The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 34 by Charles Knight

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 34 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Periodicals & Magazines

Read by: Phil Schempf, Brize C, DonnyK, mleigh, Larry Wilson in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Tivoli
00:05:53 - 02 - The Flemish Language
00:17:49 - 03 - The Diving Bell
00:33:37 - 04 - Fascination of Serpents
00:43:30 - 05 - Natural Magic
00:51:39 - 06 - The Ornithorhynchus
00:53:42 - 07 - The Week

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Costing just one penny, it was aimed at the working class and needed broad circulation in order to survive. Initially successful, its content proved to miss the mark and be of more interest to the upper classes and folded after a couple of years. It's format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. - Summary by LynneT