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Download or read book Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume Xli, No. 5, May 1885 written by Various and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eclectic Magazine' was created when Leavitt Trow and Company purchased the Eclectic Museum in 1844. John Holmes Agnew of the Presbyterian clergy was the first editor, followed by Walter A. Bidwell, who edited the magazine until his death. A vast amount of periodical literature is stored in the file of the Eclectic Magazine . It reprinted articles from the best of the English magazines, spanning the entire reign of Queen Victoria. In addition to printing "the cream of foreign periodical literature," it published some brief extracts from new books and some original articles and fiction in the later years.