The Eclectic Magazine
Eclectic Magazine, The ( 1819–1907),literary journal published from New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. It began as The Philadelphia Register and National Recorder, a weekly reprint of American newspaper material, and became successively The National Recorder (1819–21); The Saturday Magazine (1821–22), republishing writings from British literary magazines; The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science (1822–42); and The Eclectic Museum (1843–44). All these magazines were edited and published by Eliakim Littell, but when it became The Eclectic Magazine (1844), a monthly reprint of foreign writings, he sold it to publish the rival Living Age.
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