Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LXXXIV: May to October, 1901: Issues 499 to 504

by Macmillan's Magazine (Editor)

Series:Macmillan's Magazine (Collections and Selections — 85)

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Excerpt from Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. 84: May to October, 1901 Cabbages My dear Polly, one cannot buy cabbages at this time of year, nor hardly anything else either vegetables are so dear and scarce, it is really quite dreadful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct show more the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. show less

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Bookwomble Macmillan's Magazine contains Blackwood's travelogue, "Down the Danube in a Canadian Canoe", recording the experiences he used as the basis for "The Willows".

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Looking through a list of works by Algernon Blackwood on Wikisource, I saw the evocative title of an article published in 1901, and collected in Macmillan's Magazine Volume LXXXIV: Down the Danube in a Canadian Canoe. Lo, and behold! The answer to my idle speculation as to whether his Cosmic Horror story, The Willows, was based on an actual journey he'd undertaken!

Here it is, his account of the six week, 1000 mile journey he and his unnamed companion made from the Danube headwaters to Budapest. While his description of the specific area of marshland (now the Dunajské luhy Protected Landscape Area, Slovakia) is relatively brief, it is evocative and the scenery and its atmosphere clearly made a deep impression on him: many of the show more episodes in the journey are included in the later story. The article is a wonderful travelogue, humorous at times, wistful at others, all in Blackwood's clear and eloquent prose. I'm so pleased I found this 😄

Another article caught my eye in the Index a Southern View of the Negro Problem by H.E. Belin. Full-on white supremacist apologetics, "explaining" why black people were better off under enslavement, and would have been better off at the time of writing it they hadn't achieved emancipation. It's rather stomach-churning, but interesting to see the deep roots of these arguments, still promoted in certain quarters.

My rating is based solely on my enjoyment of Blackwood's article. show less

Oct 27, 2024

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