Note: The Table of Contents and the list of illustrations were added by the transcriber. Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13116-h.htm or 13116-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/1/1/13116/13116-h/13116-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/1/1/13116/13116-h.zip) LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE January, 1876. Volume XVII, No. 97 TABLE OF CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS THE CENTURY: ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL. I.--GENERAL PROGRESS. UP THE THAMES THIRD PAPER by EDWARD C. BRUCE. LINES WRITTEN AT VENICE IN OCTOBER, 1865 by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE. SKETCHES OF INDIA. I. LADY ARTHUR EILDON'S DYING LETTER by THE AUTHOR OF "BLINDPITS." THE HOUSE ON THE BEACH by REBECCA HARDING DAVIS. A DEAD LOVE by F.A. HILLARD. GENTILHOMME AND GENTLEMAN by G. COLMACHE. SPECIAL PLEADING by SIDNEY LANIER. THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS by MRS. E. LYNN LINTON CHAPTER XVII. WHAT MUST COME. CHAPTER XVIII. RECKONING WITH LEAM. CHAPTER XIX. AT STEEL'S CORNER. CHAPTER XX. IN HER MOTHER'S PLACE. FAMISHING PORTUGAL. AT THE OLD PLANTATION. TWO PAPERS.--I. by ROBERT WILSON. OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. '76. by LATIENNE. THE KREUZESSCHULE. OBER-AMMERGAU, Bavaria, Oct. 4, 1875. VARESE. A STATE GOVERNOR IN THE RÔLE OF ENOCH ARDEN THE PALATINE LIGHT. NOTES. LITERATURE OF THE DAY. Books Received. ILLUSTRATIONS HAMPTON COURT--WEST FRONT. HAMPTON COURT--LOOKING UP THE RIVER. ENTRANCE TO WOLSEY'S HALL. MIDDLE QUADRANGLE, HAMPTON COURT. ARCHWAY IN HAMPTON COURT. WOLSEY. PORTICO LEADING TO GARDENS. CENTRE AVENUE. HAMPTON COURT--GARDEN FRONT. GATE TO PRIVATE GARDEN. BUSHY PARK. GARRICK'S VILLA. RIVER SCENE, THAMES DITTON. WOLSEY'S TOWER, ESHER. CLAREMONT. CLIVE'S MONUMENT. PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. WALTON CHURCH. KINGSTON CHURCH. A DWELLING AT MAZAGON. HINDU TEMPLE IN THE BLACK TOWN, BOMBAY. JAIN TEMPLES AT SUNAGHUR. THE VESTIBULE OF THE GRAND SHAÎTYA OK KARLI. SCULPTURED FIGURES IN THE VESTIBULE OF THE GREAT SHAÎTYA OF KARLI. [Illustration: The CENTURY: ITS FRUITS and its FESTIVAL.] THE CENTURY: ITS FRUITS AND ITS FESTIVAL. I.--GENERAL PROGRESS.