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NE IV SERIES-VII.

VOLUME LXXXVII.

PARTS DXV. TO DXX., JAN.- JUNE 1894.

LONDON :
A. D. INNES AND CO.,
31 & 32, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C.

1894.

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Cameos from English History. By C. M. Yonge :-

Men of Letters .

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The Fall of the Jesuits

459
Carrier of Parcels, A. By L. B. Walford

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China Cupboard, The .

115, 240, 368, 494, 619, 744

Christopher. By Helen Ouston.

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Church History Society

113, 237, 365, 491, 617, 741

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Dante : His Times and his work. By A. J. Butler 37, 156, 276, 416, 569, 692
Descendant of Irish Earls, A. By Katharine Tynan Hinkson. 164
Dreams. By Andrew Lang

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Eton Mission : Hackney Wick .

233

Fin de Siècle Girl, The. By Louise Jordan Miln

Finnish Fairy Fancy, A. By H. S. C. Everard and E. C. Boothby

Frederick Walker, A.R.A. By Mary R. L. Bryce

From May-Day to May-Day. By M. Little .

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Great Comets. By J. E. Gore, F.R.A.S.

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In the National Gallery. By Cosmo Monkhouse :-

1.—The Spell of the Church .
11.–The Call of Spring

III.-The Shore of Romance

IV.–The Building of the Palace

V.--The Valleys of Peace .

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Madame Elisabeth. By E. C. Price
March Hare, A. By Phil Robinson
Miss Guy Fawkes, of the Zoo. By Phil Robinson
Mors et Vita
My Lady Rotha. By Stanley Weyman

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Poetry

After Catullus. By Peter Piper
Alpha and Omega. By H. M. Waithman
At Sunset-time. By Olive Walford
Five Years Old. By. C. M. Prevost
Garden Fancies. By Ethel M. Boyce :-

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Hush Song. By Moira O'Neill
My Flowers almost Talk to Me. By Nesta Lake
New Year. By R. W. Bond
Song of Welcome. By Nesta Lake
To Sleep. By R. Garnett

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St. Francis of Assisi. By Rosa N. Carey
Saga of an Iceland Pony, The. By J. A. Stewart
Sant' Antonino. By Helen Zimmern
Some Boston Writers of To-day. By Oscar Fay Adams
South African January, A
Stopped by Signal. By Jane Barlow

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JANUARY, 1894.

MY LADY ROTHA.

A ROMANCE.

BY STANLEY WEYMAN, AUTHOR OF 'A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE,'

"THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF,' ETC.

CHAPTER I.

HERITZBURG.

I NEVER saw anything more remarkable than the change which the death of my lady's uncle, Count Tilly, in the spring of 1632, worked at Heritzburg. Until the day when that news reached us, we went on in our quiet corner as if there were no war. We heard, and some of us believed, that the Palatine Elector, a good Calvinist like ourselves, had made himself King of Bohemia in the Emperor's teeth ; and shortly afterwards—which we were much more ready to believe—that he was footing it among the Dutchmen. We heard that the King of Denmark had taken up his cause, but taken little by the motion; and then that the King of Sweden had made it his own. But these things affected us little : they were like the pattering of the storm to a man hugging himself by the fireside. Through all we lay snug and warm, and kept Christmas and drank the Emperor's health. Even the great sack of Magdeburg, which was such an event as the world, I believe, will never see again, moved us less to fear than to pity; though the city lies something less than fifty leagues north-east of us. The reason of this I am going to tell you.

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