THE
CORNHILL MAGAZINE.

MAY, 1860.

CONTENTS.

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Framley Parsonage	513
Chapter XIII.—Delicate Hints.
” XIV.—Mr. Crawley of Hogglestock.
” XV.—Lady Lufton’s Ambassador.
Campaigning in China	537
Little Scholars	549
The Carver’s Lesson	560
William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time	561
IV.—The Painter’s Progress.
Written in the Deepdene Album. By Washington Irving.	582
Lovel the Widower. (With an Illustration.)	583
Chapter V.—In which I am Stung by a Serpent.
Studies in Animal Life	598
Chapter V.—Talking in beetles—Identity of Egyptian animals with those now existing: does this prove fixity of species?—Examination of the celebrated argument of species not having altered in four thousand years—Impossibility of distinguishing species from varieties—The affinities of animals—New facts proving the fertility of Hybrids—The hare and the rabbit contrasted—Doubts respecting the development hypothesis—On hypothesis in Natural History—Pliny, and his notion on the formation of pearls—Are pearls owing to a disease of the oyster?—Formation of the shell; origin of pearls—How the Chinese manufacture pearls.
Paterfamilias to the Editor of the “Cornhill Magazine”	608
The Outcast Mother. By E. J. Brontë	616
The Portent. (With an Illustration.)	617
I.—Its Legend.
Roundabout Papers.—No. 3