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The August Magazines

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  • Title: The August Magazines
  • Date: 25 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01055
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 25 July 1857: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Samantha Gilmore Kaylen Michaelis Jason Stacy Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "The August Magazines." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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THE AUGUST MAGAZINES.

Harper gives us a sterling number for August.1 Porte Crayon’s interesting sketches of North Carolina are continued, and the whole number evinces the same admirable combination of the instructive with the entertaining, which it is the object of a good magazine to supply. When we consider the enormous quantity of matter supplied by Harper, in comparison with other monthlies, as well as the judgment and taste which guide its selection, we cannot wonder at its reputation, popularity, and wide circulation.

GODEY’S LADY’S BOOK.2—This excellent periodical for August is at hand, as acceptable as ever to its tens of thousands of fair readers. The colored fashion plate is a superior one. There is abundance of instructive and entertaining reading matter, and the general amount of instruction in household arts.

Harper’s Story Books, No. 33. These story books are issued monthly; they contain a series of narratives, dialogues, biographies and tales, for the perusal of the young. They are embellished with numerous engravings, and are well calculated to interest the class for whom they are designed.

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2. Godey's Lady's Book, published by Louis A. Godey (1804–1878), was a women's and family magazine dedicated to literature, fashion, and culture. Between 1837 and 1877, it was edited by Sarah Josepha Hale. [back]

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