Practical Godliness. 1832. New York-The Spirit of Practical Monthly. 1832. New York-American Railroad Journal and Mechanic's (Semi-monthly in 1837; weekly at Magazine. 1832. Boston-The Family Lyceum. Conducted by Josiah Holbrook. Weekly. 1832. Albany-The Temperance Recorder; devoted exclusively to the cause of temperance. Published monthly by the executive committee of the New York State Temperance Society. 1832. 1832. 1832. 1833. Steubenville The Sabbath School Magazine. Bimonthly.1 2—The Harbinger of the Mississippi Valley. Monthly (?)1 New York-The New York and Richmond County New York-The Mechanics' Magazine and Register of 1833. Philadelphia-Greenbank's Periodical Library, containing in the cheapest possible form a republication of new and standard works. Weekly. 1833. Philadelphia-The Select Circulating Library, containing the best popular literature, including memoirs, biography, novels, tales, travels, voyages, &c. Weekly. 1833. 1833. Boston-The People's Magazine. Bi-weekly. New York-The Family Magazine, or General Abstract of Useful Knowledge; embellished with several hundred engravings. Weekly.1 1 Date of founding determined from a later issue. First number not accessible. 'But one number of this periodical has been found, and investigation has thus far failed to show the place of publication. It was probably somewhere in Kentucky. 1833. Rochester-Youth's Companion and Western New York Sabbath-School Advocate. Bi-weekly. 1833. Hudson, N. Y.-The Magnolia, or Literary Tablet; devoted to literature, moral and sentimental tales, poe try, &c., &c. Semi-monthly. (Suspended publication Sept. 20, 1834.) 1833. Washington-The Military and Naval Magazine of the United States. Monthly. Edited by Benjamin Homans. APPENDIX C. Miscellaneous Lists of Periodicals. The following are supposed to have been of literary character, but are not included in the tables in the body of the paper because they have not been examined by the writer: The Weekly Cadet, a weekly started at Cincinnati in 1819. Merged in the Western Spy in less than six months.1 The Olio, Cincinnati, 1821-2. Published and edited by John H. Wood and Sam S. Brooks.2 The National Preacher. New York. Vol. i., 1826. Original sermons by living preachers.3 The Focus, established in 1826 at Louisville, Ky., by W. W. Worsley and Dr. Jos. Buchanan. Merged in the Louisville Journal.4 The Philadelphia Monthly Magazine. A prospectus announced this magazine to appear in October, 1828, but the magazine has not been found. Did it appear? The Green Mountain Repository; Vol. i., 1832.5 The following are given by Venable, Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley, page 124. Some of them did not contain a very great proportion of literary matter; of most, the writer has been able to learn nothing. The Literary Pamphleteer. Paris, Kentucky, 1823. The Western Luminary. Lexington, Kentucky, 1824. 1 See Venable, Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley, 66. 'Ibid., 66. In Chicago Public Library. 4 See Venable, Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley, 40. In Newberry Library, Chicago. The Western Minerva. F. and Wm. D. Gallagher, Cincinnati, 1826. New Harmony Gazette. Robert Owen, New Harmony, Indiana, 1825. Transylvania Literary Journal. By Prof. Thos. J. Mathews, Lexington, Kentucky, 1829. (A college paper.) Masonic Souvenir and Pittsburg Literary Gazette, 1828. Weekly. The Shield. R. C. Langdon, Cincinnati, 182-. Weekly. The Ladies' Museum. Joel T. Case, Cincinnati, 1830. The Olive Branch. Circleville, Ohio, 1832. Bi-monthly. The National Historian. Horton J. Howard, St. Clairsville, Ohio. The Literary Cabinet. Thos. Gregg, St. Clairsville, Ohio, 1833. The Academic Pioneer and Guardian of Education. Albert Pickett, Cincinnati, 1833. Monthly. The Lexington Literary Journal. Ky., 1833. John Clark, Lexington, The Literary Pioneer. Nashville, Tenn., 1833. The Kaleidoscope. Nashville, Tenn., 1833. The Literary Register. Elyria, Ohio, 1833. The following are mentioned as exchanges by The Magnolia, October, 1833. The date at which they were founded is not known; but it is not probable that any of them dated back of 1815: The Parthenon, or Academians' Magazine. Monthly, 64pp. $2.50 per annum, Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. The Literary Inquirer, published semi-monthly under the patronage of the Buffalo Lyceum, Buffalo, N. Y., at $1.50 per annum. The Literary Register and Miscellaneous Magazine, published semi-monthly at Elyria, Lorain Co., Ohio, at $1 per an num. The Amaranth, published semi-monthly, in East Bridgewater, Mass., at $1 per annum. The Gem, published semi-monthly in Rochester, N. Y., at $1.50 per annum. Parley's Magazine, Boston, $1 per annum. The Pearl and Literary Gazette, Hartford, $2 per annum. The American Quarterly Register for October, 1828, gives a list of 38 religious magazines in the United States, and says that there are probably 10 or 12 more published.1 Considering the average life of a periodical it is probable that most of these had been started after 1815. Those not noted in one of the preceding lists are as follows: Middlebury, Vt.-Episcopal Register. Keene, N. H.-Liberal Preacher. Boston-Sunday School Treasury. New York-Youth's Magazine. Schoharię, N. Y.-Lutheran Magazine. New Brunswick-Magazine of the Reformed Dutch Church. Princeton-Biblical Repertory.2 Philadelphia-Youth's Friend. Philadelphia-United Bretheren Missionary Int.2 Philadelphia-Baptist Tract Magazine. Philadelphia-Penn. and Del. Tract Magazine.3 Milton, Pa.-Religious Farmer.3 Carlisle, Pa.-Magazine of German Reformed Church. Fayetteville, N. C.-Evangelical Museum. For a list of Baltimore magazines not examined see page 58. In the same connection the editor says: "The whole number of religious newspapers published in the United States is not far from forty. " |