Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 14th - Death of Albert Victor The Duke of Clarence aged 27
• April - Anarchist bombs in paris
• October 6th - Alfred Lord tennyson died, aged 83
• November - Anarchist bombs in paris
• Thomas Hardy serialised "The Pursuit of the Well-Belovéd" , 1 October-17 December, 1892 (12 parts).
  
• November 25th - revival of the Olympic games proposed by Baron de Coubertin

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November 26th

36 pages of Engravings, drawings and articles (I will endeavour to insert the pics later)

• Frontispiece "C'est Moi!" by Weisz
• Our Notebook by James Payn
• Nanity by Rev. Dr. Jessopp
• The late Dr Carl Petersen, Burgomaster of Hamburg
• Sketches of Uganda and East Africa by Mr HF Gordon of the Church Missionary Society 4 x engravings Mengo, the Capital - with the King's houses, Kampala the English residency with protestant church, "The Gate" Mombasa Harbour- 1 x engraving of the destruction of a lighthouse in Belfast lough by R Taylor......................" Ma MieRosette" at the Globe Theatre 5 x drawings
• Personal column -
• Transport of Moorish prisoners in Morocco engraving by R Caton Woodville
• A story by Thomas Hardy - "The Pursuit of the well beloved" with illustrations by Paget......................... Literary Gossip
• The crisis in the Cotton Industry drawings by Julius M Price in South Lancashire including a game of Lancashire Flechette (darts using like a chess board on the wall).................................Full page light sepia engraving "Agathe" by A Bertzik
• Mr Lang in Fairyland- The Green Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang with Illustrations by HJ Ford 5 x pics including "This is Princess Hiacynthia" from King Kojata, - The Princess carried off by bees from "Rosanella", - As soon as the snake saw Grannonia it wound it's tale round her and kissed her from "The Enchanted Snake", - The girl who was only a keeper of sheep from "The Dirty Shepherdess", - Touching him with her wand she imprisoned him for a thousand years in a crystal ball that hung from the roof from "Prince Narcissus and Princess Potentilla" ........................... Full Page- The Story of the Laureates III from Whitehead to Wordsworth by George Sainsbury , including 5 x pics- of Henry James Pye 1790 - 1813, William Whitehead 1757 - 1785, Thomas Warton 1785 - 1790, Robert Southey 1813 - 1843, William Wordsworth 1843 - 1850
• Dr Nansen and his Expedition - An Interview - 3 x pics of his boat the Fram, The Little Chronicle (snippets of news and comment) including The Prince of Wales, Dr Kerwan's murder, M. de Lesseps, Young children and the Workhouse, and suicide! ..................................................... The Oakley Hunt - 2 full pages of comment and drawings plus a double page engraving of "The Oakley Hunt going to cover" by WB Wollen (includes the names of the people in the picture).................................... Full page of very small adverts (approx 100) for various books and magazines to buy e.g. Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management from 7s 6d to 12s 6d depending on the binding and A Manual of Cheirosophy and Cheiromancy
• The Volunteers Movement in Ceylon full page engraving................................. Mr John Addington Symond's "Michel Angelo" including a picture of Michel Angelo, a pic of the Head of Delphic Sybil, and the Head of Isaiah (George Moore)
• A full page sepia engraving of "Overtime" by SH Sime (a clown playing a fiddle to a sick girl while another dances) ............... (article) The Lesson of The Hamburg epidemic by D. R. O'Sullivan, M.D. with a small engraving of Cholera tents, (article) On an Inconsistency of Dr. Goldsmith's by Andrew Lang
• Science Jottings by Dr. Andrew Wilson - Chess problem by Dr. F Steingass , and chess in New York - Art Notes and snippets of news ............................ adverts The International Fur Store (½ Page) Mappin Brothers (½ Page)
• The Ladies Column by Mrs Fenwick-Miller and snippets of news. advert =(½ Page) Géraudel's Cough Pastilles ........................ adverts Elliman's Universal Embrocation (½ Page) Mappin & Webb's (½ Page)
• Wills and Bequests - Dame Lilias Stuart Fisher - Mr Henry Akroyd JP of Holmwood - Mr George Holloway JP of Farm Hill Stroud - Hon. Ralph Heneage Dutton JP DL of Timsbury Manor nr Romsey - Mr John Mortimer Davis of Lincoln's Inn - Mr Francis Stanley Maxwell Stephens of Belgrave Square - Miss Sophia Dumaresq of Southampton - Mrs Louisa Ann Dawson of St Leornard's + adverts = Carters Little Liver Pills (Torpid Liver positively cured), Players Navy Cut, The Kodak hand Camera, Schweitzer's Cocoatina ...................................adverts Classified various + Brooke's (Monkey) Soap, Bertelli's Catramin Pills for colds etc.
• Ecclesiastical Notes + adverts = Bovril, Beetham's Glycerine and Cucumber, Perry & Co American "Illinois" lever watches from £5 17s 6d ................................................... mixture of classified adverts and Erard Pianos, Wild Rose Pot-Pourri, Swears and Wells (shirts etc), Allen & Hanbury's Cod Liver Oil, The Parisian Diamond Company, Peter Robinson (The largest mourning warehouse in the kingdom), Benedictine Liqueur
• Music and news snippets + adverts Lipton's Teas from 1/- per lb, Marris's Almond Tablet (for chapped hands), Sozodont (teeth cleaning stuff) for personal loveliness, ES Hindley Steam Engines from Bourton Dorset, etc etc etc ......... adverts = Beecham's Pills (½ Page) + Epps's Cocoa, The Y & N seam corset, Aspinall's Enamel, WW Greener Breech loader Guns, Chocolate-Menier, Clarke's Patent safety night lights variety
• (last page) Adverts = Negretti and Zambra's self registering thermometers, Piesse and Lubin Perfumes, Time Checkers, The Easy Hair Curler 6d per Box of 12, Joy's Cigarettes for Asthma and chronic bronchitis can be smoked by ladies and children a box of 35 is 2s 6d, Callard & Bowsers Butter Scotch, Peter Robinson Silks for evening wear e.g. Englandine 2/11½d per yard - Crêpe de Lille 3/9d per yard, Parkins & Gotto - 10,000 Xmas presents Catalogue post free, Flor de Dindigul the new medium mild Indian cigar from Bewlay & Co., Ozone Paper for asthma and chronic bronchitis, Geo. Cordings Ladies and gents waterproofs, Poudre D'Amour a toilet powder for the complexion 1/- in three tints - Blanche - Naturelle - Rachel, The Albany Hotel at St. Leonards on Sea (electric light in every room), Ed. Pinaud's (Paris) Perfumes - Quinine Water - Ixora soap, Mellin Foods send for free puzzle for children, Kropp (cut throat razors) ivory handle 7/6 Russia leather case 21/- strop paste 6d

July to Dec. 1892 issues contain

• Fatal railwayAccident at Clapham Junction on Saturday Night August 20th from a sketch by an Eye Witness
• The love letter Print by P Naummann
• Shooting for the Queen's Prize at Bisley Major Pollock Making the winning hit Print by T. Wallet Wilson
• Berlin to Budapest on a Bicycle by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
• Blood Money by R. Caton Woddville R.I. Print
• Confidences by L. C. Henley Print
• Disaster in the Alps of Savoy Destruction of the Village and BAths of St. Gervais (article with photos)
• From The Dead by E.Nesbit with illustrations
• On the Sand of a French Watering Place by R.Caton Woodville print
• The Temple of Art by G. Von Hoesslin print
• Columbus Refuting the Dominican Friars in the Conferences at Salamanc picture by N. Barabion in the Palazzo Orsini Genoa
• English Homes by Chatsworth with illustrations
• The Christening of Princess Victoria Louisa The Infant Daughter of the German Emperor at Potsdam from a sketch by Sir Edward Malet
• The Railway Accident near Thirsk from a sketch by our special artist Mr. Julius M. Price
• The Pursuit of the Well Beloved a sketch of a Temperament by Thomas Hardy Author of Far From the Madding Crowd article with illustrations
• Mr Henry Irving as King Lear drawn by J. Bernare Partridge
• Grover Cleveland is elected 24th US President
• Keir Hardie becomes the only Labour MP in General Election
• Henry Ford builds his first car

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