This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...in 1881, contains (oi r illustrations by Frederick Gilbert. New Burlington Street. Bentley's Miscellany ceased to exist at the close of 1868, when it was incorporated with the rising star of Temple Bar. Such was the passing of the periodical so intimately associated with some of the most famous work of Dickens, Barham, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...in 1881, contains (oi r illustrations by Frederick Gilbert. New Burlington Street. Bentley's Miscellany ceased to exist at the close of 1868, when it was incorporated with the rising star of Temple Bar. Such was the passing of the periodical so intimately associated with some of the most famous work of Dickens, Barham, and Ainsworth. As soon as he had sold Bentley's, Ainsworth allied himself with a new weekly periodical, Bow Bells (issued by John Dicks, 313, Strand), in which many of his later--and now almost forgotten--stories appeared. The first, in 1868, was The South Sea Bubble, a tale of the year 1720, dealing, of course, with the extraordinary financial scheme of the company formed for trading in the South Sea to buy up the National Debts, Annuities, etc., and amalgamate them in one fund, which scheme, after enriching thousands beyond the dreams of avarice, suddenly burst, bringing ruin and panic in its train. This second financial novel of Ainsworth's was, in fact, the English sequel to John Law. But with the history of the South Sea scheme Ainsworth combined a plot which, if somewhat conventionally melodramatic, had an echo of the dashing romances of his earlier time, wherein murders, masked marauders, midnight affrays, and stolen wills and heiresses, form the chief ingredients. Ainsworth introduced the Duke of Wharton, of Mohock notoriety, George I, the Duchess of Kendal, and other characters of the time, into the story; and many of the incidents take place at the picturesque Tabard Inn, Southwark, which was finally demolished in 1874, despite its Chaucerian traditions. The only book edition of The South Sea Bubble was that issued by Dicks in paper covers, at sixpence, which contained nineteen of E. H. Corbould's illustrations, reproduced from Bow ...
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