The Review of Reviews. Vol IV. July-December. 1891.

STEAD, William Thomas [Editor].

$950.00

Item Number: 135348

London: The "Review of Reviews", 1891.

The July-December 1891 issue of of Stead’s The Review of Reviews. Octavo, original publisher’s binding, illustrated, advertisements, index. In very good condition.

The Review of Reviews was a noted family of monthly journals founded in 1890–1893 by British reform journalist William Thomas Stead. Established across three continents in London (1891), New York (1892) and Melbourne (1893), the Review of Reviews, American Review of Reviews and Australasian Review of Reviews represented Stead's dream of a global publishing empire. Along with the dozens of magazine and book reviews it contained, The Review included a running commentary of world events, entitled "The Progress of the World", and a character sketch of a current "celebrity". The first issue was an instant success, and opened with numerous facsimiled welcome messages which Stead had courted from various dignitaries of the time. However, Stead's relationship with Newnes came under strain when the latter strongly objected to Stead's scathing character sketch of The Times newspaper (eventually published in March).