Black & White magazine provided English readers with coverage of the
Anglo-Boer War. It also published fiction by
Henry James,
Bram Stoker,
H. G. Wells,
Robert Barr,
A. E. W. Mason,
Jerome K. Jerome and
E. Nesbit. Others who wrote for
Black and White included
Samuel Bensusan,
J. Keighley Snowden,
Philip Howard Colomb,
Nora Hopper,
Henry Dawson Lowry,
Robert Wilson Lynd,
Theodore Bent, and
Barry Pain. In its first year,
Black and White published "A Straggler of '15", a short story by
Arthur Conan Doyle, and began serializing "The South Seas", a series of letters by
Robert Louis Stevenson.
May Sinclair published her first short story, "A Study from Life", in the magazine in November 1895. The periodical carried art by
Harry Furniss,
Mortimer Menpes, and
Richard Caton Woodville; and photography by
Horace Nicholls. •
Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review. London, [1889] - 13 January 1912 : vols. 1-45, issues no. 1-1093. (N.B.: Registration issues are available at the British Library for years 1889-1891 only.) In 1912, the magazine was discontinued as it was absorbed by
The Sphere. •
Black & White Budget, a separate weekly with the following history: •
Black & White: Transvaal Special No. 1. London, [14 October 1899]. • Continued as:
Black & White Budget: Transvaal Special. London, [21 October 1899] - 30 December 1899 : Nos. 2-12. • Continued as:
Black & White Budget. London (inserted into ''Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion ''), 6 January 1900 - 30 May 1903 : Nos. 13-190. • Continued as:
Black & White Illustrated Budget. London, 6 June 1903 - 17 June 1905 : Nos. 191-287; New Series nos. 1-10. • Continued as:
Illustrated Budget. London, 24 June 1905 : New Series no. 11. The title was discontinued after one issue. ==Staff==