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John o’ London’s Weekly [v8, #185, October 21, 1922] (George Newnes, 2d, 77-116pp, 12" x 9") Details taken from bound volume VIII. 77 · The Future of Medicine · Lord Riddell · ar 78 · What I Hear · Audax · cl 79 · Many Memories, by G.B. Burgin · Anon. · br 80 · Mrs. Patrick Campbell-A Study in Temperament · Sidney Dark · ar [Mrs. Patrick Campbell] 81 · Quin · F. Le Gros Clark · ss 82 · Dreams in Poetry · Eleanor Elsner · ar 84 · Adventures in Bolivia, by C.H. Prodgers · Anon. · br 85 · What Buddha Taught · Eustace Miles · lt 86 · Ruritania in Fiction: Glimpses of a Vanished Kingdom · G. B. Stern · ar 87 · Birthplace of Mozart: The Old Town of Salzburg · Anon. · ms 88 · The Curfew of the Year: Biological Significance of Autumn · Professor J. Arthur Thomson · ar 90 · Divinity and Dross: The Most Conspicuous Church in the Greatest City · W. W. · ar 91 · The First Prince of Wales: Heirs to the British Throne · Anon. · ms 93 · Confessions of a Philistine · H. Greenhough Smith · ar 95 · Kate’s Comedy of Tears, by Lady Muir Mackenzie · Anon. · br 96 · Passing Remarks · Jackdaw · cl 97 · Letters to Gog and Magog: England from a Wave · John o’ London · cl 98 · Nibbles from the Reviews · [Various] · ex (r) 99 · Autumn Evensongs: Birds That Say Their Prayers · Marcus Woodward · ms 101 · Murderer and Man of Letters: Wainewright—Poseur and Poisoner · Lewis Melville · ms 103 · The Vintage Wine of E.V. Lucas 103 · Genevra’s Money, by E.V. Lucas · Anon. · br 103 · The Mound, by Alice Perrin · Anon. · br 103 · Soliloquy, by Stephen McKenna · Anon. · br 104 · The Bodleian Library at Oxford · Anon. · ms [Falconer Madan] 104 · Robert Burns and His Mæcenas: The Earl of Glencairn · J. M. S. · ms [Robert Burns] 106 · The Book World: Authors and Readers · Elijah True · cl 108 · John o’ London’s Letter Box · [The Readers] · lt 113 · Question and Answer · [The Editor] · cl

John o’ London’s Weekly [v8, #186, October 28, 1922] (George Newnes, 2d, 117-156pp, 12" x 9") Details taken from bound volume VIII. 117 · Sleep · Professor J. Arthur Thomson · ar 118 · Cloud-Pictures · T. C. B. · ms 118 · What I Hear · Audax · cl 119 · Ever Heard This?, by F.W. Chambers · Anon. · br 120 · The Old English Herbals, by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde · Anon. · br 121 · Warburton’s Windfall · Lieut.-Col. C. P. Hawkes · ss 122 · The Decay of Punning: Some Memorable Examples of the Art · Anon. · ms 124 · Little Portraits: “Sapper” · Sidney Dark · ms [Sapper] 124 · Little Portraits: W. J. Locke · Sidney Dark · ms [W. J. Locke] 124 · Little Portraits: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · Sidney Dark · ms [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] 124 · Little Portraits: Clemence Dane · Sidney Dark · ms [Clemence Dane] 124 · Little Portraits: E. Phillips Oppenheim · Sidney Dark · ms [E. Phillips Oppenheim] 124 · Little Portraits: Herman Finck · Sidney Dark · ms [Herman Finck] 124 · Little Portraits: Edgar Wallace · Sidney Dark · ms [Edgar Wallace] 126 · On Looking at Pictures: Some Tips for Philistines · S. Kennedy North · ar 127 · The Adventure of Living, by John St. Loe Strachey · R. · br 128 · Plays Worth Seeing · Anon. · ms 129 · Squire and Parson · Marcus Woodward · ms 129 · Roman Catholicism and Evolution · Anon. · ar 130 · Is Novel Reading a Waste of Time? · Lord Ernle · ar 132 · Difficulties · Seymour Hicks · ms 132 · A Friendly Round, by Bernard Darwin · Anon. · br 133 · The American Iconoclast: An Interview with H.L. Mencken · Montgomery Belgion · iv 134 · “A Prime Minister’s Prime Minister”: Memories of Gladstone’s Personality and Talk · W. W. · ms 136 · Passing Remarks: Word-Talk · Jackdaw · cl 137 · Letters to Gog and Magog: Murder as Literature · John o’ London · cl 138 · Woman’s Ways and Wiles · Alfred Edye · ex Jarrolds 139 · When the Greeks Ruled in Constantinople · Anon. · ms 141 · The Divine Tragedy, by St. John Adcock · G. T. · br 141 · The New Chivalry—An Impression and an Appeal · Sidney Dark · ar 143 · The Poets’ Love of Beauty · Anon. · ms 145 · The Novelist Without a Plot · Louis J. McQuilland _145 · Annette and Bennett, by Gilbert Cannan · Louis J. McQuilland · br _145 · Alas That Spring, by Elinor Mordaunt · Louis J. McQuilland · br _145 · Puppets of Fate, by Selwyn Jepson · Louis J. McQuilland · br 146 · The Book World: Authors and Readers · Elijah True · cl 149 · John o’ London’s Letter Box · [The Readers] · lt 153 · Question and Answer · [The Editor] · cl

John o’ London’s Weekly [v8, #187, November 4, 1922] (George Newnes, 2d, 157-192pp, 12" x 9") Details taken from bound volume VIII. 157 · Books for Everybody: The Reading Public · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · cl 158 · What I Hear · Audax · cl 159 · Yesterday and To-day, by Ralph Nevill · Anon. · br 160 · Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis · Sidney Dark · br 161 · The Moat of Vincennes · H. Noel Williams · ss 164 · Essay Competition. Results · Anon. · ms 164 · The Winning Student’s Article · R. Alan Morton · ex 165 · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · A. St. John Adcock · ar [Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch] 166 · Our Greatest Actor and Actress? Six to Choose From · William Pollock · ms 168 · England’s New Humorist: “Beachcomber” of the “Express” · Pem · ar 169 · Sleep in Poetry · [Various] · pm 169 · Mainspring, by V.H. Friedlaender · Anon. · br 170 · Knuckles and Gloves, by Bohun Lynch · Anon. · br 171 · Who Was the Executioner of Charles I.? · W. W. · ar 172 · The Animal Story in Modern Literature · L. G. Redmond Howard · ar 174 · Passing Remarks · Jackdaw · cl 175 · Letters to Gog and Magog: “That Strain Again!” · John o’ London · cl 176 · Outspoken Essays: Second Series · Dean Inge · ex Longmans 177 · Hugh Walpole’s Power in “The Cathedral” · Louis J. McQuilland _177 · The Cathedral, by Hugh Walpole · Louis J. McQuilland · br _177 · Cytherea, by Joseph Hergesheimer · Louis J. McQuilland · br _177 · December Love, by Robert Hichens · Louis J. McQuilland · br 178 · The Pioneer of Vaccination · Anon. · ms [Edward Jenner] 179 · “Mark Over”. Snap-Shots at Our Sporting Birds · Marcus Woodward · ms 179 · Books Six Good · Anon. · ms 181 · Rossetti and His Circle, by Max Beerbohm · Anon. · br 181 · All-Hallow-E’en · Anon. · ms 183 · The Book World: Authors and Readers · Elijah True · cl 184 · John o’ London’s Letter Box · [The Readers] · lt 189 · Question and Answer · [The Editor] · cl

John o’ London’s Weekly [v8, #188, November 11, 1922] (George Newnes, 2d, 193-232pp, 12" x 9") Details taken from bound volume VIII. 193 · Books for Everybody: On Getting the Child Out of the Way · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · cl 194 · What I Hear · Audax · cl 195 · The Best I Remember, by Arthur Porritt · Anon. · br 196 · The Ordeal of Mark Twain, by Van Wyck Brooks · Sidney Dark · br 197 · The Green Cat · Maxim Gorki; translated by J. Sutton-Paterson · ss 200 · Little Portraits: Gilbert Cannan · Alec Waugh · ms [Gilbert Cannan] 200 · Little Portraits: J.C. Squire · Alec Waugh · ms [J. C. Squire] 200 · Little Portraits: Siegfried Sassoon · Alec Waugh · ms [Siegfried Sassoon] 200 · Little Portraits: Violet Hunt · Alec Waugh · ms [Violet Hunt] 200 · Little Portraits: Wilfred Ewart · Alec Waugh · ms [Wilfrid Ewart] 200 · Little Portraits: W.L. George · Alec Waugh · ms [W. L. George] 200 · Little Portraits: Michael Sadleir · Alec Waugh · ms [Michael Sadleir] 201 · Beaver · Anon. · ms 203 · The Drama of Animal Life · Professor J. Arthur Thomson · ar 204 · Doctors in Fiction · G. B. Stern · ar 205 · Collected Poems, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · Anon. · br 206 · Judith, by Henry Bernstein · Anon. · br 206 · The Most Ancient Art: Musings on Music · A. A. Fraser · ms 207 · The Best Poetry · Anon. · ms 208 · Illustrated History of Furniture, by Frederick Litchfield · W. W. · br 210 · The Perfect Painter: Leonardo Da Vinci · S. C. Kaines-Smith · ar 212 · Passing Remarks · Jackdaw · cl 213 · Letters to Gog and Magog: Talk to Think · John o’ London · cl 214 · More Authors and I · Lewis Hind · ex The Bodley Head 216 · The Black Man’s Place in South Africa, by Peter Nielsen · Anon. · br 219 · The American Bonapartes · Francis Gribble · ms 221 · The Futurist Prose of Virginia Woolf · Louis J. McQuilland 221 · Jacob’s Room, by Virginia Woolf · Louis J. McQuilland · br 221 · Carniss and Company, by Henry St. John Cooper · Louis J. McQuilland · br 221 · Ovington’s Bank, by Stanley Weyman · Louis J. McQuilland · br 222 · The Book World: Authors and Readers · Elijah True · cl 225 · John o’ London’s Letter Box · [The Readers] · lt 229 · Question and Answer · [The Editor] · cl

John o’ London’s Weekly [v8, #189, November 18, 1922] (George Newnes, 2d, 233-268pp, 12" x 9") Details taken from bound volume VIII. 233 · Some Things That Matter: The Coué Method of Concentration and Observation · Lord Riddell · ar 234 · A Great Picture and Its Painter · Anon. · ms [Jan Van-Eyck] 234 · What I Hear · Audax · cl 235 · Past Times and Pastimes, by Lord Dunraven · Anon. · br 236 · Books You Ought to Read: The Simple Secret · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · cl 237 · Door-Knockers · Anon. · ms 237 · Was Joan of Arc Really Burned? · H. Greenhough Smith · ar 238 · Points of View, by Lord Birkenhead · Sidney Dark · br 240 · The Emergence of Life · Professor J. Arthur Thomson · ar 241 · Broken Windows · Will Scott · ss 243 · My Memoirs: 1878-1918 · The Ex-Kaiser · ex Cassell 245 · The Modern British Composer. What He Is Trying to Do · Edwin Evans · ar 245 · Humours of Country Life · Marcus Woodward · ms 247 · The Ballad of St. Barbara, by G.K. Chesterton · Pem · br 248 · Election Law: Pitfalls for Candidates and Others · Anon. · ms 249 · The Loom of the Law, by J.A.R. Cairns · Anon. · br 250 · Passing Remarks · Jackdaw · cl 251 · Letters to Gog and Magog: Taming a Philosopher · John o’ London · cl [Herbert Spencer] 252 · Letters to My Grandson on the Happy Life · Stephen Coleridge · ex Mills & Boon 255 · Mussolini. Italy’s Anti-Communist Dictator · Anon. · ar 257 · Nine New Novels 257 · Prodigal Daughters, by Joseph Hocking · Anon. · br 257 · The Vehement Flame, by Margaret Deland · Anon. · br 257 · The Honest Man, by Una L. Silberrad · Anon. · br 257 · The House of the Fighting Cocks, by Henry Baerlein · Anon. · br 257 · The Man Who Knew, by Max Pemberton · Anon. · br 257 · The Crimson Circle, by Edgar Wallace · Anon. · br 258 · Authors in Fiction · G. B. Stern · ar 259 · Lord Northcliffe, by Max Pemberton · Anon. · br 259 · The Real Lord Northcliffe, by Louise Owen · Anon. · br 261 · The Book World: Authors and Readers · Elijah True · cl 262 · John o’ London’s Letter Box · [The Readers] · lt 265 · Question and Answer · [The Editor] · cl

John o’ London’s Weekly [v8, #190, November 25, 1922] (George Newnes, 2d, 269-304pp, 12" x 9") Details taken from bound volume VIII. 269 · The Roads of the Future · Lord Riddell · ar 270 · What I Hear · Audax · cl 271 · From Sawdust to Windsor Castle, by Whimsical Walker · Anon. · br 272 · Dethronements, by Laurence Housman · Anon. · br 272 · Melloney Holtspur, by John Masefield · Anon. · br 273 · Salvation · G. Manning-Sanders · ss 275 · The Industrious Beaver · Professor J. Arthur Thomson · ar 276 · Books You Ought to Read: Three Great Writers Who Wrote for the People · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · cl 278 · The Romance of the Shoe, by Thomas Wright · W. W. · br 280 · The Life of Sir Arthur Pearson, by Sidney Dark · Anon. · br 280 · A Famous Punch Editor · Anon. · ms 282 · A Doctor-Novelist [Francis Brett-Young] · Anon. · bg 283 · The New America, by Waldo Frank · Sidney Dark · br 283 · A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells · Pem · br 284 · Drinking Songs · Anon. · ms 285 · The London Spy, by Thomas Burke · Anon. · br 286 · Passing Remarks: A Mental Test · Jackdaw · cl 287 · Letters to Gog and Magog: “Glory’s Favourite Son” · John o’ London · ms 288 · Nibbles from the Reviews · Anon. · ex (r) 289 · The Ethics of the Umbrella: A Symbol of Peace · C. P. Hawkes · ms 291 · Mystery at Geneva, by Rose Macaulay · Sidney Dark · br 291 · Where the Roads Cross, by Silas K. Hocking · Louis J. McQuilland · br 295 · The Book World: Authors and Readers · Elijah True · cl 297 · John o’ London’s Letter Box · [The Readers] · lt 301 · Question and Answer · [The Editor] · cl

John o’ London’s Weekly [v8, #191, December 2, 1922] (George Newnes, 2d, 305-340pp, 12" x 9") Details taken from bound volume VIII. 305 · Shifts for a Living · Professor J. Arthur Thomson · ar 306 · What I Hear · Audax · cl 307 · Queer People, by Sir Basil Thomson · Anon. · br 308 · The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, by Walter H. Page & Burton J. Hendrick · Anon. · br 309 · Maid and Man · Charles McEvoy · ss 310 · Teaching China to Fly · Cecil A. Lewis · ar 312 · Books You Ought to Read: No “Hundred Best Books” · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · cl 313 · The Wessex Marches, by F.J. Harvey Darton · W. W. · br 314 · “The Noble Art” in Fiction: Some Famous Fights · G. B. Stern · ar 316 · London’s Precious Children [Robert Blair] · Anon. · iv 317 · What Is Art? Some Hints for the Average Man · Sidney Dark · ar 318 · The Woman Who Sat for the Penny “Britannia”: La Belle Stuart, the Captivating Flirt · Anon. · ms 319 · The Wind in Literature · Anon. · ms 319 · Pestology. The New Science of Vermin Repression · Lieut. Alfred E. Moore · ar 320 · Passing Remarks · Jackdaw · cl 321 · Letters to Gog and Magog: Words That Are Biographies · John o’ London · cl 323 · Candide · Voltaire · ex Chapman and Dodd 324 · Countess Russell’s Sunny Castle in Italy · Louis J. McQuilland 324 · The Enchanted April, by Countess Russell · Louis J. McQuilland · br 324 · Anne Severn and the Fieldings, by May Sinclair · Louis J. McQuilland · br 324 · Seven for a Secret, by Mary Webb · Louis J. McQuilland · br 325 · Scotland’s Patron Saint · Hector Macpherson · ar 327 · The Book World: Authors and Readers · Elijah True · cl 329 · John o’ London’s Letter Box · [The Readers] · lt 333 · Question and Answer · [The Editor] · cl

John o’ London’s Weekly [v8, #192, December 9, 1922] (George Newnes, 3d, 341-400pp, 12" x 9") Details taken from bound volume VIII. This is a special Christmas issue. 341 · This Winter’s Freedom · D. B. W. Lewis · pm 342 · Is Britain a Back Number? [Part 1 of 3] · Lord Riddell · ar 343 · Indiscretions of Lady Susan, by Lady Susan Townley · Anon. · br 344 · Presents: The What and the How · Maurice Hewlett · ar 345 · The Most Moving Passages in Literature · [Various] · ms 346 · Little Portraits: H.G. Wells · Sidney Dark · ms [H. G. Wells] 346 · Little Portraits: Clement Shorter · Sidney Dark · ms [Clement Shorter] 346 · Little Portraits: Mark Hambourg · Sidney Dark · ms [Mark Hambourg] 346 · Little Portraits: Ellen Terry · Sidney Dark · ms [Ellen Terry] 346 · Little Portraits: Stacy Aumonier · Sidney Dark · ms [Stacy Aumonier] 346 · Little Portraits: Arnold Bennett · Sidney Dark · ms [Arnold Bennett] 346 · Little Portraits: C. R. W. Nevinson · Sidney Dark · ms [C. R. W. Nevinson] 347 · Second Subject · Stacy Aumonier · ss 350 · Law for Laymen · Lord Justice Atkin · ar 352 · Do You Believe in Fairies? · Anon. · ms 353 · What I Hear · Audax · cl 354 · How Animals “Show Off"! · Professor J. Arthur Thomson · ar 355 · How to Enjoy Life · A. E. Manning Foster · cl 356 · Books You Ought to Read: On Libraries · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · cl 358 · The Conquest of Mexico, by Prescott · Anon. · br 359 · On a Chinese Screen, by W. Somerset Maugham · Anon. · br 360 · Pepys in Trouble · W. W. · ar 361 · A Great Philanthropist: The Kind Heart of Sir John Kirk · David Williamson · ms 362 · My Favourite Witch: Stories of Weird Women · Anon. · ms 364 · A Newly Discovered Dickens Manuscript · Anon. · ms [Charles Dickens] 365 · The Story of the Willow Pattern Plate · S. Kennedy North · ar 366 · Islands in Fiction · Anon. · ms 368 · Passing Remarks: The Blue Boy · Jackdaw · cl 369 · Letters to Gog and Magog: The Eternal Progress · John o’ London · cl 370 · “This Happy Breed of Men”: Patriotism in Prose and Verse · Pem · ar 371 · Woman and the Wits · G. F. Monkshood · ex Jonathan Cape 372 · Carol and Carolling · A. Eaglefield Hull · ar 373 · Fireside Fiction · Louis J. McQuilland 373 · To Tell You the Truth, by Leonard Merrick · Louis J. McQuilland · br 373 · The Optimist, by E.M. Delafield · Louis J. McQuilland · br 373 · The Tree of the Garden, by Edward Booth · Louis J. McQuilland · br 374 · Sound and Colour · Captain Kenneth Lyon · ar 375 · Rhyme and Reason, by C.H. Bretherton · Anon. · br 375 · Books for Girls and Others · [Various] · ar 376 · Mainly East, by Mrs. Alec Tweedie · Anon. · br 376 · The Peaks of Shala, by Rose Wilder Lane · Anon. · br 376 · Glimpses of South America, by F.A. Sherwood · Anon. · br 376 · Amid Snowy Wastes, by Seton Gordon · Anon. · br 376 · The Sea Gypsies of Malaya, by W.G. White · Anon. · br 377 · Change Partners, by H.A. Vachell · Anon. · br 377 · And Have Not Love, by Hamilton Fyfe · Anon. · br 377 · McTeague, by Frank Norris · Anon. · br 377 · Miss Mapp, by E.F. Benson · Anon. · br 378 · About the Birds and Beasts: Many New Nature Books · [Various] · br 380 · England’s Most Ingenious Thinker. Sir Isaac Newton · Harry Roberts · ar 381 · Downadown-Derry, by Walter de la Mare · Anon. · br 381 · A Hundred Poems, by Sir William Watson · Anon. · br 381 · Later Poems, by W.B. Yeats · Anon. · br 381 · Shorter Lyrics of the 20th Century, by W.H. Davies · Anon. · br 381 · Christmas Poems · Anon. · br 382 · By Another Hand. The Romance of Unfinished Novels · Anon. · ar 383 · Books for Babes · [Various] · br 384 · The Dancing Fakir, by John Eyton · Anon. · br 384 · Books for Parties · [Various] · br 385 · The Crickets · Eleanor Smith · sg (r) 385 · Name This House · Anon. · ms 386 · Years and Opinions. The Right to One’s Own Age · Alec Waugh · ar 387 · Before There Was Christmas · Anon. · ar 388 · The Story of the British Navy, by Harold F.B. Wheeler · Anon. · br 388 · A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, by John Buchan · Anon. · br 388 · The Boys’ Book of Canada, by Denis Crane · Anon. · br 390 · The Book World: Authors and Readers · Elijah True · cl 392 · John o’ London’s Letter Box · [The Readers] · lt 397 · Question and Answer · [The Editor] · cl