The Book Monthly, March 1919

223-296pp, colour plate frontispiece depicting John Ruskin, plus several pages of publishers’ ads front and rear.  In printed light cards covers, with yapped edges.  8vo.  Yapped edges have worn and are a little chapped and rubbed, scuffed around spine.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  The March 1919 issue of Book Monthly – a journal about books for readers, booksellers and librarians.  Special feature articles in this edition include A Ralph O’Connor Talk: His Pilgrimage as a Popular Novelist and His Adventures as a War Chaplain by James Milne; Dickens’ Best-sellers: The Order of a Pageant which Goes Round the English-speaking World by B W Mate; Barrack-room Reading: The Need for Books in a Soldier’s Life and a Personal Experience by C E Lawrence; A Pilgrimage in Poetry: The Romance of American Walt Whitman and English Anne Gilchrist by Eliot Buckram; Bookshops on Wheels: An American Plan Which Might Save the English Country Bookseller by Clive Holland; The Ever-living Burns: New Peeps of Him In the Transactions of the London Robert Burns Club; George Wyndham: The Essays of a Romanicist who Put Himself Into English Literature by J R Moreton Macdonald; The Spring Novelist by D S Meldrum, etc.