Madame Eulalie’s Rare PlumsArticles and Poems from The Books of To-day and the Books of To-morrow (UK)
We are indebted to the late Terry Mordue for his painstaking work in converting these articles and poems into HTML, formatting them, and adding many ✎ annotations (in general, the numbered footnotes are Terry’s, where not otherwise credited). Be sure to visit his webpages relating to PGW, now hosted on this site. Additional ✎ notes have been added [2016], including artwork for the “Academy Notes” where available, with additional proofreading by Neil Midkiff, Ian Michaud, and Karen Shotting.
✎ 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
—Updated April 2016 with illustrations of most of the paintings
How to Live on Nothing a Day — October 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
—Updated April 2016 with illustrations of most of the paintings
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
Songs of the Moment (verse) — October 1905
Wodehouse contributed two reviews to the November 1905 issue, according to his account book, but the issue contains 25 unsigned reviews; as far as we are aware, no attempt has been made to determine which two were his.
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
✎ Ubique (verse) — November 1906
Farewell to 1906 (verse) — January 1907
✎ More Mind-Readers — January 1907
New Year Resolutions — January 1907
Eminent Artistes — February 1907
✎ London Studies No. 1: The Audience at the Court Theatre (verse) — February 1907
✎ Man and ‘Super-man’ — March 1907
✎ London Studies No. 2: 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 To-day and the Books of To-morrow, UK
Called “about the most lively English bookseller’s catalogue now issued,” The Books of To-day and the Books of To-morrow was published by Messrs. Hatchards, an old established bookseller’s firm in Piccadilly.
Arthur L. Humphreys (b. Wellington, Somerset 1865) was founder and editor of Books of To-day and To-morrow, which he conducted 1894–1924 and to which PGW contributed 1904–08. Mr. E. V. Lucas, the compiler of the “Anthology of Child’s Verse,” was understood to assist him. It was referred to as “a form of publication which 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.”
Humphreys wrote in BOTAT under the nom de plume ‘Arthur Pendenys,’ 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)
Wodehouse’s contributions to the magazine were unsigned, but through February 1908 are confirmed by his entries in his account book Money Received for Literary Work. They consist of topical humorous paragraphs and verse, consistent in theme and style with his contemporary journalism in other periodicals. We are working on adding ✎ annotations to place this topical material in the context of the celebrities and news issues of the day. In some cases, a frequently-mentioned name may not have a specific footnote on every page where it appears; using the Search page is a good way to check whether we have notes pertaining to that name on another item on this site.
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