Heiress of Coity, The 376 Hero 349 Holsby, The Blacksmiths of 113, 154 Horace Winston 211 Hospital at Moscow 330 House or Land, How to Buy your Own 648 How to Buy your Own House or Land 648 Hrolf Krake 585 Hunters, The Three 639
Identity, Mistaken 281
Illusion, Piper's Spectral 449
In Memoriam 448
Irish Coast, The 138, 194, 245
Iron-Workers, Our Great 142
Italy and England 556
Italy, Seasons in 482
Jack the Giant Killer Married and Settled 38
Johann Zoffany 402
John Doree, The 8
John of Padua 71
Jubilee, The Shakespeare 104
King of the Sandwich Islands 304
Krake, Hrolf 585   Lady of the Grange, The 141
Lass, T'Runawaa 629
Learnt by Heart 318
Legend of Longleat, A 71
Legend of the Castle of Monetier 14
Legend of Covenham Bridge, The 671
Legend of Northampton, A 432
Legends of the Nursery 543
Lesson on Bogs, A 705
Life, Burlesque of 232
Light, The Greater 565
Lobsters 512
London Omnibuses 426
Long Agony, A 127
Lord Oakburn's Daughters 351, 379, 407, 435, 463, 491, 519, 547, 575, 603, 631, 659, 687, 715
Love-Cheat, The 654
McClellan, Out with 445
Machine Tool-Makers 184
Mademoiselle Clemence, Cook 327
Madness, Thirst 209
Madonna della Seggiola, The 517
Maïa 564
Manufactory of Crinoline 124
Marshal Storck 514
Mathew, Father 415
May-Day Prayer 532
Measures, Weights and 540
Memories, Winter 124
Merlin and the White Death 251
Mermaid, The 294
Meyerbeer 683
Midge-Lake, The 500, 530
Million, Sweets for the 318
Mistaken Identity 281
M. le Comte de Pontis de Sainte-Hélène 62
Modern Pulpit, The 528
Moginié, The Brothers 345, 371 Monetier, Legend of 14 Moon's Wanderings, The 267
Moscow, Foundling Hospital at 330
Mrs. David Garrick 622
Mulberry Tree, Garrick's 571
Mullet and the Gurnard, The 82
My Aunt Tricksy 393
My Double-Blossoming Cherry-Tree 560
Newspaper Office, Twenty-four Hours in a 178
New Year's Day in China 151
Night, A Stormy 253
Night in a Snowdrift, A 52
Night's Lodging in Paris, A 477
Norman's Visit to Guestford 1, 43
Northampton, Legend of 432
North Coast of Devon and Cornwall, The 645, 673
Notes on Dandies 240, 288
Nursery, Legends of the 543
Oakburn.—See Lord Oakburn.
Obsolete Card-Games 362
Officer, The 322
Old Chapter in Cookery, An 708
Old Corporal, The 461
Old House at Pound's Bridge, The 360
Omnibuses 426
On Spring 558
Our Bankers 65
Our Great Iron-Workers 142
Our Once-fat Friend 696
Out with McClellan 445
Padua, John of 71
Painter’s Courtship, A 589, 617
Parallel Passages 583
Paris, A Night's Lodging in . 477
Paris, The Concierge in 234
Parrot, The Vizier's 405
Pastoral, H 489
Pawns, Pawners, and Pawnbrokers 340
Pearl-Fishers, British 130
Pekin, the Sphinx of 651
Philae, Fishing at 206
Piper's Spectral Illusion 140
Playing-Cards . 34
Plots for Plays 721
Pontis, M. le Comte de . 62 4
Poor Clerk's Story, A . 598
Portland, Three Days at 434
Portrait, The Veiled . . . 225
Pound's Bridge, Old House at . 360
Prayer, May-Day . . . . 632
Princess of Wales, Th . 392
Proserpine . . . . 238
Pulpit, The Modern . . 528
Queen of the Sandwich Isles, The 280
Ride, The Rueful . . . . 711
Rink, A Canadian Skating . 206
River System at Shefield, The 667
Roach, The 143
Romaunt of the Rose, The 601
Round the Irish Coast 138, 194, 245
Rueful Ride, The 711
Sandwich Islands, The King of the 304
Sandwich Isles, The Queen of the 280
Schloss Schanbek 90
Sea, The Earth to the . . 724 Seasons in Italy, The 482
Sect, An Extraordinary 595
Seggiola, Madonna della . 517
Shakespeare's Gloves 483
Shakespeare Jubilee, The 104
Sheffield River System, The 667
Sir Arnulph, Story of 126
Skating Rink in Canada, A 296
Skipper's Wife, The 678
Sleep and Death 336 Smelt, The 97
Snowdrift, A Night in a 52
Something New 421
Spectral Ilusion, Piper's 449
Sphinx of Pekin, The 654
Spring, On . . . 658
Spring, Waiting for the . 308
Stalking-Horse, The . . . 544
Stonemason's Yard, The . . . 701
Storek, Marshal . . . 514
Stormy Night, A . . 253
Story, A Poor Clerk's . 50
Story of Sir Arnulph, The 126
Studios in Florence 388
Sun, The . . . . 565
Superstitions, Exploded 18
Suppressed Art, A . . . . 868
Sweets for the Million . . . 318
Tale, The Coast Guardsman's 561
Thames Embankment, The . 611
Thirst Madness . . . 209
Three Days at Portland, U.S. . 484
Three Hunters, The . . 63
Thunder and Lightning, Fossil . 652
Titled and Untitled Aristocracy . 261
Tool-Makers, Machine . . . 184
Treasure-Trove . . . . 112
Tricksy, My Aunt 393
T' Runawaa Lass . . . . 629
Turberville, and the Heiress of Coity . . . . . . 8'6
Twelve Mont . 392
Typographical Errors 682
Uninvited, The 309
Valentine's Day . 261
Veiled Portrait, The . ‘Z25
Venice, The Carnival at 685
Vine, A Fruitful . 456
Vizier’s Parrot, The . 406
Waiting for the Spring 308
Wales, the Princess of . 392
Wanderings, The Moon's 267
“Weep thou no More !" . . 28
Weights and Measures . . 540
Wheels in Workshire . . . 218
Widowed Queen of the Sandwich Islands, The . . . 280
Winston, Horace . . . . 211
Winter . . . . . . 7
Workshire, Wheels in 218
Zofanny, J. 402
INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
ARCHER,. W.—272. BARNE, R—267, 322, 434, 518. BURTON, W.S.—602 DU MAURIRER, G.—255, 309, 393, 462, 565, 533. FAIRFIELD, A. R.—546, 589, 617, 686, 712. GREEN, C—1, 14, 43, 127, 141, 169, 197, 295, 630. LAWLESS, M. J.—71. MORTEN, T.—421, 561. PINWELL, G. J.—57, 85, 99, 113, 154, 183, 211, 239, 253, 281, 350, 406, 490, 574, 701 PRITCHETT, R.T.—360, 475, 645, 673. SHEILDS, F.J—378. SULMAN, T.—51, 139, 391, 594,559. TENNIEL, J.—658. DIAGRAMS and MISCELLANEOUS—196, 388, 565, 567, 651, 700.