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A vivid doorway into late nineteenth-century imagination and inquiry. In this complete issue of Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, January 6, 1877, readers meet a lively illustrated weekly magazine that blends curiosity with craft, education with entertainment, and science with art. This volume offers a concise yet rich snapshot of a mid Victorian periodical: essays on popular science and art, lively tales, and miscellanies that speak to a home library collection, to teachers and students, and to anyone who savours the look and feel of Victorian England. Its pages…mehr

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A vivid doorway into late nineteenth-century imagination and inquiry. In this complete issue of Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, January 6, 1877, readers meet a lively illustrated weekly magazine that blends curiosity with craft, education with entertainment, and science with art. This volume offers a concise yet rich snapshot of a mid Victorian periodical: essays on popular science and art, lively tales, and miscellanies that speak to a home library collection, to teachers and students, and to anyone who savours the look and feel of Victorian England. Its pages function as a literature and science omnibus, a nimble sampler of the era's public conversation, and a reminder that knowledge could be shared with wit, wonder, and accessible prose. Its literary and historical significance rests in its polished voice, its Harpers Weekly-style clarity, and its role in shaping popular culture. For casual readers, it offers engaging reading and memorable scenes; for classic-literature collectors, it represents a pivotal, artefact-like record of the period's print culture. The edition stands not merely as a reprint but as a restored cultural treasure, revived by Alpha Editions for today's audience and for future generations. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this is more than a reprint - it is a collector's item and a testament to the enduring charm of the nineteenth century journal.
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Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stocking was hung by the chimney with care, In the that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap;