James Greenwood, the "Amateur Casual," a brother of Frederick Greenwood, has written a number of books of adventure of the most stirring kind, and was attached to the London Morning Star, a penny morning paper, which advocated the cause of the North during the Civil War, and local sketches every alternate day were furnished by him to its columns, for which he received sixteen guineas a week.
Mr. John Morley, whom I have to thank for much courtesy, was editor of the Star during my sojourn in London. He is now editor of the Fortnightly Review, with which he was formerly connected. The Star suspended publication about six months ago. I believe John Bright held a stockholding interest in the Star previous to its suspension, and had, on some occasions, directed its editorial opinions.
THE MAGAZINES.
Mr. Trollope has an eminently literary look, and wears huge large shaggy whiskers, and a pair of spectacles. His pictures of Irish middle class society and English clerical characters, are the best and truest ever drawn by an British novelist, his Irish characters being infinitely superior to those of Charles Lever, whose heroes swagger and strut in a most atrocious manner. Anthony Trollope has a brother, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, who is also a literary man of considerable note, and is five years the junior of Anthony. Adolphus Trollope resides chiefly in Florence, and has written several works of fiction connected with the very romantic history of that city. The younger Trollope has been twice married. His first wife was an authoress, named Miss Garrow, who died in 1865, and eight months after her decease he was again married to a Miss Ternan, who is now living. That was what an unprejudiced mind might call quick work for a novelist. Anthony Trollope is the editor, and also, I believe, the proprietor of St. Paul's Magazine, which is sold for one shilling a number.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE—NOVELIST.
The circulation of the numerous London magazines and periodicals is only to be computed by millions. Of course the cheap magazines have the largest circulation, and the cheapest are not by any means the worst edited. The Temple Bar magazine, which was established by George Augustus Sala, a well known correspondent of the Morning Telegraph, sells for a shilling, and has among its contributors Mrs. Edwards, Florence Maryatt, Miss Harriet Martineau, who is also a contributor to the Daily News, H. Sutherland Edwards, John Holingshead, who was formerly the dramatic critic of the Daily News, and is now manager of a London Theatre. The Brittania Magazine is well edited and has original stories and sketches, and sells for sixpence. Bow Bells Magazine is a good local periodical, selling for eightpence, and Belgravia, edited by Miss Braddon, sells for one shilling, as does the St. James, which is well known for its clever Parliamentary sketches. Cyrus Redding, the famous octogenarian writer on wine culture, was for many years a constant contributor to Colburn's Monthly, in which many of William Harrison Ainsworth's sensation serial stories have appeared. Louisa Stuart Costello and her brother Dudley Costello, and Mrs. Ward, for many years contributed to the pages of Colburn's Monthly. Blackwood's Magazine is too well known to need any enumeration of its famous writers. Blackwood's sells at two-and-sixpence the number.
McMillan's Magazine is issued at one shilling a number by the publishing house of McMillan & Co., Bedford street, Covent Garden, having 78 double column pages of matter. Among its contributors are Frederick W.H. Myers, Edward Nolan, S. Greg, Thomas A. Lindsay, Dr. Boyce, Edward A. Freeman, Charles Kingsley, Jean Ingelow, Menella Bute Smedley, Mrs. Brotherton, F. Napier Broome, Thomas Hughes, Godfrey Turner, T.W. Robinson, and F.W. Newman. Cornhill is published by Smith, Elder & Co. All the Year Round is edited by Chas. Dickens, Jr., who is rated very high as a sketch writer, and is also well known as a rowing and yachting man. The London Society Magazine is published at 217 Piccadilly, and the most aristocratic of all the London magazines, being beautifully illustrated, and having excellent social, club, and fashionable sketches. The London Society is sold for a shilling, and has a number of lady artists who make drawings for its pages. Watson, W. Brunton, Lionel Henley, Adelaide Claxton, H. Tuck, A. Thompson, and F. Walker, are among the best known artists on this magazine. Walter Thornbury, author of "Haunted London," Lawrence Oliphant, Edmund Yates, and Lascelles Wraxall, are contributors to the London Society. The "Graphic," the finest illustrated weekly ever published in London, is edited by Arthur Lockyer, who has succeeded its former editor—H. Sutherland Edwards. The circulation of the different magazines is computed as follows:
Cornhill, 36,000; McMillan, 28,000; Blackwood, 39,000; London Society, 24,000; Frazer, 17,000; Colburn's Monthly, 7,500; Temple Bar, 19,000; St. Paul's, 16,000; Gentleman's Magazine, 25,000; Britannia Magazine, 26,000; St. James', 15,000, and Belgravia, 16,000.