The Dark Blue was a London-based literary magazine published monthly from 1871 to 1873 and sold for one shilling per issue.
3-840: The magazine was founded and edited by John Christian Freund , who was educated at the University of Oxford . The title was based upon a magazine Dark Blue: An Oxford University Magazine , which folded in 1867 after publishing one issue. The Dark Blue was published in London in 1871 by Sampson Low, Son, & Marston and then from 1871 to 1873 by British & Colonial Publishing. The Dark Blue published essays, stories, poems, and illustrations. Literary contributors of essays or stories included Mathilde Blind , Sidney Colvin , W. Bodham Donne , W.S. Gilbert , G.A. Henty ( "A Pipe of Opium" ), Thomas Hughes , Andrew Lang and A.C. Swinburne . There were translations, such as The Story of Frithiof
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9-586: The Bold translated from the Icelandic by William Morris and The Story of Europa translated from the Latin of Horace by J.J. Sylvester . The illustrators included Ford Madox Brown , W.J. Hennessy , Cecil Lawson and Simeon Solomon . The contributors of poetry included Alfred Perceval Graves , Theo Marzials , Arthur O'Shaughnessy , William Michael Rossetti and George A. Simcox . The Dark Blue earned
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