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"Your foes are alive again," wrote Gladstone to Lord Ribblesdale, when a series of awkward questions had been asked about the Buckhounds; and the old gentleman could not help asking in a postscript: "How is Guy Fawkes?" Now Guy

Fawkes was but a celebrated deer of the time, whose name or aspect had caught and held Mr Gladstone's fancy.

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protested against any change. over, he was distracted or solaced by the thing called a heart, of which the hard men of the Regency would have been ashamed. He possessed a quick intelligence, which permitted him to taste, as a connoisseur, the fineness of literature. His interest in the other arts was at once wise and sincere, so that it was inevitable his dandyism should be rather the hobby of a varied life than what it was to Brummel, his whole existence. was the perfect concentration of Brummel that gave him his superiority. In the common pursuits of life he did not compete with his fellows. He knew himself supreme when he looked at his varnished boots, at his exquisite cravat, at his well-balanced head, which for him was not "a receptacle of intelligence, but a block to sustain the perfect hat." For his own happiness, Lord Ribblesdale had the best of it. If he never touched the height of Brummel's genius, he achieved a success in many fields, and lived out a varied and dignified life, which could never have been his, had he aimed at the solitary grandeur of the complete dandy.

The last of the Whigs might have been also the last of the dandies had he lived in an age and atmosphere still congenial to dandyism. Lord Ribblesdale had in him the making of a Brummel. Lady Wilson says quite truthfully of him that he had "a strong feeling for form in all thingsin literature, in art, in dress, and manners." None of his contemporaries rivalled him in the art of decorative adornment. If he did not equal, at least he came near to, Brummel in the management of his cravat. But he lacked the concentration which should belong to the dandy of the first class. His discursiveness was too wide, his accomplishments too many, to permit a genuine rivalry with Brummel. More

INDEX TO VOL. CCXXII.

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BENIGHTED ON THE MOOR OF RAN-
NOCH, 342.

BERINNIS, THE BUTCHER OF, 31.

BERRY-HART, ALICE FESTIVAL TIME
IN THE MALAYAN RUBBER, 354.

CLOGHMOR, THE ROLLERS OF, 239.
Conservatism, treatises on, 429-"safety
first," 430-the curse of opportunism,
431.
Conservative Party strengthens its hold
upon the country, 138 et seq.
Communism, Professor Laski on, 276-
political philosophy or murder? 279.
CRAUFURD, Captain Q. C. A., R.N. :—
A FOX-HUNT IN KOWLOON, 503.
THE PHANTOM DESTROYER (A True
Yarn), 93.

CRAWFORD, L. I.: THE SLIPPERS OF
THE VIRGIN, 218.
CURACOA, 846.

"DAUMONT, À LA," 840.

DAVSON, CYRIL W.: THE ELUSIVE
TRAIL, 9, 172, 403.

DE JOHNSTONE, THE CHEVALIER, 57.
DEEPEST DEPTH, THE, 550.
DELKATLA'S EAGLES, 204.
DEPTH, THE DEEPEST, 550.
DESTROYER, THE PHANTOM, 93.
DIGBY AND SCANDEROON, 535.

Bismarck, 860-Herr Ludwig's Life of, DYER, GENERAL: SOME RECOLLEC-
quoted, 862.

BLAND, J. O. P.: CHASSEURS OF
PROVENCE, 835.

Bolshevik plottings, 133-the Arcos

raid, 134-Labcur Party's attitude
towards, 135 et seq.

"BOMBARDIER": THE ARROW THAT
FLIRTH, 313.

BRANDS, W. J.: LINKING UP IN
MEXICO, 642.

BREAKING TRAIL IN THE SUB-AROTIC
(The Story of a Winter Patrol with
Dogs in the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police), 752.

BROWNE, DOUGLAS G.: UNCLE WIL-
LIAM, 600.

BRUMBIES, THE GOONDAWINDI, 678.
BURGUNDY AND ITS WINES, 668.
BUSRAWI OF MANY WILES, 766.
BUTCHER OF BERINNIS, THE, 31.

CHASSEURS OF PROVENCE, 835.
CHEVALIER DE JOHNSTONE, THE, 57.
CHRISTMAS, MY MERRIEST, 783.

VOL. CCXXII.-NO. MCCCXLVI.

TIONS, 793.

E. P. Y. GENERAL DYER-SOME RE
COLLECTIONS, 793.
EAGLES, DELKATLA'S, 204.
ELUSIVE TRAIL, THE: IX. Guatemala,
9-X. The Molinero, 14-XI. Behind
those Gods! 172-XII. Mosquitia,
181-XIII. The Return Journey, 403
-XIV. That Bag! 412.

English language in danger, 281 et seq.
EPIC OF THE 8.S. "SUNNING," THE,
433.

ET DONA FERENTES, 260.

Evolution, the banning of, in America,
575- Darwin and Shakespeare com-
pared, 576.

EZRA AND THE KING, 684.

FESTIVAL TIME IN THE MALAYAN RUB.
BER, 354.

FIGHTING, KINGS WERE, 86.

FLEET, KITE BALLOONS WITH THE, 43.
FOX-HUNT IN KOWLOON, A. 503.

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RUFUS: THE ROLLERS OF CLOGHMOR, THE ARROW THAT FLIETH, 313.
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'Toryism and the Twentieth Century,'
Mr Walter Elliot's, notice of, 854
et seq.

TRAIL, THE ELUSIVE, 9, 172, 403.
TRANSFER OF PASSENGERS, A, 366.
TREATMENT, 723.

TRENCH, C. G. CHENEVIX: "QUIA IN-
CREDIBILE, 391.

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Two RUBBERNECKS IN SAN FRANCISCO,
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