418 · The Man in Cold Storage · Bruce Angrave · ss; short sf spoof set in 2457 where a man is reawakened (from 1957) only to discover World War 93 is about to start.
3 · Those Jolly Coaching Christmases · Thomas Burke · ar
15 · Ten Months in a Strip Gang · Margot Bennett · ar; a look at the current run of comic strips in the newspapers including Jane, Garth, Buck Ryan, Beelzebub Jones and Ruggles.
21 · The Exploded Monarch · W. Van Leer · ss; fairy tale.
85 · Gulliver Plans a Voyage to the Moon · Lemuel Gulliver · cl; outcome of a discussion with Kenneth Gatland.
99 · Murder in Fact and Fiction · Henry T. F. Rhodes · ar; a look at the volume of murders in fiction compared to reality and in the rise of forensics in real detection.
104 · Influenza-Old Style · Roger North · ex 1682
from The Autobiography of Hon. Roger North.
105 · Influenza-New Style · Nathaniel Gubbins · ar Sunday Express November 28 1943
106 · The Prisoner Who Escaped · Charles Douglas-Home · ss; author aged 5½ and doubtless the same who became the editor of The Times from 1982-5.
315 · It Isn’t Easy to Be an Assassin · V. S. Pritchett · ar
320 · Changing the Map · S. P. Kernahan · ar; considers major activities which would revolutionize life on Earth, e.g. watering the Sahara, thawing the North Pole and even a Channel Tunnel.
99 · When Dr. John Met Dr. Johnson · Dennis Yates · ar; a mock interview between C.E.M. Joad and Samuel Johnson. It’s illustrated by James Boswell but this is a modern-day Boswell from New Zealand.
104 · The Survivor · John le Maistre · ss; set in ancient Egypt - the fate of the man who reports back to the Pharaoh that the Israelites crossed the Red Sea and escaped.
203 · The Jewels · Guy de Maupassant; translated by G. W. Stonier · ss
translated from the French (“Les Bijoux”, Gil Blas, March 27, 1883 as by Maufrigneuse).
213 · Kate Greenaway: a Gentle Reformer · [uncredited] · ar
292 · How to Kill a Thousand Men · Gerald Kersh · ss
295 · The Girl Who Went by Train · [uncredited] · lt; a letter written in 1862 and reproduced like a story showing the perils of a young girl travelling by train.
137 · An Expedition to the Moon · E. Botting · pi; photographs showing strange things on Earth from odd angles with a commentary suggesting a moon voyage.
147 · How to Tell an Englishman from an American · Aleister Crowley · vi
Lilliput [v20 #1, #115, January 1947] (1/-, 120pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) []
With this issue the page count returns to 120, including 20pp of adverts. There is a change in formatting to the Contents Page and Contributors’ Page but the main body of the magazine remains unchanged.
250 · An Exchange of Compliments · Ronald Searle & Jean · lt; letters between Searle and a pupil at Oxford about St. Trinian’s.
252 · The Midnight Visitor, or Something Funny in the Cowshed · [uncredited] · ss; spoof melodrama applied to a series of old paintings in the pictorial feature.
341 · “Listen to the Next Instalment…” · Alan Jenkins · ar; about the Dick Barton radio series.
346 · The Sad Story of the Tay Bridge · William McGonagall · pm (r); reprints both “The Opening of the Tay Bridge” (1877) and “The Tay Bridge Disaster” (1879).