Transcriber's note: Punctuation normalized, original spelling retained.


[Illustration: "He stepped forward with a smile." For Percival. Page 420.]



LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE
OF
_POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE_.

OCTOBER, 1877.
Vol XX--No. 118

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by J.B. LIPPINCOTT
& CO., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.






CHESTER AND THE DEE.

TWO PAPERS.--I.


[Illustration: THE DEE ABOVE BALA.]

The history of Chester is that of a key. It was the last city that gave up