Temple Bar
1903

In December 1903 Forster's story "Albergo Empedocle" appeared in Temple Bar, "a London Magazine for Town and Country Readers," which was by then in its declining years. Initially the magazine had reached a circulation of around 30,000 but eventually settled at around 13,000 by the late 1860s and by 1896 had dropped to around 8,000.

Founded in 1860, it had been one of the leading literary magazines of Victorian England, lasting through 553 issues up to 1906.

In its time, Temple Bar published work by writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle and E. F. Benson.