- [Cheating The Gallows.] By I. Zangwill.
- [My First Novel.] By Miss M. E.
Braddon.
- The Trail Of The Serpent.
- [Novel Notes.] By Jerome K. Jerome.
- [The Skater.] By William Canton.
- [My Servant Andreas.] By Archibald Forbes.
- [Told By The Colonel.] By W. L. Alden.
- X. A Matrimonial Romance.
- ["Lions In Their Dens."] By Raymond
Blathwayt.
- II.—George Grossmith And The Humour Of Him.
- [A Blind Beggarman.] By Frank Mathew.
- [Church And Stage. A Review of Henry Irving.] By The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker.
- [That Beast Beauty.] By Kirby Hare.
- [People I Have Never Met.] By Scott
Rankin.
- Mrs. Humphry Ward.
- [The Idlers Club]
- Is Love a Practical Reality or a Pleasing Fiction?
CHEATING THE GALLOWS.
BY I. ZANGWILL.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEO. HUTCHINSON.
CHAPTER I.
CURIOUS COUPLE.
They say that a union of opposites makes the happiest marriage, and perhaps it is on the same principle that men who chum are always so oddly assorted. You shall find a man of letters sharing diggings with an auctioneer, and a medical student pigging with a stockbroker's clerk. Perhaps each thus escapes the temptation to talk "shop" in his hours of leisure, while he supplements his own experiences of life by his companion's.