THE JUBILEE OF CORNHILL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 9

THE JUBILEE OF CORNHILL.

The "Cornhill'Magazine," which has -just .reached .its jubilee number, can boast of a '.career with which no; other magaziuo can vie, for,'-as the "Manchester Guardian" recalls, Jnost. of-, the great Eiiglish novelists and poefc, of the last .fifty years have contributed to it. There was Thackeray, \of course, and - George Eliot, Trollope, and. Mrs. Gaskell, and something/ too, of ; Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Keade, and Lever. "Harry Kichmbnd" was a "Cornhill" serial,: and so 'was "Far-from the Madding Crowd"; early stories; and essays of. Stevenson were there, ''.and some of; us were, first introduced to Mi\ , Henry James in . its pages. Other' contributors were Buskin. Arnold, the Brownings, Tennyson, Swinburne, and Hood. ' Illustrations were by Millais, Fred .Walker, Leighton,' Pinwoll, Sandys, and Dicky Doyle. Such a catalogue is exhilarating, and it ;does not exhaust the famous names. The editors must . have rejected sufficient to equip a few first-rato magazines, and it. is wildly interesting to hear that Leslie Stephen would not have "The. Return of the, NaHvo" for tho same kind of reasons that will presently; make, the libraries endeavour to extinguish other nmstorpieces. "Unto this Last". was gallantly published, though it'.' made respectability foam, at the mouth; but Leslie Stephen quecrly. rejected Stevenson's essay on Kaeburn, and wo seem to. have heard, though it is not ■ recorded here, that Thackeray declined a famous poem by Kossetti's because "Jenny" was such a poor, rhymo to "guinea."