Description: THE PENNY MAGAZINE Sept. 29, 1832 This is a paper which is over 190 years old. It is printed in a small format, measuring 7 by 11 in size, and is 8 pages long. The issue came from a bound volume and has typical minor disbinding marks at its spine, but is otherwise in excellent and very attractive condition, with only a few small browning spots from age, but no tears or stains, etc. The issue has more than half a page of text on FALLS OF THE CLYDE, which is illustrated with a 4 x 5.7-inch wood engraving of View of Cora Linn. The 103 lines of the article describe the falls near Lanark, Scotland. There is also a story consisting of 72 lines of text on THE BANANA, OR PLANTAIN, accompanied by a nice woodcut measuring 4.5 x 5.5 inches, on The Banana, or Plantain Tree, with Cocoa-Nut Trees in the back-ground. The article begins: The banana, or plantain, forms a principle article of food to a great portion of mankind within and near the tropics. It goes on to describe the plants cultivation and characteristics, and concludes with an unusual conclusion, blaming the backwardness of tropical peoples on the banana!: The facility with which the banana can be cultivated has doubtless contributed to arrest the progress of improvement in tropical regions. . . . Necessity awakens industry, and industry calls forth the intellectual powers of the human race. When these are developed, man does not sit in a cabin, gathering the fruits of his little patch of bananas, asking no greater luxuries, and proposing no higher ends of life than to eat and sleep. . . . The idleness of the poor Indian keeps him, where he has been for ages, little elevated above the inferior animal. ************************************** Background on this publication: The Penny Magazine was a weekly 8-page paper put out by Londons Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Throughout the 1830s, an American edition was very popular in the United States, only to dwindle into extinction during the following decade. The paper did not cover the current news of the day, and carried no advertising. Instead, the Penny Magazine provided excellent essays on a wide array of subjects, such as architecture, science, geography and natural history. The paper was compact in size, and every issue was illustrated with several nice woodcut engravings. 31 [gsp10196] _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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