The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 31 by Charles Knight

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 31 by Charles Knight (1791 - 1893)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Read by: rajapillai, Larry Wilson, mleigh, BettyB in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - The British Museum No. 6
00:04:25 - 02 - On the Qudrature of the Circle
00:20:30 - 03 - The Banana, or Plantain
00:25:33 - 04 - Falls of the Clyde
00:33:21 - 05 - Cowper's Lines on the Receipt of his Mother's Picture
00:41:25 - 06 - 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