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Lilliput [v 4 #5 (#23), May 1939] (6d, 104pp, digest e/s, cover by Walter Trier) 441 · The Nude Is Dying Out · P. Wyndham Lewis · ar 446 · Crisis to You · Frederick Karinthy · ar 457 · Christians to the Lions · Naomi Mitchison · ss 464 · A Master of Political Art: John Heartfield · The Editors · ar; introduction to photographic section. 473 · We Are Growing Old · Ritchie Calder · ar 479 · Pfoof! · F. W. Thomas · hu 482 · Me and My Wife · Max Miller · hu 485 · Unchanging London · The Editors · ia; feature comparing 1930s London with the portrayal by Doré in the 1870s. 501 · How to Become and M.P. · John Doe · ar 507 · The Young Wife · Colette · ss Colliers Feb 25 ’39 511 · Versatile Verses · Nicolas Bentley · pm 521 · I Lost Alfred · Germaine Beaumont · ss 525 · The Sultan, the Monkey and the Banana [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss 537 · The Cornet Player · T. Thompson · ss 541 · The Key · Hasse Zetterström · ss
Lilliput [v 4 #6 (#24), June 1939] (6d, 108pp, digest e/s, cover by Walter Trier) 545 · The Beauty of Life, 1. The Arts · James Agate · ar 551 · From a Lady’s Diary · Ladislas Lakatos · ms 561 · Beauty of Life, 2. Love and Friendship · Margaret Lane · ar 568 · More Verses · Nicolas Bentley · pm 577 · Beauty of Life, 3. The Pleasure of Travel · Peter Fleming · ar 582 · There Are Two Possibilities · Ladislas Bekeffi · ar 585 · The Author in Love · William Saroyan · vi 587 · Chapman’s Secret · Hasse Zetterström · ss 605 · Beauty of Life, 4. Work and Leisure · Ellen Wilkinson · ar 609 · If a Man Answers, Hang Up · Daniel Fuchs · ss 610 · Photographer of Nudes: John Everard · The Editors · ia 625 · Beauty of Life, 5. Books · Frank Swinnerton · ar 632 · This One Is Father · John Holmes · pm 641 · Beauty of Life, 6. Food and Wine · Hubert Phillips · ar 644 · Love and Length · Sandor Hunyadi · ss
Lilliput [v 5 #1 (#25), July 1939] (6d, 100pp, digest e/s, cover by Walter Trier) 1 · The Life of an Airwoman · Amy Johnson · ar 9 · How It Should Be Done · Marten Cumberland · ss 19 · The Life of an Artist · P. Wyndham Lewis · ar 23 · Modern Fables · James Thurber · hu New Yorker Apr 29 ’39 26 · Brighter Royal Academy Pictures · Lord Berners · ar 35 · Tin Soldiers · Val Gielgud · ar 41 · The Love-Sick Jasmine · Leslie Lancaster · vi 59 · The Life of an Actress · Beatrix Lehmann · ar 63 · The Good Old Days · Ladislas Lakatos · ss 75 · Unemotional England · J. B. Priestley · ar 79 · The Old School Tie · Osbert Sitwell · ar 91 · Broadcasting and Propaganda · Humbert Wolfe · ss 95 · The Life of a Politician · Vyvyan Adams · ar
Lilliput [v 5 #2 (#26), August 1939] (6d, 104pp, digest e/s, cover by Walter Trier) Called a special “Love Number”. 101 · What Love Means to a Psychologist · Dr. Harold Dearden · ar 106 · What They Say at Breakfast · Antonia White · hu 111 · Breaking it off · A. Stella · ss 121 · Love in History · Naomi Mitchison · ar 137 · Love and the Biologist · Julian Huxley · ar 143 · Sidelights · Ernest Szép · ar 161 · Love in Society · Lady Mary Pakenham · ar 165 · Love Belowstairs · Monica Dickens · ss 177 · First Love · George Edinger · ar 193 · Courting Love · T. Thompson · ss 195 · Married Love · Kathleen Hewitt · ss 199 · True Love · Peter Mendelssohn · ss
Lilliput [v 5 #3 (#27), September 1939] (6d, 104pp, digest e/s, cover by Walter Trier) 205 · Somewhere a Man Is Sitting · H. W. van Loon · ar 208 · For and Against Sport · Leslie Lancaster · ms 211 · “Thanks, I’ve Had a Marvellous day” · Ladislas Lakatos · ss 221 · The Bureaucrats · Michael Zoshchenko · ss 224 · Phrases from the Life of a Daughter · Anthony Shirley · ms 227 · Black Money · Edward Stevenson · ss 241 · The Wreck · James Hanley · ss 247 · The Liars’ Club · Paul Farago · vi 271 · Lost Dog · László Gömöri · ss 281 · The Right to Die · Ritchie Calder · ar 288 · Praise Famous Men · John Beynon · ss 290 · Just a Mood · Theodora Benson · ss 301 · Our Countryside · S. P. B. Mais · ar 306 · A Reader’s Warning · Harold Page · ss
Lilliput [v 5 #4 (#28), October 1939] (6d, 104pp, digest e/s, cover by Walter Trier) 309 · Discontented Women ar Dangerous · C. E. M. Joad · ar 325 · The Cannibals · A. Awerchenko · ss 333 · Sea Spray · T. Thompson · ss 336 · The Dictator · Marcantonio Rimini · vi 345 · Midnight Visit · Robert Arthur · vi Colliers Jun 17 ’39 349 · The Basking Shark · Alfred Haw · ss 369 · A Story from Spain · Ernest Hemingway · vi 373 · Our Secret Prisons · Cicely McCall · ar 385 · The Lost Policeman · Milward Kennedy · ss 391 · The Crisis · Michael Zoshchenko · ss 394 · The Invention of the Age [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss 405 · Poor Henriette · André Maurois · ss 411 · Fate in Five ords · Alfred Polgar · vi
Lilliput [v 5 #5 (#29), November 1939] (6d, 96pp, digest e/s, cover by Walter Trier) 413 · If Only it Were True · Harold Masters · ss; fantasy about the death of Hitler’s father, childless. 419 · Mr. Kaplan Bares His Teeth [Hyman Kaplan] · Leonard Q. Ross · ss 436 · The First Raid · George Byland · ss 438 · Army Sidelights · John Aye · ar 449 · Woman as Soldier · Christian Ross · ex; about Britain’s first woman soldier in the 1690s. 454 · Statistics · Frederick Karinthy · ar 466 · War in A.D. 991 · Anon. · ar 469 · The Storm Broke · Hugo Vahlberg · ss 472 · War with Napoleon · Comte Philippe de Ségur · ex (r) 481 · Dangerous Festival · Frederick Hazlitt Brennan · ss 485 · The Country Lover · E. H. Clements · ss 497 · Sunk Without Trace · Lt.-Comdr. von Spiegel of Peckelsheim · ss 501 · A Happy Man · H. E. Bates · ss
Lilliput [v 5 #6 (#30), December 1939] (6d, 96pp, digest e/s, cover by Walter Trier) 509 · The British at War · The Editors · ms 517 · Civilian Generals · Conrad Phillips · ss 527 · Kaplan’s Birthday [Hyman Kaplan] · Leonard Q. Ross · ss 534 · The Agony at Berchtesgaden · Humbert Wolfe · pm 543 · The Actress’s Horse · Sacha Guitry · ss 549 · Conversation · Frederick Karinthy · ss 559 · The Slyness of Youth · Kathleen Hewitt · ss 563 · Urgent, Urgent... · John Pudney · pm 564 · I’m Stupid When Fit · James Laver · ss 575 · The Hero of Sussemilken · Walter Schoenstedt · ss 581 · How I Won the Iron Cross · Erwin Blumenfeld · ar 591 · After the War · James Agate · ar 596 · The Tin of Tunny · Jean-Jacques Bernard · ss 599 · What Does it Matter? · Alfred Polgar · vi
Lilliput [v 6 #1 (#31), January 1940] (7d, 96pp+, digest, cover by Walter Trier) Cover price increased to 7d. Editorial notes that circulation is 300,000, the largest of any British monthly magazine. iii · The War Price of Lilliput · The Editors · ed 1 · Goodwill... · Hewlett Johnson (Dean of Canterbury) · ar 5 · Peace in the Trenches · Edward Dearing · ar 9 · What Soldiers Sang... · George Edinger · ar 21 · My Baby · Frederick Karinthy · ss 25 · The Guide · Ronald Simpson · ss; ghost story; author aged 15. 37 · The Broadcast · Henry Cecil · ss 40 · Eros · Olga Katzin · pm 42 · Why She Deceived Him · Ferenc Molnar · ar 44 · Dream-Visions in Photographs · The Editors · ar; introduction to photo sequence of work by Angus McBean. 59 · Interview in Hell · Leslie Lancaster · ss 69 · Planet in the Palm · Ian Coster · ss 73 · Don’t Worry Mother · Kenneth Tomlinson · ss; wins £10 as best war story of the month. 85 · Christmas Pie · Richard Transit · ar 89 · The Cliché Expert Testifies on Love · Frank Sullivan · hu 94 · The Dream of an M.P. · Anon. · ss
Lilliput [v 6 #2 (#32), February 1940] ed. Stefan Lorant (Pocket Publications, 7d, 96pp, digest) [PSP] 97 · Crisis in Britain · George Edinger · ar 103 · New Year Resolutions · James Agate · ar 107 · Food Rationing · John Pudney · pm 108 · Disappearing Suits · Webb Miller · vi 117 · Kaplan to the Rescue [Hyman Kaplan] · Leonard Q. Ross · ss 124 · Father of Air Raids · P. L. Farago · ar 133 · Travellers in Distress · Marcantonio Rimini · ss 138 · For Love of Country · Christopher S. Youd · ss; wins £10 as best war story of the month. 149 · Three Stories · Ferenc Molnár · gp; My Invention, vi; The Man Under the Bed, vi; The Saving Clause, vi 165 · The Innocent Eye · James Hanley · ss 169 · Russia Has Cars Now · Michael Zoshchenko · ss 181 · How To Be Funny · Vic Oliver · ar 186 · What They Say About Their Rations · Kathleen Hewitt · ms 189 · My Doctor Hates Me · R. C. Cole · ar 192 · The Contributors to This Issue · Misc. · bg
Lilliput [v 6 #3 (#33), March 1940] ed. Stefan Lorant (Pocket Publications, 7d, 92pp, digest) [PSP] 193 · Humour in the House · A. P. Herbert, M.P. · ar 199 · What She Laughs At · Antonia White · ms 202 · Spring in Sight · John Pudney · pm 211 · Humour Through The Ages · George Edinger · ms 218 · Colonels Have a Sense of Humour · Misc. · ms 227 · He Had Old Braces · Hasse Zetterström · ss 233 · Advice to a Traveller · William Saroyan · vi 243 · Moth Balls · T. Thompson · vi 247 · Discarded Paramour · T. W. Parkhouse · ss 250 · I Look Like Myself · Ladislas Lakatos · vi 259 · My Best Story · Misc. · hu 262 · The Telegram · Peter de Polnay · ss 275 · Food and the Future · Ritchie Calder · ar 280 · Mrs. Rumbold’s Gospel · H. L. V. Fletcher · ss 284 · The Contributors to This Issue · Misc. · bg
Lilliput [v 6 #4 (#34), April 1940] (7d, 126pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) 285 · Can We Understand the British? · André Maurois · ar 289 · Walking in Black-Out, 1940 · Olga Katzin · pm 291 · The Silence of the Sea · James Hanley · ss 294 · Democracy and Dictatorship · Leslie Lancaster · ar 303 · Women in Spring · Clarisse Meitner · ss 306 · My Idea of Happiness After the War · Various · pi; portfolio of cartoons by David Langdon, Nicholas Bentley, Maurice Hall, Heath Robinson, Wyndham Robinson, Walter Goetz. 319 · Send the Public Schools to Germany · Osbert Sitwell · ar 323 · Letters to a Lawyer · John Brophy · ss 335 · G. B. Shaw and the Amazon · Odette Keun · ar 340 · Thing, Odette, Think! · G. B. Shaw · ar; response to Keun’s article. 351 · He Was on the Other Side · Ivan Roe · ss 355 · And We Waited... · A. Bronkhorst · vi 357 · A Letter to God · Roda Roda · ss 367 · Can We Make Life? · J. B. S. Haldane · ar 370 · How They Feel About the War · Kathleen Hewitt · ms 373 · Criminal Investigation · Frederick Karinthy · ss
Lilliput [v 6 #5 (#35), May 1940] (7d, 126pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) 377 · The Cartoonist in War · David Low · ar 385 · I Am No Hero · Jean-Jacques Bernard · ss 395 · The Personal History of a Mouse · Gerald Kersh · ss 401 · Public Schoolgirls Carry On · Alan Jenkins · ss 411 · The Javanese Hat · Margery Sharp · ss 417 · Foreign Customs · Michael Zoshchenko · ar 427 · Rolling River · Kathleen Hewitt · ss 443 · They Censored - · George Edinger · ar 446 · The Victors · Roda Roda · ss 459 · It’s Lovely to Be Young · Peter Opie · ar 462 · It’s Lovely to Be Middle-aged · James Agate · ar
Lilliput [v 6 #6 (#36), June 1940] (7d, 126pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) 469 · An Author Kills a Country · Osbert Sitwell · ar 475 · What They Say About Their Children · Kathleen Hewitt · ms 485 · A Tale About a Wife · William Saroyan · ss 489 · The Colours of the Regiment · John Timothy · ss 501 · How to Break It Off · Marcantonio Rimini · ar 505 · A Visit to the Rich · Peter de Polnay · ss 517 · The Captain · Leslie Halward · ss 521 · Week-end Wit’s End · Michael Barsley · pm 523 · Howlers from Smith Minor · Cecil Hunt · hu 533 · The Scientist Speaks · Ritchie Calder · ar 539 · Wanted: A Goldfish · Stephen Leacock · hu 540 · Father of Dance Bands · George Edinger · ar 549 · A Guilty Conscience · Dennis Lipton · ss; pen-name for Czech story writer. 553 · Bunny · Frederick Karinthy · ss
Lilliput [v 7 #1 (#37), July 1940] (8d, 92pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) Cover price now 8d. 1 · The First Lilliput · George Edinger · ar; about The Lilliputian Magazine first published in 1752 by Oliver Goldsmith. 4 · My Father Gets a Haircut · Anor Lin · ss; author is 11-year-old daughter of Lin Yutang. 6 · Nothing Missing · Stephen Leacock · ar 15 · The Story of George Pandle · Leslie Halward · ss 18 · A Letter to the Trenches · Timothy Shy · ss 22 · The Kiss · Richard Llewellyn · ar 31 · Figures About Marriage · Guy Ramsey · ar 37 · What the Tree Said · Leslie Lancaster · ss; fantasy of post-life thoughts as a man’s conscience is absorbed by a tree. 47 · The Cliché Expert Testifies on Eating · Frank Sullivan · hu 51 · The Magic Slippers · Jacques des Gachons · ss 63 · Strange Music · Malachi Whitaker · ss 79 · A Natural Solution · Clarisse Meitner · ss
Lilliput [v 7 #2 (#38), August 1940] ed. Stefan Lorant (Pocket Publications, 8d, 92pp, digest) [PSP] 85 · Pleasure Boat · E. H. Clements · nf 89 · The Greedy Milkwoman · Michael Zoshchenko · ss 92 · Advice on Beauty, 10 B.C. · Ovid · ms (r) 93 · Advice on Beauty, A.D. 1940 · I. Priestnall-Holden · ms 94 · Universal Quarry · Sutherland Smith · pl 103 · Death Sentence · Edward Stevenson · ss 108 · The Professional Secret · Dan Moyle · ar 119 · The Drummer Boy · T. O. Beachcroft · ss 123 · Edward Dearest · Virginia Graham · pm 125 · When the Devil Was Sick Could He Prove It? · Ogden Nash · pm (r) 126 · What They Say When You Are Ill · Kathleen Hewitt · ms 135 · The Breadwinner · Leslie Halward · ss 139 · A Girl I Shall Always Remember · Alec Waugh · ss 151 · What They Say About War · Misc. · ms 156 · The Friends · Ferenc Molnár · ss 158 · Timely Thoughts · Michael Barsley · ms 167 · The Divine Sarah · James Agate · ar 171 · Agony Column · Dudley Hoys · ss 176 · The Contributors to This Issue · Misc. · bg
Lilliput [v 7 #3 (#39), September 1940] (8d, 92pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) From this issue Kaye Webb’s name is added as Assistant Editor. 177 · The Real Englishman · J. B. Priestley · ar 181 · The True France · André Maurois · ar 186 · A Drop of Water · Ladislas Lakatos · ar 195 · A Job for Charlie · Leslie Halward · ss 201 · I Remember— · Leslie Henson · ar 211 · Farewell in the Bus · Eileen Winncroft · ss 216 · Ten Shillings Each · C. B. Wind · ss 227 · The Father · Gerald Brosnan · ss 231 · Air Raid Shelter · T. Thompson · ss 233 · Jean d’Angleterre · Ivor Brown · pm 234 · A Wolf Replies · Harold Masters · ms 243 · She is so Cynical! · Marghanita Laski · ss 247 · Afternoon Tea · Peter de Polnay · ss 259 · My Brand of Socialism · James Agate · ar 264 · The Reaper · Michael Barsley · pm 265 · The Emperor in the Forest · Ferenc Molnar · ss
Lilliput [v 7 #4 (#40), October 1940] (8d, 92pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) From this issue the names of all editorial staff are no longer listed. 269 · Courage · Harold Dearden · ar 273 · The Bravest Man I Know · James Hanley · ss 277 · The Bravest Woman I Know · Rosita Forbes · ss 287 · Home is the Sailor · Leslie Halward · ss 293 · The Man Who’d Had Haggis · Ronald Smith · ss 303 · A Fugitive I Am · Reginald Moore · ss 307 · Limericks for Wartime · Edward Lear · pm 309 · The Bad Soldier · Tom Wintringham · ss 319 · James · Hasse Zetterström · ss 326 · A Lost Vegetable · E. K. Shore · vi 335 · Does War Stimulate the Arts? · Ethel Smyth, Dame · ar 341 · Being Happy · Domhnall O’Conaill · ss 351 · Collector’s Piece · Howard Wilson · ss 357 · On a Summer’s Day · Valentine Ackland · ss 359 · That Reminds Me · Ogden Nash · pm
Lilliput [v 7 #5 (#41), November 1940] (8d, 92pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) 361 · Indelible Mademoiselle · Dorothea Martin · ss 377 · I’m Angry Because— · William Connor · ms 381 · I’m Happy Because— · Clara Novello-Davies · ar; author is mother of Ivor Novello. 393 · Mechanic in an Air Raid · Joseph Cotton · ar 398 · The Wonderful Dog · Michael Zoshchenko · ss 409 · The Mirror · Margery Sharp · ss Colliers May 11 ’40 416 · Winston Churchill—Soldier · Lt. R. M. Smyth · ar 425 · Courtship · Fred Kitchen · ss 429 · A.R.P. · Sir John Anderson · ar 430 · First Day in Hospital · V. A. D. · ar; pseudonym of a writer who had recently written a successful book of life below stairs. 441 · War is Hell, But- · Kathleen Hewitt · ms 445 · What Schoolboys Write · Sinclair Short · ss; author aged 13.
Lilliput [v 7 #6 (#42), December 1940] (8d, 96pp, digest, cover by Walter Trier) 449 · An American on the Future of England · Negley Farson · ar 455 · Daddy · M. Zoshchenko · ss 465 · Brave Little Woman · Simon Harcourt-Smith · ss 472 · A Penny Saved is Impossible · Ogden Nash · pm 481 · Three Armenian Stories · William Saroyan · ss 497 · The Middle Years · James Thurber · ss 503 · Just Like a Mother · T. Thompson · vi 513 · What I Want After the War · Lord Dunsany, Alan Jenkins, Edward Hulton & Stella Gibbons · sy 529 · Witches’ Frolic · H. L. V. Fletcher · ss 535 · Ode to a bed · Olga Katzin · pm

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