PERIODICAL (ante). The first attempt to establish a periodical in the was made in 1741, when Franklin issued his General Magazine and historical Chronicle at Philadelphia. This periodical lasted but half a year, and the American Magazine, which was started soon afterward, suspended after the second number. Other periodicals published before the revolution were: the American Magazine and historical Chronicle (1743-46); the Boston Weekly Museum (1743, 4 11 u rn bers); the Independent Reflector (1752-54); the New England Magazine (1758); the American Mugazine(1757-58); the North American Magazine (1758-66); the AmericauMagazine (1769); the Royal American Magazine (1774-75); and the Pennsylvania Magazine (1775); the Knickerbocker, founded by C. F. Hoffman at New York in 1832, and continued till 1862, and Putnam's _Monthly, issued in the same city from 1853 to 1857 and from 1867 to 1869, were popular American magazines. The best known magazines published in the United States at the present time are the Atlantic Monthly, founded in Boston in 1857; and edited successively by J. R. Lowell, J.
'P. Fields, W. D. Howells, and T. B. Aldrich; Harper's .New Monthly Magazine, founded in New York in 1830, and edited at present by Henry M. Alden; Scrtbner's Monthly, founded in New York in 1870, and edited by J. G. Holland; and Lippinrotes Magazine, published at Philadelphia. The Eclectic Magazine, Eileen's Living Age, and the Library Magazine, are principally devoted to reprints from foreign periodicals. The North Ameri can Review, founded in Boston in 1815, and the International Review, begun at New York in 1874, are of a graver character. St. _Nl'eltolas and Awake, are popular magazines fur children. W. F. Poole will soon (1881) publish a new edition of his Index to Periodical Literature, which will contain the titles of articles that have appeared in English and American periodicals to the present time.