Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• Germans Occupy South-West Africa
• The Congo State is setup under Leopold II of Belgium
• Grover Cleveland is elected 22nd United States President
• Sir Charles Parsons (Newcastle upon Tyne) invents the steam turbine
• The Oxford English Dictionary is first published
• July 5th - The yacht "Mignonette" set sail for Sydney from Southampton, the ship was wrecked en route which lead Captain Tom Dudley and some of the surviving crew to a trial concerning cannibalism on the high seas
• The Cholera Outbreak in France
• The International Health Exhibition
• The Expedition up the Nile

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Jan to June contains

• Prize works of students of the Royal Academy.
  The War in Soudan. This dominates the volume, reported and illustrated throughout.
  Death and Funeral of The Duke of Albany
  The Easter Volunteer Manouevres. Includes a superb page of 12 different uniforms. Plus a double page of portraits of the 28 Commanding Officers.
  The Dynamite Plot.
  The City Guilds - The Goldsmiths Company
  Tricentenary of Edinburgh University.
  Alarming Earthquake at Colchester.
  The Royal institute of Water Coulour Painters - plenty of examples.
  Zebehr, Slavery and the Soudan.
  The International Health Exhibition.
  M Pasteur`s Experiments on Hydrophobia.
  
  
  Some of the numerous full page engravings, as follows.
  Rambling sketches: Lisbon
  Inside a Lighthouse, Beachy Head Sussex.
  Sketches of life in the convict prisons: Dartmoor
  Sketches of Cashmere.
  Rambling sketches: Gibraltar
  Convict life: Dartmoor
  Sketches of life in Queensland - 2 full pages.
  Assyrian and Babylonian Relics.
  Arrival of the "White Elephant" from Burmah. 2 full pages
  The Burmese White Elephant - "Toung Taloung" - Colour Plate
  Completion of the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool.
  Convict life: Dartmoor - A dash for freedom.
  Rambling Sketches; Cordova.
  Princess Louise of Wales - A sepia plate
  Valentine`s Day by Harry Furniss.
  Sketches of life in the convict prisons: Portland
  General Gordon`s Route from Berber to Khartoum
  International Peasant festival at the Albert Hall.
  Sketches in Cairo.
  Sketches of life in the convict prisons: Portland No 2
  Miss Mary Anderson, actress, a portrait with facsimile autograph. A superb sepia plate.
  A corn mill in Egypt.
  Rambling Sketches; Dutch folk
  The real Secret of the White elephant - a Pears Soap Advert
  Major Genenral Charles George Gordon CB, in regalia. COLOUR PLATE - Exceptional.
  Messrs Fry`s Chocolate Factory at bristol - Advertisment.
  Sketches in Egypt - Luxor.
  Straw Plaiting in Bedfordshire.
  Sepia Portrait of The Late Duke of Albany.
  Rambling Sketches; Dutch folk No 2
  Lynch Law in America
  The City Guilds - Merchant Taylor`s Company.
  Bird`s Eye View of Turin, Italy.
  The French Landscape Painters - 10 portraits.
  The City Guilds: The Fishmongers Company.
  Pig Sticking in India.
  Water Supply of London - No 1 - The New River Company.
  An Anxious Moment by Julius Price.
  The Wycliff Quincentenary
  School Industries in Austria.
  The Denver and rio Grande Railway
  Reta Fishing on the Corsican coast.
  Water Supply of London - The East London Company`s Waterworks..
  Sketches in the Natural history Museum, South Kensington.
  Sketches at Portland Convict Prison.
  A Country Church, Chiselhurst, Kent by the Late S Read
  Colour Plate Portrait of Madame Albani, Prima Donna
  Marriage of the American Midgets at Manchester.
  The Bath and West of England Agricultural Society at Maidstone.
  The Railway Accident at Downton, Salisbury
  Sketches at the Antwerp Dog Show.
  Part Page of The Philadelphia Cricket Team in London.
  The Cyclists Camp at Alexandra Park.
  Portrait of Signor G B Amendola by L Alma Tadema.
  Rambling Sketches; Dutch folk No 3
  Wood Cutting in the Forests of Austria and Bavaria.
  Sketches in Abyssinia
  The Fountaine Collection.
  The City Guilds - The Clothworkers Company.
  The Fish Market at Honfleur.
  Election time in Hungary.
  
  
  Double Page engravings.
  Historical Picture: St Peter denying Christ by W M Loudan
  Spoils from the desert by R Caton Woodville.
  Lord Tennyson etched, from a photo, by A Forrestier
  Illustrations of the Centenary of Ballooning
  Durham Cathedral - Fine quality.
  Arab Sheikh and his followers visiting Baker Pasha by Caton Woodville.
  Disembarking Baker Pasha`s Force at Trinkitat by Melton Prior.
  Trying the Range; a sketch on board a man-o war.
  Large Fold Out Plate of the War in Soudan; Approx 1 Metre long, not torn, but creased, would iron out.
  Blue Jackets to the Front by W H Overend. Top Quality and Perfect
  Large Fold Out Plate of the War in Soudan; Approx 1 Metre long, not torn, but creased, would iron out. A second plate.
  Easter Volunteers - The Ambulance Corps.
  Sketches at a Dynamite Manufactory.
  Colour Portraits of H R H Princess of Wales and Prince Louis of Battenberg, with coat of arms.
  Sepia double "Spring" by Alfred Ward. On Heavy paper.
  " Beseiged" by F Morgan.
  A Suspicious Guest at the Mermaid by Seymour Lucas.
  A Moorish Criminal trial by T Moragas
  Consulting the Oracle by J W Waterhouse.
  Hoisting the Sail in the Atlantic.
  Fine Quality Double Plate of TURIN.
  Cork Cathedral by the Late S Read
  The Grand Manan Island, and Passamaquoddy Bay, North America.
• Chinese Artillery at Ningpo
  *Sketches of the Christmas Pantomimes
  Arabs of the Soudan
  Egyptian Gendarmes at the Goods Station, Suez, En Route for Souakim
  *Rambling Sketches: Lisbon
  *Inside a Lighthouse: Beachy Head Sussex
  *Sketches at A Training School for Stage Dancing
  Berna Boyl Illustration drawn by R.C. Woodville
  Cartoon of a Draped Figure: "Antigone Pouring the Offerings." By M.W. Greiffenhagen
  Composition in Sculpture: "Socrates Teaching the People in the Agora." By Henry Bates
  Design in Architecture: "An Academy of Arts." By E.G. Hardy
  Landscape Painting: "Calm and Deep Peace on this High Wold." Turner Gold Medal. By R.O. Rickatson
  FOLD OUT- Historical Picture "St. Peter Denying Christ." By W.M. Loudan. 15 ¾" x 19 ½"
  The Causeway Gate, Souakim, on the Red Sea. From a Sketch by a Naval Officer
  *Recruiting for the War in the Soudan
  Departure of Baker Pasha and Staff from Suez for Souakim, on Board the Steamer Mansourah
  Arrival of Baker Pasha at Souakim: Going to Visit Suleiman Pasha
  *Holiday Lectures to Children at Royal Institution
  Consecration of the New Bishop of Sydney in Westminster Abbey; The Process ion After the Ceremony
  New Year's Eve at St. Giles Workhouse
  Scene of the Murder on New Year's Eve at Stoke Newington
  Le Stanley, a portable Steamer for the Congo, Constructed for the King of the Belgians
  H.M.S. Euphrates on Shore in Tarifa Bay
  *Sketches of Life in Convict Prisons: Dartmoor
  *The End of the Chapter. Drawn by W. Rainey
  Sketches of Cashmere: Places Recently Visited by the Viceroy of India
  En Route to Souakim: Sketches by Our Special Artist
  The Old Cemetery at Assouan
  *An Open Air Restaurant in Cairo
  *Princess Ida at the Savoy Theatre
  * A Catastrophe: The New Tale of A Tub (cats)
  *Rambling Sketches: Gibraltor
  *Convict Life: Dartmoor (different scenes)
  *Sketches of Life in Queensland- 2 full facing pages
  *Assyrian and Babylonian Relics at the British Museum
  Lord Tennyson Etched by A. Forrester from a photograph by Elliot & Fry. Two facing pages
  Arrival of the 'White Elephant" from Burmah-2 pages back to back
  *The War in the Soudan:Capture of Three Hundred Camels by Major General Sartorius un a Reconnaissance from Souakim
  Major General Charles Gordon
  *Juvenile Fancy Dress Ball at the Mansion House
  *Completion of the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool
  The War in the Soudan: Headquarters Camp: Prisoners at Work Cleaning the Camp
  *Illustrations of the Centenary of Ballooning (Hot Air Balloons). 2 facing pages
  The Princes Theatre, Coventry Street
  * The Burmese White Elephant "Toung Taloung" Imported by Mr. Barnum
  The "Bad Lands" of the Little Missouri
  *Convict Life on Dartmoor- A Dash for Freedom
  *Rambling Sketches: Cordova
  Wreck of the Steamer Adjutant, at Malta
  *Fight Between Egyptian Troops and Arabs Outside Souakim. By R. Woodville. 2 facing pages
  *Durham Cathedral. Drawn by the Late S. read. 2 facing pages
  The Opening of Parliament (several small sketches on a few pages)
  *The War in Soudan: Receptions of the Holy Sheikh, Syud Osman El Maghrani, by Baker Pasha at Souakim
  *Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo. 2 facing pages
  *Drink Cadbury's Cocoa - advertisement
  *The War in the Soudan. 2 facing pages
  *The War in the Soudan: Black Troops Leaving Massowah to Join the Forces at Souakim
  *Valentines' Day: The Ladies Take Advantage of Leap year
  Map of General Gordon's Route from Assouan to Khartoum
  * The Origin of Valentine's Day drawn by P. Macnab
  *"Yes, It Is From Him" drawn by Marcella Walker
  *Sketches of the Convict Prison: Portland No. 1, No. 2.
  *Princess Louise of Wales (litho)
  * The War in the Soudan: Signalling the Position of the Enemy at Trinkitat to Admiral Sir W. Hewitt
  Pyramids of Meror, on the Nile (General Gordon's Route)
  *General Gordon's Route from Berber to Khartoum
  * The War in the Soudan: Disembarking Barker Pasha's Force at Trinkitat for the Relief of Tokar by Mr. Melton Prior. 2 facing pages
  *International Peasant Festival at the Royal Albert Hall
  *Sketches in Cairo
  *Obstructionists
  * The War in the Soudan: Arab Sheikh and His Followers Visting Baker Pasha in Camp at Souakim (some tape in margins). 2 facing pages
  Scene of the Explosion at Victoria's Station on Tuesday Morning Last
  *The English Occupation of Egypt: Sketches in Cairo
  * The Camel Corps of the Egyptian Army
  *The Fall of the Giraffe
  *Checked in Mid-Career. Drawn by S. Berkeley
  *Incubators at the Maternity Hospital, Port Royal, Paris
  *A Corn Mill in Lower Egypt
  *The Real Secret of the White Elephant- Pear's Soap. Advertisement
  *Trying the Range: A Sketch on Board A Man-O-War. 2 facing pages
  *The Tableaux at Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, in Aid of the Soho Club and Home for Working Girls
  Installation of the Nizam of Hyderabad by the Governor General of India
  *The Young Bud by John White
  *Messrs. Fry's Chocolate & Cocoa Manufacturory, Bristol
  *Major General Charles George Gordon. C.B. Governor General of the Soudan. Color Litho.
  Hunting Sketches in Ireland
  Afghan War Memorial in St. John's Church, Colaba, Bombay
  *Sketches in Egypt: Luxor
  * Straw-Plaiting in Bedfordshire: A Luton Lass by R. Taylor
  *Blue Jackets to the Front. Drawn by W.H. Overend from a Sketch on the Battle-Field by Melton Prior. Color Litho. 2 facing pages. There are tears and facing in the margins
  His Royal Highness the Late Prince Leopold, Duke of lbany, K.G.
  *Their Royal Highnesses the Late Duke and the Duchess of Albany
  *Apartments in Claremont House, the Residence of the Lake Duke and the Duchess of Albany
  *Tolling the Great Bell of St. Paul's
  Boom in the Villa Nevada, Cannes, with the Coffin of the Duke of Albany
  *His Late Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Litho
  Funeral of the Duke of Albany
  *Easter Maneuvers: The Volunteer Commanders. 2 facing pages
  The Dynamite Plot: Police Detectives Digging for Bombs in the Back Garden at Kyett's Lake House
  Catching Alligators in Florida
  *Rambling Sketches Dutch Fold
  *Easter Volunteer Maneuvers The Ambulance Corps. 2 facing pages
  *City guilds and Livery Companies: The Goldsmiths' Company
  Tercentenary of the Edinburgh University
  *Sketches at a Dynamite Manufactory. 2 facing pages. Bottom tear and red check mark
  *Opening of the New Municipal Buildings and Free Public Library Leeds
  *Lynch Law in America by R.F. Zogbaum
  *H.R.H. The Princess Victoria of Hesse, Prince Louis of Battenberg (color lithos on facing pages), edge tears
  *Effects of the Earthquake of Essex
  Princess Victoria of Hesse in her Wedding Dress
  *The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colous. 2 facing pages.
  *The City Guilds: A Merchant Taylors' Company
  *Arab Chiefs at the Gate of a Besieged Town by R. Caron Woodville. 2 facing pages
  The International Health Exhibition at South Kensington: Reproduction of London in the Olden Time
  *The Italian National Exhibition at Turin
  *Some French Landscape Painters
  *"Besieged" by F. Morgan. 2 facing pages.
  *The Bazaar at Assouan
  *The City Guilds The Fishmongers' Company
  *Pig-sticking in India
  *Opening of the International Health Exhibition by His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. 2 facing pages
  The French War in Tomquin
  *Water Supply of London- No. 1 The New River Company (foxing in margins)
  *An Anxious Moment from the picture by Julius M. Price(foxing in margins)
  The Wycliff Quincentenary
  *School Industries in Austria
  *The Denver and Rio Grande Railway
  *Sunday Morning on the Cote de Grace, Honfleur drawn by W.J. Hennessy
  Reta-Fishing on the Corsican Coast
  *A Moorish Criminal Trail. 2 facing pages
  Burning of the Stadt Theatre at Vienna: Watchman in St. Stephen's Steeple
  Sketches at the Shakespearean Show, Royal Albert Hall
  *Sketches in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington
  *Across the Fields drawnby G.L. Seymour
  *A Country Church drawn by the Late S. Read
  *Consulting the Oracle. 2 facing pages. Some foxing in margins
  The Dynamite Outrages in Westminster; back Area of the Junior Carlton Club, St. Jame's-Square
  *Marriage of the American "Midgets" at Manchester
  *The Shakspearean Show at the Royal Albert Hall: Tableau Vivant of Scene from the "Winter's Tale"
  The Dead Heat for the Derby- Harvester and St. Gatien
  *Hoisting Sail in the Atlantic. 2 facing pages. Margin foxing.
  *Madame Albani Prima Donna. Litho.
  The Railway Accident at Dowton, Near Salisbury
  *Sketches of the Antwep Dog Show
  *Enthronement of the Bishop of Southwell, Notinghamshire
  The Philadelphia Cricket Team in London
  The Maori Visitors to London
  *The Cyclists' Camp at Alexandria Park
  *Turin. 2 facing pages
  *Portrait of Signor G.B. Amendola by L.Alma Tadema, R.A. Some foxing
  King John of Abyssinia on his Throne
  landing of the Naval Brigade to Repel the Attack
  *The Fountaine Collection on Sale at Messrs. Christie and Manson's
  *Wood-Cutting in the Forests of Austria and Bavaria
  *Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot/ drawn by E. Mcutcheon
  Sketches of Abyssinia
  The City Guilds- The Clothworkers' Company
  *Entertainment at Knightsbridge in Aid of the Ealing Training College for Teachers of the Deaf and Dumb
  *The Fish Market at Honfleur drawn by W.J. Hennesey
  *Election Time in Hungary
  *The Grand Manan Island, and Passmaquoddy Bay, North America. 2 facing pages
  The Albert Palace at Battersea Park
  *International Health Exhibition London. Peek, Frean * Co. Biscuit Manufacturers advertisement
  *Cork Cathedral. 2 facing pages
  Gulbeya by Athol Mayhew
  *The Great Meeting in Hyde Park to Protest the Lords' Rejection of theFranchise Bill- fold out
  

February 16th

• The War in Sudan, featuring an update of affairs and sketches from the Special Artist in Souakim.
• Black Troops Leaving Massowah to Join the Forces at Souakim.
• plan of the port of Souakim, 4 Tribal Chiefs of the Eastern Sudan, half-page sketches entitled Selling Water in the Market-Place at Massowah, Derr on the Nile, Baker Pasha visiting the Troops and Korosko .... The starting Place for the Journey across the Nubian Desert.
• Other contents include Sketches in the House of Commons and include Sir Charles Dilke and Lord Wolseley , City Echoes, The Playhouses, Music, Princess Louise of Wales including a fine lithograph , Valentine's Day in Leap Year, Obituaries and advertisements of the day.

June 7th

Issue No. 2355, Vol. LXXXIV

• Coloured Portrait of Madame Albani, .
• The Dynamite Outrages in Westminster : Back Area of The Junior Carlton Club, St. James's Square.
• General View of the Damage in Scotland-Yard ....Bar of The Rising Sun, Grill Room .. Rising Sun, Bar Parlour .. Rising Sun, Back of Junior Carlton Club, Public Carriage Office of Metropolitan Police & Sir Watkin Wynn's House .. St. James's Square.

Marriage of The "Midgets" in Manchester, Dead-Heat in The Derby .. Harvester & St. Gatien, The Bath and West of England Agricultural Society at Maidstone, .

July to December

Alnwick Castle, includes double page montage.
The Dominion of Canada. 11 pages of fact and pictures. 34 images in total.
The War between France and China.
A Missionary`s Illustrated Letter to the Youngsters at Home. In 2 parts.
Gold Mining in the South East Wynaad, India.
Dress, Manners and Art in the Last Century - 4 page article on tinted paper.
Old and Young in Egypt, in 2 parts.
A Journey through Central Asia in 4 parts: Part 1 - Russian Turkistan.
A Journey through Central Asia in 4 parts: Part 2 - Kuldja..
A Journey through Central Asia in 4 parts: Part 3 - Bokhara.
General - The Nile Expedition for the Relief of General Gordon is featured throughout the volume.
A Journey through Central Asia in 4 parts: Part 4 - Khiva.
The Germans in Africa - a 4 page illustrated report.

4 Page Colour Story by Randolph Caldecott titled: The Legend of the Laughing Oak.

Some of the numerous full page engravings, as follows. Some may have 2 engravings on one page.
The French in Tonkin
The Tercentenary of Uppingham School.
With the British Garrison at Suakim, Red Sea
The Cholera in France
Notes at the Kennel Club
The Violin Lesson by Miss E A Armstrong. (Slight crease)
The Conference on the Affairs of Egypt.
The Fatal Railway Acident at Penistone (half)
An Ascent of the Schilthorn frm Murren, Switzerland.
Yacht Racing on the Clyde.
A Bible Lesson by Mrs Alma-Tadema
The Greely Arctic Relief Expedition, scenes on route.
3/4 page - Australia v England at Lords. A montage of 10 images W G Grace featured. (this page is creased but would iron out)
Egypt - The Mutiny at Asiout.
Views in Armstrong Park and at Cragside, Newcastle.
A Holiday on the Clyde
Up in the Hills - notes at Simla.
The Works at the Forth Bridge Railway.
Dimanche a Londres
Water Polo
Exploration in the King Country, North Island, New Zealand.
Among the Brigands in Smyrna
The Slave Trade in the East.
Experiences of a British Officer of the Gendarmerie in Egypt. 2 pages.
Some English Lawn Tennis Players. 8 players identified, mostly Wimbledon Champions.
"Satisfaction" by J Nash.
Some out of the way places in Japan.
With the British Association in Canada. A montage.
A Visit to the Island of Inishkea, Connaught, Ireland.
Blondin crossing the Arno at Florence, on a tightrope. (Small image)
Sir John Soane`s Museum, Lincolns Inn Fields, London. A group of 8 images
Old Folks and Fashions near Lewes, Sussex.
With the British Association in Canada. A montage.
Sugar Culture in Jamaica - 8 images.
Scenes in New Zealand I.
Disturbed South Africa - 2 pages.
Scenes in New Zealand II.
The French in Madagascar. 2 pages.
The Zhob Valley Expedition to Chasise the Kakar Pathans
The Graphic Map of European Possessions in Africa. COLOUR PLATE.
The Ballad of Dame Durden, COLOUR Story. 2 pages
Colour by Basil Bradley - 2 St Bernards rescuing an injured mountaineer.
Half Page Colour - "Youth" by E Hallatz
Half Page Colour - "Age" by E Hallatz
The Cruise of the Yacht "Marchesa"
Winter Scenes in Nevada and California.
Irrepresible Enthusiasts - Tennis in the Snow.
A Child`s Christmas Da. A tinted story by Adrien Marie.

Double Page, notable engravings.
The Military Tournament. The 15th Kings Own Hussars.
A meetng of the Royal Commission of the Housing of the Working Classes.
With Admiral Sir W Hewitt`s Embassy.
On A Clyde Steamer
The Greely Arctic Relief Expedition. A montage of 5 illustrations including the crew. Also 1 by C W Wyllie.
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Newcastle. 8 x WL Wyllie.
Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Newcastle. 6 images.
Pageant at Brussles.
"Pigtails and Powder" by Frank Dadd. High quality paper.
On Board an Emigrant Ship.
The Nile Expedition - By W L Wyllie
Launch of the New Armoured Sip "Rodney" at Chatham. - By W L Wyllie
Destructon of the Foochow Arsenal, by the French.
Views in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Nile Expedition by F Villiers.
The Nile Expedition. A Nuggar by F Villiers.
With Emigrants frm Liverpool to Canada.
The Nile Expedition. The Canadian Voyageurs arrive. by F Villiers.
Races at Dongola.
The Nile Expedition. Portraits of Lord Woseley and his Staff.
On The Congo.
The Second Cataract of the Nile.
With the Camel Corps.

Celebrities of the Day. Good quality full page portraits, often sepia. With facsimile signature .
No. XI - The Rt Hon Earl of Shaftesbury.
No. IX - Sir John Lubbock
No. X - The Marquis of Salisbury.

August 30th

Number 2367

• Front Cover: The Pagoda Anchorage and Arsenal, Foochow, Where the French Naval Bombardment Took Place and the Second cataract of the Nile, at Wady Halfa, Headquarters of the British Military Expedition
• British expedition of the Nile: Colossal Statue in the Quarries of Tumbos, The Temple of Sukkot and the Third Cataract of the Nile, at Hannek (one page)

Drawing by Hal Ludlow to Supplement Novella Ropes of Sand

The French War in China: view of the City of Foochow, from the British Consulate (full-page)

The French War in China: Chinese Fort on the Min River, A Mandarin’s Summer-House at Foochow, The Arsenal of Foochow, Bombarded by the French Naval Squadron Last Saturday (one page)

Map of Nubia and the Nile from Assouan to Khartoum (Quarter-page)

The Salvation Army Riots at Worthing, Sussex & Messrs. Renard’s and Krebs’ Balloon Steered by Electricity, at Meudon, near Paris (one page)

Advanced Excursionists of the British Association at the Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara (half-page)

Double-Page Supplement: The Expedition up the Nile: Embarkation of Troops at Siout for Assouan (see photo)

Special Supplement with Illustrations for The Staffordshire Potteries (4-pages)

September 6th

• Front Cover: Buddhist monks at the Entrance to Ku-Shan Monastery The Greely Artic Expedition: The farthest Point North
• The British Expedition Up the Nile: Samneh, The Proposed Starting Point
• The British Expedition Up the Nile: Cataract of Ambigole
• The French War in China: Soldiers Crossing the Foochow Bridge

Mountain Climbing in the Tyrol

Sketches in the Island of Formosa

Extra Supplement: Double-Page Spread of The Sudan Expedition: A Pool in the Desert (see photo)

Drawing by Hal Ludlow as supplement to Ropes of Sand Novella

Paris on Horseback, No. 11: Sketches by “Nidrach”

Crossing the Channel Sketches

November 15th

• The Disaster at a Glasgow Theatre. Star Theatre of Varieties, 14 people dead. Crushed to Death.Star Music Hall Disaster
  A very sad event happened on 1st November, 1884, in the Star Music Hall. Some evil disposed persons raised a cry of fire, when a general panic took place, and in the stampede no fewer than fourteen persons were trampled to death and eighteen injured. This was the means of very stringent bye-laws being introduced to prevent similar occurrences being possible in places of public entertainment in the future.(http://www.graeme.kirkwood.btinternet.co.uk/Glasgow.htm)
  
• The Nile Expedition Sketches.
• Barges discharging Boats on the Nile.
• Arrival of the Post Boat atAssouan.
• Egyptian Army. Double Spread
• The Capture of the Nisero Crew in Sumatra.
• The Roman Catholic Church of the Oratory at South Kensington
  

November 22nd

• The Nile Expedition Sketches.
• Artist comes to Grief at the Second Cataract.
• Warfare on the Nile : A Dash at the Enemy.
• A Doubtful Character in Camp at Assouan.
• Hospital at Wady Halfa Arrival of Sick Men from the Front.
• The Mudir's House Dongola.General View of Koroska

December 27th

• The Candidate at the Criterion Theatre.
• Beautiful Engraving : The Christmas Hamper.
• Master Tommy Home for the Holidays.
• Christmas in Canada : Going to Church.
• Picture : The Stranger within thy Gates.
• Grandfather's Christmas Dinner.
• The Holberg Festival at Copenhagen.
• With the Afgan Boundary Commision.

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