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''Tit-Bits'' (or to give it its full title ''Tit-Bits from all the interesting Books, Periodicals, and Newspapers of the World'') was a British weekly magazine founded by George Newnes on 22 October 1881. On 18 July 1984,〔("Tit-Bits/Titbits" ), Magforum website〕 it was taken over by Associated Newspapers' ''Weekend'', which closed in 1989. The last editors were David Hill and Brian Lee.〔("Weekend" ), Magforum website〕 ''Tit-Bits'' lost the hyphen from its masthead at the beginning of 1973. The magazine was a mass circulation commercial publication which reached sales of between 400,000 and 600,000, with the emphasis on human interest stories concentrating on drama and sensation.〔Martin Conboy ''Journalism: A Critical History''〕 Short stories and full-length fiction were also featured, including works by authors such as Rider Haggard and Isaac Asimov, plus three very early stories by Christopher Priest. The first humorous article by P. G. Wodehouse, 'Men Who Missed Their Own Weddings', appeared in ''TitBits'' in November 1900.〔From the chronology maintained by the (Russian Wodehouse Society )〕 In ''All Things Considered'' by G. K. Chesterton, the author contrasts ''Tit-Bits'' with the ''Times'', saying: "Let any honest reader... ask himself whether he would really rather be asked in the next two hours to write the front page of ''The Times'', which is full of long leading articles, or the front page of ''Tit-Bits'', which is full of short jokes." Reference to the magazine is also made in James Joyce's ''Ulysses'',〔"In the tabledrawer he found an old number of Titbits." ''Calypso'' episode of ''Ulysses'' by James Joyce.〕 George Orwell's ''Animal Farm'', James Hilton's ''Lost Horizon'', Virginia Woolf's ''Moments of Being'', and H. G. Wells' ''The First Men in the Moon''. H. G. Wells also mentioned it in his book ''Experiment in Autobiography'', chapter VI. The magazine is burlesqued as 'Chit Chat' in George Gissing's ''New Grub Street''. The magazine 'Hard Facts', in Howard Spring's novel of that name, also bears a resemblance to ''Tit-Bits''. In the closing scene of the film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949), the protagonist Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is approached by a journalist (Arthur Lowe) from ''Tit-Bits''. The magazine name has survived as ''Titbits International''. ==References == ; Endnotes 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tit-Bits」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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