Nineties Periodicals

138 considered literature secondary in his life. The article concerns the personality and aims of the two men. Flaubert is represented as the intellectual, JAS as the human ideal.] REVIEW Nineties Periodicals J. R. Tye (comp). Periodicals of the Nineties. A Checklist of Literary Periodicals Published in the British Isles at Longer~than Fortnightly Intervals. 1890-1899 (Oxford» Oxford Bibliographical Society, Occasional Publication No. 9·« Bodleian Library, 1974). £1.00. The Oxford Bibliographical Society has provided an invaluable service to students of English literature and Late Victorian British history by producing J. R. Tye*s checklist of British literary periodicals published during the last decade (January, I89O through December, I899) of the nineteenth century. As Mr. Tye states in the very useful Preface, the "main criteria" for listing periodicals in the Checklist were (1) "a serious interest in literature per se. if only occasional" and (2) "the presence of original writing or some value or literary significance." On the basis of this criteria, he has excluded "Periodicals devoted to the exclusive interests of professors, trades, societies and sects . . . [antf . . . cheaper magazines and weekly publications ..." (p.ν ). The major sources for compiling the titles of the literary periodicals were the British Museum's General Catalogue of Printed Books (Vols 184-86), Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, the invaluable (and half-forgotten) Reyiew of Reviews' Index to the Periodical Literature of the World (1890-99). Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directory, the Publishers' Circular, and the Newsagents' Chronicle. The "range of periodicals . . . extends from the sober orthodoxy of the Dublin Review to the "dangerous and smiling chances' of the Chameleon . . . and . . . the Dilettantism of the Elf" (p. ν ). The Checklist is admirably organized and presented in four parts 1 (I) an analysis of the periodicals» (II) the publishers of the periodicals» (III) the printers of the periodicals, and (IV) the editors of the periodicals. Part I provides an entry for each periodical which includes the place of publication, date, volume and number, frequency, illustrations, average number of pages, price, publishers, printers, and editors. Nor is this ell. Part I also presents (1) statistics on the number of copies printed or circulated and (2) the location of the periodical examined. However , Mr. Tye quite correctly cautions that "Circulation ... is an ambiguous term, and in so far as advertising rates in popular magazines were linked to circulation, figures given by publishers 139 themselves . . . [must be] . . . regarded with . . . scepticism . . . > " Hence, the circulation statistics cited in the Checklist generally relate "to the number of copies sold ..." (p.vi). Parts II through IV, which list the publishers^ printers, and editors of the periodicals, are very important "extensions of the analyses in Part I" and designed to make the Checklist easy to use. Thus, Part II lists not only the names of the publishers, but their addresses and the dates they published the periodicals. Part III provides the same information on printers, while Part IV presents the names of the editors and the chronology of their tenure. Indeed, the entire Checklist is designed to illustrate "both the wide range of the publishing and printing industries engaged in the production of periodicals, and the special interests of particular firms or individuals" (p. vi). This is a job well done. Perhaps Mr. Tye and the Society will undertake the publication of a similar checklist for the Edwardieh Era (1900-1914). Georgia State University J. 0» Baylen With an assistance grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arte and Humanities, a fifteen-year cumulative index to ELT is in preparation for tentative publication in June or July 1975. ...