Cosmopolis (magazine)
Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review was a multi-lingual literary magazine published between January 1896 and November 1898. The lead edition of Cosmopolis was published in London, but local editions of the magazine were also published in Berlin, Paris, and Saint Petersburg.
Each edition of Cosmopolis contained non-fiction articles, literary reviews, and new fiction in English, French, and German; later editions also contained material in Russian.
Cosmopolis was edited by Fernand Ortmans and was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin. It had a circulation of approximately 20,000.
History
Cosmopolis appearsed simultaneously in several countries and in three languages, with a different publisher via a licensing agreement. Its general management was split between Paris and London, or so Ortmans suggested in his society columns for Le Temps. Born in Brussels on May 9, 1861, he entertained aristocrats and writers in a mansion located on Longchamp street, and later married a widow, heiress to the Baring bank, who owned a house in the middle of Manhattan. A true adventurer, he acquired hundreds of thousands of hectares in French Guiana, was a reserve captain in World War I and an Officer of the Legion of Honour.
International editorial offices were in Paris with Armand Colin, Amsterdam with Kirberger & Kesper, Berlin with Rosenbaum & Hart, Geneva with Charles Eggimann & Cie, Vienna with Hartleben, St. Petersburg with A. Zinserling (articles in Russian were included in the magazine from January 1897), New York with The International News & Cie. The London office was housed by T. Fisher Unwin. Fisher Unwin, which provided a link with both the countries of the British Empire and the American market, and which had a long tradition of literary and artistic publishing (with Joseph Conrad, for example, from whom Ortmans rejected a text in July 1896).
Content averages over 300 pages and includes political, literary and practical articles; very rarely were they illustrated with reproductions of drawings or photographs. In France, Émile Faguet headed the office, or at least was its correspondent.
The business ceased after 35 issues with the November 1898 number, but this business model was imitated, notably by Anglo-Saxon fashion magazines. Supplements in Scandinavian, Dutch and Italian were announced, but never saw the light of day.
Fictional namesake
Jack Vance's Demon Princes novels have occasional reference to a magazine called Cosmopolis (no subtitle) that is bought by the lead character.
References
- Julia Reid. "The Academy and Cosmopolis: Evolution and Culture in Robert Louis Stevenson's Periodical Encounters" in Louse Henson et al. (eds., 2004). Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers) pp. 263–274.
External links
- Cosmopolis at Gallica
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