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"A PAIR OF QUEENS

A farce in 9 acts. By Fred. Jackson. The First Time in Hongkong.

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THIRTY YEARS AS A MAGAZINE EDITOR.

BY . . CHAMBERS (EDITOR or- CHAMBERS' JOURNAL.")]

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DAIRY FARM NEWS.

Robert Chambers, my grandfather, and the original editur, had early resigned in favour of Mr. Leitch Ritchie, continuing, however, to write regularly for the magazine. His essays, familiar and humorous, writ ten in the style of Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, remained for long a feature of Chambers Journal, and in collected form are still read by those who admire the old. world flavour and charm of the early. Victorian writers. During his period of office Leitch Ritchie attracted to his service many authors noted in their day, includ- ing Percy B. St. John and his brother, Bayle St. John, William Carleton, the Irish... novelist, otherwise known as Craven," SELECTED FILLETS W. II. G. Kington. Julia Kavanagh, Captain Mayne Reid, Miss Martinean and FINNAN HADDOCKS Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. It has been said

SELECTED KIPPERS that Mr. Hall suggested the character of Peekaniff in Dickens novel. Martin

RED HEREINGS Chuzzlewit." If one may judge by portraits and corresponderes still a my possession, this belief was largely justified." Mr. Rit chie likewise discovered George Meredith, who during 1849 wrote both prose and verse for the journal. ・・

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William Chambers and contributed an article. Isunnot discover that Thackeray, although an intimate personal friend of my contributed to our grandfather, ever

columns, and Dickens certainly never did so, having in 1846 founded "Household Words," which appeared in the same form and más in direct competition with the cider serial..

Loitch Ritchie retired in 1969. and was succeded by James Payn. Payn had already contributed to Chambers' Journal, and in 186 his novel, Lost Sir Massing" berd," appeared serially under a pen name. This was much in the disadvantage of the author, who missed a great deal of that kdo which a successful, work of fiction, appearing under his own name, brings to writer. He deeply resented the necessity for residing in Edinburgh, and I do not thinki he had any regret in leaving us in 1874 to take up the editorship of the Cornhill Magotine, which he retained until his death. The management of James Payi did not attract to us any outstanding con. tributor, his policy being to write largely himself. The resulted in a sameness in the contents of the magazine, and a consequent serious drop in circulation.

In succeeding Mr. Payn, my father, Robert Chambers secundus. discovered that, with the exception of a small number of old contributors, he had no outside stof, and that few voluntary offerings reached the office. Within a very short period all this was changed. Literary contributions flowed in from all parts of the world, and after four years the circulation of the magazine had doubled, and was still rising. My father was a born editor, and was gifted] - with a sense of humour, and a fund of human kindness which caused him to be beloved by friends and fellow workers alike. This devotion-was-to-be found on the golf links of St. Andrews us well us in the office at Edinburgh, and his early death brought to me a legacy of literary friendship of which few editors could boast..

MURRAY'S MASTERPIECE.

I have referred to certain old contri- butors, and one or two of these veterans survived to a very recent time and were personal friends of my own. T. W. Speight, author of "In the Dead of Night, and many other popular novels, wrote continu- ously for Chambers Journal after 1858, and died only a year or two ago. G. Mau- ville Fenn also wrote most excellent short stories, and in later life turned his atten- tion to the writing of boys' books, in which he was highly successful.

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ཧཱུྃ,

The first important connection made in my time was with the late D... Christie, Murray, who came to Scotland in 1879. To one of the London magazines he had contei- buted a short story, "An Old Meer schoum," which very much impressed both my father and myself For several years Murray, then quite unknown, had been

The active life of a magazine editor may working on two novels, the first of which, be divided into several epochs, I can, well "A Life's Atonement," he offered to us remember the fiction of the second half of This I consider to be Murray's masterpiece; the last century, still redolent, until about and his second work, "Val Strange," had 1880, of the Crimean war and the Indian almost equal merit. The writing of both Mutiny, to be succeeded by the very had extended over a long period, and they successful novels of H. Rider Haggard, 6. benefited much from the able revision and R. Crockett, and others. These were fol- advice of my father, for which the author lowed by the novel of dialogue and of sex was duly grateful. The appearance of his problem, the writers of which deluged me work in our columas brought fame and with their effusions: distinction to Murray, who afterwards. The war brought a great change, and for became a playwright and contributed large a time the war story and the spy story took Hy to the London magazines.

—first place. I have accepted many war and WAR STORY'S ADVENT

spy stories, but none which can claim equa] Another valued contributor was Sir Amerit with the brilliant writing of Colonel Conan Doyle, whose first literary effort, John Buchan, whose novela "Greenmantle" The Mystery of the Saw Valley constant saaren of enjoyment. I can re- was read and approved by myself, Doyle feet with much satisfaction that when, many columna until he consed writing serially, ears ago, Colonel Buchan, then a very Sherlock Young man, offered me his first novel, any to restart with the famous

John Burnet of Barna," I read and se Holmes "-stories-- It was:also my privilego.

...

contributed “séveral short stories "to"our,

god Mr. Standfast” are

to launch that now well-known writer of cepted the work on its merits. It tells of humorous stories, Mr. W. W Jacobs, who, eighteenth-century life in the south of as an unknown free-lance writer, sent me Scotland, Colonel Buchan's own country, various sketches, all of which I am glad to and remains one of the most popular of his. work. With this slight tribute to one who remember were at once accepted and

now holds a first rank-among story-tellern it- published..

is fitting that I should bring these brief re- collections to a close..

(Continued at foot of next column).

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