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Title: Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885

Author: Various

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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE.

_DECEMBER, 1885._

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
A TOBACCO PLANTATION by PHILIP A. BRUCE. 533

SCENES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S LIFE IN BRUSSELS by THEO. WOLFE. 542

COOKHAM DEAN by MARGARET BERTHA WRIGHT. 549

BIRDS OF A TEXAN WINTER by EDWARD C. BRUCE. 558

THE FERRYMAN'S FEE by MARGARET VANDEGRIFT. 566

"WHAT DO I WISH FOR YOU?" by CARLOTTA PERRY. 580

LETTERS AND REMINISCENCES OF CHARLES READE by KINAHAN CORNWALLIS. 581

IN A SUPPRESSED TUSCAN MONASTERY by KATE JOHNSON MATSON. 591

THE SUBSTITUTE by JAMES PAYN. 601

NEW YORK LIBRARIES by CHARLES BURR TODD. 611

THE DRAMA IN THE NURSERY by NORMAN PEARSON. 623

OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
"The Man Who Laughs." by C.P.W. 627
Why We Forget Names by XENOS CLARK. 629
A Reminiscence of Harriet Martineau by F.C.M. 631

LITERATURE OF THE DAY. 633
Illustrated Books. 634

A TOBACCO PLANTATION.

In the following article I propose to give some account of a typical
tobacco-plantation in Virginia and the life of its negro laborers as I
have observed it from day to day and season to season. Although it is
restricted to n