The Argosy

# Catalog Note: The Argosy, Volume XLIII (January-June 1887)

This volume of The Argosy, edited by Charles W. Wood, contains three major serials and numerous shorter works. The primary serial is "Lady Grace" by Mrs. Henry Wood (author of East Lynne), illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards. The narrative concerns the Avon family and their circle near London, with plot threads involving the young, willful Lady Grace Carmel and the Reverend Ryle Baumgarten, the intelligent but impoverished curate of Little Whitton. The rector's meager two-hundred-pound annual living contrasts with the nearby Great Whitton living worth nine hundred pounds. A secondary romance develops between Baumgarten and the gentler Edith Dane, whose widowed mother resides in Whitton Cottage. Baumgarten refuses marriage on his modest income, declaring he will not expose a wife to poverty. "The Missing Rubies" by Sarah Doudney provides a second serial. The volume also includes poetry, travel pieces ("Letters from Majorca" with illustrations), and various short stories and sketches by contributors including Charles Hervey, Anne Beale, and E. Nesbit.