X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Saturday Review


Alexander Innes Shand

After contributing during 1867 to the Imperial Review, a short-lived conservative paper edited by Henry Cecil Raikes, he began writing for The Times and for Blackwood's Magazine, and also joined John Douglas Cook's staff on the, Saturday Review.

The Yellow Book

While The Saturday Review termed Broughton's piece "a drawing of merit" and Foschter's "a clever study", they decried the drawings under Beardsley's own name, deeming them "as freakish as ever".


Henry Hewes

Henry Hewes (April 9, 1917 – July 18, 2006) was the drama critic for the Saturday Review weekly literary magazine from 1955 to 1979.

Marshall Stearns

Stearns taught English at several U.S. colleges, and during this time wrote often about jazz music for magazines such as Variety, Saturday Review, Down Beat, Record Changer, Esquire, Harper's, Life, and Musical America.

Paul B. Lowney

His humor has appeared in Parade, Saturday Review, Reader's Digest, and in scores of newspapers through his syndication with the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Copley News Service, and the Pacific Media Group.

Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford

At length, however, he returned to England and wrote a good deal, sometimes in the Saturday Review, sometimes in the Quarterly Review, and much in the Pall Mall Gazette.

The Woodlanders

It was declared by the Saturday Review in April 1887 to be, "the best novel that Hardy has written", by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, "his loveliest if not his finest book", by William Lyon Phelps, "the most beautiful and most noble of Hardy's novels", and by A. Edward Newton, "one of the best novels of the last half century".


see also

H. Donald Wilson

One of his accounts was the popular magazine Saturday Review, and he found a mentor in editor Norman Cousins.

Luther H. Evans

Working with a range of other Americans prominent in foreign policy, including Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, Norman Cousins of Saturday Review, James Grant of the Overseas Development Council, anthropologist Margaret Mead, World Federalist Chairman H. Donald Wilson, and World Bank president Robert McNamara, Evans organized an organization called New Directions.

Media bias in South Asia

The Saturday Review, the English paper published in Jaffna and the Aththa, the Communist Sinhala language daily were banned in the early eighties under the PSO.

Tom Gauld

He has produced a number of cartoons for The Guardian newspaper, and now contributes to its Saturday Review section.