This is the November 1872 issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. It was neatly rescued by me from an old and damaged bound volume of the magazine not long ago. A good copy with a clean text.
135 pages.
Some highlights I find include:
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton's serial novel, his last and unfinished work, The Parisians (Book II). He had only about six weeks left to live at this date. This is the 2nd of 16 monthly installments.
The energetic Laurence Oliphant's "The Shores of Biscay [Bay]." Sixteen pages highlighting the vacationing alternatives on the lovely southeastern coast of France and Spain.
A new poem by W.W. Story, The End of the Banquet.
Laurence's cousin, and another energetic powerhouse, Margaret Oliphant's two-volume memoir of French Peer Count de Montalembert is reviewed by John Tulloch.
The notable British general (later Field Marshal and Commander-In-Chief) Garnet Wolseley pens a longer assessment of current British Army field manoeuvres.
Author and military man (he was at this date a Lt. Colonel in the British Army, and, much later, a general) G.T. Chesney's serial novel, A True Reformer (Part IX). Here first printed and later (1873) published in book form.
Anne Mozley on French satirist Jean de La Bruyere.
Some author identifications above are drawn from the Wellesley Index, I, 137.