The five stories above, together with ‘The Recollections of Professor Henneberg’ (previous publication untraced, appeared (with others) in Miss Carew (Hurst & Blackett, 1865; 3 vols.)
‘The Engineer’ (aka ‘An Engineer’s Story’; originally No. 5 Branch Line: The Engineer): All the Year Round, Christmas 1866
‘The Four-fifteen Express’: Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867 [i.e. 1866]
‘The Story of Salome’: Tinsley’s Magazine: ‘Storm-Bound’, Christmas 1867
‘A Service of Danger: Routledge’s Christmas Annual [1869]
‘The New Pass’: Routledge’s Christmas Annual [1870]
‘A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest’: Routledge’s Christmas Annual [1871]
‘In the Confessional’: All the Year Round, Christmas 1871
‘Sister Johanna’s Story’: All the Year Round, Christmas 1872
The eight stories above, together with ‘Monsieur Maurice’, appeared in Monsieur Maurice (Hurst & Blackett, 1873; 3 vols.)
‘Was It an Illusion?: Arrowsmith’s Magazine: ‘Thirteen to Dinner’, Christmas 1881
‘Four Stories’: All the Year Round, 14 September 1861
‘A Legend of Boisguilbert’: Ballads, Tinsley, 1865
‘My Home Life’: The Arena, Boston, 1891
Notes
Introduction
* The ‘B’ name is sometimes given as ‘Blandford’ in various reference books, but is specifically spelt ‘Blanford’ (twice) in Edwards’s last will and testament, as well as in The Dictionary of National Biography.
‘The Discovery of the Treasure Isles’
* From a MS found on a bookstall,
** The writer alludes, evidently, to King George III, who was proclaimed throughout the kingdom on 26th October, 1760; King George II having died suddenly, at Kensington, on the 25th.
‘The Recollections of Professor Henneberg’
* ‘Blessed be the day, the month, the year, the season, the weather, the hour, and point of time, and the beautiful country, and the place where I was taken captive by those two beautiful eyes which have enchanted me!’
‘A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest’
* Kermess—a fair.
‘Four Stories’
* In the Beresford story, a similar ineffaceable mark is said to have been made by an apparition on the lady’s wrist. It may be worth consideration whether, under very exceptional and rare conditions, there is thus developed in women any erratic manifestation of the power a mother sometimes has, of marking the body of her unborn child.
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