Magazine featuring the best sellers of the day in abridged form.

Literary review magazine, popularly slanted; ceased publication in the mid-1980s, and was replaced by a slimmer monthly called simply Books (1987 - ) which carried a cover price but seemed to be in the main a bookshop-giveaway.

Issues & Index Sources:  1910 – 1919:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York
Prices:   25c
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Issues & Index Sources:  1910 – 1919:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York
Formats:   7 1/8 x 4 3/4"
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   192pp
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Issues & Index Sources:  1910 – 1919:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York
Formats:   7 x 5"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   200-400pp
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Issues & Index Sources:  1912:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York
Formats:   6 4/5" x 4 1/2"
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   300-325
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

"Stead's Books for the Bairns, begun in March 1896, and issued at the price of a penny, one number per month, with pink, usually pictorial paper covers and profuse illustrations inside, and containing as a rule 64 pages. This series ran till about 1916, after which it was variously continued, revived and reprinted well into the middle of the '20s.

It was quite highbrow in character, anticipating something of the seriousness of the later Children's Encyclopedia. Its aims were frankly and unambiguously educational and edifying, with a strong liberal and protestant bias in keeping with the other activities of its founder, the distinguished reformer W.T. Stead (1849-1912) who went on editing it until he was drowned in the disaster of the Titanic, when his daughter, Estelle, succeeded him. It appealed particularly to high-minded fathers and to schoolmasters.

To begin with it chiefly reproduced classical works suitable for children in abridged and adapted forms, such as Robinson Crusoe, Aesop's Fables, Gulliver's Travels, etc. or it gave simplified (and Whiggified) history and nature study, or even hymns. Only later did this series admit specially written modern fairy stories adapted to the newer ideas of what the child's taste is, or rather what it ought to be. There was even a French edition of Books for the Bairns - Livres de la Rose. Often these little books were employed as regular school text books." (Maurer)

Incorporates: Bairn's Magazine

Contained extracts of "enduring masterpieces".

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#merges with The Book Digest of Best Sellers

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Contains reprints from Nickel Library.

Canadian magazine of the arts with occasional fiction.

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Semi-professional magazine.

A small press magazine publishing Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror stories, and associated non-fiction.

Borderline was a digest-sized magazine, subtitled "the magazine which dares the unknown." The magazine contained no fiction although the seventh issue did include a piece by L. Ron Hubbard. It dealt with mysticism and para- psychological phenomena. Topics such as phrenology, prophecy, ESP, ghost hunting, and automatic writing were common.

Also known as Max Stein's Dashaway Dime Novels: Border Series.

Fanzine featuring articles & features by & about Canadian authors & artists.