Imagine having the scholars, the organization, and the funds to address an admitted “utopian dream” of providing a single 1000 (actually 1014) page source of just about anything related to writing, selling, publishing, and reading of British and Irish magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth-century. Against all odds, a four-year project to do just that was completed in 2009, sponsored by the Royal Flemish Academy for the Arts and the Sciences. It was published by the British Library and Academia Press (Gent). Its 1620 entries came from “a range of professions, from barrister to economist” and provide, for American readers, an historical perspective on aspects of life and writing in the Victorian era that will prove useful to students working in disparate fields. Browsing – which is fun to do in this title - through the best index I have ever seen in a reference book, I come across multiple entries on, for example, Audrey Beardsley, booksellers, circulating libraries, child labor, Lord Byron, censorship, colored illustrations, comic journals, crime reporting, Charles Dickens, engravers, foreign correspondents, gossip columns, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, journalists, lower-middle class readers, mass readership, New York Times, paper, railways, reading and class, sensation fiction, United States, war correspondents, women journalists and women’s suffrage not to mention entries on sports, politics, printers, editors, and publishers. Besides the 100 page bibliography, and 189 page general index, there is an useful listing or relevant – and often hard-to-find- websites and archives, and a separate index of all the illustrators, journalists/editors, distributors, printers, publishers and journal titles mentioned in the work. As you can imagine, it has won prizes and honors. It is distributed by the University of Chicago Press ( )