British Juvenile Story Papers
and Pocket Libraries Index

Chronological List

ROLLEM, JOHN W. (stories)

• With Dispatches to Louvain (ss) The Boys’ Friend Nov 7 1914
• But Mr. Applegarth Hadn’t (ss) Chums Jul 21 1917
• The Kybosh on the Profiteer (ss) Chums Oct 13 1917
• Reprisals (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Feb 1919

ROMANOFF, ALEXANDER NICHOLAYEVITCH (1881-1945); see pseudonym Achmed Abdullah (stories)

RONALD, GRAYLING (stories)

• The Eye of Ko-tsay! (ss) The Boys’ Friend Jun 23 1923 [Rudyard Bruce]

RONALD, JAMES (1905-1995?) (stories)

• Baby-Face (na) The Thriller Jan 2 1937
• Hard-Boiled (na) The Thriller May 8 1937 [Julian Mendoza]
• The Sucker (na) The Thriller Dec 18 1937
• The Fatal .45 (sl) Wild West Weekly (UK) Mar 19 1938
• They Can’t Hang Me (na) The Thriller Jul 9 1938
• The Fourth Victim (na) The Thriller Jul 16 1938
• The War Makers (na) The Thriller Oct 7 1939

ROOKWOOD RHYMESTER (stories)

• Rookwood Personalities No.1: Jimmy Silver (pm) The Boys’ Friend Jun 21 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.2: Tubby Muffin (pm) The Boys’ Friend Jun 28 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.3: Tommy Dodd (pm) The Boys’ Friend Jul 5 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.4: George Bulkeley (pm) The Boys’ Friend Jul 12 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.5: Val Mornington (pm) The Boys’ Friend Jul 19 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.6: Adolphus Smythe (pm) The Boys’ Friend Jul 26 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.7: Arthur Edward Lovell (pm) The Boys’ Friend Aug 2 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.8: Teddy Grace (pm) The Boys’ Friend Aug 9 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.9: Algy Silver (pm) The Boys’ Friend Aug 16 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.10: Kit Erroll (pm) The Boys’ Friend Aug 23 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.11: Mark Carthew (pm) The Boys’ Friend Aug 30 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.12: Tommy Boyle (pm) The Boys’ Friend Sep 6 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.13: Conroy (pm) The Boys’ Friend Sep 13 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.14: Mark Lattrey (pm) The Boys’ Friend Sep 20 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.15: Edward Hansom (pm) The Boys’ Friend Sep 27 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.16: Mr Manders (pm) The Boys’ Friend Oct 4 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.17: Mr Bottles (pm) The Boys’ Friend Oct 11 1919
• Rookwood Personalities No.18: Dr. Chisholm (pm) The Boys’ Friend Oct 18 1919

ROOKWOOD RHYMSTER (stories)

• Jimmy Silver - A Verse of Praise (pm) Greyfriars Holiday Annual, 1920 1919

ROOTS, GEORGE (stories)

• The Crowd is Crazy (pz) The Silver Jacket #8 1954
• Muscles Cockle Unable Seaman (cs) The Silver Jacket #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #15 1954, #16, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23, #25, #26 1955 [Muscles Cockle]
• So You Want to Crack Codes! (pz) The Silver Jacket #9 1954
• Sir Lankylot (cs) The Silver Jacket #37 1956

ROPER, A(rchibald) G. (stories)

• Haunted House! (ss) Chums Sep 22 1917
• Batson’s Whacking (ss) Chums Dec 22 1917
• Cardew’s Jam Tarts (ss) Chums Sep 6 1919
• Dead Man’s Hollow (ss) Chums May 29 1920
• Cameron’s Curiosity (ss) Chums Apr 8 1922
• The Revengefulness of Ruggles (ss) Boy’s Own Paper May 1922
• The Runaways. A school mystery and its sequel (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Nov 1922
• The Sandycroft Swimming Society (ss) Chums Jun 30 1923
• Pedley’s Picnic (ss) Chums Aug 11 1923
• The Literary Competition (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Aug 1923
• The Amazing Trial of Fountain Penn (ss) Chums Sep 15 1923
• The Pottleton History Prize (ss) Chums Oct 27 1923
• Turner’s Turnip (ss) Chums Feb 23 1924
• Thompson’s Talisman (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Feb 1924
• “Flycatcher” (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Mar 1924
• The Stonehouse Scholarship (ss) Chums May 31 1924
• The Room in the Tower (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Jun 1924
• The Kidnapping of Kangaroo. A story of an exciting paper-chase (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Sep 1924
• The Slackers (ss) Chums Oct 12 1924
• The Dragon of Dunborough (ss) Chums Oct 26 1924
• The Reformation of the Fourth (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Nov 1924
• Rymer, a Run and a Rhino! (ss) Chums Apr 12 1925
• The Great Hoax at Hillbury (ss) Chums Jun 14 1925
• An Afternoon Out! (ss) Chums Aug 30 1925
• The Disappearance of Mathers’s Muffins (ss) Chums Nov 8 1925
• Stuck Up (ss) Chums Feb 28 1926
• A Bolt from the Blue (ss) Chums Jul 4 1926
• Watson’s Waistcoat (ss) Chums Sep 26 1926
• Meek’s Freaks (ss) Chums Oct 3 1926
• Carter’s Curious Christmas (ss) Chums Nov 14 1926
• Payne’s Painful Adventure (ss) Chums Dec 26 1926
• Wet Paint (ss) Chums Jan 2 1927
• A Moving Afternoon (ss) Chums Mar 13 1927
• Samson’s Stars (ss) Chums Mar 20 1927
• L.B.W. (ss) Chums Jul 10 1927

ROPER, ARCHIBALD (stories)

• Falsely Convicted! (nt) The Boys’ Friend Jun 28 1902
• The Boy Yachtsman (nt) The Boys’ Friend Feb 28 1903

ROPER, EDWARD (stories)

• “Such a Fine Night for ‘Possums” (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Jan 12 1895
• Some Australian Bush Yarns (ms) Boy’s Own Paper Apr 20 1895
• The Two Young Nimrods (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Jun 15, Jun 22, Sep 7, Sep 14 1895
• Further Adventures of Two Young Nimrods (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Oct 5, Oct 12 1895 [Two Young Nimrods]
• Further Adventures of Two Young Nimrods II - Pigeons in Millions! (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Feb 15, Feb 22 1896 [Two Young Nimrods]
• Further Adventures of Two Young Nimrods III - Fish, Flesh and Terrapin on Stony Lake (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Mar 7, Mar 14 1896 [Two Young Nimrods]
• Further Adventures of Two Young Nimrods IV - A Voyage to Australia (ss) Boy’s Own Paper May 2, May 16 1896 [Two Young Nimrods]
• Further Adventures of Two Young Nimrods V - Was He a Bush Munchausen? (ss) Boy’s Own Paper Jun 13, Jun 20 1896 [Two Young Nimrods]

ROPER, T. W. (stories)

• Spanish Draughts (ar) Boy’s Own Paper May 18 1912
• Our “B.O.P.” Draguhts Page: Italian Draughts (ar) Boy’s Own Paper Feb 8 1913

ROSCOE, MALCOLM (stories)

• Over the Pole with Look and Learn (ar) Look and Learn incorporating Ranger Aug 27 1966
• The Sahara (ar) Look and Learn incorporating Ranger Oct 29 1966

ROSE, CHARLES F. (stories)

• Kid Pete (n.) Aldine Boxing Novels #29 1927

ROSE, HAROLD (stories)

• Europe Today: “Three Hundred Years of Cheese” (ar) Look and Learn incorporating Ranger Jul 16 1966
• Europe Today: The Divided Country (ar) Look and Learn incorporating Ranger Jul 23 1966
• Europe Today: Industry Beyond the Alps (ar) Look and Learn incorporating Ranger Jul 30 1966
• Europe Today: Busy Little Belgium (ar) Look and Learn incorporating Ranger Aug 6 1966
• Europe Today: Victors Against the Sea (ar) Look and Learn incorporating Ranger Aug 13 1966
• Europe Today: This is ’Your Station of the Stars’ (ar) Look and Learn incorporating Ranger Aug 20 1966

ROSE, [Flt. Lieut.] TOMMY (1895-1968) (stories)

• The M.W.3 Undergoes Trials (ar) Modern Wonder Mar 5 1938

ROSENTHAL, BEATRICE (stories)

• Jim the Baboon (ss) The British Girl’s Annual, 1918 1917

ROSIER, W. S. (stories)

• The Camel Chase (ss) The Scout Sep 1 1923
• The Rock-Monkey’s Lair (ss) The Scout Dec 29 1923

ROSMAN, ERIC LYTH (1901-1993); see pseudonyms Elizabeth Chester, Evelyn Day, Ida Melbourne & Stella Stirling (stories)

• Mauleverer’s Peril (na) The Magnet Library v19 No.692 May 14 1921; see under Frank Richards. [Greyfriars]
• Against the Law! (na) The Magnet Library v20 No.725 Dec 31 1921; see under Frank Richards. [Greyfriars]
• The Minstrel Girl (n.) School Friend 1921; see under Anon..
• The Trouble-Maker at Morcove (n.) Schoolgirls’ Own 1921; see under Marjorie Stanton. [Morcove]
• The Mystery Girl of Morcove (n.) Schoolgirls’ Own Library #4 Feb 1923; see under Marjorie Stanton. [Morcove]
• When Jemima Came to Morcove (n.) Schoolgirls’ Own 1925; see under Marjorie Stanton. [Morcove]
• The Girl Who Puzzled Cliff House (n.) Schoolgirls’ Own Library #176 Oct 1928; see under Hilda Richards. [Cliff House]
• When Cliff House Blundered (n.) Schoolgirls’ Own Library #185 Jan 1929; see under Hilda Richards. [Cliff House]
• Their Feud at School (n.) School Girl 1929; see under Hilda Richards. [Cliff House]
• Their Secret Quarrel at School (n.) School Girl 1929; see under Hilda Richards. [Cliff House]
• On Trial at School (n.) Schoolgirls’ Own Library #232 Jan 1930; see under Hilda Richards. [Cliff House]
• She Wanted to Leave Morcove (n.) Schoolgirls’ Own Library #264 Sep 1930; see under Marjorie Stanton. [Morcove]

ROSS HARVEY (stories)

• Beating the City (ss) Chums Jan 24 1914 [A. N. Other]

ROSS, ARTHUR C. (stories)

• A Puzzling Joint (ar) Boy’s Own Paper Dec 1918

ROSS, CARLTON; pseudonym of Edwy Searles Brooks, (1889-1965) (stories)

• Dick Turpin - The Avenger (sl) Scramble Mar 17, Mar 24, Mar 31, Apr 6, Apr 14, Apr 21, Apr 28, May 5 1950 [Dick Turpin]

ROSS, H. E. (stories)

• Search for a ’Brain’ (ar) Collins’ for Boys and Girls Sep 1952

ROSS, MICHAEL (stories)

• The Fabulous Granto Bueno (sl) Collins Young Elizabethan Feb, May 1955
• Gold-Rush Town! (ar) Collins Young Elizabethan Jul 1955

ROSS, PHILIP; pseudonym of Philip R. Eck, (1932- ) (stories)

• Fear! (ss) Chums Sep 1934

ROSTARD, EDMOND (stories)

• The Glory of Cyrano (ex); extract from Cyrano de Bergerac, trans. Brian Hooker, Henry Holt & Co., 1923.

ROTH, EDWIN (stories)

• Be an Inventor: Interview with Professor A. M. Low (iv) Boy’s Own Paper Jan 1954

ROTHA, PAUL (stories)

• Close-up (ar) Collins’ for Boys and Girls Mar 1952

ROTHERFORTH, ELAINE (stories)

• The History of Sally Fatax Girty Goose Lizzie Lean [with Marjorie Beanland] (ms) Mine Jan 1936

ROTHWELL, H(enry) T(albot) (1921- ) (stories)

• Oh, How She Suffered! (ss) Oracle Jun 22 1957

ROUNTREE, HARRY (stories)

• Illustration (il) Boy’s Own Paper Apr 1925

ROUSE, CLIVE (stories)

• In the Fog (ar) Boy’s Own Paper Sep 1930

ROUSE, J. (stories)

• Our “B.O.P.” Draughts Problem No.126 (pz) Boy’s Own Paper Oct 5 1912

ROUSSELET, LOUIS (stories)

• The Son of the Constable of France (sl) Union Jack Oct 6, Oct 13 1881
• The Son of the Constable (sl) Union Jack Oct 20, Oct 27, Nov 3, Nov 10, Nov 17...
• The Drummer-Boy: A Story of the Days of Washington (sl) Boy’s Own Paper Oct 7, Oct 14, Oct 21, Oct 28, Nov 4, Nov 11...
• The Tigerskin. A Story of Central India (sl) Boy’s Own Paper Apr 5, Apr 12, Apr 19, Apr 26, May 3, May 10...

ROVER (stories)

• Round the Football Grounds (ms) The Boys’ Realm Nov 19 1921
• Brief Notes about “Our” Footballers: F. Morris & R. Downs (ms) The Nelson Lee Library Aug 5 1922

“ROVER”

• Round the Football Grounds (cl) The Boys’ Realm Aug 27 1921

ROWE, J. G. (stories)

• The Spectral Hand (ss) The Boys’ Friend Jul 7 1900

ROWE, JOHN G(abriel) (1873-?); see pseudonyms Horace J. Andrews & Horry Andrews (stories)

• The Traitor Guide (na) The Halfpenny Marvel Jul 24 1894
• The Terror of the Bush. A story of the Australian bushrangers (na) Union Jack Library Feb 23 1895
• From Board School to Parliament (nv) The Pluck Library Apr 2 1898
• Honesty Wins (nt) The Boys’ Friend Sep 21 1901; see under Anon..
• The Boy Maroon (nt) The Boys’ Friend Oct 5 1901; see under Anon..
• Leofrig - the Saxon: When Alfred was King (nt) The Boys’ Friend Jan 11 1902; see under Anon..
• The Boy Crusoes (nt) The Boys’ Friend Sep 20 1902; see under Anon..
• The Hero of the Lighthouse (nt) The Boys’ Friend Sep 26 1903; see under Anon..
• Boys of Fellingham (nv) Vanguard Library Jun 8 1907
• Fighting the Flames (nv) Vanguard Library Jul 6 1907
• Siege of the Lighthouse (nv) Vanguard Library Aug 3 1907
• The Lion King’s Secret (nv) Vanguard Library Nov 2 1907
• ’Tween Earth and Sky (nv) Vanguard Library Nov 16 1907
• The Aerial War (nv) Vanguard Library Dec 28 1907
• The Black Tiger Tamer (nv) Vanguard Library Feb 1 1908
• The Buried Cabin (ss) Chums Oct 20 1917
• The Mutiny of the Golden West (ss) Chums Dec 22 1917
• The Salving of the Specie (ss) Chums Apr 3 1920
• Imprisoned in a Submerged Train (ar) Chums Apr 24 1920
• The Island Mine (n.) Lloyd’s Boys’ Adventure Library #16 1921

ROWE, MRS. H. G. (stories)

• Daft Davie (ss) Union Jack Apr 27 1882

ROWE, V. F. (stories)

• Acquaintances, Friends and Folk One Has Met, With Names So Peculiar One Cannot Forget! (ar) Boy’s Own Paper Aug 29 1896

ROWLAND, HENRY; pseudonym of Charles George, (1893-1960) (stories)

• The Little Boy Who Went Out to Swim (pm) Boy’s Own Paper Jul 5 1879

ROWLAND, RICHARD (stories)

• Chasing the Man in the Moon (ar) Modern Wonder Apr 29 1939

ROWLEY, DICK (stories)

• Myself When Young (ar) Chums Mar 3 1931

ROY, DEREK (stories)

• Gag Bag (ms) Boy’s Own Paper Aug 1956

ROYCE, MARJORY (stories)

• Desert Island (sl) The Children’s Newspaper Oct 1, Oct 8, Oct 15, Oct 22, Oct 29, Nov 5, Nov 12, Nov 19, Nov 26, Dec 3, Dec 10, Dec 17, Dec 24, Dec 31 1927

ROYCE, PETER (stories)

• If the Dam Broke (ss) Modern Wonder Dec 4 1937
• The Fire Fighter (ss) Modern Wonder Feb 12 1938

ROYDEN-SMITH, W. (stories)

• The Legend of Li Chee (ss) Cherry Ames Girls Annual 1959; based on Chinese legend.

RUDLAND, ISABEL CHASE (stories)

• To the Spider (pm) Sunday Sep 1914
• The Boy and the Woodpecker (pm) Sunday Dec 1914

RUDOLF, MILDRED DE M. (stories)

• Garden Work in February (ar) The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine Feb 1917
• “A Handful of March Dust” (ar) The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine Mar 1917

RUDOLF, MILDRED de M. (stories)

• Mainly About Potatoes (ar) The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine Apr 1917
• The Joy of Gardening in May (ar) The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine May 1917
• The Beginning of Summer in the Garden (ar) The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine Jun 1917
• Some Features of English Gardens (ar) The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine Jun 1917
• Eradicating Weeds from the Garden (ar) The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine Aug 1917