Number 102. June, 1899.

Contents of this Issue

• An Extraordinary Story, by Neil Wynn Williams
• The Sinking of the "Merrimac", by Richmond Pearson Hobson
• A Master of Craft, by W. W. Jacobs
• In Nature's Workshop: VI. Animal and Vegetable Hedgehogs, by Grant Allen
• In a Tight Fix, by Victor L. Whitechurch
• Switzerland from a Balloon, by Charles Herbert
• Laura, by Basil Marnan
• A Peep into 'Punch': VI. 1870 to 1874, by J. Holt Schooling
• Hilda Wade: IV. The Episode of the Man who Would Not Commit Suicide, by Grant Allen
• Rearing a Derby Winner
• Wanted--A Bicycle, by Bernard Capes
• Animal Actualities: XIII. A Chip of the Old Block, illustrated by J. A. Shepherd
• Illustrated Interviews: LXV. Miss Ellen Beach Yaw, by M. Dinorben Griffith
• The Good That Came of It!, by Annie O. Tibbits
• Humour in the Law Courts, by "Briefless"
• The Benevolent Bus, by John Oxenham
• From Behind the Speaker's Chair: LII., viewed by Henry W. Lucy
• The Tax on Moustaches, by H. J. W. Dam
• The Rontgen Rays in Warfare, by Herbert C. Fyfe
• A Unique Mining Contest, by M. Donaldson
• Made of Money, by George Dollar
• The Seven Dragons: IV. The Ice Dragon, by E. Nesbit
• Curiosities
• Index to Volume 17

About the Strand Magazine

A monthly magazine founded by George Newnes. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950. Probably the most popular of the 'illustrated periodicals' popular in late Victorian and Edwardian times, the Strand Magazine had a regular circulation of over 400,000 copies a month for many years.

The typical Strand Magazine issue contains a mixture of serialised stories for adults, general interest non-fiction, and material for children. Much well-known fiction was first serialised in the Strand Magazine, most notably the short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The magazine is highly illustrated, normally containing well over 100 illustrations in every issue.

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