Number 27. March, 1893.

Contents of this Issue

• A Game of Chess, from the French
• Illustrated Interviews: XXI. Mr. and Mrs. Kendal
• "Author! Author!" by E. W. Hornung
• Zig-Zags at the Zoo: IX. Zig-Zag Conkavian, by Arthur Morrison and J. A. Shepherd
• Shafts from an Eastern Quiver: IX. Maw-Sayah: The Keeper of the Great Burman Nat, by Charles J. Mansford
• From Behind the Speaker's Chair: III., viewed by Henry W. Lucy.
• Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives:
  • Lord Battersea
  • W. Q. Orchardson
  • Lady Halle
  • Sir Charles Halle
  • Dr. Hermann Adler, Chief Rabbi
  • Sir Archibald Alison
  • Madame Jane Hading
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: XVI. The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk, by A. Conan Doyle
• Beauties
• Hands: II., by Beckles Willson
• Rosita, from the French of Pitre Chevalier
• The Queer Side of Things:
  • The Name
  • A Turnip Resembling a Human Hand
  • A Room Papered with Stamps
  • Drinking Vessels of All Times
  • A Crocodile Story

About the Strand Magazine

A monthly magazine founded by George Newnes. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950. Probably the most popular of the 'illustrated periodicals' popular in late Victorian and Edwardian times, the Strand Magazine had a regular circulation of over 400,000 copies a month for many years.

The typical Strand Magazine issue contains a mixture of serialised stories for adults, general interest non-fiction, and material for children. Much well-known fiction was first serialised in the Strand Magazine, most notably the short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The magazine is highly illustrated, normally containing well over 100 illustrations in every issue.

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