Table of Contents
| PAGE | |
| A Dialogue between Frank R. Stockton and Edith M. Thomas. | [467] |
| “Incurable.” A Ghetto Tragedy. | [478] |
| “Human Documents.” | [487] |
| The Personal Force of Cleveland. By E. Jay Edwards. | [493] |
| Patti at Craig-y-Nos. By Arthur Warren. | [501] |
| Once Aboard the Lugger. By “Q.” | [515] |
| Song. By Thomas Lovell Beddoes. | [523] |
| An Interview with Professor James Dewar. By Henry J. W. Dam. | [524] |
| The House with the Tall Porch. By Gilbert Parker. | [533] |
| Stranger Than Fiction. By Doctor William Wright. | [535] |
| The Hypnotic Experiments of Doctor Luys. By R. H. Sherard. | [547] |
| The Surgeon’s Miracle. By Joseph Kirkland. | [555] |
Illustrations
| PAGE | |
| Frontispiece | [466] |
| Miss Edith M. Thomas. | [467] |
| A corner of the drawing-room. | [472] |
| The dining-room. | [476] |
| View from a window in the tower. | [477] |
| A. Conan Doyle. | [488] |
| R. E. Peary, C. E., U. S. N. | [489] |
| Camille Flammarion. | [491] |
| F. Hopkinson Smith. | [492] |
| Grover Cleveland. | [494] |
| Craig-y-Nos. | [502] |
| Craig-y-Nos and terraces from the river. | [503] |
| Madame Patti’s father. | [504] |
| Madame Patti at eighteen. | [504] |
| Madame Patti in 1869 and in 1877. | [505] |
| The dining-room. | [506] |
| The conservatory. | [507] |
| Madame’s boudoir. | [508] |
| The sitting-room. | [509] |
| The French billiard-room. | [510] |
| The English billiard-room. | [511] |
| Signor Nicolini. | [512] |
| A bit in the park. The suspension bridge. | [513] |
| The proscenium of Craig-y-Nos theater. | [514] |
| The laboratory of Davy and Faraday at the Royal Institution. | [525] |
| Professor Dewar in the laboratory of the Royal Institution. | [527] |
| The lecture-room of the Royal Institution. | [528] |
| Professor Dewar’s lecture-table. | [529] |
| Early and latest forms of vessels for holding liquefied oxygen. | [530] |
| The “compressors.” | [531] |
| Doctor Luys. | [547] |
| Pleasing effect of the north pole of a magnet. | [548] |
| Repulsive effect of the south pole of a magnet. | [549] |
| Esther, Doctor Luys’ subject. | [550] |
| Esther in the lethargic state. | [551] |
| Attraction of the hand in the lethargic state. | [551] |
| The action of water. | [552] |
| Pleasure caused by pepper presented to the left side. | [552] |
| Anxiety caused by pepper presented to the right side. | [553] |
| Pleasure caused by fennel presented to the right eye. | [553] |
| Anxiety caused by heliotrope. | [554] |
| The effect of thyme. | [554] |
| Fright produced by sulphate of sparteine. | [554] |
| Terror caused by frankincense. | [554] |
| Abe was following the plough. | [555] |
| And Ephe he was tickled. | [556] |
| And she pitched in. | [556] |
| First spirt of blood. | [557] |
| “Do you know me?” | [558] |
REAL CONVERSATIONS.—III.
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FRANK R. STOCKTON AND EDITH M. THOMAS.
Recorded by Miss Thomas.
Nature provides no lovelier mise-en-scène for a story, a poem or, a “conversation” than is to be found in the sylvan and pastoral world that looks out upon the gradual crescendo of the Blue Ridge mountains in northern New Jersey.
“Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,