The Captain (magazine)

The magazine was established in April 1899 by publisher George Newnes, with R. S. Warren Bell as its first editor.

Authors who contributed to The Captain include P. G. Wodehouse, F. C. Selous, Bertram Mitford, C. B. Fry (the Athletic Editor), Edward Step, Dr Gordon Stables,[2] Harold Avery, E. H. D. Sewell, and Charles Gilson.

[3] Artists who provided illustrations include Tom Browne, Paul Hardy, Alfred Pearse, and John Hassall.

[4] Some of the school stories by Wodehouse published in the magazine were featured in the collection Tales of St. Austin's (1903).

Frank Swinnerton (1938) says of The Captain: "It was a good magazine, and there was nothing pious in it about prayers and such disagreeables, but stories and articles fit to be read by the self-respecting of tender years.