Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• February 10th - Russian fleet attacked by Japanese in Manchuria: war declared
• April 30th - World Fair in St Louis, USA opened
• August 3rd - Dalai Lama forced to flee as British capture Lhasa
• Theodore Roosevelt elcted 26th US President
• Freud's Psychopathology of Everyday Life published
• J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan first performed

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April 30th

• A Neopolitan Maytime Festival
• The Kings Visit to Ireland
• The Great City Fire
• The Toilsome march of the Japanese Towards the Yalu

The Eternal City's Welcome To The First Republican In Europe

A Relic of the Last Human Sacrifice in India

The Military Guard at the West Railway Station, Buda-Pesth

Hungarian Railway Strike

Lilliput in the Hands of Brobdignag

Aliens in England The Immigrant Problem

A Peaceful Invasion of England: Landing Practice at Whale Island

The Prince and Princess of Wales in Vienna

December 3rd

• General Nogi of Japan
• The Russo-Japanese War on the eve of Japan's victory at Port Arthur, including illustrations of a torpedo boat being smuggled to the Russian Navy,
• Russian submarine at Vladivostok
• illustrations of the visit of King Carlos to the Duke of Orleans, and his visit to Covent Garden
• Ladies' Pages with fashions and jewellery,
• full page photo montage of Admiral Sir John Fisher and "vessels he can well do without",
• a full page illustration "A Preliminary to the Battle of the Sha-Ho: A Japanese Turning Movement",
• Chess column,
• Fur-bearing animals used in a lady's Jacket,
• photos from the war, including the Japanese 3rd Divisional Camp, and of Japanese war balloons,
• 2 page illustration of a funeral for a fallen Japanese officer in Yokohama,
• more photos including a Japanese execution,
• full page ad for Cadbury's Cocoa, full page ad for Lever's Soap Powder, half-page ad for Perrier water,



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December 10th

• with cover story on the Russian-Japanese war at Port Arthur,
• Railway and steamship ads,
• Theatre and music reviews,
• Smithfield Agricultural Club Show,
• Full page illustration of the sinking of the Rurik,
• photos from the war,
• Ladies' Pages with fashions and jewellery,
• more photographs from Port Arthur with several full page,
• full page Fry's Cocoa ad, full page Sunlight Soap ad, full page Parisian Diamond ad, half page Van Houten's Cocoa ad with Santa Claus, Perrier Water ad, Swan Fountain Pens ad, Dewar's White Label ad

Christmas Number 1904

48 pages plus full colour front cover and back cover advertisement for Pears.

There are many beautiful illustrations inside and numerous advertisements from companies such as Lux, Bovril and Bird's Custard Powder.

There are four wonderful Lawson Wood Plates showing different Christmas traditions in a comical and prehistoric light!

This magazine measures approx. 11½" x 16"

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