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1 Don’t Believe i tne Custom st Giving Engagement Rings, ete If Eyes were Made for Seeing, Then” Beauty i Being. I Find the Work in the Parish Very Interesting, etc. If | Were You. Tell My Friends If nee re Thinkin’ of Bu It's Own Excuse for [Guess This Is The Wimin’s Apart. ment, etc. . Improved . . Ina Fifth Avenue Stage In Babylon. . , In Boston In Central Africa | In Confidence . In Dakota . 1 Never Had Any Particular Yearn- ing After Heaven... Inevitable, The rr rs Intellectual . .. Title page In the Dog-Days, Figaro was Kept on Ice Cream, Soda. etc. . In the Far West. Title page No. In To Involution of the Messenger Boy 1 Overneard Some Men on the Sureet, etc. 1 Sav, Mister, Can You Change a a Fifty Dollar Bill, ete. Say, Mister, How Far is it’ to Camptown Creck?. . Say, Mum, You Don't Know of No One Who Wantsa Nurse,ctc, See Jack and Mollie Have Made Up, ete. ¢ Shall Have to ‘Leave Your Service, etc. o . No. IsHe An Actor? . Isn't Your Husband a ‘Little Bald, ete. ‘ Is the Marquis. of Lorne G. P. A? Ithink It Very Bad Taste to Appear in Low Neck. It’s Delightful on the Terrace, Here, To-Night, etc. . . It's the Old Story, Only One Man Within Twenty Miles, etc... lt Was During Their Honeymoon That Angelo and Sophia Were Overtaken, etc. . It Was Nearly an Hour Ago, and She is Still Waiting, etc. I've Keen Captured by the Hotten- tots, ete. i've Neard What Yous Been Say- ing About Me, etc. . I Wonder Why He Did Not Kiss Me, When, etc. . Jack, Whe Don't You Write a Took, etc. joe mP.M. ohn, | Found a Twenty Doilar Note, etc... . John, Jack, Knave, As Joy Ameng the Anglomaniacs uly. . ‘ . uly Fantasy, A A une . Keeping Nature in Her Place Kiellana’s Norwegian Stories . Kind Leddy, Will You Please Give Mea Few Cents, etc. . . Knight Errant Resigns, A Laocoon . Lend Me a Five, Will You, etc. Les Fiances . Live's Designs fora Set of ‘Souvenir Spoo 419 Live's Fairy Tales—The Belle and + 344 the Seal . Live's Lessons in History - > 399 Lire’s Researches in Roman Railways— The Ticket Office It Appears that the Ancient Manipulation of Baggage was Much Like ourOwn . . 1 y Dear, [Wouldn't O50 L5e@ Five Minutes For Dinner Was Too Little, even for the An- cients . . In the Drawing-Room Car | Light That Failed, The. . Lines Sent With a Mirror And on Receiving It. . Literary Quality of Plays | Little Buted wR : , . Little Minister, The . Long FeltWant . . London Punch Did It Love is Everything . Love Story, A : + Title page Magazine Verse of the Popular School, A . . Mammon of Unrighteousness Man is Only a Man, A . Title page Marriage Ala Mode... Mary, What Are You Doing Out There, ete. Matter of Duty Matter O'Money—M Meredith Essay and Janvier's Metcalfe, 66, 67, 317, 181, 196, 213, 232, 148, 165, 137, 277, 280, 300, Midsummer Idyl : Midsummer Night's Dieam, A. Minotaur, The. Miss Mary Magu re Has a Fine Color. etc. Mister, Do You Have to Buy Chew: ing Gum for All Those Cows? Mr. Hibbard's Sturies . Missus and the Carpenter, The . Modern Drama es Mug of Bass, A 2 2 ss Mutual Blunder, A. . Title page Mythology for Moderns, 160, 196, 213, 277, Near the Top : Never Judge by Appearances New Books, 415, 6, 21, 35, 49, 63, 77, 9%, 108, 312, 258, 210, 220, 244, 274, 296, 326, 343, 358, New Invention For Making « Hard Horse Easy » 180 PAGE . 381 + 365 +143 - 178 . 194 39 + 32 » 364 . 264 451 - 371 25 456 + 223 tories 414 360 + 1§2 118 48 19 + 129 393 446 360 . 248 + 153 370 . 339 New Jersey Mosquito as he Might Be if Domesticated and Devel- oped . . . . . New Version, Ax Next. . . Nextto Nothing. |. No Feesfor Him. . . No Further Incentive. Title p. No, Harry; | Am Sorry, But, ete. No, I'm Not Engaged to Him, ete. Nota Matter of Chance oa Not an Expert Title page, No. Not a Sign uf Promise. Title p., No. Notes from Watering Places . Not Synonymous . November . Now, Keep Still,” Scare This Fish Away Now, Look Here, Dennis; Moind,etc . . . . Now That You Have Met Walkover, ete. 2. 0. Dye Tom ObjectinView 2... October . . Official Report of Live's Ch Dinner . ‘ Offon a Bust | This Scrumptious, Oh, Me. Hotspur : This Is So Sud= den, etc, +e es Oh, Papa; Let Me Kiss You, ete. Old Chums Meet Old Friends ‘ Old Jones is the Meanest Man in Towr, ec. : Old Year's Legacr to the New. 396, On Bringing up Babies. . One Thing Thou Lackest . One Way To Make Money .. . 241 96 462 469 - 122 Notes from Watering Places, 108- 109 - 152 tot ae cee 985 Fido; You Will 179 . 165 + 229 217 244 2131 162 + 232 + 10 316 397 + 229 > 364 24 V- \o raue Oration, The. een s+ + 409 Orpheus). hin ae ee s 45tg6 Orthodoxy % 3 4 + 212 Our Amateur Circus. + 326 Our Amateur Photographer ‘at the Races. . og Se Our Friends, The Enemy ~« o & a) 382 Our Girls. . 3 ‘ 64-05 Our London Letter. se + 6 298 Our Winter Friend 2 2... 216 Overa Year 2... . + megs Owl Train, The 2 2 2... ty Papa Says Mr. Blanque is a Promis- ing Young Man, etc. Papa, Why Dues Si. Peter Always Carry A Latch Key? .. . . 292 Pass Given With Every Piece of Mince Pie. . 365 Pat: Yn | in a Koind av a Dilem- my, + 329 Penelope” Exh bits Her Skill as a Cook Penelope Meeteth Her Adorer For” The Fist Time After the En- gagement Hath Been Duly Ratified Roe e ~ 30K 3 Penelope's Ingenuity . . HO Penelope's Latest. +. 228 Pen. Findeth Her Adorer an Easier Victim Than She Thought. . 328 Pen. Thinketh of the Approacu of ‘Winter. + + 4 190 Perhaps You Gould Spare Une of Those Seats, Sir? Certainly, Madame... | |... 309 Phethon. . see + 360 Picnic And Its Joys, The |. Picture of Ye Merrie And Exciting Game, Yclept Base Ball . . . 149 Pictures We Know: Alone At Last. . noe’ Picture Witha ‘Moral + sw ee Plain Tales From the Hills . . . 191 Plausible Explanation . ton. 289 Piot Against the Czar. . - 337 Pluto Psicked the Dog | on Him. - 148 Political News . ners) Political Phrases. . +» 493 Popular Science . Title page, 0, 455 Powder-mill Victim, and How He Escaped the Kettle of the Can- nibals . . a 242, 243 Power o’ Money, The. » . &9 Preparations for the Holiday | . 328 Pressure of Circumstances +. 291 Pretty Useful, Ain’) 1, Mamma? . 143 Prevailing Styles. 2... w 38 Prince of Wales’ Letter... . 289 Proper Self Respect. + 323 Proposed Deal, A . Title pane, No. 457 Proverbial Plea, A. » + 313 Purchasing Silence . . + jlo Puritan Who Tries to be Tough . 104 Putting Up His Dukes. . . . . 288 Query Answered. 2... . . 223 Rare Presence of Mind =. . + 24 Reason He Decorated a Grave, etc. No. 470 Reason Why, The . 2. 2. . 185 Reassurance . . és ae wg Reproof Dl D2 Retribution. Title page, No. 438 Return of the Prodigal . No. 467 Return of the Prodigal Son, and Second Departure... 260 Revised Versions —. os 63 Reward of Virtue, The. i 164 Rival’s Revenge; or, The Wonders of Science + 274, 275 Robert, What is Great Britain, ete. 212 Robin Hood... . + + + 200 Romeoet Juliette . . . . . . 380 Ruins of New York... +. 209 Rules of Baccarat 2... » 39 Run on Luck, A 7 Sad Reflections of Mortimer Gayboy 181 Sawyer. . No. 455 comicbooks.com