Read it through once

Altogether the year was one which should have been regarded as prosperous. It saw the issue of the fourteenth edition of the first volume of _Our Village_ and the issue of a two-volume edition (five vols. in two), illustrated with woodcuts by George Baxter, who visited Three Mile Cross early in the year to take sketches under the author’s supervision. It also saw the production of the opera _Sadak and Kalasrade_ at the Lyceum, but this can hardly be accounted a success as its performance was restricted to one night.