Talk:Fergus Hume/Archive 1

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 * Adding an "of=" parameter to the reqphoto template will keep the bot from doing this. I have done so. Tim Pierce (talk) 10:34, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Additional info in Italian Wikipedia
Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 12:07, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_Hume
 * http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_una_morsa
 * http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'occhio_di_giada

New article: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
New article, created, at The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. Additional assistance in research would be appreciated, feel free to help out at the article's talk page. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 14:03, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

"He died..."
"He continued to be anxious for success as a dramatist, and at one time Henry Irving was favourably considering one of his plays, but he died before it could be produced."

Who died, Hume or Henry Irving? I assume it was Irving because he died long before Hume did, but this sentence is still confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.97.40.149 (talk) 22:13, 18 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Certainly, yes, Irving died, so i rewrote that thus:
 * "Hume continued to be anxious for success as a dramatist, and the actor-manager Henry Irving was favourably considering a Hume play at one time, but Irving died before it could be produced."
 * This should be specific about the play and the time. Whoever provides the citation should attend to that. Maybe delete as hearsay if neither the work nor the when is identified there. --P64 (talk) 23:48, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Stephen Grail pseudonym, Rommany Romance subtitle
At least in the United States, The Nameless City was published under the name Stephen Grail. Reportedly also with subtitle A Rommany Romance.

It's hard for me to believe that a profit-seeking publisher would use Rommany Romance, rather than Romany Romance or Rommany Rommance, but several contemporary newspaper articles give that spelling. One of them is an advertisement by the publisher, New-York Tribune 1893-09-29, as one of six listed "Recent issues in Harper's Franklin Square Library": (quote) THE NAMELESS CITY. A Rommany Romance. By Stephen Grail. 50 cents. (More than a dozen 1893 US newspaper mentions and notices are split regarding the subtitle but every one states Stephen Grail and none identifies Fergus(son) Hume.) --P64 (talk) 23:56, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Novels and short stories
How many of the listed "Individual works" are novels --in the broad sense, single works of fiction bound in one volume.

How many of the listed "Collections of works" are collections of short stories?

Is there any rationale for the current patterns of redlink titles? --P64 (talk) 23:59, 21 September 2016 (UTC)