Vintage Magazines

Copyright © 2004 Richard Seltzer

This Web page shows the table of contents of our "Vintage Magazines" CD. Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD.

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 judgment had covered it over with dulling preservatives.

This CD, with 1058 issues from 35 classic 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 Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this Magazine CD with 1058 issues from 35 vintage magazines in plain text form sells for $29 at our online store.

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document. You can contact us at seltzer@samizdat.com, B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132-002. 617-469-2269.

User's Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD ROM

If you would like to have your PC (with speakers) read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD.

These books are 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.  You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

We publish plain text books (unencrypted) on CD, and we want to provide a simple way for customers and other interested people to share their insights into how to get the most out of this new way of reading and studying. To do so we have set up an email discussion group at Yahoo. All are welcome to join and to post here, but I'll manage this group in "moderated" style, filtering messages before they go out to the whole group, to control the volume of the messages and to make sure that they are on-topic. Tips and information that would be helpful to people you have plain text books on CD are welcome -- including examples of how you are using yours, suggestions for improvement,  suggestions for future CDs, and useful/interesting texts found on the Web that should be included in future CDs. To subscribe, go to the discussion group Web site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaintextbooksoncd  or send a blank email to plaintextbooksoncd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Table of Contents

Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this Magazine CD with 1058 issues from 35 vintage magazines in plain text form sells for $29 at our online store.


The Adventurer American Missionary The Arena Argosy
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." Atlantic Monthly: a Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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)." Bay State Monthly: a Massachusetts Magazine Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 17 issues
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."


Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of southeastern Massachusetts

Chambers' Edinburgh Journal The Continental Monthly: Devoted to Literature and National Policy Donahoe's Magazine, a Monthly Journal, Containing Tales, Biography, Episode in Irish and American History, Poetry, Miscellany, etc. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls The Idler
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. The International Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science and Art The International Magazine of Literature, Art and Science International Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Sciecne Journal of Negro History
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. The Knickerbocker or New-York Monthly Magazine
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." The Ladies' Home Journal of Philadelphia Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
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." McClure's Magazine
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." Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction (published 1822-1847) Mrs. Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters New York Times Current History of the European War, a Monthly Magazine Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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." The Onlooker Punch or the London Charivari
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." Punchinello
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. The Rambler
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." Scientific American
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."

The Spectator
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." The Strand Magazine
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." The Tatler
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.." The Unpopular Review,

Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this Magazine CD with 1058 issues from 35 vintage magazines in plain text form sells for $19 at our online store.

How to install and use the free ReadPlease software included on this CD

Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on
your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you
want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to
open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text
file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your
browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the
speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the
right and left arrows).

When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that
same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type
whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on
your hard drive.

Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with
even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder
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Tips for using/enjoying the texts on this CD:

The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. (That should bring you to here, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.)

From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.  Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.

When you stop reading, jot down the last phrase (a unique set of words) so you can search for that the next time you want to read and easily find the spot where you left off.

If you just want to read and if you have a large screen, use your browser and under View increase the type size to meet your taste.

If you just want to read and you have a small screen, try using WordPad or Word.

If you want to take notes while you read, first save the file on your hard drive, then open it in WordPad or Word, enter your notes with the text (making them distinctive with bold or italic or by enclosing them in brackets] as you go along, and save the entire file, with those changes, when you are done.

If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).


Note regarding copyright:  We include works published in the US before 1923, works from Australia and Canada when the author died 50 years or more ago, and works from the European Union (including the United Kingdom and Ireland) when the author died 70 years or more ago. NB -- Due to The European Union's extension of copyright by 20 years to 70 years after the death of the author, many works which had been in the public domain under the previous law are now once again under copyright. Hence we are unable to include on our CDs some popular writers whose works are still readily available over the Internet.

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