The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17 by Charles Knight

The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Periodicals & Magazines

Read by: Phil Schempf, suelue, BettyB, mleigh, Brize C in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - The Cape Buffalo - Bos Caffer
00:07:48 - 02 - On the Importance of a Public Declaration of the Reasons of Decisions in the Courts of Justice
00:12:20 - 03 - On the Hot Wind of Africa Called the Camsin
00:17:00 - 04 - Forks
00:20:47 - 05 - The Weaver's Song
00:26:54 - 06 - Westminster Abbey
00:39:31 - 07 - The Week
00:44:33 - 08 - The Labourers of Europe - No. 1 - Italy
00:54:25 - 09 - The Art of Swimming
01:01:15 - 10 - The Stormy Petrel
01:03:42 - 11 - Good Old Times

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. Its format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. - Summary by LynneT