Illustrated London News (1842–2003)

As is stated in the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, “The Illustrated London News was one of the great entrepreneurial and commercial triumphs of Victorian print culture. . . . All three elements expressed in its title were necessary to its success” (301). It came out weekly on Saturdays and was sold for 6d.

Lang appears to have written in the paper from the following dates:

3 Jan. 1891–29 Feb. 1896: various article titles
7 Mar. 1896–2 Jan. 1897: “Notes from a Scottish Workshop”
March, June 1897: “The Romance of a King’s Life” (20 Mar.) and “The Master of Balliol” (12 June)
4 Nov. 1905–2 Nov. 1907: “At the Sign of St. Paul’s” [This followed up on Lang’s “At the Sign of the Ship” causerie in Longman’s Magazine, whose last issue was published in October 1905. “At the Sign of St. Paul’s, at one page, was much longer than the Ship Columns.
9 Nov. 1907–27 July 1912: various article titles

A fascinating quotation about how the periodical changed within its first fifty years is found in the paper’s “Literary Gossip” column for April 11, 1891, which refers to signed contributions: “Friendly critics have hinted that the Illustrated London News and Graphic [founded 1869] are less of newspapers and more of magazines than formerly. This is not the case. The Illustrated London News has merely extended the principle of signed contributions which obtained in the paper when Peter Cunningham, Charles Mackay, Albert Smith, and Mr. George Augustus Sala were members of its staff. Now, as then, it aims at presenting a pictorial record of the social and political life of the times, and any changes that may have taken place in its reading matter is but the difference between 1842—when there were few daily newspapers—and 1891. Were the Saturday Review and the Spectator to give signed contributions in place of anonymous ones, it would scarcely justify the charge that they had been converted into magazines” (478).

The Illustrated London News is available in various digital platforms, including GALE’s Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842–2003) and British Newspaper Archive. A thorough search of these may presumably lead the reader to more Andrew Lang articles than those listed below, which are all taken from B. Meredith Langstaff’s detailed list. Langstaff also gives a part of the first line. My RA, Karen Huang (Huang Yuching), and I have checked Langstaff’s list against the British Newspaper Archive, correcting some of the page numbers and other small mistakes. Please do make use of the contact form if you find any other mistakes or wish to suggest additions.

1891

“Idyllic Hours.”“Nature in her beneficence and boundless wealth. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 3 Jan. 1891, p. 24. Signed A. L.
[?] “Beards: Fashion in beards has, in the course of the ages, gone . . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 10 Jan. 1891, p. 55–56. [B. Meredith Langstaff identifies this article as by Lang, but it is unsigned, and the reason for the attribution is unclear.]
“Pleasures and Pains of Golf.” “In trying to estimate the merits of any game it is fair to ask. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 17 Jan. 1891, p. 79. This, and the following articles, are signed “Andrew Lang.”
“The Authors’ Club.” “Should the authors of England band. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 24 Jan. 1891, p. 99.
“An Authors’ Club [Reply by Sir Walter Besant].” “I am very glad that this subject has been introduced to the readers of the Illustrated London News. Up to the present, it has only been presented to the limited circle of the . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 31 Jan. 1894, p. 131.
“Wine & Wit.”“‘When the wine is in, the wit is out’ . . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 31 Jan. 1891, p. 141.
“The Letter Burners.” “A new sect, more or less religious, the Letter Burners, may be expected to . . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 7 Feb. 1891, p. 187.
“The Author’s Club in New York: By a Modest Scribbler.” “ I should not venture to intervene in the controversy between Mr. Walter Besant and Mr. Andrew Lang about the projected Authors’ Club…” [The author disagrees with Lang about what the club would be like, based on his experience in New York.] Illustrated London News , vol. 98, 7 Feb. 1891, p. 190.
“The Art of Mark Twain.” “The duty of self-examination. . . . I am puzzled and alarmed at finding that I am losing Culture.” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 14 Feb. 1891, p. 222.
“Border Memories.” “The traditions of the border have been gleaned and gleaned again for two generations with so much assiduity. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 21 Feb. 1891, p. 246.
“Two Literary Problems.”‘‘We are all haunted by problems. . . ‘Are reviews of any use to an author?’ ‘In what style should historical novels be written?’” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 28 Feb. 1891, p. 275.
“Some American Poets.”‘‘I read somewhere, lately, that the Americans possess, at present, more minor poets, and better minor poets, than we can boast in England. . . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 7 Mar. 1891, p. 307.
“Comedy and Piety.”‘‘The French have, at various times, been very much more prim and demure that ourselves about the drama.” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 14 Mar. 1891, p. 352.
“Practical Jokes.”“Hobbes has found the cause of laughter in sudden sense of triumph. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 21 Mar. 1891, p. 383.
“A Prehistoric Review.” ‘‘It would be undesirable to say in what part of the ruins of Naupactus. . . .the only contemporary review of Homer which has reached us.” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 28 Mar. 1891, p. 410.
“Catalogues” “Looking into shop windows and choosing what one would buy, if one could, is among the pleasures of poverty. Nor is . . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 4 Apr. 1891, p. 439.
“My Spring Holiday.” “We all have our ideals of spring holidays, and Mr. Greenwood has been giving. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 11 Apr. 1891, p. 471.
“A School of Fiction.”“There must be something in the idea of a school of fiction. Mr. Payn proposed something. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 18 Apr. 1891, p. 507.
“Bores and Beggars.” “Would that Cadmus, or Palamedes, or Prometheus . . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 25 Apr. 1891, p. 538.
“Illusions and Realities.” “A week or two ago I had the pleasure of listening to an address. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 2 May 1891, p. 582.
“Social Skittles.” “In a lonely little inn, on a moor, beneath the frosty scalp of . . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 9 May 1891, p. 603.
“Clairvoyances.” “The Psychical Society discharges a most useful function. It either proves that there is ‘something in’ all the pleasant old beliefs which. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 16 May 1891, p. 654.
“W. G.’ on Cricket.” “According to a modern Greek scholar, Homer was at once his own hero and his own historian . . . . Dr. W. G. Grace, whose commentaries are now before the world in “Cricket” (Arrowsmith) occupies the same position.” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 23 May 1891, p. 678.
“Modern English & the Latin Test.” “‘Not we alone’, says Theocritus. . . [Lang talks of Dryden translating his English poetry into Latin to “see what sense the words will bear in a more stable language” and wonders what would happen if the same rule were applied to Dante Gabriel Rosetti’s sonnets and George Meredith’s One of our Conquerors”] Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 30 May, 1891, p. 718.
“The Utilisation of Belief.” “We hear laments for the Ages of Faith, wherein, if there were any use in it, I could. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 6 June 1891, p. 752.
“Woman’s Ways.”“There is a venerable anecdote of Mr. Hill Burton, the historian of Scotland, which. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 13 June 1891, p. 778.
“In the Interests of Science: A Hypnotic Story.”“How Marion Grey and Cecil Winto came to be happily wooed and wed is a matter hidden, not only from the best-informed aunts of the lovers, but even from the lovers themselves. To them the course of their affection seemed to run with almost unbroken smoothness, while it was really as much beset by darkling dangers and the spells of an enchanter as any wanderings of any adventurous pair in Spenser or Ariosto.” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 20 June 1891, p. 813–16.
“A View of Education.”“‘In the year of the Restoration of Religion, 500: In the year of the Era of Christ, 3756,’ says the papyrus…” Illustrated London News, vol. 98, 27 June 1891, p. 846.
“The Morality of Gambling.” “Gambling has been so much vulgarised of late that there is little pleasure in discussing…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 4 July 1891, p. 18.
“University Cricket.” “Before this brief but heartfelt dithyramb can reach the public, everybody…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 11 July 1891, p. 54.
“Men’s Ways.” “ ‘I observe,’ a fair philosopher writes, that lately obliged the town with some remarks on…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 18 July 1891, p. 82.
“The Country Quiet.” “Often, in the noisy nights of London, we sigh for the quiet of tile country. But…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 25 July 1891, p. 115.
“A Fallacy of Mr. Howells.” “The friends of romance pray daily, but almost without hope, for the conversion of Mr. W. D. Howells.” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 1 Aug. 1891, p. 143.
“Ancient Dulness.” “In the beginning of his new tale, ‘The Wrecker,’ in Scribner’s Magazine, Mr. Stevenson gives an entrancing description…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 8 Aug. 1891, p. 172.
“Cliques.” “A young man wrote a long letter some days ago to a member…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 15 Aug. 1891, p. 202.
“Reminiscences a la Sumph.” “The world has been greatly guilty of many Reminiscences in recent years. Everyone has devastated us with his diary…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 22 Aug. 1891, p. 250.
“A New Shakespeare.” “The following letter, from a nephew who has been unsuccessful in an Army Examination, explains itself, and contains a modest proposal.” [Shakespeare should be updated so it matches history and students don’t make mistakes on their exams.] Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 29 Aug. 1891, p. 282.
“Greek Magazine Poetry.” “A short time since I read in a book by the celebrated Hr. W. D. Howells that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 5 Sep. 1891, p. 318.
“Towrows.” “The word towrow is apparently an intense form of the word tourist. By substituting the affix…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 19 Sep. 1891, p. 379.
“Freedom-French and American.” “By accident or design, two essays in the Itevleiu happen to illustrate…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 26 Sep. 1891, p. 399.
“D.V.” “Is at piety or superstition, or queer blend of both, which makes people say amd write…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 3 Oct. 1891, p. 446.
“Incredulity.” “‘Why are the Cultivated so incredulous?’ the Spectator Perhaps we might demur, and ask the people…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 17 Oct. 1891, p. 510.
“Arts and Crafts of Childhood.” “Probably the chief wish of children is to do things for themselves, instead of to have things…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 24 Oct. 1891, p. 542.
“Satirists on Ladies.” “Very little good, far limited experience of life teaches one, ever comes of upbraiding the fair sex …” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 31 Oct. 1891, p. 559.
“On Being Slated.” “The learned question whether we should speak of being slated or slated when we mean that we are well and duly flogged…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 7 Nov. 1891, p. 610.
“The Last of the Stuarts.” “To believe in everything interesting and romantic is a duty which a sensible man owes to himself. Thus, it would be pleasant to believe… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 14 Nov. 1891, p. 630.
“Was Byron a Great Poet?” “Turning over the leaves of Mr. Henley’s elegant and valuable collection of poems…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 21 Nov. 1891, p. 663.
“The Last of the Stuarts: a Palinode.” “Charles Nodier enumerated, it is said, twenty-two varieties of literary crime. Among them is, or should be, writing on a topic without competent knowledge. That was my sin, in a recent article on ‘The Last of the Stuarts.’” 28 Nov. 1891, p. 702.
“Mr. J. M. Barrie’s ‘The Little Minister’.” “The most unfair thing you can do is to read a novel for the purpose of reviewing it. To review it without reading it gives it a much better chance.” 5 Dec. 1891. p. 739.
“Autographs.” “The common, or American, autograph-hunter is an Idiot. This view is not the mere petulant expression of spleen, but a theory…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 12 Dec. 1891, p. 763.
“The Futility of Criticism.” “If the business of criticism were supposed to have anything really judicial in it, if …” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 19 Dec. 1891, p. 803.
“The Teaching of English Literature.” “Can English literature be made and should it be made, the subject of teaching and of examination…” Illustrated London News, vol. 99, 26 Dec. 1891, p. 834.

1892

“A Patriotic Critic.” “The name of Mr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson has hitherto, perhaps, been best known in England as…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 2 Jan. 1892, p. 14–15.
“Two Book Collectors.” “If a man is to be known by the company he keeps, as the woman says, we can also learn much of him from his books. Unluckily, we do not always find out what bookish company…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 9 Jan. 1892, p. 54.
“Ourselves.” “Ourselves, not our ‘noble selves’, but our inner selves, are my topic. It is a strange thing that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 23 Jan. 1892, p. 115.
“Saint Germain the Deathless.” “Most people have read with awe Lord Lytton’s tale…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 30 Jan. 1892, p. 154.
“The Great Marquis.” “‘Abhorred, and very justly for his treachery and cruelty, above all men living,’ was…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 6 Feb. 1892, p. 178.
“Meddling with Burns.” “Once a year, on Burns’s birthday…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 13 Feb. 1892, p. 211.
“Sixty Poets and A’!” “There is a Scotch song about ‘A Hundred Pipers and A’ which has…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 20 Feb. 1892, p. 242.
“The Heart of Montrose.” “If there were any truth in the fables of clairvoyance, it would be desirable to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 27 Feb. 1892, p. 267.
[Langstaff ascribes to Lang a 5 March 1892 article called “Arbuthnot’s Humour” which begins “Some stories of our literature. . . .” I was not able to find this article in a cursory search, and the page number given by Langstaff (283) is from 27 February and is made up of advertisements.]
“A Wild Career.” “‘Did you ever hear of Robert Watson, of Dr. Watson, Colonel Watson, Chevalier Watson?’ With this question…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 12 Mar. 1892, p. 331.
“A Canny Covenanter.” “Say what we will, confessions are interesting reading. We do not find in them ‘the real John,’ who…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 19 Mar. 1892, p. 367.
“On a Blunder by a Butler.” “Mr. Smalley’s ‘London Letters’ is not a new book, but, as the sailor said when he knocked down the Jew…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 26 Mar. 1892, p. 398.
“A Word in Season.” “A word in season, how good it is! I was travelling…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 2 Apr. 1892, p. 427.
“A Well Spent Week.” “This day last week the Novelist met me at the Inverness Station, on one of these brilliant days of sunlight…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 9 Apr. 1892, p. 455.
“The Poet Watts.” “By the poet Watts we do not, of course, mean Alaric…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 16 Apr. 1892, p. 483.
“Moorland Meditations.” “Tis a marvel, and a standing example of Hope’s triumph over experience, that men will take salmon rivers. Once in a lifetime…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 23 Apr. 1892, p. 528.
“The Avengers of Romance.” “I had been reading the newspapers about Behring Straits, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 30 Apr. 1892, p. 539
The Newest Jacobitism.” “Everything is ‘new’ nowadays — the term is almost slang. From a new magazine, the Albemarle, and from article by…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 7 May 1892, p. 568.
“A Jubilee Ode” by Andrew Lang is advertised as due to appear on 14 May 1892 in the 7 May 1892 issue (563). A cursory search does not find this ode. Lang’s illustrated portrait appears on the second page of “Our Literary Contributors, Past and Present” (599). An earlier three pages included portraits of “Our Artists, Past and Present” (591–93). Walter Besant’s “England in 1842” does appear, along with an article on “The Beginnings of Illustrated Journalism.”
“Salmon Flies.” “Captain Hale has written a lucid and well-illustrated work on a pleasant and economical art …” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 21 May 1892, p. 615.
“Literary Patriotism.” “Patriotism is an emotion, or a creed, so noble, so attractive, and in some regions so rare, that possibly we ought to admire even its vagaries. But perhaps patriotism becomes a virtue in the wrong place when it bestirs itself in letters, not, of course, in patriotic poetry, but in asserting exclusive claims for our own national literature. The merits and demerits of works of art have nothing to do with the country in which they were produced.” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 4 June 1892, p. 690.
“The School-Master of St. Mary’s.” “Yarrow, that, despite her beauty, has a melancholy tradition, will to some be sadder still, for we have lost…” Illustrated London News, vol. 100, 11 June 1892, p. 724.
“Ghosts.” “It is said, I do not know how truly, that the agricultural labourer dislikes to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 18 June 1892, p. 759.
“Rod & River.” “A man who writes a book about fishing should either have interesting experiences to narrate or advice of good quality to give, or…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 25 June 1892, p. 795.
“The Mystery of Mycenae.” “We are always thinking’ that we have found the key to the secret of Homer, and we are always…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 2 July 1892, p. 15.
“Introducing a Poet.” “What should be the attitude of the old and repentant towards the young and ardent rhymer? This is a question…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 9 July 1892, p. 43.
“Behind the Novelist’s Scenes.” “In his new novel ‘The Wrecker,’ Mr. Stevenson speaks of pleasure…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 16 July 1892, p. 83.
“An Early Prig.” “The history of Prigs has yet to be written, and perhaps could only have been handled by… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 23 July 1892, p. 118.
“Stray Cats.” “M. Pierre Loti in his ‘Book of Pity and Death,’ has brought oats… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 30 July 1892, p. 147.
“The ‘Ifs’ of History.” “It is, or once was, a favorite plan of examiners to ask…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 6 Aug. 1892, p. 178.
“Mr. Bridges’s ‘Achilles in Scyros’.” “Mr. Bridges’s play, ‘Achilles Scyros,’ originally existed as a kind of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 13 Aug. 1892, p. 206.
“To Parents and Guardians.” “‘Parents,’ it has been said by a schoolmaster, ‘are the curse of education.’ His meaning is probably…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 20 Aug. 1892, p. 238.
“New Ghosts.” “The recent volume of the Psychological Society’s ‘Proceedings’ (July) may be described as…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 27 Aug. 1892, p. 271.
“An Unlucky Poet.” “As a general rule, poets, and, indeed, other men of genius, win exactly the amount of praise and of success…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 3 Sep. 1892, p. 302.
“The Last Days of Troy.” “Last week we spoke of Quintus Smyrnsens, the epic poet of the Greek decadence, the follower of Homer in dyas that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 10 Sep. 1892, p. 344.
[B. Meredith Langstaff ascribes the obituary “The Late John Greenleaf Whittier” to Lang, but it unsigned, and I do not know on what sources Langstaff relied. The style is mainly generic, but a few lines at least could have been written by Lang—though as easily by someone else: “Poetry . . . being one of those gifts which are hidden from the professors of Greek and revealed unto ploughboys, was not long in finding him out. A copy of Burns, which fell in his way when he was about fourteen, is said to have put the match to his ambition.” The focus on Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator and dissenters and how Whittier “spoke for the happy simple temperaments of God-fearing, simple-minded folk, untroubled by ‘the burden of the mystery,’ undreaming of ‘decadence’” seem less like Lang.] Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 17 Sep. 1892, p. 365.]
“Diana’s Dogs.” “The following anecdote is not remarkable for point as it stands, but the circumstances may be worth investigating…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 24 Sep. 1892, p. 406–07.
“Pen or Broom?” “Mr. James Payn has alreadyremarked, in the Illustrated Landau years, on Mr. Grant Allen’s curious advice to …” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 8 Oct. 1892, p. 451.
“Plea for silence.” This poem was the first of several printed in The Illustrated London News’s “Living Poets and the Late Poet Laureate [Tennyson]. The poem begins, “Silence “The best” (he said) “are silent now,” / That younger bearer of the laurel bough” . . . . “For Arnold died, and Browning died, and He—/The oldest, wisest greatest of the three—/Dies, and what voice shall dirge for him to-day? / For the Muse went with Him the darkling way, / And left us mute!” (lines 1–2, 5–9). Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 15 Oct. 1892, p. 492.
“‘The Lyon in Mourning.’” “To give a full and true account of ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ would demand the space of a magazine article and more time than I have been able to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 22 Oct. 1892, p. 523.
“‘Days In’ and Out of ‘Clover,’ an Angling Misadventure.” “For me to review the Amateur Angler’s ‘Days In Clover’ ( Sampson Low, Martson, and Co.) would indeed be an act…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 29 Oct. 1892, p. 556.
“A Poetic Calendar.” “‘A Calendar of Verses,’ a poem for every day of a year, has been put together by an anonymous compiler, and it is furnished with…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 5 Nov. 1892, p. 587.
“Shelley’s ‘St. Irvyne’.” “In most lives of Shelley, his novel ‘St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian,’ is mentioned, but few biographers give…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 12 Nov. 1892, p. 618.
“Novelists and Reviewers.” “In the last number of the Author a question is raised which interests lawyers…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 19 Nov. 1892, p. 646.
“Mr. Lang in Fairyland.” (Review of Green Fairy Book by Richard Le Gallienne) Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 26 Nov. 1892, p. 678.
“Modern Fairy Tales.” “The fashion in fairy tales changes, not for the better. Every Christmas sees a flock of new fairy books, which all follow….” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 3 Dec. 1892, p. 714.
“The Gods of Olympus.” “The Gods of Olympus. From the German of A. H. Petiscus….” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 10 Dec. 1892, p. 744.
“Curiosities, True and False.” “Curiosities, rarities, all that the fetichistic instincts of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 101, 17 Dec. 1892, p. 779.
“Authors and Publishers.” “According to a recent correspondence in the…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 24 Dec. 1892, p. 814.
“The Poetic Temperament.” “If an ill-disposed fairy were to come to a christening, and wished to counteract the friendly gifts…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 31 Dec. 1892, p. 840.

1893

“A Romantic Hypothesis.” “When the Spanish missionaries arrived in Mexico, shortly after the conquest of that country by…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 7 Jan. 1893, p. 14.
“Taste in Fiction.” “‘Out of the strong came forth sweetness,’ in Samson’s riddle; and out of the pertinacious question…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 14 Jan. 1893, p. 53.
“A Little Tiff.” “Americanisms and Briticisms (Harper’s) is the name of a pretty little book, which I owe to the kindness of its author…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 21 Jan. 1893, p. 90.
“The Romane Questions.” “Lest any moralist should blame me for reviewing a book…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 28 Jan. 1893, p. 118.
“A Question of Evidence.” “How much evidence, and evidence of what kind, is needed to make us believe…. ” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 4 Feb. 1893, p. 156.
“Drawing the Line.” “‘There I draw the line’ is a familiar expression, implying that the speaker is ready to march a long way…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 11 Feb. 1893, p. 178.
“The Mystery of Style.” “In Atalanta, which one naturally buys for the sake of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 18 Feb. 1893, p. 216.
“Queen Mary’s Jewels.” “Different ages have different tastes in relics, and while the Middle Ages preferred…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 25 Feb. 1893, p. 239.
“An Historical Slip of the Pen.” “‘Read anything to me but history, for that must be false,’ said Sir Robert Walpole, if the anecdote…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 4 Mar. 1893, p. 274.
“Obscurity in Verse.” “Turning over the Critic, an American literary journal…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 11 Mar. 1893, p. 295.
“M. Bourget’s New Novel.” “There is, to an English reader, something very attractive, sympathetic, antipathetic, provoking, and amusing…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 18 Mar. 1893, p. 339.
“Argument for the Existence of a Brownie.” “The belief in brownies has been shaken by the undermining forces of scepticism.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 25 Mar. 1893, p. 370.
“A Family History.” “Lockhart says somewhere that if we could read the history of a family it would be as interesting as…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 1 Apr. 1893, p. 398.
“Famous Reviews.” “There are times when a critic is apt not to understand the scorn with which proud authors…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 8 Apr. 1893, p. 431.
“The Viking’s Bones.” “To aid in the Restoration of Superstition, what a glorious task that …” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 15 Apr. 1893, p. 462.
“Santal Tales.” “Forty years ago, few things could seem more unlikely than that a Free Church missionary to the heathen should collect…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 29 Apr. 1893, p. 526.
“Chicagomania.” “The American are certainly, with all their superficial astuteness, a simple people….” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 6 May 1893, p. 546.
“Politics and Literature.” “A curious little war is waged in the National Review..” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 13 May 1893, p. 566.
“Red Indian Magic.” “According to a Red Man of the Dene Hareskin tribe there are four sorts of ‘ shadow’ or…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 20 May 1893, p. 602.
“Reviewers Copies.” “Concerning Mr Bludyer, the reviewer, Thackeray says that he would impound a book…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 27 May 1893, p. 634.
“Kaspar Hauser Again.” “When Lord Beaconsfield was invited to give counsel to a pair of boys he said…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 3 June 1893, p. 667.
“A Blind Man in the ‘Forty-Five’.” “Did you ever hear of Blind Jack Metcalf? The odds are very long that you never did The present writer never…” Illustrated London News, vol. 102, 10 June 1893, p. 703.
“‘A New Feature.’” “‘Oh, give me new faces, new faces, new faces!’ says the lady…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 17 June 1893, p. 735.
“On Amazing Professor Boyesen.” “I have not lived in vain: I have amazed and amused a Professor. His name is…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 24 June 1893, p. 763.
“Giving Up Things.” “Life is a long process of giving things up, and it is not always easy to say whether things and pursuits abandon us or whether we relinquish them. Looking back on memories of childhood…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 1 July 1893, p. 15.
“The Old Ghost Hunters.” “There are few more tedious and disgusting topics than the old belief in…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 8 July 1893, p. 35.
“An Old French Wraith.” “Last week Glanvil, More, and other curious ghostly characters of the seventeenth century…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 15 July 1893, p. 75.
“Ladies and Cricket.” “Some ladies, all honour to them, know about cricket, and are good critics of the game. Others go to see matches because…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 22 July 1893, p. 103.
“A Literary Enigma.” “One difficult question meets the literary forger…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 29 July 1893, p. 130.
“The Tercentenary of Izaak Walton.” “On August 9, three hundred years ago, Izaak Walton was born at Stafford. Of his first twenty years we know literally nothing at all. . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 5 Aug. 1893, p. 157–59.
“‘Thorns’.” “Surely the most inventive authors do not write anything so original as…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 12 Aug. 1893, p. 194.
“Does Human Nature Alter?” “The first of modern historians, Thucydudes, remarks that his study of events in Greece will illustrate human nature…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 19 Aug. 1893, p. 231.
“Scrying.” “‘Joachim de Combray says he has seen a burgess of Nuremberg who bought a crystal ring, by virtue whereof a young boy saw…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 26 Aug. 1893, p. 258.
“On Being Lifted Up.” “If any reader of this column should chance to rise like a balloon and float in space…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 2 Sep. 1893, p. 291.
“Stuartiana.” “A New book revives an old question, or, rather, two old questions, with which some time ago I tried to divert…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 9 Sep. 1893, p. 318.
“Mr. Steveson’s New Novel.” “It is an unpopular opinion, yet one to which I…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 16 Sep. 1893, p. 350.
“The Devil’s Cloyster.” “The name of Robert Bovet, Gent., is probably unfamiliar to most readers, though a few may remember him as …” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 23 Sep. 1893, p. 382.
“Scotch Religious Changes.” “Scotland does not stand where it did in many matters, but the religious changes are…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 30 Sep. 1893, p. 422.
“An American at Oxford.” “Mr Richard Harding Davis has been visiting Oxford in the week of the boat-races, and gives his impressions…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 7 Oct. 1893, p. 454.
“The Master of Balliol.” “My first acquaintance with the Master of Balliol was made in the heather, somewhere on the slopes of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 14 Oct. 1893, p. 479.
“Cruelty to Poets.” “The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Authors, as it has been flippantly called, needs a distinct department for…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 28 Oct. 1893, p. 548.
“Mr. Stead’s Oracle.” “‘The worst way of being familiar,’ syas Dr. Samuel Jognson, ‘is being familiar by letter.’ The great Doctor is right, especially… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 4 Nov. 1893, p. 575.
“M. Jules Lemaitre.” “Decidedly ‘they order these things better in France,’ and among these things we must…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 11 Nov. 1893, p. 604.
“The Bishop and the Bogey.” “In a recent article on Mr. Stead’s ‘Borderland’ I did him some wrong, the result of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 18 Nov. 1893, p. 643.
“The Brontes in Ireland.” “The history of the Irish family from whom the Bronte novelists descended has hitherto been obscure ” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 25 Nov. 1893, p. 676.
“Luck.” “The last Mr Richard Proctor had a scientific spite against the doctrine of luck. By aid of some pettifogging calculations…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 2 Dec. 1893, p. 706.
“The Gabions of Jonathan Oldbuck.” “Mrs Maxwell Scott has piously fulfilled, as far as now it can be fulfilled, a design…” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 9 Dec. 1893, p. 739.
“Golf’s Place among Games.” “Golfers are still scribbling away in reply to Mr. Alfred Lyttelton’s attempt to estimate the place of golf… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 103, 16 Dec. 1893, p. 830.
“Irish Fairies.” “For a pleasant, pathetic, charming view of Irish people and Irish manners, no modern writer is to be matched with…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 23 Dec. 1893, p. 18.
“The Ideal Review.” “Let no capitalist, in the expansive spirit of his class, come forward to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 30 Dec. 1893, p. 14.

1894

“Was Socrates Mad?” “Was Socrates mad? We are tempted to evade the inquiry by replying that we wish his kind of madness were more …” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 6 Jan. 1894, p. 18.
“An Old Scottish House.” “It may be the result of political prejudice, but somehow one seldom finds the family histories of… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 13 Jan. 1894, p. 56.
“The Yeddah Mission.” “The ingenious Mr Traill has suggested, in the New Review, that a mission of a scientific rather than a religious nature…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 20 Jan. 1894, p. 78.
“A Reply to Dr Andrew Wilson.” “It would be discourteous not to reply to Dr. Andrew Wilson’s…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 27 Jan. 1894, p. 114.
“Mr. Birrell’s Essays.” “‘Nature’s unco’ Wastefu,’ as the Caledonian said, or wasteful she seems…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 3 Feb. 1894, p. 144.
“Salmon Flies.” “In Blackwood’s magazine, Sir Herbert Maxwell writes about salmon flies in a way which deserves the attention of every …” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 10 Feb. 1894, p. 175.
“Old English Translations.” “‘Keep a thing, its use will come,’ say the wise.…’” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 17 Feb. 1894, p. 206.
“Honours for Letters.” “Turning over the leaves of my favorite paper, the Academy, I find…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 24 Feb. 1894, p. 237.
“The Worst Kind of Tattle.” “To indulge in virtuous indignation is bad for the moral character. We become too like…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 3 Mar. 1894, p. 260.
“An Apology for M. Zola.” “M. Zola’s novels are not much read, I suppose, by persons of letters. He is the…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 10 Mar. 1894, p. 294.
“The Duties of Authors.” “The first duty of an author, as understood by the public, is to be at everybody’s beck and call. He combines, with a dozen…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 17 Mar. 1894, p. 327.
“Covenanters at Home.” “The graves of the Covenanters are the shrines of rural Scotland, and are, even now, not without…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 24 Mar. 1894, p. 363.
“Margaret Wilson.” “To the horror of mankind the Junius controversy has broken out again. The peculiarity of this problem in history is that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 31 Mar. 1894, p. 398.
“The House of the Odysseus.” “The crowning moment of one of greatest poems in the world is , practically, unintelligible….” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 7 Apr. 1894, p. 426.
“The Superiority of Women.” “Many writers have proclaimed Woman the superior being.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 14 Apr. 1894, p. 454.
“The First Edition Mania.” “If there is one man of letters more than another to whom I would publicly offer my heartfelt sympathy, tha man is …” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 21 Apr. 1894, p. 492.
“Lectures.” “In the North American Review, Miss Repplier speaks her mind with frankness, almost with ferocity, about lectures. Why do we go to them, she asks,…”Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 28 Apr. 1894, p. 525.
“An American Pepys.” “To hide their treasures under a bushel is not the common custom of Americans. Rather do they take pains to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 5 May 1894, p. 548.
“Nonsense about Shakspere.” “Are we all dwellers in Stratford-on-Avon? Apparently so, for, according to a writer…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 12 May 1894, p. 596.
“‘A Jacobite Song?’” “Perhaps Mr. Swinburne has no more sincere admirer than the author of this little remonstrance, but perfect sincerity is incompatible with …” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 19 May 1894, p. 616.
“Translations.” “There is somewhat pathetic in a recent affliction of Mr. Gladstone’s. Laudably seeking an innocent distraction, he translated…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 9 June 1894, p. 717.
“A Mysterious Monk.” “If there is a difficult minor puzzle in history it is to discover the identity and the motives of the writer…” Illustrated London News, vol. 104, 16 June 1894, p. 752.
“A Romantic Family.” “‘After the death of George I. the skeleton of Koenigsmark was found under the floor of a dressing-room in the Elector’s Palace.’ So …” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 23 June 1894, p. 791.
“Science and Demonology.” “There are moments, I confess, when it seems to me that we place…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 30 June 1894, p. 822.
“The Intellect of the Dog.” “In a recent American magazine Mr. Shaler discoursed of the intellect of the dog. In his opinion, man has done much to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 7 July 1894, p. 11.
“Songs of Sports.” “In a sportive and tuneful country, such as England used to be, many poets have tried to rhyme of their favourite amusement. Turning over…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 14 July 1894, p. 47.
“‘Booms.’” “These are fine days for young literary gentlemen, as Mr. Grant Allen says, in an article on a recent work. In our time, when…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 21 July 1894, p. 78.
“Precursors of Joan of Arc.” “The authors who do, and the sceptics who do not, believe that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 28 July 1894, p. 108.
“Mr. Carlyle as a Sentimentalist.” “‘We cannot be too sentimental,’ said a young lady once; but about John Knox Mr. Carlyle was quite sentimental enough. He made…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 4 Aug. 1894, p. 143.
“‘Not Modern at all.’” “‘Wits jump,’ according to the proverb, and though, perhaps,…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 11 Aug. 1894, p. 180.
“Dream as a Dramatist.” “Readers of a well-known essay by Mr. Stevenson will remember his account of his dramatic dreams. His characters surprise him by…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 18 Aug. 1894, p. 214.
“The French Milton.” “As America, Australia, and, no doubt, other quarters of the globe have their ‘Australian’ or…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 25 Aug. 1894, p. 239.
“Tom of Ten Thousand.” “In a recent article on ‘A Romantic Family,’ in The Illustrated London News, I touched on the murder of Tom of Ten Thousand, Mr. Thomas Thynne of Longleat. The whole story…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 1 Sep. 1894, p. 274.
“The Strange Case of Philip Stansfield.” “Our ancestors contrived to make life and death wondrously picturesque, and extracted from experience…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 8 Sep. 1894, p. 307.
“Why Not Tax Literature?” “A great financial idea dawns on me. Why not tax literature? Of course I do not include newspapers as literature…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 15 Sep. 1894, p. 351.
“Old Sunday Reading.” “Sunday is no longer kept, in literary matters, with the old strictness. In the childhood of men now middle-aged, books…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 22 Sep. 1894, p. 374.
“M. Zola on Lourdes.” “M. Zola’s treatise on Lourdes is very interesting, and would have…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 29 Sep. 1894, p. 407.
“Blind and Naked Ignorance.” “The Laureate wrote of a Master’s contempt for those…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 6 Oct. 1894, p. 436.
“Authors on Critics.” “By a happy inspiration the Idler has sent Mr. Burgin to ask the author what they think of their critics. When one says…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 13 Oct. 1894, p. 475.
“Rob Roy’s Sons.” “People who have visited the roofless walls of Rob Roy’s cottage, in a secluded glen near Inveraray, see nothing but the remains…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 20 Oct. 1894, p. 509.
“An Old Chair and an Old House.” “‘Who was grandfather?’ he asked, and they told him how he used to be very old and used to be wheeled about in a garden-chair,…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 27 Oct. 1894, p. 534.
“The Genius of Prodgers.” “The Old French Academician who paternally discouraged…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 3 Nov. 1894, p. 571.
“The Science of Novels.” “The merits and demerits of University Extension are a theme…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 10 Nov. 1894, p. 598.
“The Last Ballade.” “A man must indeed ‘love a ballad but even too well’ if he has not had his…’” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 17 Nov. 1894, p. 627.
“Confessions of a Justified Sinner.” “It is very unlucky for an author to write, and write well, and on an excellent subject, some sixty years…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 24 Nov. 12.
“The Defence of Lourdes.” “If nothing else advances, the courtesies of controversy, at least, improve in tone. M. Zola…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 1 Dec. 1894, p. 677.
“Pygmies and Fairies.” “‘God made me, but we were all monkeys once,’ said a philosopher…’” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 8 Dec. 1894, p. 703.
“Novels, National and Local.” “An audacious critic in the Nation (of New York) has been speaking his mind to the novelists…” Illustrated London News, vol. 105, 15 Dec. 1894, p. 750.
“Coincidences.” “In one of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s earlier books, written when he may have been about fifty, he tells a tale…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 22 Dec. 1894, p. 780.
“Solitude or Bad Company?” “I have always felt sure that there was a moral somewhere…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 29 Dec. 1894, p. 811.

1895

“Mr. R. L. Stevenson.” “Our great national loss by the death of Mr. Stevenson is now…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 5 Jan. 1895, p. 15.
“A Literary Quarrel.” “Of all literary quarrels the most far-resounding is that between…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 12 Jan. 1895, p. 52.
“The Puzzle of the Cuckoo.” “Will Mr. Grant Allen or somebody else justify the ways of the cuckoo to men? Nobody can possibly be…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 19 Jan. 1895, p. 79.
“Werwolves.” “After vampires, werwolves are the most disagreeable children superstition. Happily, no educated person…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 26 Jan. 1895, p. 110.
“The Stage and Aristotle.” “Aristotle is practically the earliest dramatic critic. Plato, indeed, touched on theatrical matters, but…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 2 Feb. 1895, p. 139.
“Letter-Writers.” “The conventional reproach about the lack of good letters in modern life is probably not without foundation. The cause is not so much…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 9 Feb. 1895, p. 178.
“Mr. Zangwill Among the Prophets.” “In the January number of the Pall Mall Magazine Mr, Zangwell took my breath away, as the saying…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 16 Feb. 1895, p. 206.
“Historical Novels and Historical Accuracy.” “How far an historical novelist is bound to cleave to historical truth is a question that has settled itself. He is not…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 23 Feb. 1895, p. 235.
“Mr. Stevenson’s Voyage.” “Twice since we heard of Mr. Stevenson’s death I have received letters written by him before Dec. 3…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 2 Mar. 1895, p. 267.
“Mr. Pater’s ‘Greek Studies.’” “I am conscious of not being the right critic of Mr. Pater’s ‘Greek Studies’ (Maemillan), for the critic should be more sympathetic. In…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 9 Mar. 1895, p. 299.
“On a Certain Condescension in Scientific Men.” “Few things are more uninvited by men of letters tham patronising notice from scientific gentlemen. I have…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 16 Mar. 1895, p. 327.
“‘The Butter’s Spread Too Thick.’” “Will the Poets forgive me for a few really not ill-natured remarks? These are not addressed so much to the Poets…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 23 Mar. 1895, p. 355.
“The Wrongs of Authors.” “Authors, when hurt, can and do cry out. ‘Did I cry loud, Wackford, or did I cry low?’ Mr. Squeers asked, in a rhetorical figure. I always like to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 30 Mar. 1895, p. 379.
“A Family Tradition.” “The following tale may be generally familiar, but it is wholly new to myself, and seems like a rare flower blooming fragrant in the dust of old charters. The story tells how…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 4 Apr. 1895, p. 412.
“The Sorrows of Short-Story Writers.” “‘A story,’ said an Irish gentleman, ‘should be short, true, and startling.’ Thanks to the countless new cheap magazines…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 13 Apr. 1895, p. 452.
“Renovated Rubbish.” “Among the many kinds of nonsense which is now commonly written by people who wish to make a noise, none is more absurd than the nonsense about marriage. Only write something sickly or stupid about…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 20 Apr. 1895, p. 478.
“Anglo-Frenchisms.” “Prowling to-day in the street of Cannes I saw an old French print of ‘Queen Elizabeth and Charles, Lord Homard.’ Charles, Lord Homard…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 27 Apr. 1895, p. 510.
“Americanisms in Greek.” “That Americans should take a few tender liberties with our common language is only natural , and, indeed, inevitable. But…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 4 May 1895, p. 542.
“Good Bargains.” “Everyone likes to hear of good bargains. It may be…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 11 May 1895, p. 566.
“The Tragedy of Fotheringay.” “Mrs. Maxwell Scott’s great ancestor refused to write a Life of Mary Stuart, because…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 18 May 1895, p. 619.
“Changelings.” “The late melancholy events in a peasant family of Tipperary have not only pained and grieved all readers, but…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 25 May 1895, p. 651.
“Briticisms.” “Professor Brander Matthews, who occupies the Chair of English Literature in an American University, shares with me a noble desire to purify our common language. For some reason…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 1 June 1895, p. 679.
“The Old Poisoners.” “Not the smallest of the benefits conferred ny modern science on the world has been the least recognized. We are not always grateful to the invention…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 8 June 1895, p. 711.
“Demoniacal Possession in China.” “The late Rev. Dr. Nevius was During forty years a missionary in China. What he heard, rather than…” Illustrated London News, vol. 106, 15 June 1895, p. 742.
“Old Gamesters.” “When a man has lost all his money he will still hanker about the tables. watching the luck of others, and trying to borrow a crown.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 22 June 1895, p. 771.
“Books We Have Stuck In.” “It is a lady who suggests the topic, ‘Books we have stuck in.’ She herself frankly admits that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 29 June 1895, p. 807.
“The Spectre and the Camera.” “‘To you’, said the Spectre, ‘I can speak as one gentleman to another, without fear of finding my remarks in the odious publicity of. print. There is nothing I hate so much…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 6 July 1895, p. 14.
“Commentators.” “‘I met a traveller from a’ modern ‘land’ who assured me that we do not lecture nearly enough on modern English literature. The Germans lecture…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 13 July 1895, p. 47.
“The Ironsides’ Bible.” “Mr Elliott Stock has published a reproduction of ‘The Souldier’s Pocket Bible,’ as used by Cromwell’s men. It is…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 20 July 1895, p. 79.
“Gunpowder Treason.” “Was the Gunpowder Plot ‘a put-up thing’? This is the question practically raised by…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 27 July 1895, p. 110.
“The New Fiction.” “With a great deal of tolerance and sportsmanlike fairness Mr. Zangwill has been trying to discover a soul of good in things evil; yea, even in ” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 3 Aug. 1895, p. 141.
“The Influence of Mr. Jowett.” “The publication of Mr. J. A. Symonds’ ‘Life and Letters’ has led to a good deal of writing about ‘the influence’ of Mr. Jowett, by…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 10 Aug. 1895, p. 175.
“Songs Before Burns.” “As a Burn centenary is inevitably approaching it would be interesting, were it possible, to know…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 17 Aug. 1895, p. 210.
“The Literary Hack.” “The extremes of literary hackdom were occupied by Ned Purdon and Mr. Arthur Pendennis. As to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 24 Aug. 1895, p. 238.
“Children, Old and New.” “In a foreign country, where the language and manners, and even complexions, are all unlike our own, we are often pleased and surprised to find that the dogs and the cats do not differ from our friends of their species in England. In much the same way children, I think, do not differ much in various countries, nor in the course of time. . . . For this reason, I am not inclined to believe much in the ‘New Child,’ the self-conscious infant who ‘shows off’ . . . as described by a lady in Good Words. . . . As to ‘showing off,’ reciting, singing, and the like, that is the fault of silly parents, and is not novel at all”” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 31 Aug. 1895, p. 276.
“Dr. Johnson on Mr. Browning.” “A friend who shares with Mr. Stead the gift of automatic writing, presents me with the following fragment, produced by her pen, but…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 14 Sep. 1895, p. 338.
“Antiquities of the Common People.” “What we call ‘folk-lore’ Henry Bourne, M.A., of the chapel of All Saints, in…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 21 Sep. 1895, p. 367.
“Railway Stories.” “Everyone in his time has had some queer experience in a railway carriage. Beyond travelling from…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 28 Sep. 1895, p. 399.
“Words of Comfort.” “In every life, let us hope, there have been heard some words of comfort. The little word…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 5 Oct. 1895, p. 427.
“The Psychology of Cycling.” “The psychology of cycling sounds rather learned, and, indeed, the thoughtful man has probably long pondered it…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 12 Oct. 1895, p. 462.
“Middle Class Genealogies.” “Sir Walter Besant, in one of his works, protests against the neglect of genealogies among the middle classes. When…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 19 Oct. 1895, p. 496.
“A Point in Persecution.” “Hawthrone used to say that he could write fifty novels out of the State Trials, and one only wishes that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 26 Oct. 1895, p. 519.
“The Quarter Sessions of Birds.” “One of the most notable characteristics of country life in Scotland during late summer and autumn has been the silence of the birds. The omnipresent sparrow…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 2 Nov. 1895, p. 547.
“A New Life of Knox.” “‘The Scottish Reformation was John Knox’ somebody says…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 9 Nov. 1895, p. 579.
“Two Old Friends.” “In the ‘Parnassus Library’ Messrs. Macmillan publish two pretty new editions of old friends, Virgil and the ‘Ilias.’ The object…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 16 Nov. 1895, p. 603.
“Keats’s Letters.” “Mr. Forman has published a complete edition of Keats’s Letters, complete up to this hour, though others may keep dropping in.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 23 Nov. 1895, p. 643.
“The Old Quarterlies.” “The recent death of Mr. Henry Reeve, who at a great age preserved his mental vigour in a surprising degree, naturally awakens…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 30 Nov. 1895, p. 674.
“An Author’s Grievance.” “Authors have many grievances, which they do not lament in silence. The one real sorrow is that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 7 Dec. 1895, p. 707.
“A Way with Fogeys.” “According to the Salutary Law of Vishnu, or Manu, or Buddha there is a place for fogeys in the civilisation of India. Twenty years a man is…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 14 Dec. 1895, p. 738.
“Oxford in Fiction.” “Somebody in Blackwood’s Magazine writes about ‘Oxford in Fiction.’ There are no really good novels…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 21 Dec. 1895, p. 772.
“A Very Old Quarrel.” “Circumstances make it necessary for me to look closely of late into the old literary squabbles of 1817-25, when Blackwood’s Magazine was young. It soon became apparent that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 107, 28 Dec. 1895, p. 800.

1896

“Lady Eastlake.” “Lady Eastlake was an admirable specimen of the not New Woman. Born in 1809, and living till 1893, in full possession…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 4 Jan. 1896, p. 13.
“Old Affairs of Authors.” “Long ago Mr. Carlyle proposed to write for the Edinburgh Review an essay on authors. He justly called them…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 11 Jan. 1896, p. 52.
“Premonitions.” “Prophecy, the gift of foreseeing events beyond the possibility of calculation, is a power of which mankind has hankered after, and attributed to gifted seers. In the new number…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 18 Jan. 1896, p. 82.
“Literary Hyperboreans.” “The Greek believed in the existence of a happy people, the Blameless Hyperboreans, who lived at the back of the North Wind. There the chill blast…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 25 Jan. 1896, p. 111.
“What is a Hack?” “In some literary journal a hack was defined lately as a man who writes politics on either or any side indifferently. A hack might…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 1 Feb. 1896, p. 134.
“Thoughts on Criticism.” “Lord Cockburn begins his Life of Jeffrey by calling him ‘the first of English critics.” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 8 Feb. 1896, p. 171.
“Proverbs.” “If any human speech represents and expresses the collective wisdom of mankind, that speech utters itself in proverbs. Everyone who has made a study of proverbs knows that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 15 Feb. 1896, p. 204.
“Hazlitt.” “It is not probable that there will ever be a good Life of Hazlitt. Materials for it, except in his not uncommon autobiographical passages, hardly exist. About his second marriage…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 22 Feb. 1896, p. 243.
“Vox Clamantis.” “‘Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,’ says the poet, with a self-confidence which I am very far from sharing. ” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 29 Feb. 1896, p. 274.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “Flaubert kept a book wherein he noted down the ignorant absurdities of mankind. These I could…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 7 Mar. 1896, p. 310.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “All the world may not share my infatuation for the Unpublished, my passion for l’inedit. But most people…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 14 Mar. 1896, p. 331.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “The cheap edition of the Life of Mr. Sala is the first I have seen, who come a late student to that very good-humoured book.” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 21 Mar. 1896, p. 363.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “When anybody reviews ‘The Amazing Marriage’ I read with an awful apprehension. For I said. and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 28 Mar. 1896, p. 405.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “When Biblical criticism first came into fashion, two gentlemen had to edit an article on the subject. One was…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 4 Apr. 1896, p. 431.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “From a much more strenuous workshop than this comes the first volume of Messrs. Henley and Hendison’s edition…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 11 Apr. 1896, p. 462.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “‘Q’ raises, in the Speaker, an interesting question as to modern euphemism, preciosity, or affectation in writing. He cites…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 18 Apr. 1896, p. 499.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “In one of the magazines, the New Review, I think, Mr. McCarthy writes about forgotten novels. The iniquity of oblivion…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 25 Apr. 1896, p. 527.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “It is difficult for a mere literary person to arrest the attention of science. My own arguments for the existence of a bogie…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 2 May 1896, p. 559.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “Of all the tattle I prefer the ‘shop’ of the garrulous collector, his tales of rare bargains and romantic discoveries.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 16 May 1896, p. 627.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “The reviewers have long ago said their say on Mr. Locker Lampson’s ‘My Confidence.’ I have a pensive interest in…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 23 May 1896, p. 664.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “I lately remarked on the difficulties caused to judges and juries by the existence of the double. In I forget what…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 30 May 1896, p. 691.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “To the credulous age which believes in physical science I ‘keep a-hollering and a-bellering’ that scientific minds are not ce qu’un vain peuple pense.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 6 June 1896, p. 727.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “If this article gets itself written at all, it will be little short of a miracle. At present, the feast of gladness, woods and fields…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 13 June 1896, p. 750.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “It seems as if poetry could never be quoted correctly. ‘Fresh fields and pastures new’ will outline what Milton really wrote, so…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 20 June 1896, p. 781.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “Some weeks ago I mentioned here the story of ‘Feckless Fanny,’ commemorated by Mrs. Hunter in a poem called ‘The Mad Lady and her Sheep.’ Feckless Fanny suggested the idea…” Illustrated London News, vol. 108, 27 June 1896, p. 811.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “When I wrote here, lately, about ‘The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman,’ I did not know that there existed a copy in manuscript, with coloured illustrations by Thackeray. The manuscript…’” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 4 July 1896, p. 14.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “It is impossible to extricate oneself from the coils of the ballad of ‘Lord Bateman.’ A correspondent informs me that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 11 July 1896, p. 52.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “They are not sportsmen in the office of that excellent serial, the Speaker. In a brief narrative called…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 18 July 1896, p. 78.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “In Mr. William Black’s ‘Brisels’ he introduces an American Professor. He is…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 25 July 1896, p. 111.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “The bruised worm will turn, and even Mr. Gladstone at last has remonstrated with people who send him ‘presentation copies’ of their books. Mr. Gladstone has, like…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 1 Aug. 1896, p. 140.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “Are we not in danger of a kind of literary Calvinism? This horrible idea was suggested to me lately…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 8 Aug. 1896, p. 174.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “Authors ought to respect criticism, of course, but criticism ought to respect itself. When, therefore, a judicious periodical…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 15 Aug. 1896, p. 218.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “The gentle arts of making enemies is now, as a rule, practised unconsciously. Much can be attained by anyone…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 22 Aug. 1896, p. 235.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “An attempt is being made to revive public appreciation of Bryon’s poetry. Two new editions are announced…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 29 Aug. 1896, p. 274.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “I never did think that the Spectator was what you might call a sporting paper. For deep and lucid reflection on…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 5 Sep. 1896, p. 302.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “Most people know the curious refreshing influence of sleep on the mind. The schoolboy goes to bed , unable to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 12 Sep. 1896, p. 348.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “It is a pity to spoil a good story, but Truth will prevail, Not long since I published in this column, from…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 26 Sep. 1896, p. 408.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “That Englishmen are born with tails the French and Scots for long firmly believed. The obvious English answer was…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 10 Oct. 1896, p. 464.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “A writer in Scribner’s Magazines for September assails my strictures on Bryon, recently published here. Indeed, one cannot expect…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 24 Oct. 1896, p. 546.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “‘Rank autumn in a mist of miseries!’ How triste it is…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 7 Nov. 1896, p. 603.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “As a companion, probably, to a recent book in Twelve Bad Men, an ingenious publisher advertises a work on Twelve Bad Women. When Women are bad, no doubt they are very bad, yet it is not easy to guess who…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 21 Nov. 1896, p. 683.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “Mr. Crockett’s new novel, ‘The Grey Men,’ introduces the noted Scotch cannibal, Sawney Beane. Mr. Beane…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 5 Dec. 1896, p. 754.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “In the Illustrated London News for Oct. 11, Mr. James Payn speaks of Mr. Stevenson’s verses, ‘Sing me a Song of the Land that is Gone,’ and quotes letters from Mrs. Stevenson and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 12 Dec. 1896, p. 818.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “Reviewers have a great many sins to answer for. If they…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 19 Dec. 1896, p. 868.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “In discussions of ancient Roman cockneyism and dropping the aspirate, I do not know if this example grom St. Augustine’s Confessions has been noticed. I quote…” Illustrated London News, vol. 109, 26 Dec. 1896, p. 902.
“From a Scottish Workshop.” “That the production of novels may be regarded as a profession, and ‘an eligible opening for a young man,’ is an idea now much in vogue. Parents have even been counselled to bring up…” Illustrated London News, vol. 110, 2 Jan. 1897, p. 30.

1897

“The Romance of a King’s Life.” “French men of letters usually know either nothing at all about England or they know a great deal. M. Jules Lemaitre cannot…” Illustrated London News, vol. 110, 20 Mar. 1897, p. 395.
“The Master of Balliol.” “During the greater part of my my life I was fortunate enough to know the late Master of Balliol. At about the age of fourteen…” Illustrated London News, vol. 110, 12 June 1897, p. 823.

1905

“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “On the decease of Longman’s Magazine, a number of persons wrote publicly and privately, in the kindest terms, regretting the demise of an old friend, and the cessation of the pages of gossip styles ‘At the Sign of the Ship.’ To a poet…” Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 4 Nov. 1905, p. 648.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Edgar Poe, among other ways of conciliating affection, remarked that, ‘as a literary people, we are one vast perambulating humbug.’ This…” Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 11 Nov. 1905, p. 684.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “We do not often meet persons who have heard much about the mysterious Comte de St. Germain of the eighteenth century.” Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 18 Nov. 1905, p. 724.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “‘Picking up things’ is a subject which interests most people, for almost everyone is a collector in his way, if only of putters or postage-stamps; and , as far as that way goes, scans his whole horizon in search of what he may set eyes on cheap.’’ Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 25 Nov. 1905, p. 768.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Among the Misfortunes of Authors, there is a new misery, unforeseen by Isaac D’Israeli. Here is an example …” Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 2 Dec. 1905, p. 810.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Winter is a bookish season, if any such there be in an era of Bridge and motors. Among new books…” Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 9 Dec. 1905, p. 854.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “In the ancient city where my lot is cast, there are placards on the crumbling walls, printed in rubric, which address the citizen thus…” Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 16 Dec. 1905, p. 900.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “We hear a great deal about ‘accuracy’ at present, and shall probably hear more…” Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 23 Dec. 1905, p. 938.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The season of the winter solstice has long been thought appropriate to ghost-story telling. It must have been so…” Illustrated London News, vol. 132, 30 Dec. 1905, p. 984.

1906

“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The planets, it is generally understood, have their regular courses. A Scottish minister said…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 6 Jan. 1906, p. 10.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The last day of the year, whereon I write, reminds one of a verse by a poet who seems to have written only one poem. His name was…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 13 Jan. 1906, p. 54.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Authors are not, perhaps, really more unfortunate than members of other professions, such as stockbrokers, solicitors, dentists, and engineers. Indeed, on the whole…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 20 Jan. 1906, p. 82.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “‘Ni elettori ni eletti’ is, or was not long ago, the motto of well-principled Italian gentlemen, disgusted with the vulgarity of modern politics. They were neither voters nor candidates, and thereby…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 27 Jan. 1906, p. 126.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Different people have different ideas as to what constitutes ‘a curious coincidence.’ Some months ago a newspaper…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 3 Feb. 1906, p. 150.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “All nations naturally hate each other. This is obvious…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 10 Feb. 1906, p. 202.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Not having seen Mr Phillips’s play, ‘Nero’ (for it has not yet been produced on the classic boards of the Town Hall, St. Andrews), and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 17 Feb. 1906, p. 230.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Is popular science really so very popular?” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 24 Feb. 1906, p. 268.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “To understand all about tariffs and protection, and retaliation, and so forth, in general, is difficult. To the ordinary thinker …” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 3 Mar. 1906, p. 310.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There is something mysterious in the law of ‘Fore.’ Links existed before golf; links existed, perhaps, in cretaceous times…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 10 Mar. 1906, p. 354.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “If Oxford and Cambridge could play each other historically, at literature — that is, contend for the prize of poetry —victory would certainly smile on the flag of the light blue.” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 17 Mar. 1906, p. 382.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There are so many novelists, probably, because the writing of novels appears to be ‘a soft job,’ and success much of a lottery, while education is quite unnecessary to the author. THe novel of the year, as far as…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 24 Mar. 1906, p. 420.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “‘Heir to the Crown of Poland.’ The extract from an English local newspaper which heads this column has been sent to me by a friend…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 31 Mar. 1906, p. 456.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “An interesting work might be written on the ‘History of Chestnuts,’ of traditional undying stories that live from age to age…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 7 Apr. 1906, p. 492.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Criticism, say criticism of novels, has an inherent fault: the professional critic is never at the right point of view. Novels are not written for him…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 14 Apr. 1906, p. 528.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Nobody can hope to discourse, with much originality, on men and women of begging-letters, after Dickens. His experience of beggars by letter, was, perhaps, unequalled, and his essay…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 21 Apr. 1906, p. 564.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Moving about the country brings a man acquainted with strange company in the way of literature. Associating with a cheap popular magazine, I picked up the following scrap of information…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 28 Apr. 1906, p. 598.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The modern mythology of mummies is becoming quite a large subject. My attention is drawn to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 5 May 1906, p. 640.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “For an author who certainly has a considerable sale, Shakspere seems to be not much read. One gathers this from an amusing little controversy…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 12 May 1906, p. 680.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Subscribers to missionary societies little know how much some heathen converts give up when they embrace Christianity. I owe that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 19 May 1906, p. 714.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Last year some admirers of the poet Crabbe invited me, unworthy, to take part in a local celebration of that minstrel. I was obliged to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 26 May 1906, p. 754.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “A lady of quality once informed me, on a post-card, that I am commonly thought the most slipshod of living writers, but that the offense…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 2 June 1906, p. 798.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “This is the week in the year when the May fly is due, if a creature so various and unaccountable in its habits can ever be said to be due. In some seasons the fly appears, so to speak…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 9 June 1906, p. 840.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Some people are never contented, and, at this moment, I would not easily blame them. We are told to thank our stars…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 16 June 1906, p. 892.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Want of space prevented me, in the last ‘Sign of St. Paul’s,’ from discussing theories of the sensation, known to most of us…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 23 June 1906, p. 932.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Despite the coldness of the weather last week…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 30 June 1906, p. 972.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Despite the coldness of the weather last week, cricket was very interesting. It may be remembered that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 30 June 1906, p. 972.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Does much good come, I wonder, of our international amenities, dinners, and luncheons? I confess that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 7 July 1906, p. 14.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “For a long time it has been plain that ‘the novel’ has become the favourite, and apparently the most serviceable way…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 14 July 1906, p. 50.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Man evolved language for the purpose of concealing his thoughts, and was so successful that even now, when an author uses language for the purpose of expressing, not hiding, his thoughts, he often fails. I have heard of a science called ‘Sematology’ (I think) which aims at making language…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 21 July 1906, p. 92.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Is the following little anecdote new, or is it a fruit of the celebrated old chestnut tree, ‘mentioned in Domesday Book’? ” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 28 July 1906, p. IV.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Last week I humanely advised the tourist Scotland to consult Murray’s list of dates of local holidays, and to avoid travelling on these days. But you cannot…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 4 Aug. 1906, p. 158.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Who says that modern poetry is scarce, or neglected by the critics? In half a column of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 11 Aug. 1906, p. 210.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “I am convicted of gross literary ignorance, and it is to be feared that the editor of a literary journal, the Critic (New York), is in the same condemnatio. The Critic published…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 18 Aug. 1906, p. 232.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Dr. Johnson freely said that he ‘never wished to hear of the second Punie war again as long as he lived.’ Many persons never wish to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 25 Aug. 1906, p. 262.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There is a great deal of writing about ‘the commercialisation of literature,’ and a sensible article on the subject, by an author’s agent…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 1 Sep. 1906, p. 302.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Are other scribblers vexed by endless appeals for dollars from ‘The Author’s Clipping Bureau,’ Boston, Mass.? The Bereau…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 8 Sep. 1906, p. 340.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “To be out of town is not equivalent, in the case of the ‘literary man,’ to having a holiday. The daily round of reading and writing…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 15 Sep. 1906, p. 366.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The man who invented sixpenny novels deserves, I think, the gratitude of all who are obliged to travel. For one small silver coin…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 22 Sep. 1906, p. 414.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Some weeks ago this column contained an account of ‘snamming,’ and of an eminent Red Indian ‘snammer,’ Captain Paul. I had…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 29 Sep. 1906, p. 452.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Was there ever a successful treasure hunt?” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 6 Oct. 1906, p. 480.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “During some days of utter solitude, in a place where never a book was seen, I have battened on sixpenny novels. After all…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 13 Oct. 1906, p. 518.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Probably many of us, in early youth, have amused ourselves by trying to construct ciphers. THose who read…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 20 Oct. 1906, p. 558.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “On writing books and collecting scraps of knowledge about Dickens there is no end. He would probably smile at…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 3 Nov. 1906, p. 630.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “When any person heaves half a brick at the poetical fame of Tennyson, I am always tempted to look round for a chunk of old red sandstone…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 10 Nov. 1906, p. 668.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There is something agreeably mysterious in the newly discovered portrait of Charlotte Bronte published in the Cornhill Magazine.” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 17 Nov. 1906, p. 710.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The phrase ‘Early Victorian’ has certainly become one of good-humoured contempt, nor is the contempt wholly undeserved. Our mothers…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 24 Nov. 1906, p. 748.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “If ever a subject was too much written about, golf is that theme, Too much of the mental powers of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 1 Dec. 1906, p. 796.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Before Thackeray was a successful novelist, he wrote that he liked History…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 8 Dec. 1906, p. 848.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The appetite for monuments and ‘Memorials’ appears to grow by that it feeds on. A monument…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 15 Dec. 1906, p. 892.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “If the human mind could repose, without inquiry, on any conclusion, that conclusion would be the superiority of German education. We hear…” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 22 Dec. 1906, p. 930.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “‘There is a sane spot in every man’s mind,’ and so far I have been sane enough not to believe in ‘sendings.’” Illustrated London News, vol. 134, 29 Dec. 1906, p. 970.

1907

“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “A young lady recently consulted me, as a specialist, on the problem of the existence of bad fairies. As she had only seen four summers…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 5 Jan. 1907, p. 10.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There has been no mart of gossip held at the Sigh of St. Paul’s for some time, owing to an accident of a not unusual nature. The writer…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 26 Jan. 1907, p. 130.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “It is a feather, I hope, in the cap of a critic to have discovered a perfectly new ‘Byron Mystery,’ a respectable mystery, too, which…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 2 Feb. 1907, p. 172.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There is usually a reason why for human conduct, though it may be so dim a reason that the person who acts cannot account for…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 9 Feb. 1907, p. 210.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “What strange, uncanny things are family traditions, and how easily do people accept legends about…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 16 Feb. 1907, p. 254.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The world may be as weary of the murder of the Babes in the Tower as of the private character…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 23 Feb. 1907, p. 306.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “In Protestant countries casuistry is not a popular study. Our rule is…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 2 Mar. 1907, p. 330.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Authors, I think, have as few grievances as any class of men…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 9 Mar. 1907, p. 370.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The Higher Criticism can leave no dead author alone. Sometimes…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 16 Mar. 1907, p. 416.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Last week I offered some remarks on stories of the inexplicably rapid conveyance of news. The stories…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 23 Mar. 1907, p. 452.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The grant old art of the melodramatic novel of our modern day is like matrimony, in so far it ought not to be lightly undertaken. The novelist…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 30 Mar. 1907, p. 490.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The landlord of a Highland inn was once asked by inquisitive Sassenach what he did on Sundays. Did he go to church? No, he did not go to church (which was untrue). Then what did he do? ‘I sit and I drink, and I smoke, and I swear,’ said the landlord.” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 7 Apr. 1907, p. 500.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Whatever the merits of the Society of Authors; of its Committee, its Council, and its less distinguished members may be…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 13 Apr. 1907, p. 554.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There is nothing new under the sun. Some months…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 20 Apr. 1907, p. 594.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There is a tiny literary puzzle to which I come too late, for probably it was discussed nine years ago. If so…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 27 Apr. 1907, p. 638.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Not long ago I ventured to commend the novelist who advertised for ‘a grammarian.’ This novelist…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 4 May 1907, p. 680.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Has the old riddle of the Fijian fire-walk been mastered at last?…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 11 May 1907, p. 726.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Not often do we meet a book so delightfully satisfactory as Mr. Raleigh’s volume on Shakspere …” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 18 May 1907, p. 754.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There is in France a curious affair concerning Joan of Arc, which illustrates the difference between French ways and our ways.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 25 May 1907, p. 798.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “To Publishers, Editors, and the Police. — The manuscript of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 1 June 1907, p. 830.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Albert Trott is not a common combination of Christian name and surname. There is but one Trott (Thomas)…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 8 June 1907, p. 874.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “‘Why, Sir, what else can you call it?’ said the professional bowler…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 15 June 1907, p. 912.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Everybody is pleased, I presume, about the honorary degree which the University of Oxford is bestowing on Mr. Clemens.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 22 June 1907, p. 950.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The best of men differ on delicate points of conduct. This I know…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 6 July 1907, p. 12.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The problem of National Defense is becoming very serious. We cannot even keep to ourselves…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 13 July 1907, p. 50.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “A great gulf divides that which is ‘lawful’ from that which is ‘expedient,’ in the phrase of the Apostle. There is a wider gulf…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 20 July 1907, p. 101.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Here are two anecdotes, on good second-hand evidence. Which does the reader think the more probable…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 27 July 1907, p. 126.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “In this year of grace few regions have had any excuse for pluming themselves on their weather. It is a curious fact…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 3 Aug. 1907, p. 174.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Some old heads of Magdalen College, Oxford, was asked, according to the story, to give a young man a piece of advice which could never lose its value. He said…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 10 Aug. 1907, p. 194.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Some years ago a strange fact was discovered, and was circulated gaily in articles on popular science. It was reported that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 17 Aug. 1907, p. 244.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There ought to be a kind of close time for hunan beings…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 24 Aug. 1907, p. 266.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “If there be one passion more regardless of common sense and of human nature than another, it is the passion for finding secret meanings in books, which are, and were meant to be.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 31 Aug. 1907, p. 308.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Mr. Hazlitt’s ‘English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases,’ in its new edition, has not reached me. But…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 7 Sep. 1907, p. 344.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Between the makers of history and the writers of history it is hard to say whose is the greater mess.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 14 Sep. 1907, p. 380.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “The American Pearson’s Magazine contains a curious article on “Ghost-Hunters,’ by Mr. James Creelman, who seems to hurt…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 21 Sep. 1907, p. 410.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “To enjoy a Highland gathering, by such daylight as the climate affords, requires a great deal of youth, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 28 Sep. 1907, p. 452.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “People speak of ideas being ‘in the air,’ like microbes, and as far as new inventions are concerned, they do seem to float about. Some months ago…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 5 Oct. 1907, p. 482.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “Everybody knows that the same stories, Joe Millers, smoking-room stories, myths, and fairytales are found in all parts of the world and in all ages. One very strange story…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 12 Oct. 1907, p. 518.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “To continue the interrupted tale of the Barbadoes coffin mystery. On the morning of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 19 Oct. 1907, p. 558.
“At the Sign of Paul’s. Biography on the Right Lines.” “Never, perhaps, in the history of bookmaking has biography attracted so many writers as it does at the present time, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 26 Oct. 1907, p. 596.
“At the Sign of Paul’s. Andrew Lang on Anthologists.” “The Author is an amusing periodical and contains a pleasant account of recent friction between a lady, who is a poet as well as a prosaiste, and the editor of a daily paper. As I greatly esteem…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 2 Nov. 1907, p. 645.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang.” “Poor old respectability, poor, forsaken ‘good form’! I am often tempted to say a kind word…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 9 Nov. 1907, p. 674.
“At the Sign of Paul’s. Andrew Lang on Literary Coincidences.” “Everyone is familiar with the coincidences by which, when your attention is drawn to a new subject, others references to it occur in unexpected places. I had just…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 16 Nov. 1907, p.712.
“At the Sign of Paul’s. Andrew Lang on Vagaries of Language & a Cavalier’s Song.” “Burns wished that some power would…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 23 Nov. 1907, p.756.
“At the Sign of Paul’s. Andrew Lang on Objectionable Fiction.” “In the Bookman for October an anonymous moralist, animated, apparently, by the spirit of the late Mr. Robert Buchanan…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 30 Nov. 1907, p.786.
“At the Sign of Paul’s. Andrew Lang on a Literary Puzzle.” “Can anyone suggest a solution of the following literary and historical puzzle?…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 7 Dec. 1907, p. 828.
“At the Sign of Paul’s. Andrew Lang on Amusing Inaccuracies.” “Here is a pretty item from a bookseller’s catalogue, showing the erudition with which these treatises are sometimes compiled…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 14 Dec. 1907, p. 874.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Booksellers Catalogues and an Apparition.” “The reading of booksellers’ catalogues, especiallyMr. Quaritch’s, is like looking into the windows of the diamond merchants. ‘What a lot of things that I can do without!’ says the stern philosopher…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 21 Dec. 1907, p. 910.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Christmas Observances.” “Christmas again! It is not so easy as the irresponsible, indolent reader may think to say something new and true about Christmas. Had my first love…” Illustrated London News, vol. 135, 28 Dec. 1907, p. 942.

1908

“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Fairies.” “This is the time of year when the minds of little girls are exercised about the question of the existence of fairies. I say…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 4 Jan. 1908, p. 16.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Gezer Excavations.” “Last week I was prevented, by limits of space, from telling how…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 11 Jan. 1908, p. 52.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Famous Scottish Trials.” “The United States have now innumerable novelists of their own. To alter…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 18 Jan. 1908, p. 94.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Corruption of Speech.” “Our language, literary and colloquial, is ‘going to the demnition bowwows.’ Lady…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 25 Jan. 1908, p. 134.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Popular Fallacies.’” “What mind does not entertain hosts of those mental microbes…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 1 Feb. 1908, p. 160.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Taking Liberties with History.” “What are the permissible liberties which a historical novelist may take with history? The question is raised…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 8 Feb. 1908, p. 196.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Inhospitable Ghosts.” “The Japanese, like the Highlanders, have very sensible ideas. From the Academy…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 15 Feb. 1908, p. 246.
“At the Sign of Paul’s. Andrew Lang on Sham Burials.” “It may be a vulgar taste, but I must confess to a keen interest in the Druce Case, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 22 Feb. 1908, p. 272.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Historical Novelist’s Limits of License.” “Mr. Willcock, author of ‘A Scots Earl of Covenanting Times,’ writes…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 29 Feb. 1908, p. 314.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang Discovers the Origin of Cricket.” “Pythagoras is said to have sacrificed a large number of oxen when he had found out…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 7 Mar. 1908, p. 340.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on M. Anatole France’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc.’” “People who take an interest in the history of Jeanne d’Arc have long been expecting a promised Life of her, by…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 14 Mar. 1908, p. 376.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Dickens Problem.” “Nothing but idle curiosity makes some persons keep fingering that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 21 Mar. 1908, p. 422.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Ignorance of Heraldry.” “If there is one thing more than another about which most people know nothing…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 28 Mar. 1908, p. 462.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Mediaeval Foreign Correspondent.” “Accustomed as we are to the scientific accuracy of the statements in our newspaper, especially…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 4 Apr. 1908, p. 490.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang Breaks a lance for Tennyson.” “When anybody, flown with youth as with wine, throws a stone at the poetry of Tennyson, I always try to pick it up and throw it back. The last stone…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 11 Apr. 1908, p. 532.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang Defines a Novel.” “It is late in the day for comment on a recent trial before Mr. Justice Lawrance, a trial involving matters…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 18 Apr. 1908, p. 576.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Slashing Criticism.” “Criticism is not what it used to be in the good old days of George Warrington…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 25 Apr. 1908, p. 608.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Swindles.” “No long, Mr. James Payn told me that, in his joyous youth, when he was editing Chambers’s Journal, he invented an ingenious swindle. I think…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 2 May 1908, p. 648.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Miracles.” “‘Miracles do not occur,’ says a sceptical clergyman in a novel; and some orthodox Protestants think…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 9 May 1908, p. 670.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Accuracy.” “‘A little more accuracy, Mr. Lang!’ These words were the last which a great scholar…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 16 May 1908, p. 704.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Libel.” “Mr. John Murray’s score, 7500, Not Out, against the team of Mr. Moberly Bell, Mr. Hooper, Mr. Ross, and the rest of… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 23 May 1908, p. 744.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘The Good Things in Support of the Wrong Side.’” “The young literary man in ‘The Vicar of Wakefield,’ looking round for a job, perceived that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 30 May 1908, p. 788.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Strange and Ghostly Happenings.” “Queer things happen in the Highlands. In a village… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 6 June 1908, p. 834.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Wiles of the Publisher.” “Great is the mystery of publishing. Mr. Eveleigh Nash, in the… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 13 June 1908, p. 860.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Romance He Will not Write.” “What enviable opportunities have we children of the pen! I have just received… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 20 June 1908, p. 896.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Wordsworth’s Inspiration and its Converse.” “William Wordsworth was certainly one of the most remarkable men in our country. Had he been anything less…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 27 June 1908, p. 936.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Manuscripts for the State.” “By trampling on the rights of property, a paternal Government might do something… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 4 July 1908, p. 14.
[“The Origin of John Bull and the Gallic Cock.” “When did… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 11 July 1908, p. 52. The British Newspaper Archive currently lacks pages 51–52 in their scans of this issue.]
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Vague and Wondrous Things Revealed to Diligent Readers of the Newspapers.” “People who read the newspapers steadily, and read them whole… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 18 July 1908, p. 86.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Miraculous Cures, Ancient and Modern.” “A new book about Lourdes, its recent history, and its miracles, suggests an idea for another work.… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 25 July 1908, p. 128.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Perils of Translation.” “The publication of the complete works of… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 1 Aug. 1908, p. 162.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang Is Pleasantly Diverse.” “The editor of the ‘Naturalist’ portion of the Field, like the father of… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 8 Aug. 1908, p. 190.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Criminal Adventure.” “Every gentle spirit and adventurous, born too late into a world too old… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 15 Aug. 1908, p. 232.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Lynching, Homer, and Waterloo.” “There is not much to be said for the institution of lynching… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 22 Aug. 1908, p. 262.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Allereiwissenschaft.” “Last week I ventured to regret and condemn the conduct of the occupants… ” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 29 Aug. 1908, p. 300.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Joshua, Miracles, and Cricket.” “We live and learn! I had always supposed that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 5 Sep. 1908, p. 340.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Arts Gentle and Ungentle.” “The month of August, especially when rainless, is probably…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 12 Sep. 1908, p. 366.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Gambits in Chess and Fiction.” “There are only a certain number of chess openings, I believe…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 19 Sep. 1908, p. 408.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Sainte-Beuve’s Reviews of Scott’s ‘Life of Napoleon.’” “Napoleon and Sir Walter Scott are…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 26 Sep. 1908, p. 436.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Churton Collins, and Lockhart as the Frankest of Biographers.’” “The death of Mr. John Churton Collins, in circumstances so tragic, must have come…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 3 Oct. 1908, p. 470.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Newly Discovered Ballad.” “In the late Professor Child’s monumental edition of English and Scottish Popular Ballads are…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 10 Oct. 1908, p. 508.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Topics of the Moment: and a ‘Witch.’” “I do not know in what term the publishers and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 17 Oct. 1908, p. 532.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Sunday School Taste and Other Matters.” “How we do advance in matters of literary taste! Someone has sent me…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 24 Oct. 1908, p. 568.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Novelists, Their Work, and Other Work.” “In one of the magazines, the Pall Mall Magazine, I think…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 31 Oct. 1908, p. 602.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Wood Cuts.” “A bookseller’s catalogue, that of Messrs. Pickering and Chatto…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 7 Nov. 1908, p. 644.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Coincidences and a Controversy.” “How odd are the chance interconnections and coincidences of life! Did the reader ever hear of a book…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 14 Nov. 1908, p. 682.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Credulous Incredulity.” “There is a sort of credulous incredulity which one likes to see exposed. Common sense…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 21 Nov. 1908, p. 721.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Novels of the Future.” “Are novels of the Future popular, I wonder? They are popular with authors…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 28 Nov. 1908, p. 754.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Essays by Churton Collins.” “I have been reading some of the very interesting collected essays of the late Mr. Churton Collins, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 5 Dec. 1908, p. 803.
“Politico- Religious Journalism, Bagpipes, and Another Matter.” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 12 Dec. 1908, p. 830. (The British Newspaper Archive does not currently have scans of pages 829 and 830.)
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Memories and Anglo-Saxon Poetry.” “Mr. Comyns Carr, in his book of reminiscences, professes…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 19 Dec. 1908, p. 870.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Chief of Clan MacCumnor’s Secret, and Other Matters.” “Every good man must remember the splendid scenes at the Beau Paon…” Illustrated London News, vol. 136, 26 Dec. 1908, p. 910.

1909

“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Certain Matters.” “There abides a soul of innocence in our deeply fallen nature. For example, someone writes to ask me…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 2 Jan. 1909, p. 14.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Mr. Noyes on William Morris.” “Mr. William Morris is now enrolled in ‘The English Men of Letters,’ a series of literary…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 9 Jan. 1909, p. 60.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Ghosts.’” “How deceptive is the popular version of any occurrence! Someone told me that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 16 Jan. 1909, p. 94.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Examination Papers.” “There is nothing like an examination paper for taking what Edgar Poe calls…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 23 Jan. 1909, p. 122.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Criticism and Genius.” “‘What price criticism?’ is a question which the refined literary recluse…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 30 Jan. 1909, p. 160.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Limericks, and Other Matters.” “Several correspondents have favoured me with their opinions as to the origin of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 6 Feb. 1909, p. 204.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Evading Pursuers.” “By the time of the printing of these notes, the escapades of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 13 Feb. 1909, p. 226.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Edgar Allen Poe.” “Edgar Poe, who was born a hundred years ago, is therefore much in minds of bookish men…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 20 Feb. 1909, p. 278.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Bull Roarer.” “How thin is the veneer which covers the white man and distinguishes us from savages! Here is…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 27 Feb. 1909, p. 302.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Miraculous Hailstones: and on Some Empty Niches.” “Everyone whom duty or chance has impelled to read…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 6 Mar. 1909, p. 354.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Japanese Folk-Lore.” “Original in everything else, the Japanese ought to be original in their popular tales…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 13 Mar. 1909, p. 384.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Sayings of M. Salomon Reinach.” “Monsieur Salomon Reinach, the head of the Museum at Saint Germain…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 20 Mar. 1909, p. 424.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Various Matters.” “‘The Services have gone to the demnition bow-wows,’ as Mr. Mantalini would have said had he been a…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 27 Mar. 1909, p. 452.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Various Matters.” “Perhaps some kind reader may assist me from his knowledge of rural customs, for I…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 3 Apr. 1909, p. 484.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Fortunes of Books.” “Curious are the fortunes of books! About 1415 a Norman scribe wrote a school-book…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 10 Apr. 1909, p. 536.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Edward Fitzgerald.” “Another centenary has passed. After Poe came a person so very unlike Poe as…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 17 Apr. 1909, p. 562.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on English Literature, and the Tiki.” “Dipping by chance to-day into Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘Defence of Poetry’ (written in 1580), I was…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 24 Apr. 1909, p. 594.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Pearl Bleeding.” “That mysterious person, Saint-Germain the deathless, who puzzled the Court of Europe.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 8 May 1909, p. 662.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Art.” “‘Slowly but surely the aesthetic ideals of more advanced schools are making themselves felt at the Royal Academy,’ says one of the art-critics…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 15 May 1909, p. 696.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Ways and Means of Authors.” “The shadow of a speech which I must make at the dinner…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 22 May 1909, p. 736.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Novelist and Peculiarities of Speech.” “Few things, to the common novelist, seem more easy than to represent foreigners acting and talking in character. We have…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 29 May 1909, p. 774.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Letters of Junius.” “In the old story of Lord Beaconsfield he was asked to give a piece of advice to two young brothers…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 5 June 1909, p. 816.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Pens, Scottish Golfers, and Other Things.” “Can nothing be done to improve the breed of steel pens? I ask because…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 12 June 1909, p. 861.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Rock-Paintings from Lower Aragon.” “Pope Leo X. remarked that his was a good time to live in, so many interesting relics of classical life were…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 19 June 1909, p. 898.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Authors, Journalism, and Other Matters.” “If being in receipt of perpetual lectures, censure, and good advice were beneficial to taste and morals…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 26 June 1909, p. 932.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Criticism of Poetry.” “What a delicate thing is the criticism of poetry! Most of us, in presence of a work of poetry or…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 3 July 1909, p. 10.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Honours, and Other Matters.” “A new List of Birthday Honours has appeared, and one observes with pleasure that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 10 July 1909, p. 50.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Clothes.” “An ingenious American artist, Mr. Abbott, has been giving entertainment in which he…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 17 July 1909, p. 82.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Troubles and Temperaments.” “‘There is no sorrow like my sorrow,’ someone says; but…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 24 July 1909, p. 136.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Marathons and Bovarysme.” “‘Why do they call it a Marathon?’ somebody asked me…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 31 July 1909, p. 166.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Age of the ‘New Woman,’ and Other Matters.” “There is nothing new under the sun, and ‘The New Woman,’ in all her bewitching aspects, is as old as…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 7 Aug. 1909, p. 206.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Reviews and Aeroplanes.” “It has often occurred to me that a literary weekly in which authors should review their own books would be…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 14 Aug. 1909, p. 230.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Bad Taste.” “In the Strand Magazine is an interesting account of a deserving enterprise…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 21 Aug. 1909, p. 260.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Philistines.” “How much more vivid the middle parts of Old Testament history have become during the…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 28 Aug. 1909, p. 302.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Science in Sport.” “I know it, though I do not like it: we must have science, or organised common sense, in our amusements…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 4 Sep. 1909, p. 328.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Taxation of Pleasures.” “The taxable value of imaginary and imaginative pleasures is a topic which…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 11 Sep. 1909, p. 372.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Naming of Streets.” “The Entente Cordiale is, I hope, all that friends of France and of our country can desire.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 18 Sep. 1909, p. 398.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Polar Exploration.” “The news of the discovery of the North Pole would have been joyous to me in the far-off days…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 25 Sep. 1909, p. 428.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Education.” “We hear, on the Turf, of a street that has been leading in a race ‘coming back’ to the others.…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 2 Oct. 1909, p. 477.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Scottish Weather and the Border Ballads.” “The most maligned region in these isles is the West Coast of Scotland, the shores of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 9 Oct. 1909, p. 504.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on M. Jusserand on Shakespeare.” “In a letter of Thackeray’s, published by his daughter…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 16 Oct. 1909, p. 538.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Sir Walter Scott’s Friends.’” “Even people who are so unfortunate as to be unable to read Scott, may not be…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 23 Oct. 1909, p. 574.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Fairies.” “‘The existence of fairies,’ said to me a young lady of ten summers, ‘has never been disproved, and in my opinion they deserve the attention of science.’…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 30 Oct. 1909, p. 618.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Case of Spiritualism.” “The minute and delicate study of mental operations which Mr. Henry James displays…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 6 Nov. 1909, p. 644.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on James Wolfe, and French of Kelso.” “There are not a few interesting new books in the usual October flood…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 13 Nov. 1909, p. 678.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on M. Anatole France’s ‘Vie de Jeanne d’ Arc.’” “When the first edition of the ‘Vie de Jeanne d’Arc,’ by Monsieur Anatole France, came into…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 20 Nov. 1909, p. 722.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Story of Palamon and Arcite.” “The story of the two famous love-heroes, Palamon and Arcite, shown in our drawing by Mr. G. C. Wilmshurst, was borrowed by…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 27 Nov. 1909, p. 762.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Story of Paul and Virginia.” “The immortal lovers of our design this week are the justly celebrated Paul and Virginia. Did you ever…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 4 Dec. 1909, p. 800.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Paolo and Francesca.” “The lovers of our Illustrations this week are the famous Paolo and Francesca. More than six centuries have passed…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 11 Dec. 1909, p. 844.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Librarians as Censors.” “Though the novelist, if not pampered, receives quite his full share of praise and pudding, I am not certain but that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 18 Dec. 1909, p. 882.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Thomas the Rhymer and the Fairy Queen.” “The story of those strange lovers, Thomas the Rhymer and the Fairy Queen, has its roots very deep in…” Illustrated London News, vol. 137, 25 Dec. 1909, p. 936.

1910

“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Reactions Against Great Poets.” “When people remembered that 1909 is the centenary of Tennyson they wrote about him…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 1 Jan. 1910, p. 16.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Lancelot and Guinevere.” “Lancelot and Guinevere, among the famous lovers of old times, answer to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 8 Jan. 1910, p. 58.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Tennyson.” “Tennyson’s centenary was the occasion of plentiful belittling of the poet. Two modest apologies…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 15 Jan. 1910, p. 84.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Roman Forgery of an Alleged Pelasgian Oracle.” “The learned, at least antiquarians, appear to me, in all ages, to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 22 Jan. 1910, p. 132.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Clerk Saunders and Fair Margaret.” “The lovers in our picture this week are Clerk Saunders and fair Margaret. Though the story…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 29 Jan. 1910, p. 160.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on A Ghost Story Told by Izaak Walton.” “People who love Izaak Walton know that he was an honest man, but…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 5 Feb. 1910, p. 208.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Story of Enid and Geraint.” “Our lovers, this week, are Enid and Geraint, whose story is known to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 12 Feb. 1910, p. 226.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Ancient Italian Oscilla.” “Will it be boresome if I recur to a curious subject on which I wrote lately…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 19 Feb. 1910, p. 280.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Story of Aucassin and Nicolete.” “Our lovers this week are a pretty pair, Aucassin and Nicolete. The prettiest…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 26 Feb. 1910, p. 304.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Thackeray and Other Matters.” “Reading Mr. Melville’s ‘William Makepeace Thackeray,’ and admiring…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 5 Mar. 1910, p. 342.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Maeterlinck’s Story of Pelleas and Melisande.” “We discover Melisande by a fountain in a forest. To her enter Golaud…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 12 Mar. 1910, p. 384.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Famous Byron Mystery.” “Into many historical mysteries I have cast an inquisitive eye, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 19 Mar. 1910, p. 420.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Story of Tristram and Iseult.” “Concerning Sir Tristram, the good knight, and the fair Iseult, our lovers for this week, wit ye well that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 26 Mar. 1910, p. 458.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the ‘Lionardo’ Wax Bust.” “Students of this Journal know more than other people about the famous head of wax…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 2 Apr. 1910, p. 498.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Shakespeare, Byron, and Fly Fishing.” “How surprised Shakespeare would have been had he known that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 9 Apr. 1910, p. 544.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Challenge to Spiritualists.” “One of the worst enemies of the pursuit of knowledge is ‘popular science.’…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 16 Apr. 1910, p. 576.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Wax Bust, Velasquez, and Papuan Fairy Tales.” “Is nothing genuine? The Bode wax head (￡8000) is still perplexing amateurs. Herr Pinkus…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 23 Apr. 1910, p. 606.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Matinee Hats and Strange Disappearances.” “If our manners were those of our fathers, the fair sex would be…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 30 Apr. 1910, p. 652.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Mark Twain and Psychical Phenomena.” “Long, long ago, when Mark Twain arrived at his jubilee year, I…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 7 May 1910, p. 684.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “There is a mysterious anecdote in the ‘Reminiscences of Charlotte Lady Wake,’ who was born in 1800…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 21 May 1910, p. 806.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Academy and Other Matters.” “The pictures at Burlington House seem to me to constitute rather …” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 28 May 1910, p. 824.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Plumbers and ‘The Fairchild Family.’” “Lord Byron, in his domestic misfortunes, told the world and his wife that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 4 June 1910, p. 872.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Drawing the Line, Quakerism, and a Scottish Murder Trial.” “There are two books which, I fear, I cannot hope to write in this…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 11 June 1910, p. 910.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Novels, Novelists, and Scottish Kirks.” “Even with members of the House of Lords indelicate and injudicious liberties may be taken…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 18 June 1910, p. 956.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Publication of a Murderer’s Confessions.” “Not very often am I moved to utter what may be called a moral protest; I must try to make it…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 25 June 1910, p. 1024.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Bombards, Crests, and Folklore.” “Everyone knows that when a subject, however much out of the way, chances to …” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 2 July 1910, p. 12.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Scott Letters and Reminiscences of Mark Twain.” “A good man’s secret good deeds are comfortable things to contemplate, like a fire…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 9 July 1910, p. 68.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Treasure Island’ as an American School Book.” “How venerable a man feels, a well-stricken in years, when he sees a book by his junior published as…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 16 July 1910, p. 106.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Eton and Harrow Match.” “‘The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton,’ the Duke of Wellington is reported to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 23 July 1910, p. 132.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Source of ‘A Woman in White.’” “Has anyone, under the age of fifty, read Wilkie Collins’s novel…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 30 July 1910, p. 170.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Academies and Juries.” “A distinguished historian, who reads the faits divers in the newspapers, informed me…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 6 Aug. 1910, p. 212.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on School Cricket, Googlies, The Battle of Hastings, and Short Stories.” “School cricket has advanced greatly in Scotland since I held the dignified post…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 13 Aug. 1910, p. 254.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Ancient Greek Sport, Modern Fiction, and a French Actor.” “The ancient Greeks were even more enthusiastic about athletic sports than ourselves, and I pine to read…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 20 Aug. 1910, p. 274.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Baconian Theory as Expounded by Sir Edwin Durning Lawrence.” “A strange book indeed, even among the books of the people who believe Bacon to have been the author…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 27 Aug. 1910, p. 324.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Mr. Podmore, and Aliens in America.” “The melancholy news of the singular death of Mr. F. Podmore has just reached me…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 3 Sep. 1910, p. 352.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The ‘Poltergeist’ and Booms in Fiction.” “A great chance of solving a very old puzzle has probably been lost. Domestic history is full of the doings of what science calls…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 10 Sep. 1910, p. 388.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Shakespeare Monument and Unconscious Repetition.” “Recently in this column I ventured to make some remarks on the monument to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 17 Sep. 1910, p. 424.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Dreams.” “Almost everyone is interested in dreams, because almost everyone has the faculty of dreaming. If only…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 24 Sep. 1910, p. 464.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on A New Study of Jeanne d’Arc.” “Yet another new book about Jeanne d’Arc has appeared…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 1 Oct. 1910, p. 498.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on A Mysterious Murder Case.” “People who like legal mysteries and the arts of the literary detective should read…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 8 Oct. 1910, p. 534.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Sweet O’ the Year and Dry-Fly Fishing.” “‘The sweet o’ the year’ has long ago died like a flower, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 15 Oct. 1910, p. 578.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Coining of Scientific Terms and a Shakespeare Monument.” “It is much to be wished that, when coining scientific terms, scientific characters would mind…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 22 Oct. 1910, p. 616.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on New Novels, an Evolutionist, and a Publisher.” “The unwelcome short days bring the new novels, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 29 Oct. 1910, p. 654.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The ‘Insidercompleatuar’ and Arsene Lupin.” “The life of an encyclopædia, at least…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 5 Nov. 1910, p. 702.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Scottish Song-Writers and Bloomsbury Poets.” “‘I cannot sing the old songs,’ nor, indeed, any songs; and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 12 Nov. 1910, p. 748.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Mysteries in History and Fiction, and an Old Carol.” “Nothing ought to do us more good than a heavy blow…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 19 Nov. 1910, p. 788.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Francis I. of England, and Autograph Hunters.” “I owe to the courtesy of Mrs. Gallup the Third Part of her decipherment of the secret history…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 26 Nov. 1910, p. 836.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Some Browning Anecdotes and the ‘Enc. Brit.’” “‘All the stories have been told,’ but they constantly take…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 3 Dec. 1910, p. 874.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Reviewers Past and Present.” “There has never been a time, perhaps, when authors did not regard the critics of their age as little better than…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 10 Dec. 1910, p. 914.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, Bernard Shaw, and Frank Harris.” “I had not been aware that Mr. Shaw had produced a drama on the Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 17 Dec. 1910, p. 964.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang Tells a Christmas Ghost-Story and Tales of Second Sight.” “At this time of year a Christmas ghost may be in place, not an old ‘chestnut,’ but a ghost…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 24 Dec. 1910, p. 1010.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Cagliostro and the Diamond Necklace Affair.” “Who was Cagliostro? I have always held with Carlyle…” Illustrated London News, vol. 138, 31 Dec. 1910, p. 1044.

1911

“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Scott and Golf, Ghosts, and Literary Examinations.” “The game of golf has long been very fashionable: in some ways it is even a nuisance. Pleasant, quiet, little places…”Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 7 Jan. 1911, p. 16.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Scottish Poetry and Scottish Dress.” “How extraordinary is the disproportion between the demand for poetry and the supply! I have just…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 14 Jan. 1911, p. 64.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Pirated Editions, Autograph-Hunters, and Greek Picture-Writing.” “The Catalogue of the first part of the Library and Autograph Collection of my old friend…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 21 Jan. 1911, p. 88.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Magazine Puzzles and Cretan and Cyprian Picture-Writing.” “To judge by the number of puzzles offered, with prizes for successful competitors, in the magazines, very many…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 28 Jan. 1911, p. 124.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Dialect of Burns.” “Some years ago a man who had fought in the Crimea, and whose grandfather…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 4 Feb. 1911, p. 168.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Lamb, Marguerite Audoux, and ‘an Adventure.’” “The educational efforts of the Cornhill Magazine in the examination papers on literature…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 11 Feb. 1911, p. 196.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a New Memoir of Harrison Ainsworth.” “‘The English are bad biographers,’ says the Abbe Dimnet and I so far…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 18 Feb. 1911, p. 230.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Decipherment of Ancient Picture-Writing.” “Two or three weeks ago I got some pleasant excitement out of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 25 Feb. 1911, p. 266.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood.’” “As we shall be celebrating the centenary of Dickens, the many wits who write…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 4 Mar. 1911, p. 302.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Browning’s Greek, Tennyson’s Music, and Dickens’s Plots.” “The recent biographers of Mr. Robert Browning — the late Mr. Griffin and his continuator…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 11 Mar. 1911, p. 342.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Amazons and the Hittites.” “I think it was Orosius, a very early mediæval historian, translated by King Alfred — if…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 18 Mar. 1911, p. 394.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Degree of Doctor and a Thesis on Leigh Hunt.” “In our universities the degree of Doctor has not hitherto been an object of desire. Men took the ordinary degree…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 25 Mar. 1911, p. 424.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Calculations by Dogs and Cures by Kings.” “St. Augustine, in his Confessions, tells us that he was much puzzled by…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 1 Apr. 1911, p. 474.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Mr. Francis Gribble’s ‘Rachel.’” “Someone asked me, years ago, to write a book on “The Love Affairs of Mary Stuart.’ I replied, very briefly…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 8 Apr. 1911, p. 504.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Famous Scottish Murder Trial.” “As a native of Scotland, and one who passes more of his time north of Tweed…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 15 Apr. 1911, p. 544.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Queen Elizabeth’s Rings, and the Dickens Stamp.” “Everybody knows, or if not, everybody has once known…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 22 Apr. 1911, p. 574.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Copyright Bill and the Clay Disk of Phaestus.” “I DO not profess to understand the provisions of the Copyright Bill…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 29 Apr. 1911, p. 610.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Tale of a Fox, and the Famous Annesley Case.” “We all differ much as to our natural attitude of mind towards narratives of extraordinary personal experiences, told to us…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 6 May 1911, p. 654.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Himself, Mr. Chesterton, Dickens, and the Universities v. All England in Literature.” “The late Mr. Henley, in a published criticism, once laid before the world the question…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 13 May 1911, p. 690.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Ethics of Book Acquisition and the ‘Letters of Edward John Trelawny.’” “ Dr. JESSOPP, the author of ‘The Great Pillage’ and many other good things, including…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 20 May 1911, p. 736.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Historical Monuments, Vagaries of Collectors, and a Premonition Story.” “People interpested in the past of countries which have left no written, or at least no legible, history, have to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 27 May 1911, p. 784.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Essex Rings and High Prices at Christie’s.” “How often is one reminded of the capitalist from Glasgow who, as he contemplated…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 3 June 1911, p. 838.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Identity of Shakespeare.” “Mr. G. G. Greenwood, if not perhaps ‘a bonny fechter,’ is a most resolute and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 10 June 1911, p. 894.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Cricket Betting System and a Tale of a Sealskin Coat.” “A SHORT, fair, and easy road to wealth I will now point out to the deserving reader. Perhaps his friends…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 17 June 1911, p. 946.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” It is amusing to catch an anecdote in the bud, as it were, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 24 June 1911, p. 1026.
“At the Sign of Paul’s.” “If we suppose that our bores and tourists, English or American, are more impudent, intrusive, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 1 July 1911, p. 50.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Convincing’ Cricket and the Ethics of Fly-Fishing.” “Sport is developing in very elaborate ways, and…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 8 July 1911, p. 82.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Excavations, at Carchemish and Elsewhere, and Homeric Burials.” “If there is a being whose lot I sincerely envy, it is that of the excavator, of the man who…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 15 July 1911, p. 120.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘The Mormons Unmasked.’” “A DISTINGUISHED friend of mine once found himself alone at a small gathering of earnest ladies. He is a man full of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 22 July 1911, p. 166.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Taboo and the Perils of the Soul.’” “Few books can be more amusing to a contemplative mind than Mr. Frazer’s …” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 29 July 1911, p. 202.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Fame of Actors and the Obscurity of Playwrights.” “I wonder if the authors or our plays particularly detest actors and even actresses? If they do, it must be…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 5 Aug. 1911, p. 238.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Certain Critics.” “‘Go and see what baby is doing and tell him he mustn’t,’ says the little girl…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 12 Aug. 1911, p. 272.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Persecution’ and Dreams.” “There are many rivers Dee in Great Britain, and like the…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 19 Aug. 1911, p. 304.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Famous Scottish Criminal Trial.” “Not long ago I wrote a short account elsewhere of one of the most extraordinary criminal trials in Scottish legal history. But…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 26 Aug. 1911, p. 350.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Quiet People, Trysted with Tumults,’ Especially Dr. Henry More.” “These lines are penned by a scribe who does not know when, if…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 2 Sep. 1911, p. 378.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Napoleon: The Last Phase’ and Scott’s charge against Gourgaud.” “For the great Napoleon I entertain so deep an admiration, considering his unmatched genius, the many traits…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 16 Sep. 1911, p. 442.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Mysterious Case of Telepathy or Hallucination.” “A curious anecdote has just been told to me, at first hand, and perhaps…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 23 Sep. 1911, p. 474.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Lost Illusion and the topography of ‘Catriona.’” “An illusion is lost to me. I have…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 30 Sep. 1911, p. 522.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Colonel Haggard’s ‘The France of Joan of Arc.” “Many a book is written, many a lecture is preached, on the art and method of writing history. The subject…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 7 Oct. 1911, p. 552.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Possible Reason for the Stealing the Mona Lisa.” “Why was the Mona Lisa picture stolen from the Louvre?…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 14 Oct. 1911, p. 590.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Navvy’s Poems and a Novel by Leonard Merrick.” “As the hero in Rabelais could measure the advance of his age by his increasing horror…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 21 Oct. 1911, p. 634.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Unwritten Works, and the Value of Short Stories.” “An essayist in search of a subject, and endowed with the gift of parody, might find a theme in the works…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 28 Oct. 1911, p. 674.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Rider Haggard’s ‘The Mahatma and the Hare.’” “Do you think that field sports are cruel and wicked? This good old subject of debate is the topic…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 4 Nov. 1911, p. 718.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Jews, Mahatmas, Yogis, Ghosts, and Ellen Terry’s Reminiscences.” “A curious tale reaches me, and is new to men which illustrates the animus…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 11 Nov. 1911, p. 762.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘The Mystery of Mary Stuart’ and Planchette Revelations.” “What would a really good man do if he had written a book which was not without readers…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 18 Nov. 1911, p. 822.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the History of Pins.” “‘Needles and pins, Needles and pins, When a man marries his sorrow begins,’ says the old song. The reader’s diversion begins…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 25 Nov. 1911, p. 878.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Churton Collins’ ‘Ephemera Critica’ and the Criticism of Books in General.” “For certain reasons I have been pursuing a book…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 2 Dec. 1911, p. 924.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Possible Bookstall Find and Some Ballads from the Danish.” “In old days, Holywell Street, now erased, used to be the hunting-ground of the poor book-lover. I have spent there…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 9 Dec. 1911, p. 996.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang at Last Discovers a New Novel That is Worth Reading.” “In the short, dark, dank winter days and long winter nights…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 16 Dec. 1911, p. 1040.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Slow Growth of American Literature.” “No doubt there are abundant answers to the question…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 23 Dec. 1911, p. 1086.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang Catches Out the Historiographer of Scotland.” “Thackeray liked working at History, ‘because,’ said he, ‘it is so gentlemanly.’…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 30 Dec. 1911, p. 1118.

1912

“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Strange Cases of Appearance and Disappearance.” “The naturalist, if he has read ‘THe Hunting of the Snark.’ knows that…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 6 Jan. 1912, p. 28.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Doubles and Evidence of Identity.” “My friend the regretted Mr. James Payn, the novelist, had a…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 13 Jan. 1912, p. 58.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Some New Year Honours, ‘Who’s Who,’ and ‘Three Generations.’” “‘Oh, brave we!’ cried Dr. Johnson, when he heard that his friend…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 20 Jan. 1912, p. 86.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Story of the Ex-Crown Princess of Saxony, and Spectral Cats.” “What a mournful book is ‘My Own Story,’ by Louisa of Tuscany…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 27 Jan. 1912, p. 134.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Savage Genealogy and a Craggy Problem in Arithmetic.” “Outside of mathematics, metaphysics, and Free Trade, there are very difficult problems…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 3 Feb. 1912, p. 170.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Spanish Treasure Sunk with an Armada Galleon in Tobermory Bay.” “Last week I exposed to public view my own arithmetical incompetence to wrestle with…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 10 Feb. 1912, p. 202.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Homeric Burial and ‘Antiquarian Old-Womanries.’” “Perhaps the reader has not Sir Walter Scott’s taste for ‘antiquarian old-womanries’ as a kind…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 17 Feb. 1912, p. 252.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Proposed Revival of the Clan System.” “People send me curious little newspapers. One has a coloured…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 24 Feb. 1912, p. 282.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Dreams and Coincidences.” “The question of strange coincidences, as of two golf-balls meeting in mid-air, is always interesting. In a book…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 2 Mar. 1912, p. 332.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Copyright and Reprints of First Editions.” “After a certain term of years, determined by the Legislature in its wisdom, a book…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 9 Mar. 1912, p. 360.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Norwegian Vardogr and Similar Phenomena in Scotland.” “Anyone who casts his eyes on the table of contents of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 16 Mar. 1912, p. 396.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Origins of Religion.” “How amazingly conservative in some religious matters is human nature…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 23 Mar. 1912, p. 432.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Nature in Greek Art’ and ‘Themis.’” “The reader who takes up a book bearing on back and front the title ‘Nature in Greek Art,’ may expect it to…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 30 Mar. 1912, p. 486.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on A Puzzling Case of Laughter in Greek Ritual.” “Some Fresh…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 6 Apr. 1912, p. 506. (The British Newspaper Archive currently lacks scans of pages 505 and 506.)
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Distress of Nations,’ and a Scottish Archbishop’s Accounts.” “‘Distress of nations with perplexity’! Such is the condition of our country…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 13 Apr. 1912, p. 542.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on More Coincidences and Dreams-Warnings.” “Some notes…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 20 Apr. 1912, p. 588. The British Newspaper Archive currently lacks scans of pages 585 to 598.)
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on The Baconian Theory and a New Expounder Thereof.” “The quarrel as to whether the plays of William Shakespeare, the poems, too, were written…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 27 Apr. 1912, p. 626.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Nature and Origin of Laughter.” “‘To think is to be full of sorrow,’ says Keats, with a great deal of truth, if…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 4 May 1912, p. 680.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Famous Poisoning Case of the Fifties.” “We all, when we are moved by some strange criminal case, interest ourselves in the question…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 11 May 1912, p. 724.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on His Own Handwriting, and Shakespeare’s-or Bacon’s.” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 18 May 1912, p. 772. (The British Newspaper Archive currently lacks scans of pages 770 to 772.)
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Kelts and Collectors, Fakes, Finds, and ‘Bacon’s Plays.’” “Good talk and good reading are the talk of experts and the books about the good and bad luck of collectors…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 25 May 1912, p. 804.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Picture Prices and Mediaeval University Life.” “My mind misgives me with a cruel boding that in the last of these notes I spoke of…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 1 June 1912, p. 840.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Fishing Diary of a Hundred Years Ago.” “Every generation of anglers probably hears from its predecessor that fishing is much worse than it used to be. This wail I heard…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 8 June 1912, p. 882.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on a Waterloo Problem and Other Military Anecdotes.” “One of the most puzzling little problems conceivable is set to the curious…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 15 June 1912, p. 942.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the History and Mystery of Freemasonry.” “Is there in…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 22 June 1912, p. 978. (The June 22, 1912 issue of Illustrated London News is not currently available in the British Newspaper Archive.)
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on ‘Napoleon’s Tower’ at Waterloo and Unknown Treasures in Libraries.” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 29 June 1912, p. 1012. (The June 29, 1912 issue of Illustrated London News is not currently available in the British Newspaper Archive
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Borgias, ‘An Almost Mythical Set of Monsters.’” “It is not much that the general public knows about the Borgias, and I confess…” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 6 July 1912, p. 20.
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on the Baconian Theory and a History of Freemasonry.” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 13 July 1912, p. 60. (The British Newspaper Archive currently lacks scans of pages 59 and 60.)
“At the Sign of Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Weddings in the Cricket Season and Ancient Greek Dress.” “It is time for the Church to interfere! The wanton selfishness of persons about to be united in marriage has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. . . . A man has to hurry down from Lord’s to lend his presence (which throws a gloom over the whole proceedings) to the ceremonial. He may miss seeing the best things in the game. . . .” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 20 July 1912, p. 110. [This article appeared on the date of Lang’s death.]
“At the Sign of Paul’s: The Late Andrew Lang on His Handwriting, Feminine Fashions, and Cricket.” “If I do not know that I write a bad hand, it is not for lack of information copiously bestowed on me since my earliest years. . . . A man does not know how badly he writes till he employs a typist unfamiliar with his hand. I never thought that when I wrote about the invasion of Greece by the Dorians (say, in 1000 B.C.), “the Dorians” would appear in type-script as ‘the Tudors.’ I do not know much about the Tudors before Henry VII; but that they invaded Greece about 1000 B.C. proves them to be a most ancient family. . . . To the new, unfamiliar typist, when I write the word ‘coast,’ it appears now as ‘court,’ and now as ‘concert.’ The result is pure bosh, but that is no objection to the typewriting mind, which gaily introduces the term ‘Embrites,’ as if that represented an entity familiar to Science. . . . I abandon all pretensions to be able to write what intelligent persons can read. But the odd thing is that they take ‘Embrites’ and ‘disponcyon,’ and ‘fods,’ and many other mysterious terms, to be probably all right, and full of meaning to the specialist” Illustrated London News, vol. 139, 27 July 1912, p. 148.

G. K. Chesterton wrote the obituary for Andrew Lang in the Illustrated London News in the 27 July 1912 edition of his weekly “Our Notebook” (130). The obituary highlights Chesterton’s interests and priorities as much as Lang’s. It is, however, of interest, and I will quote much of it below:

“The sad death of Mr. Andrew Lang leaves a gap in many other things besides this paper, in which we have so long enjoyed his causeries, “At the Sign of St. Paul’s.” Indeed, it leaves a larger gap than will perhaps be immediately appreciated. Ours is an epoch of solemn and insane trifling: such atmospheres generally underrate the cheerful and well-balanced trifler—especially when he isn’t really a trifler. Andrew Lang suffered from three great disadvantages in the disputes of to-day: he was universal, he was amusing, and he was lucid. For the first point, the universality, it certainly confused the minds of his critics and gave them an impression of being played with. That a man should write about Homer and blue crockery, about cricket and Joan of Arc, about spirit-rapping and the Stuarts, about folk-lore and about fishing, this was distracting to anyone anxious to define his achievements as one ‘places’ an ordinary authority on Greek or golf; especially as he did not touch these things as we all do, as mere topics of conversation, but always at least with some little accumulation of special information or training. Such men were understood in the Elizabethan age. There is now not enough concern about the universe as a whole to permit people to see the connection. It would be useless, I suppose, to tell the modern critics that a man cannot really be interested in Homer without being a little interested in Chinese teapots. It would be paradoxical to say that every man who really thinks about the Stuarts must sometimes thing about Spiritualism. You cannot really like cricket without liking something in the clean striving of the young; and you cannot like that without liking Joan of Arc. Folk-lore and fishing are really very near each other, both in the deeper mysteries of Nature and the superficial developments of lying. For a man really living, the hardest task of life is not to be interested in everything in it. Nor is the judgment really impaired by such errant investigations; not, at lease, so much as it is by the blinking concentrations of specialists. . . .

“The second qualification (or disqualification)—that is, being amusing—connects itself with the third, which is lucidity. . . . Browning, great as he really was, owes something to the reluctance of his readers to admit that they have taken so much trouble for nothing. Carlyle, great as he really is, owes something to his smoke as well as his flame. In comparison with such burning obscurities, the light Greek candour of such critics as Lang lends itself to the charge of mere levity. But the charge is quite false. Andrew Lang, like Carlyle was a Scotchman. Like Carlyle, he was a controversial, an obstinate, and often an aggravating Scotchman. Like Carlyle, he had strong convictions; so strong that it was difficult not to call them prejudices. But, like Carlyle, he applied all his central and important convictions to central and important subjects; the questions on which his controversies turned were in almost all cases questions of enormous modern importance. They were concerned with real European instincts and traditions which were really in danger in his day. And if he seemed to deal with them humorously, that was because of all those instincts, humour is in the greatest danger of all.

“There were at least three points on which he was consistent and controversial; and they were very important points. First, to take the thing nearest to his type and temper, he represented a fact very important and not sufficiently noticed—the revival of the romance of Scotland. In substance this meant the denial that Scotland consisted of grocers going to the kirk; and the readiness to admit, in preference, that it consisted of rebels going to the gallows, or warlocks going to the devil. In form it generally meant, from Walter Scott to Stevenson, some revival of the Jacobite legend. But Scott was Jacobite only in a sentimental style; when he sang ‘Will Ye No’ Come Back Again?’ it was always (as they say in the grammars) expecting the answer, ‘No.’ Stevenson sympathized with the Highlanders, but also with the Covenanters. He was like one of those fierce Cameronian Puritans who helped the Popish Highlanders out of sheer hatred of the compromise and tolerance of the Whigs. But Andrew Lang carried his Jacobitism beyond mere emotions of regret and reaction. He carried it into concrete history and expounded all the three centuries after the Reformation so as to maintain that the party of the kirk had been a curse to Scotland, and the party of the Stuarts comparatively quite a blessing. He had no difficulty in proving that most of the Reformers of the Scotch, as of the English, Reformation were either too dull or a very great deal too sharp—that has long been admitted by historians of all religious sympathies. What he insisted on successfully was not that the best Scotchmen were against Calvinism, but that the most Scotch Scotchmen were against it. Scotch Calvinism was really English Calvinism, which among the fickle English passed like a fashion, but which among the fanatical Scots remained like a disease. The old Calvinist creed is now only taught at Thrums; but it was drawn up at Westminster.

“The two other things Lang attacked, and attacked rightly, were the German craze for tearing up Homer and such great unities into texts and passages; and the distant and frigid study of savage beliefs. In the first case he found what many other man has found—that in dealing with the modern Northern professor he was only dealing with a boastful barbarian. In the second case he really kept real agnosticism alive. His open and accessible temper in dealing with tales of gods or spirits was all the more valuable because he never himself seems to have reached any final belief. If he could not believe in gods, he would at least believe in men: and this concession revolutionized anthropology” (130).

Compare to Lang’s “At the Sign of the Ship” columns.
Compare to Lang’s Morning Post columns.

Works Cited

Brake, Laurel and Marysa Demoor. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Gent: Academia Press, 2009.

Langstaff, B. Meredith. “Andrew Lang Articles: [A Bibliography Compiled by B. Meredith Langstaff.” [New York: B. Meredith Langstaff, 1956.] Available in the University of St Andrews Special Collections.

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