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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart
Chap Book, The,
(1894–98), semi-monthly little magazine, was founded at Cambridge as a house organ of the publishers Stone and Kimball. Moved with the firm to Chicago after six months, it had already become a separate publication, printing works by Henry James, Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field, Bliss Carman, and Julian Hawthorne, in addition to contributions from such foreign authors as Wells, Beerbohm, Stevenson, Henley, and Yeats. In typography, illustrations, and literary content, the magazine was faintly suggestive of the English fin de siècle publications, and in its ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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