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Old magazines can give a sense of how events and literature were perceived when they were fresh and new, without the reinterpretation of later years. The experience can be like viewing a now famous
painting when the paint had not yet dried and the colors were bright, before familiarity and layer after layer of interpretation and judgement had covered it over with dulling preservatives.
This CD, with 1058 issues from 35 vintage magazines, was compiled by Richard Seltzer. The texts themselves are in the public domain and in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com
This collection includes Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer, Addison and Steele's Spectator and Tatler, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 19 issues from 1842-1844, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal 38 issues from 1852, Notes and Queries 86 issues from 1849-1853, Mirror of Literature 197 issues 1827-1832, Punch 290 issues from 1841-1920, 1914, 1917, and 1919, The Atlantic Monthly 1857-1867, Bay State Monthly 20 issues from 1884-1886, Lippincott's 31 issues from 1873-1885, Scientific American 70 issues from 1867-1898, and Punchinello all 39 issues from 1870.
The Adventurer
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argosy_%28magazine%29 -- "Argosy was an American pulp magazine, published by Frank Munsey. It is generally considered to be the first American pulp magazine. The magazine began as a general information periodical entitled The Golden Argosy, targeted at the "boys adventure" market. The first issue was published on December 2, 1882, (dated December 9, 1882, a common practice at the time) and came out weekly."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Monthly
"The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine founded in Boston in 1857. Its creators were a group of writers that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell (who would become its first editor)."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood's_Magazine --
"Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. It was founded by the publisher William Blackwood and was originally called the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine. The first number appeared in April 1817 under the editorship of Thomas Pringle and James Cleghorn. The journal was unsuccessful and Blackwood fired Pringle and Cleghorn and relaunched the journal as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine under his own editorship. The journal eventually adopted the shorter name and from the relaunch often referred to itself as Maga. The title page bore the image of George Buchanan, 16th century Scottish historian. It was conceived as a rival to the Whig-supporting Edinburgh Review but compared to the rather staid tone of The Quarterly Review, the other main Tory work, Maga was ferocious and combative. This is due primarily to the work of its principal writer John Wilson who wrote under the pseudonym of Christopher North. Never trusted with the editorship, he nevertheless wrote much of the magazine along with the other major contributors John Gibson Lockhart and William Maginn. Their mixture of satire, reviews and criticism both barbed and insightful was extremely popular and the magazine quickly gained a large audience. For all its conservative credentials the magazine published the works of radicals of British romanticism such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Through Wilson the magazine was a keen supporter of William Wordsworth, parodied the Byronmania common in Europe and angered John Keats, Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt by referring to their works as the "Cockney School of Poetry". ... Important contributors included: George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, James Hogg, Charles Neaves, Thomas de Quincey, Elizabeth Clementine Stedman, and Margaret Oliphant."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler --
The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the humorist Jerome K. Jerome, and its contributors included many of the leading writers and illustrators of the time.
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Negro_History
"The Journal of Negro History was founded in January 1, 1916 as a quarterly research journal. It was published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History founded in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland. In 2002, the Journal of Negro History became The Journal of African American History.
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knickerbocker
"The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1859. Its editor was Lewis Gaylord Clark, whose "Editor's Table" column was a staple of the magazine."
from Widipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippincott%27s_Monthly_Magazine
"Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was a 19th century literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915, when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClure%27s
"McClure's or McClure's Magazine was a popular United States illustrated monthly magazine at the turn of the 20th century, often compared to the longer-running The Atlantic Monthly. Founded by S. S. McClure and John Sanborn Phillips (1861-1949), fellow classmate of Knox College, in June of 1893, the magazine featured political and literary content, and syndicated novels-in-progress a chapter at a time. In this way, McClure's published such writers as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Herminie T. Kavanagh, Willa Cather, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Mark Twain also contributed."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_and_Queries
"Notes and Queries (originally subtitled "a medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc") is a London-based, quarterly publication, part academic journal, part correspondence magazine, in which scholars and interested amateurs can exchange knowledge on literature and history. Notes and Queries was first published in 1849 as a weekly periodical edited by William John Thoms. The format consisted of "Notes" (miscellaneous thoughts from correspondents that they and the editors considered of interest to the readership), and "Queries" (and responses to queries), which formed the bulk of the publication. The magazine has been likened to a nineteenth century version of a (moderated) Internet newsgroup."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_%28magazine%29
"Punch was founded in July 17, 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. At its founding it was jointly edited by Mayhew and Mark Lemon. Initially it was subtitled The London Charivari, this being a reference to a satirical humour magazine published in France under the title Le Charivari. Reflecting their satiric and humorous intent, the two editors took for their name and masthead the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch; the name also referred to a joke made early on about one of the magazine's first editors, Lemon, that "punch is nothing without lemon." Mayhew ceased to be joint editor in 1842 and became 'suggestor in chief' until he severed his connection in 1845. Punch was responsible for the modern use of the word 'cartoon' to refer to a comic drawing."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchinello --
"A magazine published in New York City, USA, from April through December of 1870."
All 39 issues are included here.
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rambler --
"The Rambler was a periodical by Samuel Johnson published on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 1750 to 1752. As was then common for the type of publication, the subject matter was confined only to the imagination of the author (and the sale of the publication); typically, however, The Rambler discussed subjects such as morality, literature, society, politics, and religion. As its author lamented in its final essay, 'I have never been much a favourite to the publick,' the publication was not an immediate success. Perhaps this was due to Johnson's departure from what could be considered his precedent: The Spectator, a periodical from 1711 to 1712 by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, popular for its light treatment of elevated subjects by "enliven[ing] morality with wit." In tone and subject matter, The Rambler was both lengthier and more serious than its popular ancestor in the genre."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American --
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator_%281711%29 --
"The Spectator was a daily publication of 1711–12, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England after they met at Charterhouse School. Eustace Budgell, a cousin of Addison's, also contributed. Each 'paper', or 'number', was approximately 2,500 words long, and the original run consisted of 555 numbers. It was revived, by Addison alone, as a thrice weekly for six months in 1714. The stated goal of The Spectator was "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality... to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffeehouses." (No. 10) It famously recommended that its readers "consider it part of the tea-equipage" (No. 10) and not leave the house without reading it in the morning. One of its functions was to provide readers with educated, topical talking points, and advice in how to carry on conversations and social interactions in a polite manner. In keeping with the values of Enlightenment philosophes of their time, the authors of 'The Spectator' promoted family, marriage, and courtesy."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand_Magazine --
"The Strand Magazine was a monthly fiction magazine founded by George Newnes. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890. Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an initial sale of nearly 300,000. Sales increased in the early months, before settling down to a circulation of almost 500,000 copies a month which lasted well into the 1930s. It was edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith from 1891 to 1930. The Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle were first published in The Strand with illustrations by Sidney Paget. With the serialization of Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, sales reached their peak. Readers lined up outside the magazine's offices, waiting to get the next instalment. The A. J. Raffles, a "gentleman thief", stories of Ernest William Hornung first appeared in The Strand in the 1890s. Other contributors included Grant Allen, Margery Allingham, H.G. Wells, E.C. Bentley, Agatha Christie, E. Nesbit, W.W. Jacobs, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy L. Sayers, Georges Simenon, Edgar Wallace, P. G. Wodehouse, and even Winston Churchill."
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatler --
"The original Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele, who used a nom de plume of "Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire", the first such consistently adopted journalistic persona,[1] which adopted in the first person, as it were, the seventeenth-century genre of "characters", as first established in English by Sir Thomas Overbury and soon to be expanded by Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristics (1711). Steele's idea was to publish the news and gossip heard in London coffeehouses, hence the title, and seemingly, from the opening paragraph, to leave the subject of politics to the newspapers[2], while presenting Whiggish views and correcting middle-class manners, while instructing "these Gentlemen, for the most part being Persons of strong Zeal, and weak Intellects...what to think." To assure complete coverage of local gossip, a reporter was placed in each of the city's popular coffeehouses, or at least such were the datelines: accounts of manners and mores were datelined from White's; literary notes from Will’s; notes of antiquarian interest were dated from the Grecian Coffee House; and news items from St. James’s. In its first incarnation, it was published three times a week. The original Tatler was published for only two years, from April 12, 1709 to January 2, 1711. A collected edition was published in 1710–11, with the title The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.."
This CD, with 1058 issues from 35 vintage magazines, was compiled by Richard Seltzer. The texts themselves are in the public domain and in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com
This collection includes Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer, Addison and Steele's Spectator and Tatler, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 19 issues from 1842-1844, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal 38 issues from 1852, Notes and Queries 86 issues from 1849-1853, Mirror of Literature 197 issues 1827-1832, Punch 290 issues from 1841-1920, 1914, 1917, and 1919, The Atlantic Monthly 1857-1867, Bay State Monthly 20 issues from 1884-1886, Lippincott's 31 issues from 1873-1885, Scientific American 70 issues from 1867-1898, and Punchinello all 39 issues from 1870.
Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access.
You can see the table of contents below. Please use the Find function in your browser (under Edit) to look for a specific title.
Table of Contents
The Adventurer
- 1753 (from Volume 4 of the 16-volume works of Samuel Johnson)
- January 1888
- February 1888
- March 1888
- April 1888
- May 1888
- June 1888
- July 1888
- August 1888
- October 1888
- November 1888
- December 1888
- January 1889
- February 1889
- March 1889
- April 1889
- May 1889
- June 1889
- July 1889
- August 1889
- September 1889
- October 1889
- November 1889
- December 1889
- January 1890
- February 1890
- March 1890
- April 1890
- May 1890
- June 1890
- October 1890
- February 1891
- October 1894
- March 1895
- April 1895
- May 1895
- February 1896
- March 1896
- April 1896
- June 1896
- August 1896
- June 1891
- July 1891
- August 1891
- September 1891
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argosy_%28magazine%29 -- "Argosy was an American pulp magazine, published by Frank Munsey. It is generally considered to be the first American pulp magazine. The magazine began as a general information periodical entitled The Golden Argosy, targeted at the "boys adventure" market. The first issue was published on December 2, 1882, (dated December 9, 1882, a common practice at the time) and came out weekly."
- January 1891
- February 1891
- March 1891
- April 1891
- May 1891
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Monthly
"The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine founded in Boston in 1857. Its creators were a group of writers that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell (who would become its first editor)."
- Volume 1
- November 1857
- Decemeber 1857
- January 1858
- February 1858
- March 1858
- April 1858
- May 1858
- Volume 2
- June 1858
- July 1858
- August 1858
- September 1858
- October 1858
- November 1858
- December 1858
- Volume 3
- January 1859
- Febriary 1859
- March 1859
- April 1859
- May 1859
- June 1859
- Volume 4
- July 1859
- August 1859
- October 1859
- November 1859
- December 1859
- Volume 5
- January 1860
- February 1860
- March 1860
- April 1860
- May 1860
- June 1860
- Volume 6
- July 1860
- August 1860
- September 1860
- October 1860
- November 1860
- December 1860
- Volume 7
- January 1861
- February 1861
- March 1861
- April 1861
- May 1861
- June 1861
- Volume 8
- July 1861
- August 1861
- September 1861
- October 1861
- November 1861
- December 1861
- Volume 9
- January 1862
- February 1862
- March 1862
- April 1862
- May 1862
- June 1862
- Volume 10
- July 1862
- Aug. 1862
- September 1862
- October 1862
- November 1862
- December 1862
- Volume 11
- January 1863
- February 1863
- March 1863
- April 1863
- May 1863
- Volume 12
- July 1863
- August 1863
- September 1863
- October 1863
- November 1863
- December 1863
- Volume 13
- January 1864
- February 1864
- March 1864
- April 1864
- May 1864
- June 1864
- Volume 14
- August 1864
- September 1864
- October 1864
- Volume 16
- October 1865
- November 1865
- Volume 17
- February 1866
- March 1866
- April 1866
- May 1866
- June 1866
- Volume 18
- July 1866
- August 1866
- December 1866
- Volume 20
- July 1867
- August 1867
- Volume 1
- January 1884
- February 1884
- March 1884
- April 1884
- May 1884
- June 1884
- Volume 2
- October 1884
- November 1884
- January 1885
- February 1885
- March 1885
- Volume 3
- April 1885
- May 1885
- August 1885
- September 1885
- October 1885
- November 1885
- The New England Magazine, Volume 1 and Bay State Monthly Volume 4
- January 1886
- February 1886
- March 1886
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood's_Magazine --
"Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980. It was founded by the publisher William Blackwood and was originally called the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine. The first number appeared in April 1817 under the editorship of Thomas Pringle and James Cleghorn. The journal was unsuccessful and Blackwood fired Pringle and Cleghorn and relaunched the journal as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine under his own editorship. The journal eventually adopted the shorter name and from the relaunch often referred to itself as Maga. The title page bore the image of George Buchanan, 16th century Scottish historian. It was conceived as a rival to the Whig-supporting Edinburgh Review but compared to the rather staid tone of The Quarterly Review, the other main Tory work, Maga was ferocious and combative. This is due primarily to the work of its principal writer John Wilson who wrote under the pseudonym of Christopher North. Never trusted with the editorship, he nevertheless wrote much of the magazine along with the other major contributors John Gibson Lockhart and William Maginn. Their mixture of satire, reviews and criticism both barbed and insightful was extremely popular and the magazine quickly gained a large audience. For all its conservative credentials the magazine published the works of radicals of British romanticism such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Through Wilson the magazine was a keen supporter of William Wordsworth, parodied the Byronmania common in Europe and angered John Keats, Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt by referring to their works as the "Cockney School of Poetry". ... Important contributors included: George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, James Hogg, Charles Neaves, Thomas de Quincey, Elizabeth Clementine Stedman, and Margaret Oliphant."
- January 1843
- February 1843
- March 1843
- April 1843
- May 1843
- June 1843
- July 1843
- September 1843
- October 1843
- November 1843
- January 1844
- February 1844
- March 1844
- April 1844
- June 1844
- July 1844
- Aug. 1844
- February 1847
- May 1847
Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, a monthly magazine devoted
to the interests of southeastern Massachusetts
- Volume 6
- June 1922
- Volume 17
- January 3, 1852
- January 10, 1852
- January 17, 1852
- January 24, 1852
- January 31, 1852
- February 7, 1852
- February 14, 1852
- February 21, 1852
- February 28, 1852
- March 6, 1852
- March 13, 1852
- March 20, 1852
- March 27, 1852
- April 3, 1852
- April 10, 1852
- April 17, 1852
- April 24, 1852
- May 1, 1852
- May 8, 1852
- May 15, 1852
- May 22, 1852
- May 29, 1852
- June 5, 1852
- June 19, 1852
- June 26, 1852
- Volume 18
- July 3, 1852
- July 10, 1852
- July 17, 1852
- July 24, 1852
- July 31, 1852
- August 7, 1852
- August 14, 1852
- August 21, 1852
- August 28, 1852
- September 4, 1852
- September 11, 1852
- September 18, 1852
- September 25, 1852
- Volume 1
- January 1862
- February 1862
- March 1862
- April 1862
- May 1862
- June 1862
- Volume 2
- July 1862
- August 1862
- September 1862
- November 1862
- Volume 3
- May 1863
- June 1863
- Volume 4
- July 1863
- October 1863
- December 1863
- Volume 5
- January 1864
- February 1864
- March 1864
- April 1864
- May 1864
- June 1864
- July 1864
- August 1864
- September 1864
- Volume 15
- January 1886
- Volume 1
- February 18, 1897
- February 25, 1897
- March 4, 1897
- March 11, 1897
- March 18, 1897
- March 25, 1897
- April 1 1897
- April 8 1897
- April 15 1897
- April 22, 1897
- April 29, 1897
- May 6, 1897
- May 13, 1897
- May 20, 1897
- May 27, 1897
- June 3, 1897
- June 10, 1897
- June 17, 1897
- June 24, 1897
- July 1, 1897
- July 8, 1897
- July 15, 1897
- July 29, 1897
- August 5, 1897
- August 12, 1897
- August 19, 1897
- August 26, 1897
- September 9, 1897
- September 23, 1897
- September 30, 1897
- October 7, 1897
- October 14, 1897
- October 21, 1897
- October 28, 1897
- November 4, 1897
- November 11, 1897
- November 18, 1897
- November 25, 1897
- December 2, 1897
- December 9, 1897
- December 16, 1897
- December 23, 1897
- December 30, 1897
- Volume 2
- February 3, 1898
- March 10, 1898
- March 17, 1898
- June 9, 1898
- June 16, 1898
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler --
The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the humorist Jerome K. Jerome, and its contributors included many of the leading writers and illustrators of the time.
- Feb. 1893
- April 1893
- Volume 1
- August 1850
- Volume 5
- January 1852
- February 1852
- Volume 2
- January 1, 1851
- Volume 1
- October 1, 1850
- volume 1
- July 8, 1850
- July 15, 1850
- July 22, 1850
- August 5, 1850
- August 12, 1850
- August 19, 1850
- August 26, 1850
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_Negro_History
"The Journal of Negro History was founded in January 1, 1916 as a quarterly research journal. It was published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History founded in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland. In 2002, the Journal of Negro History became The Journal of African American History.
- Volume 1, 1916
- Volume 2, 1917
- Volume 3, 1918
- Volume 4, 1919
- Volume 5, 1920
- Volume 6, 1921
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knickerbocker
"The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1859. Its editor was Lewis Gaylord Clark, whose "Editor's Table" column was a staple of the magazine."
- Volume 23
- January 1844
- February 1844
- March 1844
- April 1844
- May 1844
- Good Stories Reprinted from The Ladies' Home Journal, 1907 [a collection of jokes]
from Widipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippincott%27s_Monthly_Magazine
"Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was a 19th century literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915, when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916."
- January 1873
- February 1873
- April 1873
- May 1873
- June 1873
- August 1873
- September 1873
- October 1873
- December 1873
- January 1875
- February 1875
- March 1875
- April 1875
- June 1875
- January 1876
- February 1876
- March 1876
- April 1876
- May 1876
- June 1876
- October 1877
- July 1878
- August 1878
- September 1878
- October 1878
- September 1880
- December 1880
- July 1885
- August 1885
- October 1885
- December 1885
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClure%27s
"McClure's or McClure's Magazine was a popular United States illustrated monthly magazine at the turn of the 20th century, often compared to the longer-running The Atlantic Monthly. Founded by S. S. McClure and John Sanborn Phillips (1861-1949), fellow classmate of Knox College, in June of 1893, the magazine featured political and literary content, and syndicated novels-in-progress a chapter at a time. In this way, McClure's published such writers as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Herminie T. Kavanagh, Willa Cather, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Mark Twain also contributed."
- Dec. 1895 -- Abe Lincoln
- January 1896
- February 1896
- March 1896
- April 1896
- May 1896
- May 1908
- July 7, 1827
- July 14, 1827
- July 21, 1827
- July 28, 1827
- August 4, 1827
- August 11, 1827
- August 18, 1827
- August 25, 1827
- September 1, 1827
- September 8, 1827
- September 15, 1827
- September 22, 1827
- September 29, 1827
- October 6, 1827
- October 13, 1827
- October 20, 1827
- October 27, 1827
- November 3, 1827
- November 10, 1827
- November 17, 1827
- November 24, 1827
- December 1, 1827
- December 8, 1827
- December 15, 1827
- December 22, 1827
- December 29, 1827
- July 5, 1828
- July 12, 1828
- July 19, 1828
- July 26, 1828
- August 2, 1828
- August 9, 1828
- August 16, 1828
- August 23, 1828
- August 30, 1828
- September 6, 1828
- September 13, 1828
- September 20, 1828
- September 27, 1828
- October 4, 1828
- October 11, 1828
- October 18, 1828
- October 25, 1828
- November 1, 1828
- November 8, 1828
- November 15, 1828
- November 22, 1828
- November 29, 1828
- December 6, 1828
- December 13, 1828
- December 20, 1828
- December 27, 1828
- January 3, 1829
- January 10, 1829
- January 17, 1829
- January 24, 1829
- January 31, 1829
- February 7, 1829
- February 14, 1829
- February 21, 1829
- February 28, 1829
- March 7, 1829
- March 14, 1829
- March 21, 1829
- March 28, 1829
- April 4, 1829
- April 11, 1829
- April 18, 1829
- April 25, 1829
- May 2, 1829
- May 9, 1829
- May 16, 1829
- May 23, 1829
- May 30, 1829
- June 6, 1829
- June 13, 1829
- June 20, 1829
- June 27, 1829
- July 4, 1829
- July 11, 1829
- July 18, 1829
- July 25, 1829
- August 1, 1829
- August 8, 1829
- August 15, 1829
- August 22, 1829
- August 29, 1829
- September 5, 1829
- September 12, 1829
- September 19, 1829
- September 26, 1829
- October 3, 1829
- October 10, 1829
- October 17, 1829
- October 24, 1829
- October 31, 1829
- November 7, 1829
- November 14, 1829
- November 21, 1829
- November 28, 1829
- December 5, 1829
- December 12, 1829
- December 19, 1829
- December 24, 1829
- December 26, 1829
- January 1, 1831
- January 8, 1831
- January 15, 1831
- January 22, 1831
- January 29, 1831
- February 5, 1831
- February 12, 1831
- February 19, 1831
- February 26, 1831
- March 5, 1831
- March 12, 1831
- March 19, 1831
- March 26, 1831
- April 2, 1831
- April 9, 1831
- April 16, 1831
- April 23, 1831
- April 30, 1831
- May 7, 1831
- May 14, 1831
- May 21, 1831
- May 28, 1831
- June 4, 1831
- June 11, 1831
- June 18, 1831
- June 25, 1831
- June 27, 1831
- January 7, 1832
- January 14, 1832
- January 21, 1832
- January 28, 1832
- February 4, 1832
- February 11, 1832
- February 18, 1832
- February 25, 1832
- March 3, 1832
- March 10, 1832
- March 17, 1832
- March 24, 1832
- March 31, 1832
- April 7, 1832
- April 14, 1832
- April 21, 1832
- Apriil 28, 1832
- May 5, 1832
- May 12, 1832
- May 19, 1832
- May 26, 1832
- June 2, 1832
- June 9, 1832
- June 16, 1832
- June 23, 1832
- June 30, 1832
- July 7, 1832
- July 14, 1832
- July 21, 1832
- July 28, 1832
- August 4, 1832
- August 11, 1832
- August 18, 1832
- August 25, 1832
- September 1, 1832
- September 8, 1832
- September 22, 1832
- September 29, 1832
- October 6, 1832
- October 13, 1832
- October 20, 1832
- October 27, 1832
- November 3, 1832
- November 10, 1832
- November 17, 1832
- November 24, 1832
- December 1, 1832
- December 8, 1832
- December 15, 1832
- December 22, 1832
- December 29, 1832
- supplements:
- supplementary no. 263, 1827
- supplementary no. 278, 1828
- supplementary no. 288, 1828
- supplementary no. 340, 1828
- supplementary no. 344, 1828
- supplementary no. 349, 1828
- supplementary no. 361, 1829
- supplementary no. 373, 1829
- supplementary no. 399, 1829
- supplementary no. 402, 1829
- supplementary no. 474, 1831
- supplementary no. 549, 1832
- supplementary no. 555, 1832
- supplementary no. 571, 1832
- supplementary no. 580, 1832
- index to volume 13, 1829
- Volume 3, 1852
- Volume 1
- From the Beginning to March, 1915, with Index
- January 9, 1915
- January 23, 1915
- February, 1915
- March, 1915
- Volume 2
- April, 1915
- May, 1915
- June 1915
- August 1915
- Who Began the War and Why?
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_and_Queries
"Notes and Queries (originally subtitled "a medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc") is a London-based, quarterly publication, part academic journal, part correspondence magazine, in which scholars and interested amateurs can exchange knowledge on literature and history. Notes and Queries was first published in 1849 as a weekly periodical edited by William John Thoms. The format consisted of "Notes" (miscellaneous thoughts from correspondents that they and the editors considered of interest to the readership), and "Queries" (and responses to queries), which formed the bulk of the publication. The magazine has been likened to a nineteenth century version of a (moderated) Internet newsgroup."
- Volume 1 index, November 1849 to May 1850
- November 3, 1849
- November 10, 1849
- November 17, 1849
- November 24, 1849
- December 1, 1849
- December 8, 1849
- December 15, 1849
- December 22, 1849
- December 29, 1849
- January 12, 1850
- January 19, 1850
- January 26, 1850
- Februrary 2, 1850
- February 9, 1850
- February 16, 1850
- February 23, 1850
- March 2, 1850
- March 9, 1850
- March 16, 1850
- March 23, 1850
- March 30, 1850
- April 6, 1850
- April 13, 1850
- April 20, 1850
- April 27, 1850
- Volume 2 index May to December 1850
- May 4, 1850
- May 11, 1850
- May 18, 1850
- May 25, 1850
- June 1, 1850
- June 8, 1850
- June 22, 1850
- June 29, 1850
- July 6, 1850
- July 13, 1850
- July 20, 1850
- July 27, 1850
- August 3, 1850
- August 10, 1850
- August 17, 1850
- August 24, 1850
- August 31, 1850
- September 7, 1850
- September 14, 1850
- September 21, 1850
- September 28, 1850
- October 5, 1850
- October 12, 1850
- October 19, 1850
- October 26, 1850
- November 2, 1850
- November 9, 1850
- November 16, 1850
- November 23, 1850
- November 30, 1850
- December 7, 1850
- December 14, 1850
- December 28, 1850
- January 4, 1851
- January 11, 1851
- January 18, 1851
- January 25, 1851
- February 1, 1851
- February 8, 1851
- February 15, 1851
- February 22, 1851
- March 1, 1851
- March 8, 1851
- March 15, 1851
- March 22, 1851
- March 29, 1851
- April 5, 1851
- April 2, 1853
- April 9, 1853
- April 16, 1853
- April 23, 1853
- May 7, 1853
- May 14, 1853
- May 21, 1853
- May 28, 1853
- June 4, 1853
- June 11, 1853
- June 18, 1853
- June 25, 1853
- August 6, 1853
- September 3, 1853
- Volume 1, part 2, May 28, 1902
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_%28magazine%29
"Punch was founded in July 17, 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. At its founding it was jointly edited by Mayhew and Mark Lemon. Initially it was subtitled The London Charivari, this being a reference to a satirical humour magazine published in France under the title Le Charivari. Reflecting their satiric and humorous intent, the two editors took for their name and masthead the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch; the name also referred to a joke made early on about one of the magazine's first editors, Lemon, that "punch is nothing without lemon." Mayhew ceased to be joint editor in 1842 and became 'suggestor in chief' until he severed his connection in 1845. Punch was responsible for the modern use of the word 'cartoon' to refer to a comic drawing."
- Volume 1
- July 17, 1841
- Volume 98
- January 18, 1890
- February 1, 1890
- Volume 99
- July 5, 1890
- July 12, 1890
- July 19, 1890
- July 26, 1890
- August 2, 1890
- August 9, 1890
- August 16, 1890
- August 23, 1890
- August 30, 1890
- September 6, 1890
- September 13, 1890
- September 20, 1890
- September 27, 1890
- October 4, 1890
- October 11, 1890
- October 18, 1890
- October 25, 1890
- November 1, 1890
- November 8, 1890
- November 15, 1890
- November 22, 1890
- November 29, 1890
- December 6, 1890
- December 13, 1890
- December 20, 1890
- Punch Among the Planets, Christmas 1890
- December 27, 1890
- Volume 100
- January 3, 1891
- January 10, 1891
- January 17, 1891
- January 24, 1891
- January 31, 1891
- February 7, 1891
- February 14, 1891
- February 21, 1891
- February 28, 1891
- March 7, 1891
- March 14, 1891
- March 21, 1891
- March 28, 1891
- April 4, 1891
- April 11, 1891
- April 18, 1891
- April 25, 1891
- May 2, 1891
- May 9, 1891
- May 16, 1891
- May 23, 1891
- May 30, 1891
- June 6, 1891
- June 13, 1891
- June 20, 1891
- June 27, 1891
- Volume 101
- July 4, 1891
- July 11, 1891
- July 18, 1891, jubilee issue
- July 18, 1891
- July 25, 1891
- August 1, 1891
- August 8, 1891
- August 15, 1891
- August 22, 1891
- August 29, 1891
- September 5, 1891
- September 12, 1891
- September 19, 1891
- September 26, 1891
- October 3, 1891
- October 10, 1891
- October 17, 1891
- October 24, 1891
- October 31, 1891
- November 7, 1891
- November 14, 1891
- November 21, 1891
- November 28, 1891
- December 5, 1891
- December 12, 1891
- December 19, 1891
- December 26, 1891
- Volume 102
- January 2, 1892
- January 9, 1892
- January 16, 1892
- January 23, 1892
- January 30, 1892
- February 6, 1892
- February 13, 1892
- February 20, 1892
- February 27, 1892
- March 5, 1892
- March 12, 1892
- March 19, 1892
- March 26, 1892
- April 2, 1892
- April 9, 1892
- April 16, 1892
- April 23, 1892
- April 30, 1892
- May 7, 1892
- May 14, 1892
- May 21, 1892
- May 28, 1892
- June 4, 1892
- June 11, 1892
- June 18, 1892
- June 25, 1892
- Volume 103
- July 2, 1892
- July 9, 1892
- July 16, 1892
- July 23, 1892
- July 30, 1892
- August 6, 1892
- August 13, 1892
- August 20, 1892
- August 27, 1892
- September 3, 1892
- September 10, 1892
- September 17, 1892
- September 24, 1892
- October 1, 1892
- October 8, 1892
- October 15, 1892
- October 22, 1892
- October 29, 1892
- November 5, 1892
- November 12, 1892
- November 19, 1892
- November 26, 1892
- December 3, 1892
- December 10, 1892
- December 17, 1892
- December 24, 1892
- December 31, 1892
- Volume 104
- January 14, 1893
- January 21, 1893
- January 28, 1893
- February 4, 1893
- February 11, 1893
- February 18, 1893
- February 25, 1893
- March 4, 1893
- March 11, 1893
- March 18, 1893
- March 25, 1893
- April 1, 1893
- April 8, 1893
- April 15, 1893
- Volume 146
- January 7, 1914
- January 14, 1914
- January 21, 1914
- January 28, 1914
- February 11, 1914
- February 18, 1914
- March 18, 1914
- April 1, 1914
- April 15, 1914
- Volume 150
- January 5, 1916
- January 12, 1916
- January 19, 1916
- January 26, 1916
- February 2, 1916
- February 16, 1916
- February 23, 1916
- March 1, 1916
- March 8, 1916
- March 15, 1916
- March 22, 1916
- March 29, 1916
- April 5, 1916
- May 3, 1916
- May 10, 1916
- June 7, 1916
- Volume 152
- January 3, 1917
- January 10, 1917
- January 17, 1917
- January 24, 1917
- January 31, 1917
- February 7, 1917
- February 14, 1917
- February 21, 1917
- February 28, 1917
- March 7, 1917
- March 14, 1917
- March 21, 1917
- March 28, 1917
- April 4, 1917
- April 11, 1917
- April 18, 1917
- April 25, 1917
- May 2, 1917
- May 9, 1917
- May 16, 1917
- May 23, 1917
- May 30, 1917
- June 6, 1917
- June 13, 1917
- June 20, 1917
- June 27, 1917
- Volume 153
- July 4, 1917
- July 11, 1917
- July 18, 1917
- July 25, 1917
- August 1, 1917
- August 8, 1917
- August 15, 1917
- August 22, 1917
- August 29, 1917
- September 5, 1917
- September 12, 1917
- September 19, 1917
- September 26, 1917
- October 3, 1917
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- October 17, 1917
- October 24, 1917
- October 31, 1917
- November 7, 1917
- November 14, 1917
- November 21, 1917
- November 28, 1917
- December 5, 1917
- December 12, 1917
- December 19, 1917
- December 26, 1917
- Volume 156
- January 1, 1919
- January 8, 1919
- January 15, 1919
- January 22, 1919
- January 29, 1919
- February 5, 1919
- February 12, 1919
- February 19, 1919
- February 26, 1919
- March 5, 1919
- March 12, 1919
- March 19, 1919
- March 26, 1919
- April 2, 1919
- April 9, 1919
- April 16, 1919
- April 23, 1919
- April 30, 1919
- May 7, 1919
- May 14, 1919
- May 21, 1919
- May 28, 1919
- June 4, 1919
- June 11, 1919
- June 18, 1919
- June 25, 1919
- Volume 158
- January 14, 1920
- January 21, 1920
- January 28, 1920
- February 4, 1920
- February 11, 1920
- February 18, 1920
- February 25, 1920
- March 3, 1920
- March 10, 1920
- March 17, 1920
- March 24, 1920
- March 31, 1920
- April 7, 1920
- April 14, 1920
- April 21, 1920
- April 28, 1920
- May 5, 1920
- Volume 159
- July 7, 1920
- July 14, 1920
- July 21, 1920
- July 28, 1920
- August 4, 1920
- August 11, 1920
- August 18, 1920
- August 25, 1920
- September 1, 1920
- September 15, 1920
- September 22, 1920
- September 29, 1920
- October 6, 1920
- October 13, 1920
- October 27, 1920
- November 3, 1920
- November 10, 1920
- November 17, 1920
- November 24, 1920
- December 1, 1920
- December 8, 1920
- December 15, 1920
- December 22, 1920
- December 29, 1920
- Mr. Punch's History of the Great War
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchinello --
"A magazine published in New York City, USA, from April through December of 1870."
All 39 issues are included here.
- April 2, 1870
- April 9, 1870
- April 16, 1870
- April 23, 1870
- April 30, 1870
- May 7, 1870
- May 14, 1870
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- May 28, 1870
- June 4, 1870
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- July 30, 1870
- August 6, 1870
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- August 27, 1870
- September 3, 1870
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- September 24, 1870
- October 1, 1870
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- October 15, 1870
- October 22, 1870
- October 29, 1870
- November 8, 1870
- November 12, 1870
- November 19, 1870
- November 26, 1870
- December 3, 1870
- December 10, 1870
- December 17, 1870
- December 24, 1870
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rambler --
"The Rambler was a periodical by Samuel Johnson published on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 1750 to 1752. As was then common for the type of publication, the subject matter was confined only to the imagination of the author (and the sale of the publication); typically, however, The Rambler discussed subjects such as morality, literature, society, politics, and religion. As its author lamented in its final essay, 'I have never been much a favourite to the publick,' the publication was not an immediate success. Perhaps this was due to Johnson's departure from what could be considered his precedent: The Spectator, a periodical from 1711 to 1712 by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, popular for its light treatment of elevated subjects by "enliven[ing] morality with wit." In tone and subject matter, The Rambler was both lengthier and more serious than its popular ancestor in the genre."
- from Volume 4 of the 16-volume works of Samuel Johnson
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American --
"Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. It brings articles about new and innovative research to the amateur and lay audience.... The magazine was founded by Rufus Porter as a single-page newsletter, and throughout its early years Scientific American put much emphasis on reports of what was going on at the US patent office. It reported on a broad range of inventions that includes perpetual motion machines, an 1849 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now finds place in nearly every automobile manufactured."
- December 28, 1867
- January 1, 1870
- March 18, 1871
- February 24, 1877
- March 29, 1879
- December 18, 1880
- Supplement 275 from 1881
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from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator_%281711%29 --
"The Spectator was a daily publication of 1711–12, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England after they met at Charterhouse School. Eustace Budgell, a cousin of Addison's, also contributed. Each 'paper', or 'number', was approximately 2,500 words long, and the original run consisted of 555 numbers. It was revived, by Addison alone, as a thrice weekly for six months in 1714. The stated goal of The Spectator was "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality... to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffeehouses." (No. 10) It famously recommended that its readers "consider it part of the tea-equipage" (No. 10) and not leave the house without reading it in the morning. One of its functions was to provide readers with educated, topical talking points, and advice in how to carry on conversations and social interactions in a polite manner. In keeping with the values of Enlightenment philosophes of their time, the authors of 'The Spectator' promoted family, marriage, and courtesy."
- volumes 1, 2, and 3, March and October, 1711, and June, 1712
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand_Magazine --
"The Strand Magazine was a monthly fiction magazine founded by George Newnes. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890. Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an initial sale of nearly 300,000. Sales increased in the early months, before settling down to a circulation of almost 500,000 copies a month which lasted well into the 1930s. It was edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith from 1891 to 1930. The Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle were first published in The Strand with illustrations by Sidney Paget. With the serialization of Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, sales reached their peak. Readers lined up outside the magazine's offices, waiting to get the next instalment. The A. J. Raffles, a "gentleman thief", stories of Ernest William Hornung first appeared in The Strand in the 1890s. Other contributors included Grant Allen, Margery Allingham, H.G. Wells, E.C. Bentley, Agatha Christie, E. Nesbit, W.W. Jacobs, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy L. Sayers, Georges Simenon, Edgar Wallace, P. G. Wodehouse, and even Winston Churchill."
- April 1893
- January 1894
from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatler --
"The original Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele, who used a nom de plume of "Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire", the first such consistently adopted journalistic persona,[1] which adopted in the first person, as it were, the seventeenth-century genre of "characters", as first established in English by Sir Thomas Overbury and soon to be expanded by Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristics (1711). Steele's idea was to publish the news and gossip heard in London coffeehouses, hence the title, and seemingly, from the opening paragraph, to leave the subject of politics to the newspapers[2], while presenting Whiggish views and correcting middle-class manners, while instructing "these Gentlemen, for the most part being Persons of strong Zeal, and weak Intellects...what to think." To assure complete coverage of local gossip, a reporter was placed in each of the city's popular coffeehouses, or at least such were the datelines: accounts of manners and mores were datelined from White's; literary notes from Will’s; notes of antiquarian interest were dated from the Grecian Coffee House; and news items from St. James’s. In its first incarnation, it was published three times a week. The original Tatler was published for only two years, from April 12, 1709 to January 2, 1711. A collected edition was published in 1710–11, with the title The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.."
- volume 1, 1710-1711
- July-September 1914
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