London: Ward and Lock, 1862. Hardcover.
A hardcover ex-library book rebound in blue cloth. Stamps on
endpapers and title page and mild foxing throughout. Otherwise, text
clean and binding tight. Item #212645
This
volume includes a review of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," an article
on "A Jesuit College," and installments of "The Strange Adventures of
Captain Dangerous" by George Augustus Sala.
Volume 6 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.