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abode with liim and his wife at Linden House. She 

 came with lier two daughters and was promptly 

 poisoned with strychnine. After this he removed 

 from the neighbourhood, and embarked upon a further 

 series of murders in London. Eventually detected, 

 he was convicted and transported for life to the 

 Australian colonies, where he is credibly said to have 

 poisoned others. Murder by poison was, in fact, 

 an obsession with this man, althouoh he was sulii- 

 ciently sane and sordid to select victims whose deaths 

 would bring him pecuniary advantage. Waiuew right's 

 metier in literature was chiefly art criticism, and his 

 style narrowly resembles that of a revolting person, 

 now ostracised from Society, who also dabbled in Art 

 and actually wrote and published an " appreciation " 

 of the poisoner some few years since. 



Linden House was pulled down some fifteen years 

 ago, and its site is marked by the modern villas of 

 Linden Gardens. The recollection of it brings a train 

 of reminiscences. 



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RejSiiniscences are soon accumulated in these 

 times. It needs not for the Londoner to be in the sere 

 and yellow leaf for him to have known many and 

 sweeping changes in the pleasant suburbs which used 

 to bring the country to his doors, and the scent of 

 the hawthorn through his open window with every 

 recurring spring. For myself, I am not a lean and 

 slippered pantaloon, on whose head the snows of 



