Within the last quarter of a century many journals have appeared in several States beyond the Mississippi. There are only two that ante date thatperiod that are still being published: The San Francisco Monitor begun in 1852, and the Catholic Sentinel of Portland (1870). The following is a list of the journals that are still being published: The Intermountain Catholic (1899), Catholic Tribune of Dubuque (1899), True Voice (1903), Catholic Register of Kansas City c1899), San Francisco Leader (1892), Catholic Herald of Sacramento (1908), Tidings, of Los Angeles (1895).
The early efforts in magazine editing met with the same discouragements that the news paper experienced. The first quarterly review of any kind to be started in the United American Review of History and Politics) — was edited by Robert , Walsh, 'a Catholic, during the year 1811-12. In 1819 a magazine was begun, lown as the Globe. This was the outgrowth of the Shamrock or nian Chronicle. It is doubtful whether there are any numbers of it extant. The Metro ..politan started in 1830 and was the first Cath olic magazine, strictly so called. It was filled with bright gems of Catholic scholarship and had all the claims to immortality but one— patronage. Consequently the monthly was allowed to perish after a brief existence of only one year. Another magazine by the same name was started in 1853 but shared the same fate. A juvenile magazine was founded in 1835 in New York city, known as the Children's Catholic Maga sine. Only one similar venture had pre ceded it, a weekly called the Expostulator pub lished in 1830 under the same auspices as The Jesuit in Boston. In the establishment of the Children's Catholic Magazine, the editor was but following the example of other denomina tions. It was observed that these journals had increased nearly tenfold in a decade and that these periodicals were being liberally patronized and most extensively circulated. Even the most mediocre could claim 5,000 patrons while some of the better class of children's magazines had more than 30,000. The Children"; Catholic Magazine had 13,000 subscribers. Due to poor management it lasted only two years and then suspended publication and was later revived under the name of the Young Catholics' Magazine. In 1842 another monthly magazine was started in Baltimore called the Religious Cabinet. At the end of one year its name was changed to the United States Catholic Maga zine. This review was discontinued in 1847. It had as its contributors some of the best Catholic thinkers of that time, both lay and clerical. Brownson's Quarterly Review was published in 1844, suspended in 1864, revived in 1873 and finally ceased in 1875. Dr. Orestes A. Brownson was a man of great erudition and a scholar of national reputation. He attracted many readers to his review. Catholics and non Catholics alike regarded him as the best philo sophical thinker of his time in America. The
Catholic World, a monthly magazine, was started in 1865 by Father Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers. This review is now re garded as one of the most conservative and authoritative Catholic journals in the United States. Its prestige has grown to such a degree that it is consulted by all religious denominations. Another weekly periodical, the Ave Maria, startedjust one year later, being founded by Father Sorin of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Ind. This magazine enjoys a very high literary reputation and has perhaps the widest circulation of any Catholic magazine in the United States. It has readers in every part of Christendom. Its staff of contributors are some of the best and most representative Catholic writers in Europe and America. In this same year The Messen ger of the Sacred Heart was founded by the Jesuits. This was supplemented by another magazine more literary in character called The Messenger, In 1910 it was replaced by America, a progressive weekly journal that immediately became a leader in Catholic opinion and now enjoys a national reputation. The American Catholic Quarterly Reviegi began hi 1876 arid is another high class petiodi cal occupying a place similar to Brownson's Quarterly, during the middle of the 19th cen tury. It affords a medium whereby Catholic erudition and scholarship finds expression. The following reviews are of more recent origin: Rosary Magazine (1891), Benziger's Magazine (1898), Extension Magazine (1907), Catholic Fortnightly Review, Saint Vincent de Paul Quarterly, and Saint John's In the last 50 years many magazines with a4 more limited scope have been founded. Some have succeeded, others have failed. The Ecclesiastical Review and the Homiletic Monthly are two professional magazines for the clergy. Since 1911 the Catholic Educational Review has done excellent service in its particular field. Another publication that looks after ' the interests of primary and secondary education is the Cath olic School Journal. Catholic history has been preserved through the efforts of contributors to the American Catholic Historical Researches, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Records and Studies of the United States Catholic Historical So ciety and recently there was added another quarterly called the Catholic Historical Review, published at the Catholic University of America. Another product of the scholarship of the same university is a new monthly periodical, the Catholic Charities Review. Among those that failed we may enumerate, the De La Salle Monthly (1867), later changed to the Man hattan .Monthly, the Young Crusader (1868), the Catholic Record of Philadelphia (1871), Central Magazine of Saint Louis (1872), Dona hue's Magazine (1878), Catholic Reading Circle Review, Mosher's Magazine, The Dolphin, the New York Review (1905), and the Globe Re view.