As The Speaker; A Review of Politics, Letters, Science and the Arts, the issues were numbered vol.
Some other famous contributors were Lord Acton, Hilaire Belloc, Henry James, John Morley, and Sidney Webb.
[2] Other contributors to the weekly included Charles Bradlaugh, Marion Spielmann, Arthur Symons, John O'Connor Power, A.
[3] The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing bought a copy in April 1890 and wrote that he 'found it immensely dull'.
In October 1899, replacing Wemyss Reid, John Lawrence Hammond became the editor-in-chief of The Speaker and instituted an editorial policy against the British actions in the Second Anglo-Boer War and in favour of the policies that eventually resulted in the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–1914.