[See also under COLLECTIONS OF SHORTER FICTION AND SKETCHES and VERSE-COLLECTIONS.]
i Journals edited by Yates [In chronological order.]
127. The Comic Times. [Weekly. The journal survived only three months, from 11 Aug 1855 to 24 Nov 1855. Price one penny. Not sighted.]
128. The Train. [Monthly. Price one shilling. Appeared from 1 Jan 1856 to (-?) 1858, Yates being editor throughout. Not sighted. See Thomas Archer, The Highway of Letters and Its Echoes of Famous Footsteps (London: Cassell, 1896) , p. 490.]
129. Town Talk. [Weekly. Not listed in British Museum Catalogue or in Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals. Its first, and perhaps only, numbers appeared in May(?)-June 1858. Yates contributed much of the original matter. His sketch of Thackeray in the issue for 12 June 1858 (under the heading ‘Literary Talk’) led to his much publicized expulsion from the Garrick Club. See Introduction above and RE, 2 : 9ff.]
130. Temple Bar. [Monthly. See also under I NOVELS and II COLLECTIONS OF SHORTER FICTION AND SKETCHES. Yates assisted the first editor of the magazine, G.A. Sala, Dec 1860-0ct 1862. From volume 7 (Nov 1862-Jan 1863) Sala’s name ceased to appear on the title page, but the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals conjectures that Sala continued as editor till about the end of volume 9 (Nov 1863) and that Yates – whose name never appeared on the title page – edited volumes 10-21, no. 2 or 3 (Dec 1863-Sept or Oct 1867). Yates’s own contributions, many of which were reprinted in Pages in Waiting (q.v.) are listed in the Wellesley Index. Some of them, under the pseudonym ’ P’5are attributed to him only conjecturally.]
131. Tinsley’s Magazine. [Monthly. See also under I NOVELS. Yates edited the journal from its inception in August 1867 to ca. July 1869. His non-fictional contributions were ’The Flaneur’, l (Jan 1868):756-60; ‘The Flaneur at the Play’, 2(Feb 1868):114-18; ’Mr Charles Dickens’ New Reading’ (signed), 4(Feb 1869): 60-64.]
132. The World. [Weekly. See also under I NOVELS and VIII BOOKS EDITED OR INTRODUCED BY YATES. Yates was editor from the first number (8 July 1874) to his death in 1894. He was also joint proprietor (with E.C. Grenville Murray) in 1874, and sole proprietor thereafter. He was the paper’s drama critic during its first year or so {RE, 2:305ff.). His own contributions, frequently under the pseudonym ’Atlas’, included attacks on Robert Buchanan (’A Scrofulous Scotch Poet’, 26 Sept 1877), and on George Moore (1878); his editorial column also printed and replied to letters of Whistler and Wilde. An article on Trollope (24 Feb 1882) is attributed to Yates in R.C. Terry, Anthony Trollope; the Artist in Hiding (London: Macmillan, 1977, p. 38n).]
133. Time. [Monthly. Yates probably edited the first five volumes (1879-Sept 1881). He himself contributed ‘An Old Club Scandal’, 2 (Jan 1880): 385-92. ]
ii Other journals to which Yates contributed regularly
[The listing is chronological. Yates’s contributions were unsigned except where otherwise indicated.]
134. The Court Journal. [See also under IV VERSE. Yates contributed ‘regular dramatic criticisms, occasional poems, and anything else I liked to send in’. His first contribution appeared in March 1852. He says he was still contributing in 1854 but the last signed contribution I have found was in the number for 25 Dec 1852 (RE, 1:234,254-5).]
135. Bentley’s Miscellany. [See also under II COLLECTIONS OF SHORTER FICTION AND SKETCHES. Yates contributed ‘My New Year’s Eve’ (signed), 33(Jan 1853):290-96 and ‘two or three’ other articles later (RE, 1:254). One of the later articles may be ‘New Year’s Day Adventures of a Box of Bon Bons’, 37(Dec 1854):95-107. This was published under the pseudonym ‘The Flaneur’ (sic) which Yates was to use frequently in the 1860s.]
136. Illustrated London News. [See also under III SHORTER FICTION – UNCOLLECTED, and IV ii VERSE -UNCOLLECTED. As well as verses and stories, Yates, during the period Ca. 1853-ca. 1856, contributed letterpress to accompany wood-engravings (RE, 1:301-2).]
137. Chambers’s Journal. [Yates contributed two or three articles, apparently unsigned, ca.1853-4 (RE, 1:254).]
138. The Weekly Chronicle. [Yates contributed an unsigned column of ‘literary and artistic gossip’ between 3 Feb and 25 Aug 1855. He also supplied dramatic criticism during the same period. See RE, 1:265-6.]
139. The Illustrated Times. [Yates contributed a regular weekly column, ’The Lounger at the Clubs’, from 30 June 1855 to 12 December 1863. From 18 59 he wrote only parts of the column and, from about mid-1863, sometimes none of it at all. Yates’s long connexion with the paper ended acrimoniously: see Gordon N. Ray, The Letters and Private Papers of W.M. Thackeray, 4:416-17, and Illustrated Times, 26 Dec 1863, p. 406. Yates’s contributions had included ‘graphic’ sketches of the Palmer murder trial (May 1856) and articles on the mystery of the authorship of Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) -cf. RE, 2:132,167.]
140. The Inverness Courier. [Not sighted. Yates says in RE (1:285) that the ’London Correspondent’s’ letter which he contributed, beginning in 1855, was ’for years a regular, if small, source of income’.]
141. Daily News. [Not sighted. Yates contributed occasional dramatic criticisms for ’some twelve months’, ca. 1856, then become sole drama critic and assisted in the paper’s book-reviewing, at a salary of £4 per week. Among the books he reviewed were Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor and Aytoun’s Bothwell (RE, 1:285-6). He remained on the staff till some time after 1860 and was still accepting occasional assignments as late as 1873 (ibid., 2:passim).]
142. The Welcome Guest. [See also under II COLLECTIONS OF SHORTER FICTION AND SKETCHES, and under III SHORTER FICTION – UNCOLLECTED. Apart from items listed there, including one poem, Yates contributed ’The Late Mr. Albert Smith’, 2, no. 37(1860):216-17.]
143. All the Year Round. [See also under I NOVELS, II COLLECTIONS OF SHORTER FICTION AND SKETCHES, and III SHORTER FICTION – UNCOLLECTED. Yates made frequent contributions in 1860-1, 1863-5, and 1872-3. His contributions to 1870 are listed in Ella Ann Oppenlander’s unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Dickens’ ‘All the Year Round’: Descriptive Index and Contributors List (University of Texas at Austin, 1978). To this list should be added two articles entitled ‘In Charge’, All the Year Round, 1: 300-305 (23 July 1859) and 1:327-34 (30 July 1859), mentioned in RE, 1:116-17. Among Yates’s non-fictional contributions after 1870 is the article ‘A Cornish Carnival’, n.s. 7: (30 Mar 1872):417-21 – cf. RE, 2:215.]
144. The [Belfast] Northern Whig. [Not sighted. Yates ‘for some time’ contributed a weekly column, ‘The Looker-on in London’, commencing in the spring of 1862. His obituary of Thackeray in the Northern Whig was reprinted in the Daily Telegraph, 25 Dec 1863, p. 5. Cf. RE, 2:72,81.]
145. The Morning Star. [Yates contributed a weekly column, ‘The Flaneur’, ca. 1864-7; also ‘leading articles and reviews’ (RE, 2:89).]
146. The Evening Star. [Yates, under the pseudonym of ‘QT, contributed stories and essays to the series ‘Readings by Starlight’, ca. 1864 (?)-67 (?) : cf. RE, 2:89-90.]
147. The Observer. [Not sighted. Yates was a regular contributor in 1871-2: cf. RE, 2: 234-5.]
148. The Queen. [Yates contributed a weekly column ‘Five O’clock Tea’, under the pseudonym ‘Mrs. Seaton’. The column ran from 17 Feb 1872 (vol. 51) to 17 Aug 1872 (vol. 52).]
149. New York Herald. [Yates was the paper’s European correspondent, 1873-7 5, on a salary of £1200 per year (RE, 2:271ff.).]
150. Fortnightly Review. [Yates contributed two signed articles, ’About Kensington Gore’, n.s. 39 (Mar 1886):398-403, and ’Bygone Shows’, n.s. 39 (May 1886):633-47; also a segment of the series ‘Fine Passages in Prose and Verse, Selected by Living Men of Letters’, n.s. 42(Nov 1887):736 -9 .]
iii Annuals to which Yates contributed
151. The Keepsake. 1853, 1856-7. [See under IV VERSE.]
152. The Broadway Annual. 1868. [Yates contributed a sketch ’In the Season’, pp. 63-81