#George Newnes

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NOVA, June 3 1965

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What is Edwin Payne reading? : a closer look.

From the flashback scene in the show, we get this very short shot of Edwin walking down the halls. Now, what he is reading tells you all about the Dead Boy Detectives’ love for detective and adventure stories. He is carrying a penny novel! (also known as dime novel in the US- and the names are due to their cheap prices of, you guessed it! One penny or one dime each) Precisely no. 87 of the “Aldine Tip-Top Tales”.

But, what were the Aldine Tip-Top Tales you might ask yourself. Well, originally the name was:

Tip Top Detective Tales and it was one of the Aldine Publishing Company's many library series produced to capture the fancy of the youth of Great Britain. This particular one ran from 1910 through 1912 when it morphed into just Tip Top Tales, produced to include stories of adventure, as well as those of criminal content. With one exception, all of the novels included in the series were published anonymously. (The exception: Glittering Gold! by Emile Gaboriau -Tip Top Detective Tales #4).

The Aldine Publishing Company was founded by Charles Perry Brown (1834-1916).

Some other titles included:

But, we see Edwin reading something else:

Which happens to be The Strand Magazine! And this very one for this shot.

The Strand Magazine was a British monthly magazine published from january 1891 to march 1950 (711 issues) in its original version (a new version of the magazine has been edited from 1998). George Newnes Ltd. was the publisher of the magazine and it was edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith from 1891 to 1930, then by Douglas Edward Macdonald Hastings.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a huge contributor with novels, short stories, poems and articles.

The Strand Magazine was also published in the United States from february 1891 through february 1916 but with sometimes different content.

Between 1891 and 1930, The Strand Magazine published no less than

• 121 short stories

• 70 articles

• 9 novels

• 2 interviews and 1 poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

And just in case you did not know who Arthur Conan Doyle was, well, let me just leave some of his works here as well, originally published in the Strand:

And these are just two of the infinite variety of novels Edwin Payne owns. :)

[eirinstiva]

The Adventure of the Final Problem: Sidney Paget Illustrations

In the last two letters from our friend Watson we are informed of the dead of the world's first consulting detective after a duel against (former) professor Moriarty. When this story was published in 1893 in  The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom, and McClure's in the United States. Sidney Paget was the artist behind these images in Strand and Harry C. Edwards in McClure's.

Sidney Edward Paget (4 october 1860 - 28 january 1908) was a British illustrator famous for his illustrations of the Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand.

He had two brothers who were also illustrators (and who also illustrated some Conan Doyle's works) : Walter Paget and Henry M. Paget. As a consequence, in 1891, when the Strand editor, George Newnes, asked art director W. H. Boot to find an illustrator for the Sherlock Holmes stories, the latter sent an offer to Walter Paget but the letter arrived to Sidney Paget.

Between 1891 and 1904, he did 594 illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's works.

The most famous portrait of Professor Moriarty

I really love all the details here

The Italian priest that barely speaks English

The falls looks beautiful <3

The final moment. I think that Moriarty was so desesperate to choose a physical fight against someone who does baritsu. If Watson was there this would have ended with a bullet, I guess.

The silver cigarette case, the letter, THE PAIN

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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (George Newnes Ltd, 1902) (via Alive on All Channels)

[keepthemacramesecret]

Wait "The Strand" backed an official Sherlock Holmes fan fic contest?

Sort of! George Newnes (founder of the strand) also ran a paper called Tit-Bits which was not a full magazine but instead ran short single-column light reading, and at some point during the hiatus they ran a contest to publish a short fan-written holmes story. allegedly.

(from the 'Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes' introduction)

theres only a few issues of tit-bits accessible online at all as far as i can find and those are through newspapers.com (payed subscription) so i havent had a chance to dig into it any further than the one or two little mentions it got in the cambridge holmes companion 😔 but im obsessed with it and if i ever find out more i will absolutely make a little post abt it

[thebeautifulbook]

QUEEN VICTORIA’S DOLLS by Frances H. Low. (London: George Newnes, 1894) Illustrated by Alan Wright.

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[labitacoradelhombresolitario]

Ven, ya no hay remedio...

Ven, ya no hay remedio: démonos el beso de partida. Vacío me he quedado; no doy más de mí. Y me alegro —sí, me alegro— de todo corazón De poder así, tan limpiamente, liberarme. Cancelemos nuestros votos, estrechándonos la mano De una vez y para siempre; y cuando algún día Volvamos a encontrarnos, no delaten ni tu frente ni la mía Que conservamos ni una pizca de aquel antiguo amor. Ahora que Amor, con su postrer aliento, exhala un último suspiro, Mientras —ya sin pulso apenas— yace muda su pasión Y ante su lecho de muerte la fe se pone de rodillas; Ahora que sus párpados está entornando la inocencia… Ahora, si quisieras, cuando todos lo hayan desahuciado, ¡De la muerte aún podrías rescatarlo, volviéndolo a la vida!

Frontispicio y portada de una edición de 1904 de los poemas de Michael Drayton · Londres/Nueva York, George Newnes/Charles Scribner's

Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part. Nay, I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love’s latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies; When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes— Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might’st him yet recover!

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631) Versión española: Roger Wolfe

[leanstooneside]

Finishing a project

1. CONCEDING PROFESSOR HOFFMANN'S

2. CONCEDING GEORGE NEWNES

3. CONCEDING HOFFMANN

4. CONCEDING CHAS

5. CONCEDING PROFESSOR HOFFMANN

6. CONCEDING MAY

7. CONCEDING ROBERTSON

8. CONCEDING LD

9. CONCEDING KING

10. CONCEDING FREDERICK WARNE

11. CONCEDING DALTON

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Συγγραφέας: Arthur Conan Doyle Εκδότης: Μεταίχμιο ISBN: 978-618-03-1677-3 Διαστάσεις: 13×20 cm Σελίδες: 320 Έτος έκδοσης: 2018 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο Μεταφραστής: Ανδρέας Μιχαηλίδης

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Συγγραφέας: Arthur Conan Doyle Εκδότης: Μεταίχμιο ISBN: 978-618-03-1677-3 Διαστάσεις: 13×20 cm Σελίδες: 320 Έτος έκδοσης: 2018 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο Μεταφραστής: Ανδρέας Μιχαηλίδης

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24/7/23 - RICHMAL CROMPTON

'Women had such queer ideas.' (Crompton, 1958, p.150).

Crompton, R. (1958 [1928] ) 'A little adventure' in 'William the Good'. London: George Newnes, pp.134-158).

OOO LA LA

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24/7/23 - RICHMAL CROMPTON

' "Are you interested in Total Abstinence?" ' (Crompton, 1958, p.140).

REFERENCE

Crompton, R. (1958 [1928] ) ‘A little adventure’ in ‘William the Good’. London: George Newnes, pp.134-158.

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SEE ALSO

' "But, my dear ... we don't want people like that at the meeting. A rough-looking boy like that!" ' (Crompton, 1958, p.139).

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ONE DAY AT A TIME 1

’ “She is a splendid and well-known worker in this noble cause.” ’ (Crompton, 1958, p.143).

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TO MY FRIEND FOR REBOOTING MY READING WITH THE LOAN OF THIS BOOK DURING DIRE TIMES MARCH 2023

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AND THANKS AGAIN

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DIRE TIMES

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RICHMAL CROMPTON

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2023

… II EPIC YEARS

FROM THE ARCHIVE

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24/6/19

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[lostinthevictorianera]

The first editions of The Adventures & Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes. Published in 1892 & 1893 by George Newnes Ltd London. These stories were first published in the Strand Magazine around 1891-1893. This edition does not contain the second chapter of the Memoirs The Adventure Of The Cardboard Box because the plot contained graphic descriptions of murder and an illicit love affair. The second chapter appeared in the Strand Magazine January 1893 and the first American edition but the story was removed months later. The story wasn’t published until 1917 in the first edition of His Last Bow. This is my favorite book of all time since it contains the iconic chapters with Irene Adler, Professor Moriarty and Mycroft Holmes. The books also have a great storyline.

The covers of the first printed editions of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1892) and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (1894)

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References:

Brown, Scott (2009). "Scott Brown on Sherlock Holmes, Obsessed Nerds, and Fan Fiction". Wired. Condé Nast.

Chua, Liana. (2018). “Small Acts and Personal Politics: On Helping to Save the Orangutan vis Social Media” Anthropology Today 34:7-11.

Costa, Elisabetta. (2016) “Social Media in Southeast Turkey”. UCL Press. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/83107

Doyle, Arthur Conan. (1894). “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”. London, England: George Newnes.

McGrath, Tom, and Eric Darnell. 2005. Madagascar. United States: DreamWorks Distribution.

Miller, Daniel; Costa, Elisabetta; Haynes, Nell; McDonald, Tom; Nicolescu, Razvan; Sinanan, Jolynna; Spyer, Juliano; Venkatraman, Shriram; Wang, Xinyuan. (2016) “How the World Changed Social Media”. UCL Press. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/83038

University College London. (2016) “Memes have become the moral police of online life”. Why We Post Project. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post/discoveries/14-memes-have-become-the-moral-police-of-online-life

Yeromin. ,Mykola Borysovych (2021) "World of Uncertainty: How New Media Affects Communication on a Global Level and Required Adjustment to Expertise." In Universal Codes of Media in International Political Communications: Emerging Research and Opportunities. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

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First English

SALOME | A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACTTRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF OSCAR WILDEFIRST ENGLISH EDITION, one of 500 copies[Author’s collection] —EARLY PRESS TRANSLATIONS OF OSCAR WILDE’S SALOMÉ— Wilde’s play Salomé was published in the 1890s in two languages, and the bane of each was a lordly limitation. First was the original work that Wilde wrote in French—albeit with a little help from his friends.…