The American Magazine and Monthly Chronicle for the British Colonies. By a Society of Gentlemen. William Bradford. Philadelphia. Oct. 1757-Oct., 1758. A. A. S. H. S. P. N. Y. P. L. (Edited by the Rev. William Smith. The best literary periodical before the Revolution, containing poems of Francis Hopkinson, Thomas Godfrey, Joseph Shippen, James Sterling, and Samuel Davies, along with original essays by William Smith, and others.)
The New American Magazine. By Sylvanus Americanus. James Parker. Woodbridge, 1758-1760. Jan., 1758-Mar., 1760. B. M. L. C. P. N. Y. H. S. M. H. S. (Edited by Samuel Nevill, this magazine became a kind of successor to The American Magazine, though of a less literary and more scientific character than the latter.)
The New-England Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure. (By Urbanus Filter) Benjamin Mecom. Boston, n. d. [1758.] No. 3 in A. A. S. (Three or four numbers only. Very little significant material. The attempt failed.)
Ein Geistliches Magazien. Germantown, 1764-1770. H. S. P. (Sermons and other theological material.)
The American Magazine, or General Repository. .W. and T. Bradford. Philadelphia, Jan.-Sept., 1769. Nine numbers published. A. A. S. (Edited by Lewis Nicola. The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society were added to each number except the first, and, in general this magazine tended toward scientific interests, and political reports from Revolutionary town meetings.)
The Royal Spiritual Magazine: or, The Christian's Grand Treasure. By several Divines. Joseph Crukshank. Philadelphia, n. d. [1771.] A. A. S. H. S. P. (Theological dialogues expounding redemption.)
The Censor. Ezekiel Russell. Boston, Nov., 1771-Apr., 1772. B.A. M. H. S. (An able political weekly, defending the Governor against the radical, or Revolutionary party. Lieutenant Governor Oliver probably wrote the numbers signed A Freeman.)
The Royal American Magazine, or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement. Isaiah Thomas and afterwards Joseph Greenleaf. Boston, 1774-1775. (Edited and published by Isaiah Thomas until June, 1774, after which Joseph Greenleaf published it until March, 1775. A. A. S. B. P. L. M. H. S. N. Y. P. L. Y. C. This magazine has the famous Paul Revere engravings, and is interesting politically as a radical document. Its literary material, aside from inflammatory odes, is often conventional.)
The Pennsylvania Magazine; or, American Monthly Museum. R. Aitken. Philadelphia, Jan., 1775-July, 1776. A. A. S. H. S. P. J. C. B. (Edited by Thomas Paine. Very interesting politically. There are some good satires. News of English books is particularly full.)
CHAPTER VIII
AMERICAN POLITICAL WRITING, 1760-1789
I. Collections of Documents
[Almon, John.] A Collection of Papers, relative to the Dispute between Great Britain and America, from 1764 to 1775. London, 1777. Cited as The Prior Documents, and followed, for the Revolutionary period, by Almon's Remembrancer.
Force, Peter [compiler]. American Archives. A Documentary History of the North American Colonies. Only the Fourth Series, 6 vols. (1774-1776), and Fifth Series (1776-1783) were published. Washington, 1837-53.
