request for help -- looking for a story (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Stephen Goranson]

I didn't find it in several literature indexes, including Poole's and Wellesley (Victorian), both of which are listed as sources in the Dictionary of National Biography article on Lewis.

The article includes the following: "Using his real name, Lewis also wrote fiction for various journals, including Belgravia (1884–5), Temple Bar (1884), Leisure Hour (1884), London Society (1885–6), the Cornhill Magazine (1886–7), Living Age (1893), and the Saturday Review, where he was on the staff from about 1855 to 1866.".

The first source listed for the biography is a Dover edition:
C. [Charles] Reynolds, introduction, in Hoffmann's modern magic, ed. C. Reynolds, facs. edn (1978) ·
I haven't seen that, but, if you don't already have it, it might be worth a try.

Stephen

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Subject: [ADS-L] request for help -- looking for a story (UNCLASSIFIED)

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I am looking for bibliographic information for a short story called "The
Wizard's Tower", written by Angelo J. Lewis in the late 19th century.
If anyone on the list has access to one of the various indexes of
British Fiction through their institution and could send me the
citation, I'd be very grateful.

Background:  Angelo Lewis was a barrister and writer in England.  He is
best known today for a series of conjuring books he wrote from ca. 1880
- 1920 ("Modern Magic," "More Magic," "Later Magic," "Latest Magic",
etc.) under the pseudonym "Professor Lewis Hoffmann".
http://geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Louis_Hoffmann

A friend of mine in the UK who happens to be the editor of the Magic
Circular (house organ of the Magic Circle, the national UK magic
society) is researching Lewis's fiction.  I've been helping him tease
stuff out of Google Books and Hathi Trust (some stuff that is available
to me is restricted in the UK; dunno why as it all is well over 100
years old).  We've both run across references to the story, but can't
find it online, or even where it was originally printed.  There is a
fair chance the story was in "Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature
Science and Arts".  It could have been published under the names "Angelo
Lewis", "Angelo J Lewis", "Angelo John Lewis", or (not very likely)
"Prof Hoffmann", "Professor Hoffmann", or "Professor Lewis Hoffmann".

Again, thanks very much.

Bill
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