Articles and Poems from The Books of Today and The Books of Tomorrow (UK)
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Problems for Breakfast - February, 1904
Songs on the Situation (verse) - February, 1904
Songs on the Situation (verse) - March, 1904
More Problems for Breakfast - April, 1904
Songs on the Situation (verse) - April, 1904
A New Industry (verse) - October, 1904
Tell Me No More (verse) - November, 1904
Training for the Play - November, 1904
New-Year Resolutions - January, 1905
Public-School Food - February, 1905
The Czar's Complaint (verse) - February, 1905
Our Ruthless Authors - March, 1905
The Premier Speaks (verse) - March, 1905
The Ballad of Show Sunday (verse) - April, 1905
Too Much Hamlet (verse) - May, 1905
Revised Reputations - July, 1905
Our Advertisement Columns - August, 1905
The Ballade of August (verse) - August, 1905
The Holiday-Maker’s Dictionary - September, 1905
Candour in Advertisements - October, 1905
New-Year Resolutions - January, 1906
The Phalanx (verse) - January, 1906
All Over (verse) - February, 1906
Personal Remarks About the Prominent - February, 1906
Mems for Members - March, 1906
Thoughts on a Recent Wooing (verse) - March, 1906
The Drama at a Glance (verse) - April, 1906
The New Revolution - April, 1906
A Royal Academy Study (verse) - May, 1906
Peeps into Futurity: The British Drama - May, 1906
The Critic on the Hearth - June, 1906
The Premier to the Suffragettes (verse) - June, 1906
Peeps into Futurity: The New Rules of War - August, 1906
To a German Waiter (verse) - August, 1906
The Green-Eyed Monster - October, 1906
The Millennium (verse) - October, 1906
The Philanthropists - November, 1906
Farewell to 1906 (verse) - January, 1907
More Mind-Readers - January, 1907
New Year Resolutions - January, 1907
Eminent Artistes - February, 1907
The Audience at the Court Theatre (verse) - February, 1907
Man and ‘Super-man’ - March, 1907
Mr Beerbohm Tree (verse) - March, 1907
Suffragette Songs (verse) - April, 1907
The Colonial Premiers (verse) - May, 1907
All about the Aerial Derby (verse) - June, 1907
How the Attack Was Received (verse) - July, 1907
Our Slack Youth (verse) - August, 1907
Silly Season Correspondence - September, 1907
The Ruling Passion (verse) - September, 1907
Diabolo Day by Day - October, 1907
Limelight Limericks (verse) - October, 1907
Society Gossip - November, 1907
The Abolition of the Censor (verse) - November, 1907
Chat about Claimants (verse) - January, 1908
New Year Resolutions - January, 1908
Journalistic Jottings - February, 1908
Women Workers (verse) - February, 1908
Our Literary Men (verse) - August, 1908
The Books of Today and Tomorrow, UK
Arthur L. Humphreys (b. Wellington, Somerset 1854) was founder and editor of Books of To-day and Tomorrow, which he conducted 1894-1924 and to which PGW contributed 1904-08. It was referred to as “a form of publication seems to be steadily growing in favour with publishers, who probably find it a useful medium for conveying book-chat and talk anent their own publications.”
He wrote in BOTAT under the nom de plume ‘Arthur Pemdenys,’ and was was also an author and well-known humorist. He is credited with the phrase: “If you want to become popular with men, become a widow.”
In 1895 The Literary World said of the current issue: “Mr. Arthur Pendenys is racy and discursive on the subject of recent books and authors, and his ‘open letters’ are very amusing. The February supplement is entitled ‘Library Wall-Flowers,’ and gives a symposium on neglected books from all the leading and accessible literary authorities of the day.”
He was a vanity press book publisher as well, and published Churchill’s sixth book, “Mr. Broderick’s Army” in 1903. He also published Wilde and Chesterton. He died March 21, 1946. - (from John Dawson)
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