Articles from St. James’s Gazette (UK)

 

We are grateful to Arthur Robinson for tracking down these items. Annotations are indicated by the symbol ✎ below.

 

✎ Some Reasons and a Sequel (story) — August 8, 1902

Rural Hooligans — October 2, 1902

Football in France — March 20, 1903

 

These items have been newly revised against page images of the newspaper in December 2015.

 

St. James’s Gazette, UK

Founded in 1880 by Mr. H. Hucks Gibbs (afterwards Lord Aldenham), for Mr. Frederick Greenwood to edit when he had left the Pall Mall, the St. James’s Gazette represented the more intellectual and literary side of Tory journalism in opposition to the new Liberalism of Mr. Greenwood's former organ; it was in fact meant to carry on the idea of the original Pall Mall as Mr. Greenwood had conceived it, and was (like it) more of a daily review than a chronicle of news.

In 1903 the St James’s was sold to Mr. C. Arthur Pearson, who in 1905, having bought the morning Standard, amalgamated the St. James’s with the Evening Standard. The Evening Standard had been founded in 1827, and when it was amalgamated with the St. James’s Gazette in 1905, the two titles covered a new paper, in a new form, as the penny Evening Standard and St. James’s Gazette.

Wodehouse contributed three items to St. James’s Gazette, all of which are reproduced here, and an article “On Lyric Writing” to the amalgamated paper in 1906.

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