The Argosy, Volume LXXI

This bound volume of *The Argosy* (May-August 1900) contains the concluding chapters of Sydney C. Grier's illustrated serial "The Warden of the Marches," featuring a wounded hero and romantic entanglement across eight chapters. The issue includes diverse fiction: Stephen Crane's "Manacled," George Gissing's "The House of Cobwebs," Harold Bindloss's "The Secret of the Foss," and shorter stories by Arthur Moore, E. W. Rinder, and Ellen Ada Smith. Essays and biographical pieces cover literary figures (Andrew Lang on Grant Allen, Arthur Maquarie on Henry Lawson poet) and cultural topics (J. Cuthbert Hadden on Handel, Augustus Hare on the Oberammergau Passion-Play). The volume also includes travel writings on the Far East by I. Ranken, Oxford college descriptions, verse selections, and miscellaneous short fiction spanning romance, adventure, and domestic themes.