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RA VILLE - I open in He is noted for his kindness in familiar strain for we are loaning bound volumes -a pre G firm friends -is a "Lanca carious practice, though I hasten shire lad." Wasn't that the title to add, in his own words, "Only of a Nelson Lee Library? He is twice in twenty years have I been tall, lean, and straight in both let down"; for his letters; and senses of the word. I can pay for his contributions to The Srory him no better tribute. His collec Paper Collector under the pen tion! Mainly Amalgamated Press name "Cymro." papers. His home town is Hol He has a very soft spot for lins, Whitefield, near Manches Sexton Blake (who has n't?) and ter. Home, Mrs. G. T. W., and I might venture to suggest that young son Darroll, a "collector his favourite paper is The Cham one," seldom see "Dad," for his pion -the early issues. And what vocation takes him on many a paper! Favourite characters? travels. It is because of these With the possible exception of trips through the Counties that Sexton Blake, Yvonne Cartier, I have spent many hours with our Panther Grayle, and Strongbow man for he has paid me numer of the Circus. ous "calls." Conversation? The Granville has given the writer reader knows the nature of that: much help with various compi our Editor, S.P.C., readers, collec lations from time to time and is tors, contributors, papers, A. P. a mine of information. He bears (oh, that the latter were more all the "hallmarks" of a real congenial to us!), and "the Man collector-another "jolly good from Baker Street"-for us the fellow." His story paper collect only man from Baker Street. ing knowledge is vast, especially Granville Waine has a very on the subject of Nelson Lee large collection of story papers. Library lore. A grand "Norther Some of them have been listed ner" - a pointless remark, for in the Colledors' Digest Anni A Series of Short Articles About Our Contributors, w Collectors, and Readers • . Compiled by H. R. C. 100 The Story Paper Collector Articles of Interest to Collectors of British Boys' Periodicals of the Past No. 33 JANUARY, 1949 Vol. 2 GUNBY HADATH By LEONARD M. ALLEN HE POPULAR boys' maga After this, stories by our au zine, The Captain, always thor, both short and serial, T made a feature of Public appeared regularly until the final school stories, but it was only in volume of The Captain in 1924, 1909, midway in the twenty-five in which was one of his best years of publication, that they yarns, "Pulling His Weight," in attained the dominance that en six instalments. At the same dured until the final volume. time he contributed to that This was the year when the first favourite contemporary paper, school story by Gunby Hadath Chums, and continued to do so appeared. Entitled "Foozle's Bril until a year before it ceased liant Idea," it proved to be the publication in 1940. His stories forerunner of ten short stories appeared in many of the Amal concerning the exploits of this gamated Press "Annuals," some very enterprising schoolboy. under his pen-name, John Mow Hitherto very few short stories bray. of this kind had appeared in the The secret of Gundy Hadath's magazine and in the half-yearly success was his supreme know voting competition for the best ledge of the schoolboy and his story in the preceding volume ways. While all his stories dis "Foozle" was awarded twelfth played, in varying degrees, his place, all the other yams selected great sense of humour, he never being adventure stories. Enthu allowed it to take control and siasm for the Hadath yarns grew develop his situations into the so rapidly, however, that the next slapstick affairs so favoured in competition saw his fine cricket other boys' papers of the period. story, "Old Crockery," in the Incidents were always quite feas first place, with another "Foo ible but nevertheless exciting, zle" adventure, "Micklemerry's and his charac'.ters likable and Soap," high on the list. human. Thus he obtained, in 102 TH E STORY PAPER COLLECTOR addition to his large following mcnts it was quite natural for of juvenile readers, many "old Gunby Hadath to enter the scho boys" who revelled in his yams. lastic profession and he was No better illustration can be appointed Senior Classical mas found than his serial for the ter at the Guildford Grammar 1916 Captain,entitled "His High School. While thus employed he ness of Highfield," with the developed his talent for lyric lonely yet cheerful youth, H. R. writing and published many Hudson, and his tormentor, songs in conjunction with the Dryden. leading composers of the day, such celebrities as Tosti, Piccoli PORTING EVENTS were al mini, R. H. Wal thew, Eric Coates, ways prominent and he S Noel Johnson, and Herman Lohr. introduced the most excit Among the many famous leading ing cricket and football matches, vocalists who included these technically perfect, for Gunby numbers in their repertoires Hadath was an all-round athlete were Clara Butt, Belle Cole, Ada himself. Captain of his school, Crossley, Ben Davies, Kennerley St. Edmund's, Canterbury, he Rumford, Ivor Foster, and Harry later went up to Cambridge Dearth. where he won College Colours for cricket, Rugby, and Soccer. One of his best-known lyrics This did not interfere with his was the ever-popular "Down scholastic career and he was the Vale." So successful were the awarded his M. A. degree with Gunby Hadath songs that he classical honours. was able to devote the whole of After leaving the University his attention to them, later turn he became a member of the ing to authorship, to the ever Wanderers Cricket Club and lasting benefit of boys and "old was chosen to play in represent boys." Several stories have been ative club matches for the Gen translated into other languages, tlemen of Surrey. His career on apart from publication in the the Rugby football field was United States and Canada. Be equally distinguished but, unfor fore the War he was made a tunately, while a member of the citoyen d'honneur of St. Gervais Paignton team, and on the eve lesbains and its Commune, with of his trial for Devon, he was due concurrence by the French knocked out by a bad accident Government. As far as can be which finished his activities in ascertained he is the only English this direction. writer to be awarded this honour. With so many accomplish- Another distinction is his in- GUNBY HADATH 103 clusion in the selec1: group of volume, included in their popu authors to have Omnibus vol lar Oxford series several full umes of their work published. length stories, among which was The Gunby Hadath Omnibus "The Mystery at Riddings," and a was produced by Milford in 1935 number of short stories entitled and included three full length "The Big Five." stories, "The New School at Latterly two stories of school Shropp," "Carey of Cobhouse," life during World War II have and "Brent of Gatehouse." The been published by Faber and blind have not been forgotten, Faber. They are entitled "The and several Slories in Braille Swinger" and "The March of have been produced on both Time." His latest from this firm, sides of the Atlantic. Needless to "Fortune Lane," will shortly be say, with all these distinctions, forthcoming. This is the book Gunby Hadath is a Fellow of the on which is based the film for Royal Society of Arts. youth of the same title. The RACTICALLY all of Gunby Lutterworth Press published in P Hadath's serials and short 1947 "Men of the Maquis," and stories that appeared in The in 1948 "The Fifth Feversharn." Captain were later published in Several out-of-print books are book form, in some cases with being re-published by The Stan the titles changed. Thus, "The more Press. Feats of Foozle" became "Ac Although the name of Gunby cording to Brown Minor" when Hadath is usually associated with offered by Hodder and Stough the school story, this was not ton, and "Conquering Claybury" his sole theme. An excellent his was retitled "Schoolboy Grit." torical yarn entitled "The Boar This firm also published a special of Blaye," written around the Gunby Hadath Library which War of the Roses, appeared in included "The Fattest Head in The Captain. His versatility is the Fifth," "The New House further shown with "His Birth at Oldborough," "Against the right," a Welsh football story, Clock," "Pulling His Weight," and "Playing the Game," with "Go Bang Garry," and the first Soccer as the theme. He also volume of the Sparrow stories, wrote several full-length charac "Sparrow in Search of Expul ter-adventure stories, and readily sion," following this with a to mind come "St. Palfrey's sequel, "Sparrow Gets Going." Cross," "The Seventh Swords The firm of Humphrey Mil man," "The Mystery at Three ford, apart from the Omnibus Chimneys," and "Twenty Good 104 THE STORY PAPER COLLECfOR Ships." All these yarns were sure indication of their popu very popular before the War larity, and ofttimes one can see with his public in France, Bel an adult male, rather furtively gium, and Scandinavia, and at maybe, taking one down from present have excellent sales in the shelves. the United State!. The disadvantage of possess No true lover of the school ing Gunby Hadath books is that story should be without copies one has to be constantly on of Gunby Hadath's yams on his guard to retain them. Once lent, shelves as they represent the best they are seldom returned by in this class of fiction. Once one either the youth of today or of his stories has been read, the their elders, unless pressed. Ap reader is not content until he parently, however, the Public has added others to his collec school story is coming back into tion. As with his famous fellow its own, to judge by the number author, R. A. H. Goodyear, there of reprints to be seen at book are proud owners of complete sellers', and this should help collections of his work. Well to alleviate the situation and thumbed and dog-eared copie! enable old enthusiasts like my can be found in the juvenile self to retain and re-read their section of any public library, a cherished books. SCHOOL AND SPORT N THE OPPOSITE PAGE 1922. It started with large (Boys' is reproduced the front Friend) size pages but is reported O cover of No. 1 of that ill to have changed to Magnet size fated boys' paper, Schooland Sport. before it suspended publication. Edited by H. A. Hinton, who at The main feature of each issue one time controlled The Boys' was a long story of St. Kit's Friend, The Magnet Uln-ary, and School, written by CliffordClive, The Gem Uln-ary, and published who was none other than Frank by Popular Publications Limited, Richards. After the paper's de London, it ran only from Dec mise the St. Kit's stories were ember 17th, 1921, until May 5th, printed in The Boys' Friend. "SCHOOL AND SPORT" No. 1 [Facing page 10\ BIRTH OF THE DIME NOVEL By WALTER PANNELL N THE YEAR 1860 there were for ten cents. Acting on chis other things being talked idea he, for a time, achieved I about in the United Scates considerable success in the pub besides anti-slavery agitation, lication of song books, joke for chat year saw the birth of books, etc. Deciding to branch che "dime novel" and the usher out in the publication of more ing in of an era of cheap, perio general literature, he issued in dical literature. The first book the summer of 1860 the first or booklet-to bear the "dime "dime novel,'' a frontier romance novel" designation was issued in by Ann S. Stevens under the che summer of that year by the title of "Malaeska, the Indian New York publishing firm of Wife of the White Hunter." The Beadle & Company, which gave publication attained instant suc rise and general use to the term cess and soon other publishers "dime novel," because it bore were engaged in the lucrative che imprint of a "dime," or ten business of providing American cent piece, on its front cover youth with literature at a low and was sold for chat amount. price range. Later, similar booklets were sold It is more than evident that for half that amount-five cents Erastus P. Beadle, who had sub -but they were still referred to sequently taken his brother into by the general term of "dime partnership with him co form novel"-indicating a cheap and the publishing firm of Beadle & popular form of Ii terature be Company, had not the faintest tween paper covers. idea of the storm of criticism The first publisher of a dime from press and pulpit that would novel in America, Erastus P. eventually descend on his brain Beadle, came to the eastern child- the dime novel. metropolis from Cooperstown, The first novel had a screamer in the same state. He had been across the top announcing "The working as a printer in Coopers Choicest Works of the Most town and felt qualified co con Popular Authors," and the "pub duct his own business. His first lisher's blurb" accompanying it idea was to collect the popular stated: "By the publication of lyrics of the day and print them the series contemplated, it is cheaply enough so that a small hoped to reach all classes, young volume of them could be sold and old, male and female, in a 105 106 THE STORY PAPER COLLECTOR manner at once to captivate and reading of the millions of copies enlighten-to answer the popu issued. lar demand for works of ro HE DIME NOVEL attained mance, but also to instill a pure its greatest popularity in and elevating sentiment in the T the later part of the last ears and minds of the people." century when it took the place However, the criticism did on the newsstands now occupied come-from press and pulpit by the overly-popular comic and from the mouths of con magazines. In fact, some of the cerned parents there soon came publications lasted until as late a veritable storm of wrath as 1926, but their popularity directed at the dime novel. That began to wane before the advent this criticism fell on unapprecia of the first World War and those tive ears was proven by the that held out were merely in rapid growth of the dime novel viting a fate that was inevitable. publishing business and the mil The main reason for the de lions of copies of dime novels mise of the dime novel is con that were eagerly bought and tained in the changing literary just as eagerly read during tastes of the American reading the heyday of the "dime novel public and the changing era of era." our national existence. The dime Indeed, it can be said in novel attained its widest circu Beadle's behalf that the first lation from the Civil War period dime novels issued by him were up until about 1900, which was in no way inferior in literary a time of national expansion and appeal to the volumes issued by frontier activity. These times other publishers during the same produoed such frontier charac era at a much higher price range. ters as Buffalo Bill, Deadwood Later, with the popularity of the Dick, Wild Bill, and others, who cheaper form of literature as: were grist to the dime novel sured, other publishers began writers' mill, and whose activities, extolling the exploits of fron real and imaginary, were glamor tiersmen and highway robbers ously displayed from the covers with equal gusto, and ofttimes of dime novels on every news with not too much discrimina stand in America. tion, which gave point to some The passing of this era and of the criticism of the dime the institution of an era in novel in general- a criticism, which economic problems are however, which was unable to foremost and ascendant over stem the tide or prevent the those of adventure and "empire BIRTH OF THE DL\.ffi NOVEL 107 building," has given rise to a dif rarities and for their literary ferent form of popular literature reflections of a past age by their -that in which sex, violent former readers. A number of crime, etc., play a more impor years ago such a staid old literary tant part. Writing, in turn, be conservative as The SatuTCia:t came more speculative and phil Evening Post published a series osophical than narrative, and of articles on the history, rise, thus was ushered in the, so and decline of the dime novel, called, era of "r ealism" in litera written by Gilbert S. Patten, ture as exemplified in the "pro whose dime novel name - Burt blem" writing of today. Whether L. Standish, under which he much of it is an improvement wrote the series of Frank Merry over the dime novel type of well stories-was well known to action writing is open to debate, the dime novel reading public but it is the product of an era of the past. There are at least of social and economic organiza three publications today that tion, just as the dime novel was are devoted to the collec'.ting of the product of an era of adven dime novels, and an organiza ture and "empire building." tion in New York periodically issues facsimile reprints of some UT IF THE dime novel, of the most famous dime novels. B with its stories of heroism and adventure, was taken It is evident from these facts, at a disadvantage in its battle that the dime novel as a living with "realism" and had to ad force in literature is too dead mit defeat, it did not drop to be resurrected, but that it into oblivion over night, but still lives as a literary reflection still had its adherants in every of one of the most glamorous quarter of the globe. Scarcely and interesting-if "wild and had the last dime novel publi woolly" -periods of our national cation ceased to exist than existence, is another fact that is novels were being collected as just as evident. * Walter Pannell, writer of "Binh of the Dime Novel," is a printer and lives in t Alva, Oklahoma. He is also a writer and has had published several booldelS, among them being '"Civil War on the Range" and "Red.men's Hori::ons," and is associate editor of and contributor to the magazine Welcome News. FROM YOUR EDITOR'S CHAIR* HORTLY AFTER Leonard and concluded in the March S Allen's article on Gunby issue." It is all too apparent that Hadath in this issue reached we will never know what even us we received from an amateur tually happened to the Wizard journalist living in the vicinity Insurance Company, which in of Boston, U.S.A., a copy of The sured the boys of Form Ill at Boy's Own Paper- pardon us, Oldborough School against de Boy's Own Paper, as it is now tentions, canings, impositions, for January, 1948 (Volume 70, and other hazards of school life, No. 4). The B.O.P., as has already and its promotors. been noted in these pages, is but LETTER in John Bull, August a shadow of its former self, being 28th, 1948, from a schoolboy: pocket-size, while it has a pub "When papper is so short, and lisher other than the Religious every newspapper we read tells Tract Society, which published us to save papper do you not it for so many years- Lutter think that school masters schould worth Periodicals, Limited. But do their bit by stopping lines it was nevertheless of interest to and impositions untill the papper us. shortage is over?-K. RUDKIN." We were especially pleased to For a moment we thought see a school story, "The Wizard that Billy Bunter or Horace Insurance Company," by Gunby Coker had taken to writing let Hadath. The theme of the story ters to the editor! seemed a little familiar, which is not surprising for we have read THE REPORTS in The Collec at least 2500 school stories, and wrs' Digest and in letters from it is said that there are but a members, of meetings of the Old limited number of story-plots. Boys' Book Club, held monthly This tale we read, and found it in the homes of members, usually held our attention in a satisfac in the London area, are most tory manner. It was, however, encouraging as an indication of somewhat dismaying to find at what can be done when people the end those doleful words, with kindred interests live in "This three-part story will be relatively close proximity. Makes continued in the February B.O.P. us wish some of them lived in * was the heading of Mr. Hamilton Ed or around Winnipeg. Good luck wards' "Chat" page in The &rys' Realm. to the O. B. B.C. -w.H.G. This is an Amateur Magazine and it is mai1ed gratis to all who request it and who show continued interest by acknowledging receipt occasionally. This issue 224 copies 108 ·----·--·····---···-- ' l':·� __,_ _ ·--- - � £ �------7� �- . : - �=;---���� The boJS of Creyfrian rusheddown uponthe aJien fortin Irresistible forceI A reproduc'.tion of the front page of The Magnet Library No. 43, dated December 5th, 1908. This was the paper's first Christmas Number [Facing page 108 THOSE STIRRING SNOW-SWEET SERIALS By R. A.H. GOODYEAR N AGE I DISLIKE what in more grimly dramatic, I sup youth I most enjoyed: snow. pose, to show footprints in the I Now the first snowflake of snow, made by soldiers on the winter sends a cold shiver of ap march or finely matched rivals prehension through my veins. in a prolonged and sanguinary Then, the whirling Bakes could duel amid bare-branched, icicle never come fast enough for me, laden trees in the heart of because it was through the win Epping or Sherwood Forest. dow I saw them and from my Odd that my mind should be warm chair by the fireplace that flooded at this moment by such I realiz.ed the, beauty of them, white and wondrous scenes as for I was the enthralled reader these, to the complete exclusion of serial stories which described of any stories couched among deeds of derring-do on icy roads the blossoming fruit trees of and snow-clad cliffs and moun spring or the rose-beautified, tains, whereon English soldiers balmy days of summer. wearing white cockades and A snowy Wales, pulsing with vari-coloured uniforms fought the inspiring strains of "The against infuriated Scots in flam Men of Harlech," made memor boyant kilts, all of whom op able for me a serial tale which posed dirks and claymores to featured a noble Llewellyn as the swords and lances of the its hero. Repeatedly wielding hated Sassenachs from across his trusty sword, he dyed the the Border. snow red with the blood of "By Dirk and Claymore" was many Englishmen and it never a title that riveted itself on my occurred to me at that time to memory and I think it appeared feel in the least sorry for the in one of Fox's periodicals, fate of my fellow-countrymen. which also featured Bruce of In later years I should have Bannockburn and Wallace the cast aside the paper which dared Warrior and Bonnie Prince to print such a serial story and Charlie and Rob Roy in yarns spurned it with impatience that always seemed to have win and disgust, unable to credit ter as a background. So much that any \Velshman, no matter 109 110 THE STORY PAPER COLLECTOR how highly born, could make re-reading the heaps of penny cold corpses of numberless Eng bloods that I had accumulated lishmen while receiving scarcely in my story-loving leisure. a scratch himself. Yet that was One of these sickroom serials, how the author presented it and read during one of the worst I never questioned its likeli and longest snowstorms of a hood. With heart and soul we lifetime, was called "Poor Ben o' believed in our writers then. To the Barge," and despite many us lads they were literary gods inquiries since I have never who could do no wrong. learnt from anyone in which penny weekly it appeared. My F COURSE most of us did guess now is that it was The O the bulk of our reading in Boy's Leisure Hour, which came winter time,especially when next in my esteem to The Boy's the snow was so thick and the Comic Journal, Boys of the Empire, gales were so cruel that our and The Boy's Popular Weekly. mothers would not let us go out Probably the two most polished in them for fear of our catch writers for boys at that period ing colds and needing copious were J. N. Pentelow and Charles doses of Dr. Squareface's Com T. Podmore, both of whom position Essence or Nurse Bag adorned Guy Rayner's Boy's Pop nag's Magic Lung Lotion. ular Weekly with entrancing My own mother was a 6.rm yarns. Edwin S. Hope was believer in homeopathy and I another gifted author who lifted associate regular drinks of acon The Boy's Popular Weekly far itum, gelsemium, and belladonna above the level of the average with those indoor sicknesses boys' paper and he had the which pinned me to my attic added distinction of illustrating bedroom and gave me glorious his own serials, also largely of opportunities of reading and the snow-and-ice type. HARMSWORTH "This Manitoba village was named after Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, the British newspaper publisher."-ltem in "Place Names," a feature of the Winnipeg Free Press. Was the person responsible for the naming of the village a keen reader, one surmises, of The BO)•s' Friend or The Magnet Library? THE GREYFRIARS GALLERY Reviewed by WM. H. GANDER :: Part Three " EVVER GET LEFT?" Who outcome of which was the retire at Greyfriars but Fisher Tarle ment of Bulstrode to the side J ton Fish would ask that? He lines, where he has remained is Number 17 in The Greyfriars ever since. But he is a much Gallery, Magnet No. 481, April better fellow than he was in 28th, 1917. Two and a half those early days. columns are devoted to telling The next to find a place in the unpleasant truths about Fishy, Gallery was Hurree Jamset Ram which will be passed over and Singh, the Nabob of Bhanipur, our attention turned to the next who is Number 19, in Magne.t on the list. No. 483. "Inky" came to Grey George Bulstrode is Number friars only temporarily at first, 18 in the next week's Magnet. but liked the school and the The portrait of him does not Removites so much that he had suggest the somewhat burly fel things arranged to allow him to low one feels that he is. "For a stay and become the fourth long time past Bulstrode has not member of the Famous Four, been a specially prominent figure which became the Famous Five in the Greyfriars stories, bur in following the arrival of Johnny the early yarns he played a big Bull. "Who could help liking part." That was so, as readers of him, the loyal, good fellow, with those early stories will remember. his amusing speech, which yet Bulstrode was the Form captain does not make him a mere then, and quite a bully, but he buffoon, for he has dignity had his good points. "He was enough- with his princely gen not a mere bully, delighting in erosity and his brave heart cruelty for cruelty's sake. He unselfish and cheerful, but ready wanted his own way; and, like of hand and brain?" One re most other people, could be quite members the Nabob's journeys pleasant when he got it. His par back to India, first for the Dur ticular form of unpleasantness, bar, alone and unrecorded at when he failed to get it, was of length in the pages of The Mag the bullying type-that was all." net,and years later when, accom There was trouble in the Form panied by his friends and Billy following the arrival of Harry Bunter, he returned to Bhanipur Wharton and Bob Cherry, the to frustrate the scheming of an 111 112 THE STORY PAPER COLLECTOR unscrupulous uncle. And one other senior, certainly in minor wonders how his realm in India if not in major roles. Whichever -or is it in Pakistan?- has fared he plays he seems fated to wind during the changes that have up with a good "bumping" at the taken place in the great sub hands of the juniors. Coker has continent. Will the Nabob re a younger brother, Reggie, who, main at the school? Perhaps being the brainier of the two forthcoming Greyfriars stories by a long way, is in the Sixth will enlighten us. Form, which fact was for a time humiliating to Horace. But he ORACE COKER'S turn got over that feeling and came came in Magnet No. 484, H to be proud of Reggie, of whom, where he is umber 20 by the way, we haven't heard in the Gallery. "Some of our for a long time. readers say they don't like Coker's degree of"dumbness" Coker!" commences Mr. Pente is remarkable, Likewise his illu tow. "It is very difficult to ima sion that he is a clever chap. gine anyone not liking Coker But "Harry Wharton Co. Perhaps a very young & know what a really good fellow reader, with his sympathies nat old Coker is at heart," writes urally enlisted on behalf of the J. N. P. So do we all. fags, may be pardoned for dis liking the great Coker, for we In Magnet No. 485 we meet know that Horace has rather a \Vun Lung, from China, with heavy hand with the fags." his conjuring, his untruths, his Coker is in the Fifth Form, "Velly solly,'' and his mystery not because his abilities place filled pies. Wun usually plays an him there, but (it is rumored) unimportant part, but occasion because his Aunt Judith brow ally he has come into the lime beat Dr. Locke into giving him light. In the early stories he had his remove from the Shell. l more adventures than in the have not found a Greyfriars later ones, and Number 21 of story in which Coker comes to the Gallery is largely composed the school; perhaps his arrival of a recounting of them. is recorded in an issue missing from my set. I first met him, I With No. 486 the pages of think, walking in the quad, al The Magnet were further cut to ready well established at Grey sixteen, and the Gallery to two friars. columns of a smaller size of type. Horace Coker has come into In that issue is found Tom Dut more stories perhaps than any ton as Number 22. Tom is very THEGREYFRIARS GALLERY 113 deaf and this infirmity seems to such occasions he looks, without be even more of an affliction fail, to Harry Wharton & Co. to his friends than it is to him. for help, which is as unfailingly "Tom Dutton can hardly be given and for which they get reckoned among the principal little thanks. But they come to charaeters of the Greyfri ars Hazel's aid, if not cheerily, then stories; but he may fairly be at least willingly, for the sake of said to rank high among the his sister Marjorie. "There is not minor ones. • . A very good a great deal to be said in praise sort of fellow indeed. Of the of Hazeldene. He means well same sort of stuffas Harry Whar generally, but with frequent ton and his special chums . " lapses; but he does not mean it Which places Tom Dutton in hard enough. Again and again good company. he has repented, and started in ICKY NUGENT was the afresh; and again and again the D first of the fag tribe to be first touch of temptation has honored with a place in been too much for him." So the Gallery-Number 23, in writes Mr. Penrelow, and it reads Magnet No. 487. "Dicky is the near enough like Peter Hazel spoiled child, the younger son dene. of an indulgent mother. Dick S YET no form master had has some of his brother Frank's A been included in the Gal weakness, but lacks a good deal lery, but this was remedied of his lovableness. Frank has in Magnet No. 489, when, as one borne a good deal for Dicky's might expect, it was Mr. Horace sake - more th an most brothers Henry Quelch who was chosen would have borne." Yes, Dick to be the first master so honored has given Frank many anxious {Number 25). I hope I have Mr. moments and probably will give Quelch's Christian names right. him many more, though of late Sometimes he is found with he seems to have kept to the "Herbert" or "Samuel" tacked path of rectitude. on to him. In recognition of his The next week we return to importance in the school and, the Remove to meet Peter relatively speaking, in the stories, Hazeldene (No. 24). Hazel, as he "Quelchy" was given almost a is usually called, is one of the page of the smaller type then Remove originals and not a being used. Mr. Chapman's por very pleasant fellow to know, trait of the Remove-master ap being weak-willed and easily led pears good to me, about what astray- and he often is, too, On one would expect: stern-looking, 114 THE STORY PAPER COLLECTOR tight-lipped, strong-charactered, than any other keen-sighted a man whom one could depend man with a good knowledge of upon to act fairly if strictly with human nature is Mr. Quelch in those in his charge. "That gen fallible. Such knowledge, such tleman [Mr. Quelch] is emphat keen sight, will not save anyone ically the right sort. Not the from occasional mistakes. . ideal master, perhaps; for that The loyal support given their one would want a man with master by the best fellows in Mr. Quelch's strong sense of the Remove is the surest proof justice, and his very real, though possible of his justice." often hidden, sympathy, com J. N. P. tells of some of the bined with such athletic dis ti nc many incidents in the stories in tion as only a younger man than which Mr. Quelch played a part the Remove-master could be -the time his study chimney expected to possess. It is not on was swept by Alonzo Todd; record that Mr. Quelch ever Alonzo's attempt to bring to was much of an athlete. But he gether in a romantic" way Miss is most unmistakably a gentle Primrose, of Cliff House School, man, and a man of strong char and Mr. Quelch-". but Mr. acter.0 Quelch's was not a loving heart. To quote further: "His justice He is a confirmed bachelor, one is tempered with mercy. No boy takes it" - and there were no could have done more to make wedding bells; Tom Brown's a master hate him than Vernon first day at Greyfriars; the ras Smith did when he came into cally cousin and "double" of conflict with Mr. Quelch during "Quelchy," Ulick Ferrers, taking his early days at Greyfriars. Yet his place as Remove-master; the Bounder was never treated and numerous other episodes. otherwise than justly by his Mr. Pentelow was undoubt Form-master, and in the long edly at his best in the writing of run he owed a good deal to Mr. his Gallery tribute to Mr. Quelch Quelch's ability to forgive -if and it is well worth the reading not to forget. No more by any lover of Greyfriars. Part 4 Will Appear in the Next Issue THE STORY PAPER COLLECTOR is edited and published by Wm. H. Gander, Box 60, Transcona, Manitoba, Canada Member: National A. P. A., The Fossils, United A. P. A., U. A. P. A. 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