[1] The magazine published miscellaneous articles, short fiction (mostly anonymous), and serialized novels.
The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction called it "an inferior imitator of Smith's Cornhill".
[2] Literary contributors included Charlotte Riddell, whose novels Above Suspicion (1874) and The Senior Partner (1881-2) were serialized;[3] Florence Marryat (Open Sesame); and a pre-Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle.
Illustrators included Mary Ellen Edwards, Randolph Caldecott, Harry Furniss, F. A. Fraser, and George Cruikshank.
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