Bystander (magazine)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". The Bystander was a British weekly tabloid magazine including reviews, topical drawings, cartoons and short stories. Published from Fleet Street, it was started in 1903 by George Holt Thomas.[1] Its first editor, William Comyns Beaumont, later edited the magazine again from 1928 to 1932.
It was popularScript error: No such module "Unsubst". during World War I for its publication of the "Old Bill" cartoons by Bruce Bairnsfather. The magazine also employed artists including H. M. Bateman, W. Heath Robinson, Howard Elcock, Helen McKie, Arthur Watts, Will Owen, Edmund Blampied and L. R. Brightwell.
It published some of the earliest stories of Daphne du Maurier (Beaumont's niece), as well as short stories by Saki, including "Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped".[2]
The magazine ran until 1940, when it merged with The Tatler (titled Tatler & Bystander until 1968).[3]
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Further reading
- Mr. Comyns Beaumont, Obituaries, The Times, January 2, 1956
- Mr. Comyns Beaumont, Mr. Richard Viner, The Times, January 13, 1956
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