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BELGRAVIA

A LONDON MAGAZINE

CONDUCTED BY

M. E. BRADDON

AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET," "AURORA FLOYD," ETC. ETC.

VOL. VII.-FEBRUARY 1869.

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CONTENTS

Artists in Love and Poison

Behind the Scenes

Bob Kennedy's Canvass .

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104

197

263

Bound to John Company; or the Adventures and Misadven-

Flight to Varennes, The.

203

Fragments of an Old File: Journalism in the last Century

Intellectual Solace

555

587

King Alfred as Poet and Man'

Links in a Chain

No. VII. On a Little Hallucination

95

331

370

London Clubs, Past and Present:

No. v. Clubs Past: The Mermaid - Apollo - Rota-
Sealed Knot-October-March-Saturday-
Brothers

Scriblerus-Kit-kat-Goldsmith's

Clubs-Dr. Johnson's Clubs-Tom's - King
of Clubs-Clifford street Club-Eccentrics-
Four-in-hand - Alfred-Watier's-Crock-
ford's

London Theatres and London Actors:

No. 1. The Portugal - street Theatre - Drury Lane
Theatre: Nell Gwynne, Betterton, Nokes,
Kynaston, &c.

II. Drury Lane Theatre: Nell Gwynne, Mrs. Brace-

girdle, Doggett, Booth, Cibber, Quin, Gar-

rick, &c. .