Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Katherine Ward, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net McCLURE'S MAGAZINE VOL. I JULY, 1893 No. 2 _Copyright, 1893, by S. S. McClure, Limited. All rights reserved._ Table of Contents PAGE An Afternoon with Oliver Wendell Holmes. By Edward E. Hale. 99 In the Name of the Law! By Stanley J. Weyman. 110 "Human Documents." 119 Wild Beasts. By Raymond Blathwayt. 126 John Horseleigh, Knyght. By Thomas Hardy. 136 The Race to the North Pole. By Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. 147 Lieutenant Peary's Expedition. By Cleveland Moffett. 156 An Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole. By W. H. Gilder. 159 The Merchantmen. By Rudyard Kipling. 163 Monsieur de Blowitz. By W. Morton Fullerton. 166 On the Track of the Reviewer. By Doctor William Wright. 174 Romantic Stories from the Family History of the Brontes. 181 A Strange Story: The Lost Years. By Lizzie Hyer Neff. 182 Illustrations PAGE Oliver Wendell Holmes 99 O. W. Holmes's Birth-Place at Cambridge, Mass. 100 Garden Door of the Cambridge House. 100 House in Rue Monsieur le Prince. 101 Residence in Beacon Street, Boston. 102 The Bay Window in Doctor Holmes's Study. 103 A Corner in Doctor Holmes's Study. 103 Dorothy Q. 104 Dorothy Q's House in Quincy, Mass. 105 Holmes Delivering His Farewell Address, Harvard. 105 Summer Residence at Beverly Farms. 107 O. W. Holmes and E. E. Hale. 108 O. W. Holmes in His Favorite Seat at Beverly. 109 Edward Everett Hale. 120 M. de Blowitz. 122 Thomas Alva Edison. 124 Karl Hagenbeck. 127 Fridtjof Nansen. 151 Robert E. Peary. 156 Colonel W. H. Gilder. 159 General A. W. Greely. 160 Professor T. C. Mendenhall. 160 Diagram of the North Magnetic Pole Region. 161 Professor C. A.