THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. APRIL, 1860. CONTENTS. PAGE LOVEL THE WIDOWER. (With an Illustration.) 385 CHAPTER IV.—_A Black Sheep._ COLOUR BLINDNESS 403 SPRING. By THOMAS HOOD 411 INSIDE CANTON 412 WILLIAM HOGARTH: PAINTER, ENGRAVER, AND PHILOSOPHER. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time 417 _III.—A long Ladder, and Hard to Climb._ STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE 438 CHAPTER IV.—_An extinct animal recognized by its tooth: how came this to be possible?—The task of classification—Artificial and natural methods—Linnæus, and his baptism of the animal kingdom: his scheme of classification—What is there underlying all true classification?—The chief groups—What is a species?—Re-statement of the question respecting the fixity or variability of species—The two hypotheses—Illustration drawn from the Romance languages—Caution to disputants._ STRANGERS YET! By R. MONCKTON MILNES 448 FRAMLEY PARSONAGE. (With an Illustration.) 449 CHAPTER X.—_Lucy Robarts._ ” XI.—_Griselda Grantly._ ” XII.—_The Little Bill._ IDEAL HOUSES 475 DANTE 483 THE LAST SKETCH—EMMA (a fragment of a Story by the late Charlotte Brontë) 485 UNDER CHLOROFORM 499 THE HOW AND WHY OF LONG SHOTS AND STRAIGHT SHOTS 505 LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. _LEIPZIG: D. TAUCHNITZ. NEW YORK: WILLMER AND ROGERS. MELBOURNE: G. ROBERTSON._ THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. CONTENTS of No. 1. JANUARY, 1860. FRAMLEY PARSONAGE. Chaps. 1, 2 and 3. THE CHINESE AND THE “OUTER BARBARIANS.” LOVEL THE WIDOWER. Chapter 1. (With an Illustration.) STUDIES IN ANIMAL LIFE. Chapter 1. FATHER PROUT’S INAUGURATIVE ODE TO THE AUTHOR OF “VANITY FAIR.” OUR VOLUNTEERS. A MAN OF LETTERS OF THE LAST GENERATION. THE SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN (from the Private Journal of an Officer of the _Fox_). (With an Illustration and Map.) THE FIRST MORNING OF 1860. ROUNDABOUT PAPERS.—No. 1. _On a Lazy Idle Boy._ CONTENTS of No. 2. FEBRUARY, 1860.