476 · Poetry and the English · Stephen Spender · ar; introduces photo section with photos of Spender, C. Day Lewis, Dyland Thomas, Louis MacNeice, Alun Lewis, Anne Ridler, Laurie Lee, William Empson.
137 · Beginnings: a symposium of extracts from the first works of various authors:
137 · My First Writing · Elinor Glyn · ex
from a diary written in 1889.
138 · The Strange Song · Rebecca West · pm; written when aged 10.
139 · Seanes of Life · Nathaniel Gubbins · iw; all that remains of a novel started but never finished when he was 8 or 9.
141 · Madcap Moll · Noel Coward · ex 1921; from his first published work in 1921.
142 · My First Work · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ar; quotes a poem he wrote at school when 14, and notes his first paid work was a story “Curate and Fiend” in the Leicester Mercury when he was 18.
143 · My Earliest Compositions · James Agate · ar; cites various juvenile scribblings.
144 · My First Poem · Osbert Sitwell · pm The Times 1916
from The Times in March or April 1916.
227 · Or Did I Dream It? · Ronald Jeans · ss; spoof sf story looking back from 1989 to show how a chemist in 1939 saved Britain and the Empire by getting the issuing of forms banned.
243 · The Things They Make Me Write · C. E. M. Joad · ar
331 · The Great Controversy · Lord Vansittart & Stephen King-Hall · ex (r); extracts from writings of both authors on the matter of distinguishing between Germans and Nazis.
Lilliput [v10 #5, #59, May 1942] (1/-, 104pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) []
Total page count down to 104, including 20pp of advertising.
239 · [pictorial] · The Editors · pi; with photos of Walter Trier, Osbert Lancaster, Anthony Gilbert, Mervyn Peake, David Langdon, Victoria, Haro Hodson, Fix Kelly.
418 · The Man in Cold Storage · Bruce Angrave · ss; short sf spoof set in 2457 where a man is reawakened (from 1957) only to discover World War 93 is about to start.
3 · Those Jolly Coaching Christmases · Thomas Burke · ar
15 · Ten Months in a Strip Gang · Margot Bennett · ar; a look at the current run of comic strips in the newspapers including Jane, Garth, Buck Ryan, Beelzebub Jones and Ruggles.
21 · The Exploded Monarch · W. Van Leer · ss; fairy tale.
85 · Gulliver Plans a Voyage to the Moon · Lemuel Gulliver · cl; outcome of a discussion with Kenneth Gatland.
99 · Murder in Fact and Fiction · Henry T. F. Rhodes · ar; a look at the volume of murders in fiction compared to reality and in the rise of forensics in real detection.
104 · Influenza-Old Style · Roger North · ex 1682
from The Autobiography of Hon. Roger North.
105 · Influenza-New Style · Nathaniel Gubbins · ar Sunday Express November 28 1943
106 · The Prisoner Who Escaped · Charles Douglas-Home · ss; author aged 5½ and doubtless the same who became the editor of The Times from 1982-5.
315 · It Isn’t Easy to Be an Assassin · V. S. Pritchett · ar
320 · Changing the Map · S. P. Kernahan · ar; considers major activities which would revolutionize life on Earth, e.g. watering the Sahara, thawing the North Pole and even a Channel Tunnel.