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NOVA, June 3 1965
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New book, "Harmsworth's Comic Paper Rivals" reveals early British comic competitors
Early British comics in the spotlight in a new book from acclaimed archivist Alan Clark, when rivals were many for your pennies and half pennies!
Early British comics publishing, including titles such as Ally Sloper, Funny Cuts and 1930s boys adventure title, SCOOPS, are in the spotlight in Harmsworth’s Comic Paper Rivals, a new book from leading comics archivist Alan Clark, just arrived at the downthetubes dungeon.
This limited edition, not-for-profit book is available now direct from Alan, alongside limited stock of some of his earlier…
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Undine and Aslauga’s Knight by La Motte Fouqué
London
George Newnes Ld
Southampton Street
Strand
1901
Artist : Harold Nelson
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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)
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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES by Arthur Conan Doyle. (London: Georges Newnes, 1902). Illustrated by Sydney Paget.
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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
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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).
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Crompton, R. (1958 [1928] ) ‘A little adventure’ in ‘William the Good’. London: George Newnes, pp.134-158.
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' "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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QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2023
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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.…
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Arthur Conan Doyle Birthday Anniversary
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, the famed author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories, was born on this day May 22, 1859. To celebrate, we present Sidney Paget’s illustrations from the first American edition of Doyle’s third Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, published in New York by McClure, Phillips & Co. in 1902.
The most famous of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, Hound of the Baskervilles was produced in response to public demand. Doyle tried to end the Holmes series in 1893 by sending Sherlock Holmes to his death at the Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem." But after eight years of public pressure and the lure of potentially high financial returns, Hound first appeared in monthly installments in The Strand Magazine between August 1901 and April 1902. It was published in book form with illustrations by Sidney Paget in London in March 1902 by Strand publisher George Newnes, who printed 25,000 copies at six shillings each, with a further 15,000 copies for India and the British Colonies on April 2nd. The American edition of 70,000 copies at $1.25 came out on April 15th.
Strand illustrator Sidney Paget first began illustrating the Holmes stories in 1891, and is credited with depicting Holmes in a deerstalker cap and Inverness cape, details that were never mentioned in the stories or novels. Paget would go on to create more than 350 drawings for 37 Holmes short stories and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Happy Birthday Sir Arthur!
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From our stacks: Illustration by Paul Hardy, from "Lady Florry's Gems" in The Strand Magazine, An Illustrated Monthly. Vol. III January to June . London: George Newnes, Limited, 1892.
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Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania, Crown Princess Marie of Romania and her sisters Princess Alexandra and Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1894.
"Then I step out again on the lawn, and am just in time to witness the arrival of the Crown Prince and Princess of Roumania, and her sister the Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg, who have driven over from Coburg. They are presently followed by the younger sister, Princess Beatrice, mounted on her pony. The opportunity is too good to be lost, a request made to which a smiling assent is given, and before you have the Royal party posed in easy attitudes under the trees, together with the pony and dogs. This finished, I drive away from Rosenau, having most thoroughly enjoyed my visit to this historic Schloss (Castle)".
Source: avictorian.com
Strand Magazine, Edited by George Newnes, No. 43, Vol. VIII, July to December 1894.
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7th April 1890 - The opening of the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway in North Devon.
A funicular railway connecting the twin towns of Lynton and Lynmouth.
It is the UK’s only fully water-powered railway and, it is the highest and steepest water-powered cliff railway in the world.
In the 19th Century the high cliffs separating the villages of Lynton and Lynmouth were a major obstruction to economic and social development in the area. Access by land travel over Exmoor was extremely difficult and, the villages were reliant on sailing ships to deliver food, coal and other essentials. Goods then had to be transported up the cliff paths by packhorses or horse drawn carts. The steepness of the paths meant the poor working horses did not have a very long working life.
The idea for a tramway linking the villages was first suggested by an anonymous letter to a local newspaper in 1881.
Engineer George Croydon Marks and his business partner Sir George Newnes began working on the project in 1885 and, the railway was officially opened on Easter Sunday five years later.
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QUEEN VICTORIA’S DOLLS by Frances H. Low. (London: George Newnes, 1894) Illustrated by Alan Wright.
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