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Excerpt from Selections From the British Apollo: Containing Answers to Curious Questions in Literature, Science, Folk-Lore, and Love, Performed by a Society of Gentlemen in the Reign of Queen Anne; A Study in the Evolution of Periodical Literature IN this age, when satiated with the multiplicity and variety of magazines which appeal to the public - a new one appearing almost every month - it is refreshing to go back in imagination to the period when this species of literature first began to attract attention. I have been asked to write a short prefatory note to a work by the late Mr. G. W. N iven, of Greenock, in which, with much pains and perspicuity, he has enabled us to perform this mental peregrination, traced the origin and development of our journalism, which is now so thoroughly organised and has attained such gig antic proportions, and has given us a most graphic account of one of the quaintest and most curious of the early forms which it assumed. It is with much pleasure that I accede to this request, for I believe that in bringing out a work on The British Apollo - a series of volumes very popular in their own day, full of entertainment and Instruction, first issued in the early years of the1 4 Introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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