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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418

by Various

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, a cheap, respectable weekly of useful knowledge founded by the brothers William and Robert Chambers in 1832. It aimed to give working readers good reading for a penny and a half. It is a fine picture of what ordinary Victorians learned from.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 1 hr 25 min

Where to find it

The Periodicals Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #13865. In the public domain in the United States.