The Argosy

This issue of The Argosy (July-December 1887, Volume XLIV) contains two serialized novels and miscellaneous shorter fiction and poetry. Mrs. Henry Wood's "Lady Grace" (illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards) follows Mary Dynevor, who must break her engagement to the honorable Sir Everard Wilmot when she realizes she loves Charles Baumgarten instead. She requests a private meeting with Sir Everard while her family attends an evening engagement, confessing her lack of romantic feeling and asking him to release her from the betrothal. Sarah Doudney's "The Missing Rubies" (illustrated by Frank Dadd) traces a mystery involving stolen jewels across multiple households and social circles. The volume also includes "Letters from Majorca" by Charles W. Wood with illustrations, biographical essays on Alexandre Dumas and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and numerous shorter stories and poems by various authors.