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THE
STRAND MAGAZINE
An Illustrated Monthly
Edited by
Geo. Newnes
Vol. I
JUNE
London:
BURLEIGH STREET, STRAND
1891
Title Page and Table of Contents Added by Transcriber
A Torture by Hope.
How the Blind are Educated.
Out of a Pioneer's Trunk.
Anecdotes of the War Path
The Rynard Gold Reef C'oy L'd.
Portraits of Celebrities at different times of their Lives.
Humours of the Post Office.
Celebrated Beauties.
Three Birds on a Stile.
A Night in an Opium Den.
Janko the Musician.
A Silver Harvest.
The State of the Law Courts.
The Home for Lost Dogs.
The Hermit
Index.
"MY SON, BE OF GOOD CHEER!"
(A Torture by Hope.)
A Torture by Hope.
From the French of Villiers de l'isle-Adam.
[Count Villiers de l'isle-Adam, who lives at Paris, where he edits the Revue des Lettres et des Arts,is one of several living French writers who have made a special study of short stories. He is a highlyoriginal writer, and, although as yet quite unknown to English readers, an extremely powerful one. Many ofhis stories are such as could have been written by no one but himself; but probably he approaches morenearly to Edgar Allan Poe than to any other English author.]
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