[1] (Earlier periodicals had employed similar names: Mercurius Politicus, 1659; The Impartial Protestant Mercury, 1681.)
In the 20th century, The London Mercury was the major monthly literary journal that published from 1919 to 1939.
[5] Eventually a deal was agreed in March 1939 with Brendin, for £1000 clear, with the London Mercury and The Bookman being incorporated to Life and Letters To-day.
[6] J. C. Squire published a wide variety of serious contemporary literature, including poetry by Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Richmond Lattimore,[7] Siegfried Sassoon, Conrad Aiken, Hilaire Belloc, and William Butler Yeats, among many others.
[8] The London Mercury also carried short fiction by several well-known authors, including Virginia Woolf,[9] Katherine Mansfield, J.