"Sir," said DR. JOHNSON, "let us take a walk down Fleet Street." TEMPLE BAR A London Magazine FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY READERS. VOL. X. MARCH 1864. LONDON: OFFICE OF "TEMPLE BAR," 122 FLEET STREET. WARD AND LOCK, 158 FLEET STREET. NEW YORK: WILLMER AND ROGERS. The rights of translation are reserved. Stanford Library 052 LONDON: ROBSON AND LEVEY. PRINTERS, GREAT NEW STREET, FETTER LANE. CONTENTS. At Warsaw BROKEN TO HARNESS : Chapter I. Mr. Churchill's Ideas are Monastic II. Down at Bissett III. Starting the Game IV. The Commissioner's Views are Matrimonial VIII. Touching another Proposal. IX. "A little Proud, but full of Pity" Commanding-Officers and Courts-Martial Chapter XL. Mary's Story 66 XLI. All within is dark as Night" XLII. There is Confusion worse than Death The Last. "Dear is the Memory of our Wedded Lives" XXXVII. A Debt of Vengeance XXXVIII. "Crowner's 'Quest Law" and other Matters XXXIX. Last Looks . 479 . 292 397 354, 561 TEMPLE BAR. DECEMBER 1863. The Streets of the World. BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. T0 A NOTE OF INTRODUCTION, BY EDMUND YATES. 10 stand between a hungry man and his meat; to sing a sentimental ballad in a cracked voice immediately in front of the portico of the Royal Italian Opera; to endeavour to beguile the attention of the crowd surging into the pit-entrance of the Lyceum to see Bel Demonio by the exhibition of your shadowy fantoccini; to be in the command of threescore various-sized, ill-drilled Volunteers while a regiment of the Guards passes by at full grin; to preach your stumbling, bungling discourse in the presence of the Bishop of your diocese; to attempt to set a limb while the bald-headed President of the College of Surgeons stands by the patient's bedside;-to be in any one of these positions is unpleasant enough, but not worse than mine at the present moment. You know that conversation between Marcellus and Bernardo about the cold night, -talk which none of us listen to, so anxious are we to see Hamlet, or at least the Ghost? You know the introductory chapters in Froude's first volume about the state of England, which we skip, wanting to arrive at the historian's estimate of Henry the Eighth? You know the introductory pas of the three coryphées, who don't interest us a bit, our attention being impatient of the entrance of-(who is the danseuse now? in my day it used to be Carlotta Grisi or Lucille Grahn)? I am Marcellus and Bernardo. I am one of the coryphées. This is the introductory chapter. Which, being interpreted, means that my friend Mr. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, suddenly spirited away to another sphere of action, in the service of that public whom he has so long and so successfully entertained; going as the historian of events which cannot be subsequently |