THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, 1860. CONTENTS. PAGE NIL NISI BONUM 129 INVASION PANICS 135 TO GOLDENHAIR (FROM HORACE). By THOMAS HOOD. 149 FRAMLEY PARSONAGE 150 CHAPTER IV.--_A Matter of Conscience._ „ V.--_Amantium Iræ Amoris Integratio._ „ VI.--_Mr. Harold Smith’s Lecture._ TITHONUS. By ALFRED TENNYSON 175 WILLIAM HOGARTH: PAINTER, ENGRAVER, AND PHILOSOPHER. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time 177 I.--_Little Boy Hogarth._ UNSPOKEN DIALOGUE. By R. MONCKTON MILNES. (With an Illustration) 194 STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE 198 CHAPTER II.--_Ponds and rock-pools--Our necessary tackle-- Wimbledon Common--Early memories--Gnat larvæ--Entomostraca and their paradoxes--Races of animals dispensing with the sterner sex--Insignificance of males--Volvox globator: is it an animal?--Plants swimming like animals--Animal retrogressions--The Dytiscus and its larva--The dragon-fly larva--Molluscs and their eggs--Polypes, and how to find them--A new polype_, Hydra rubra-- _Nest-building fish--Contempt replaced by reverence_. CURIOUS, IF TRUE. (Extract from a Letter from Richard Whittingham, Esq.) 208 LIFE AMONG THE LIGHTHOUSES 220 LOVEL THE WIDOWER 233 CHAPTER II.--_In which Miss Prior is kept at the Door._ (With an Illustration.) AN ESSAY WITHOUT END 248 LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, 1860. Nil Nisi Bonum. Almost the last words which Sir Walter spoke to Lockhart, his biographer, were, “Be a good man, my dear!” and with the last flicker of breath on his dying lips, he sighed a farewell to his family, and passed away blessing them.