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A monthly illustrated magazine designed as a guide to the month's periodical
literature, European, American & British, new books & blue-books, with critical
summaries of notable articles from these. Each issue also contains a survey
of topical events at home & abroad (the Rise of Hilter, sundry wars-Boer,
The Great War, Munchurian War; Edward V111, Stock Market Crash, Russia,
as well as new plays, character sketches of important personalities:-Ghandi,
De Valera, etc.)
v.1-v.96. Jan 1890-Jul 1937. 96 vols in 93. NY & English Editions.
Volume1-22 are English Editions well bound uniformily in blue publisher's cloth gilt.
Volume 23-24 English Edition bound in leather boards with marbled edges & small bookplates also in excellent condition. Volume 25-95/96 are all NY editions.
mainly ex-library, with mixed bindings, some uniform runs & are generally in very
good condition, although some 9 have rubbed leather spines & a few of the later
volumes have neat library bookplates on the paste-down.
The overall condition is very good but remember this is a heavy item £850.00

We have several duplicate volumes should you be looking for a special date -priced between £10-15 according to their condition.

Jan-June 1890. Vol.1 Contains Reminiscences of Carlyle by Prof Tyndall; Should Divorced people remarry? What Should I do with my Millions by A Carnegie; Articles of Robert Browning & E Gosse; The Scramble for Africa by R Hagard, the Miracles of Electricty; On Growoing Old, In Praise of War by Lord Wolsely; etc.etc.
Contents very good but not the covers which are worn & frayed on the spine. £5.00

1890. July -Dec. v.2/ 7-12. Cpnatins articles on Ocean Penny Postage, General Boulanger, Lord Wolseley, German Magazines, Mrs Booth by General Booth, Italian Marriage Reform, How London is Governed, Country Holidays for poor children; Cardinal Newman, The Most Beautiful Places in Europe, the Fall of Mr Parnell; Dr Koch, etc. Contents very good but not the covers which are worn & frayed on the spine. £5.00

July-Dec 1896. V. 14. Contains artcles on Africa-Rebellion in Rhodesia, Civilsing Influences in Zannibar, etc. antitoxing treatment of Diptheria; Armenian Massacres; Balloon Vogaging, Cycling for Women! the possibilities of California; English Education Bill; Victoria as Queen; Horseless Carriages; the Death of William Morris; Nansen, Coronation of the Czar; Kipling as an Indian Journalist, etc. etc.
Half calf marbled boards in excellent condition complete with index. £15.00

Jan-June 1900. V.21. Contains articles on :-Baloons in War; A Birrell on Taste in Books; Cables in War-time; Cape Gome Gold District; Character sketches of famous people-A Carnegie, Fied Marshall Roberts, J Ruskin, R D Blackmore, etc. Chicago Drainage Canal, Porto Rico, Salvation Army, Slaves under Moslem Law; Relief of Mafeking, Longest tunnel in the World; Woman as a Tiger Hunter; etc.)
Half calf marbled boards in excellent condition complete with index. £15.00

Aug 1922. (R L Megroz-West Ham Civic Festival. The Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau
by W Canton . The Honours List by Captain Wedgwood Benn. Why London must not have “Sky-Scrappers”; Dostoievsky as Prophet; Germany 's Dream; etc.) £10.00

Dec 1923. Dr John Clifford by J Marchant; The World Through League Eyes; Germany to-day; The Saga of the Gordons by J M Bulloch; The Coming Race by Charles Morgan;
Canned Foods, Political Crime, Iraq, Earthquakes, etc.) £10.00

April 1924. (Lord Grey on Peace & Security; The Olympic Games; A Letter to the Prince of Wales by Charles Morgan; East Anglian Sketches by NM Bower; W J Rose on The Republic of Poland; The Salving of Austria by H Schwarzwald; Czechoslavakia from Within; Europe through German Eyes by D Griffiths; etc.) £10.00

May-June 1924. (Richard Hughes: Wales & the Welsh; The Crisis in Liberalism; East Anglian Sketches by Marian Bower; Cromwell & the Catholics; The Defence of the Empire; Lynching in USA; J S Sargeant; Marie Corelli; Women in India; etc.) £10.00

June -July 1924. (The Valley of Banes by Editor; Romance of Broadcasting by Walter Elliot; Where West is East by V Chirol; Germany & the League; The Madness of Lennin;
Europe & The Blatic States; The Bessarabian Question, the coal industry, etc.) £10.00

July-Aug 1924. The Bloody Tyranny of Fascism by Editor; What happened at Jutland;
The French in Morocco by V Chirol; Hungary Toady by W Goode;
The Downfall of the Caliphate; Those Socialists; Cricket Turf; etc.) £10.00

Aug -Sept 1924. (Was the War Worth While?-by the Editor; Can the German Loan be Raised? East Anglian Sketches by Marian Bower; How to Improve the National Health;
Fascism; German Unity; Quakerism; British Shipping in the War;
The Decline of Letter Writing; The Agricultural Problem, etc.) £10.00

Nov -Dec 1924. (What is Wrong with India by the Maharajah of Bikaner; Our Fuel Problem; Automobile Desihn in 1925; Labour Election Posters; Is Germany Disarmed?
Gandhi's Fast; Through Bhutan ; etc.) £10.00