By reading each instalment in the monthly magazines.
The system answered splendidly while magazines were few,
But journal follows journal now, review succeeds review;
And when the monthly parcel I have carefully perused,
Alas, I find the characters are woefully confused!
They follow me about by day, at night they haunt me still,
A hero out from Longman's weds a lady from Cornhill;
A villain from Belgravia, who a burglary has planned,
Is suddenly arrested by detectives from the Strand.
I hear a stalwart warrior from one of Weyman's plots