Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 6th December 1881, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1203, *——¦¦ ¦ - ¦- -- • ' ¦'¦ ^ ^^•r " '-'u i!...

THE UNION JACK . Published in Weekly Numbers at Id . ; in Monthly Parts at 6 d . Annual Subscription , post-free , 7 s . ; payable in advance , direct to the Publishers . Messrs . SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , & CO . beg to inform Clergymen and Schoohnasters that they have become principal proprietors of the above publication , THE UNION JACK was established under the Editorship of the late W . H . G . KINGSTON , and is now conducted by Mr . G . A . HENTY , Special War Correspondent of the ' Standard ! IT IS VERY FULLY ILLUSTRATED . The TIME 3 says : — The stories are all of a healthy tendency , for the most part romantic tales of adventure and glory , and the Ulustrations match them . ' MACMILIiAN'S MAGAZIETE , in an Article on the Penny Literature of the Day , says : —* There are some fourteen or fifteen papers published for boys every week . "With few exceptions these papers are silly and . vulgar in tlie extreme , and two or three are positively vicious . . . . THE BEST AND WHOLESOMEST OF THEM ALL 13 UNQUESTIONABLY " THE TJNION JACK . " THE STORIES ABE EXCELLENTLY WRITTEN IN A THOROUGHLY MANLY TONE . ' Extract from the Editor ' s Preface to the Volume of THE UNION JACK for 1881 . My dear Lads the first , I know When that I , last many year of promised you doubte . yoiu d that whether the Secon the assertion d Volume would of The be justified Union Jack . I think should , however be altogethe , that you r better will agree than much with me better that ; the the promise illustrations has been are immensel more than y improved kept . The ; and stories in the are coloured to the full plates as good you — have I don an 't entirely think that new they feature could . In be the course cf the year a change has taken place in tlie proprietorship of the Magazine . I found its weight too heavy for " me Well , and -inow was n a glad firm to , the transfer Magazine it to would Messrs be . Sampson more energetically Low , Marston pushed , Seaxl th e , an and it Rivington could be in , s < those ? cure of that a private , in the person hands . of ! No so al changes teration could will , be however introduced , be mad in the e in present the general volume plan ; of but the in Magazine the next , you and we will shall , I think work , find upon further the lines impro upon vements which it . waa No started historical by fact the , l and ate so Mr . avoid Kingpton filling —na up -mely our , pages to suppl with y healthy scraps , of stirring inform stories ation on of adventure subjects interesting , scrupulously to only correct one as in to a and hundre that d of it our is unfair readers in . the Our extreme theory to is the that great any hoy mass who to devote has a hobby portions will of geb a Magazine a handbook intended devoted for to the his favourite pleasure of subject all to , pQ "am bjects pson interesting Lew , nor myself only to , will a few spare . Upon any pains these in lines our the endeavour Magazine to wil maintain l , as heretofore The TJxion , be conducted Jack in , the and place neIthex wLich Messrs it is . ^ v generally aalmowledged to fill , as being : the best and jolliest Your sincere Magazine friend ever , published fox boys . G . A . HENTY . THE UNION JACK ( VOLUME II . ) : ^ Magazine of Healthy , Stirring Tales of Adventure by Land and Sea for Boys , FULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED PLATES , Ac-Edited by G . A . HENTY , S pecial Correspondent of the Standard , Author of ' The March to Magdala / ' Cornet of Horse / & c . Royal 4 to . cloth , price 7 s . 6 d . * Specimen Copy of THE XTNION" JACK will be sent Poat-Free on application to the Publishers , Messes . SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON " , SEARLE , & RIVINGTON , k CROWN BUILDINGS , 188 FLEET STREET , JE . C . _ ^^ _ 17

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