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

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Thanks very much, Stephen.  I'll send this along to my friend.

Were you able to look here:

http://c19index.chadwyck.com/marketing/index.jsp

It seems to include Poole's and Wellesley.



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> 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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> 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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