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THE
CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
FEBRUARY, 1860.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Nil Nisi Bonum[129]
Invasion Panics[135]
To Goldenhair (from Horace). By Thomas Hood.[149]
Framley Parsonage[150]
Chapter IV.—A Matter of Conscience.
„ V.—Amantium Iræ Amoris Integratio.
„ VI.—Mr. Harold Smith’s Lecture.
Tithonus. By Alfred Tennyson[175]
William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver, and Philosopher.
Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time		[177]
I.—Little Boy Hogarth.
Unspoken Dialogue. By R. Monckton Milnes. (With an Illustration)[194]
Studies in Animal Life[198]
Chapter II.— Ponds and rock-pools— Our necessary tackle— Wimbledon Common— Early memories— Gnat larvæ— Entomostraca and their paradoxes— Races of animals dispensing with the sterner sex— Insignificance of males— Volvox globator: is it an animal?— Plants swimming like animals— Animal retrogressions— The Dytiscus and its larva— The dragon-fly larva— Molluscs and their eggs— Polypes, and how to find them— A new polype, Hydra rubra— Nest-building fish— Contempt replaced by reverence.
Curious, if True. (Extract from a Letter from Richard Whittingham, Esq.)[208]
Life among the Lighthouses[220]
Lovel the Widower[233]
Chapter II.—In which Miss Prior is kept at the Door. (With an Illustration.)
An Essay without End[248]

LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO.,
65, CORNHILL.

THE
CORNHILL MAGAZINE.
FEBRUARY, 1860.

Nil Nisi Bonum.

Almost the last words which Sir Walter spoke to Lockhart, his biographer, were, “Be a good man, my dear!” and with the last flicker of breath on his dying lips, he sighed a farewell to his family, and passed away blessing them.