CONTENTS of VOL. CCLXXIV. About Pike. By THOMAS SOUTHWELL. "Advertiser's Shakespeare, The." By EDMUND B. V. CHRISTIAN. All's Fair in Love. By JOHN DAWTREY. Alpha Centauri and the Distance of the Stars. By J. ELLARD An Episode under the "Terror." After Balzac, by PHILIP KENT Benedictus Spinoza, 1632-1677. By Rev. JOSEPH STRAUSS, D.D. Carglen Kirk, A Disturber in. By ALEXANDER GORDON Chalcis, and What we saw Therein. By DOUGlas Wynn WILLIAMS "Chrysolite," The Master of the. By G. B. O'HALLORAN Concerning our Pedigree. By H. G. WELLS, B.SC. Cure, A, for London Fogs. By OWEN C. D. Ross, M. Inst.C.E. Disturber, A, in Carglen Kirk. By ALEXANDER GORDON "Eighteenth-Century Vignettes." By THOMAS HUTCHINSON Fatal Number, The. By MARY HARGRAVE Female Brains and Girls' Schools. By GEORGE MILLER, M.B. Great Forest, The, of Sussex. By THOMAS H. B. GRAHAM Holland House and its Associations. By W. CONNOR SYDNEY "Kneipp" Spa, At a. By HENRY W. WOLFF, M.A. . Legends of the North Frisian Islands. By WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK Lyonnesse, Souvenirs of. By FRANK BANFIELD, M.A. • Maid, The, of Doon. By ANDREW DEIR Marriage, A Man's Thoughts on. By E. B. Fox Martin the Shepherd. By LILLIAS WASSERMANN. PAGE 463 407 335 589 362 217 575 228 568 508 Master, The, of the "Chrysolite." By G. B. O'HALLORAN THE J'S MAGAZINE. RY 1893. UNDER THE ROR."1 PHILIP KENT. evening of January 22, 1793, plodding down the steep slope lled the Faubourg St. Martin, rence's church. Not a soul ind the snow lay thick in the r footsteps. Yet she fared a sure talisman to shield had passed the Rue des firm and heavy tread of she had heard the sound e was dogging her heels, irly well-lighted shop er her fears were wellooking back, spied a ow felt sure that the her home; and she ke off this spy, and e into a run which she darted, and Coss p-Walling Alive in Frondances Origin of "The Lance of Death-Editions of The and Mother Eighteenth-Century Vignettes --New Winchelsea” The Bookstalls of Paris-Physiology of the Parisian Quais-A Pepys's Diary Mynors Bright's Additions to the "Diary-A Tennyson's Great Allegory. By WALTER WALSH . "Terror," An Episode under the. After Balzac, by PHILIP KENT Two Italian Ports of the Present Day. By MARY HARGRAVE Vipers or Adders. By C. PARKINSON . What became of Charles II.? By C. T. W. ROUBLE Whit Tuesday at Old Eton. By J. W. SHERER, C.S.I. . 134 211 319 427 535 639 500 91 163 631 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. JANUARY 1893. AN EPISODE UNDER THE TOWA "TERROR."1 AFTER BALZAC, BY PHILIP Kent. OWARDS eight o'clock in the evening of January 22, 1793, an old lady might have been seen plodding down the steep slope which—with the broad thoroughfare called the Faubourg St. Martin, of which it forms part-ends at St. Lawrence's church. Not a soul had she yet met, for the Terror reigned, and the snow lay thick in the forsaken streets, muffling the sound of her footsteps. Yet she fared bravely onwards, as if trusting her age as a sure talisman to shield her from all harm. When, however, she had passed the Rue des Morts, she heard, or thought she heard, the firm and heavy tread of a man following in her wake. Fancying that she had heard the sound before, and scared at the notion that some one was dogging her heels, she pressed on towards a spot where a fairly well-lighted shop promised her the chance of ascertaining whether her fears were wellgrounded. There she suddenly halted, and, looking back, spied a human form looming through the mist. She now felt sure that the man had tracked her from the very threshold of her home; and she reeled beneath the shock. But panting to shake off this spy, and blind to the hopelessness of the attempt, she broke into a run which speedily brought her to a pastrycook's, into which she darted, and sank into a chair near the counter. As the old lady entered, the shop mistress raised her eyes from her needlework, scowled, rummaged in a drawer for something not forthcoming, uttered a peevish "Bother!" and, tripping from her perch towards the back of the shop, called her husband. 1 A story founded on facts supplied to Balzac by the chief actor in the episode, See Memoir of H. de Balzac, by his sister Mme. Surville. VOL. CCLXXIV, NO. 1945. B |