1845 Littell's Lunatic Literary Mag, Mrs. Johnstone, Maize & England, Algeria

Description: This is a complete issue of Littell's Living Age for 29 March 1845. A very good copy that I neatly saved from certain doom in an old and damaged bound volume of the Boston weekly. See photo for complete table of contents. 39 page issue. Some highlights I find include: Front page notice of a new translation of German author and humorist J. P. F. Richter's Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces, translated by E.H. Noel. A longer essay in review of new works on travel and life in North Africa, the Sahara, Soudan, etc., by William B. Hodgson and by J.H. Blofeld (Algeria). More than a full page notice, with long excerpts of the appearance of the first issue (3 December 1844) of The New Moon, or Crichton Royal Institution Literary Register. It's headed here "Periodical Work Conducted by Lunatics" and is, it appears, the first of its kind. The Register would maintain its popularity well into the 20th Century. A new story by Mrs. Johnstone (Christian Isobel Johnstone) called "Mary Anne's Hair," lifted here from her recently published collection of stories, Edinburgh Tales. Three pages of verse by the poet Thomas Roscoe headed "The Tower of London--A Poem." A five page "Letter" headed "Maize & England" from the New York Albion on the topic of American corn being supplied, through Canada, for the people of England and why this is such a great arrangement for everyone. This is a lot more interesting than you might at first think. Other essays, reviews, correspondence, etc.

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