THE IDLER MAGAZINE.
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.
EDITED BY JEROME K. JEROME & ROBERT BARR.
VOL. III.
FEBRUARY TO JULY, 1893.
XIII. FEBRUARY 1893.
LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS, 214, PICCADILLY. 1893.
CONTENTS.
- Cheating The Gallows. By I. Zangwill.
- My First Novel. By Miss M. E. Braddon.
- The Trail Of The Serpent.
- Novel Notes. By Jerome K. Jerome.
- The Skater. By William Canton.
- My Servant Andreas. By Archibald Forbes.
- Told By The Colonel. By W. L. Alden.
- X. A Matrimonial Romance.
- "Lions In Their Dens." By Raymond Blathwayt.
- II.—George Grossmith And The Humour Of Him.
- A Blind Beggarman. By Frank Mathew.
- Church And Stage. A Review of Henry Irving. By The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker.
- That Beast Beauty. By Kirby Hare.
- People I Have Never Met. By Scott Rankin.
- Mrs. Humphry Ward.
- The Idlers Club
- Is Love a Practical Reality or a Pleasing Fiction?
CHEATING THE GALLOWS.
BY I. ZANGWILL.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEO. HUTCHINSON.
THE CORPSE WASHED UP BY THE RIVER.
CHAPTER I.
CURIOUS COUPLE.
They say that a union of opposites makes the happiest marriage, and perhaps it is on the same principle that men who chum are always so oddly assorted. You shall find a man of letters sharing diggings with an auctioneer, and a medical student pigging with a stockbroker's clerk. Perhaps each thus escapes the temptation to talk "shop" in his hours of leisure, while he supplements his own experiences of life by his companion's.
TOM PETERS.
EVERARD G. ROXDAL.
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