Writers for the "Quiver"
device of the Order, and the presentation was accompanied by an illuminated address. Further accessions to the Order were stopped by the exhaustion of the ample fund placed by the proprietors at the editor's disposal, but even now applications continue to come in from servants with thirty, forty, and even fifty years' record of service.
A few years ago Mr. David Williamson, during his editorship, offered prizes for handicraft and needlework of any kind made at a cost not exceeding one shilling. In a few weeks thousands of articles from all parts of the world poured into the editor's room until it became a veritable repository. The whole stock of articles was divided equally between Dr. Barnardo's Homes and the Church Army, after the prizes had been awarded.
Although the magazine celebrated its jubilee in 1911 the editorial chair has had comparatively few occupants. John Cassell's successor was the Rev. Henry Wright, who was followed by J. E. Gore, and he by J. Willis Clark. Then came the Rev. T. Teignmouth Shore, and after him his assistant, Bonavia Hunt, who was associated with the Quiver as sub-editor and editor for forty years. He was followed in 1905 by Mr. David Williamson, and on his retirement in 1909 the present editor, Mr. H. D. Williams, was installed.
The literary history of the Quiver has been distinguished. Not only have many of the most notable writers of the day contributed to its columns, but many authors of world-wide reputation received from it their first commissions. For instance. Dean Farrar began writing for the magazine when still a master at Harrow, and continued his contributions over a period of more than thirty years. Among divines who have written in its pages are Thomas Binney, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, John Gumming, Morley Punshon, Henry Allon, Hugh Macmillan, and P. B. Power; among novelists, Mrs. Henry Wood and Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler; while present-day writers whose contributions appear in it from time to time
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