TEMPLE BAR A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers - Volume IV December 1861 - March 1862
London: Ward and Lock, 1862. Leather_bound. A 3/4 green leather hardcover ex-library book in POOR condition; offered as-is. Covers and spine covering detached but present; top section of spine missing. The textblock remains securely bound. Stamp on title page. Mild foxing, otherwise, text clean. Item #212641
This volume includes the poem "Twilight" by Cosmo Monkhouse, an article on "Ancient Forests and Modern Fuel," and an article on "Muscular Education."
Volume 4 of Temple Bar, a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th and very early 20th centuries (1860–1906). The complete title was Temple Bar – A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers. It was initially edited by George Augustus Sala, and Arthur Ransome was the final editor before it folded, while he developed his literary career. It was also edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Temple Bar was founded a year after the first publication of William Thackeray's The Cornhill Magazine, by one of Charles Dickens' followers, Sala, who promised his readers that the periodical would be "full of solid yet entertaining matter, that shall be interesting to Englishmen and Englishwomen…and that Filia-familias may read with as much gratification as Pater or Mater-familias", appealing to a solid, literate middle-class. It sold for about one shilling, and was one of the leading literary magazines of the era. 553 issues were published – up to 1906, about one a month. It published work by writers such as Amy Levy, Jane Austen, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, E. F. Benson and Jessie Fothergill. Initially the magazine achieved a circulation of some 30,000 which eventually settled at around the 13,000 mark in the late 1860s. In 1868 Bentley's Magazine was merged into it. By 1896 it had dropped to about 8,000.
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