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pictorial exhibits, which, although they are artistically done, yet make only picture-books, to be looked at, not read.
The file shows/ however, that in Belford's Magazine an endeavor to popularize serious subjects was made. On the occa- sion of locating in Chicago again in 1892, the magazine editorially declared that "the literature of the West has been acted, it has been done" not written.
Another type of serious magazine broadly to be classed as literary, which grew up in the eighties at Chicago, was the home- study journal. Some of these were: the Correspondence Uni- versity Journal, monthly, 1884-86; the University, 1885-86, biweekly, claiming to be a successor to the Weekly Magazine; the Home Library Magazine, monthly, 1887; and the National Magazine, published by a so-called " National University " from 1889 to l8 94-
