Lippincott S Magazine November 1885

Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was a 19th century literary magazine published in Philadelphia from 1868 to 1915. Its early names were: Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education (1868-1870) and Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science (1871-1885). In 1915 it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine, and merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916. Lippincott's published original works, general articles, and literary criticism. It published several notable authors of the day, including: Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde and Willa Cather. Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed first appeared in the January 1890 edition, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four in February 1890, and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray in June 1890.

The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850, was issued in 1931 by another publisher, and is reissued now without change, under our imprint. The second volume covers the period from 1850 to 1865; the third volume, the period from 1865 to 1885. For each chronological period, Mr. Mott has provided a running history which notes the occurrence of the chief general magazines and the developments in the field of class periodicals, as well as publishing conditions during that period, the development of circulations, advertising, payments to contributors, reader attitudes, changing formats, styles and processes of illustration, and the like. Then in a supplement to that running history, he offers historical sketches of the chief magazines which flourished in the period. These sketches extend far beyond the chronological limitations of the period. The second and third volumes present, altogether, separate sketches of seventy-six magazines, including The North American Review, The Youth's Companion, The Liberator, The Independent, Harper's Monthly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, The Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, and Puck. The whole is an unusual mirror of American civilization.

This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities.

"The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world ... The Illusion of Ignorance argues that American ignorance of the experience of other nations is not so much a barrier to better understanding of the world, but a strategy Americans have chosen to maintain their vision of the U.S. relationship with the world."--Back cover.