Project Gutenberg 2025-07-22 Public domain in the USA. 210 Knight, Charles 1791 1873 The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 1, March 31, 1832 $aLondon :$bSociety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, $c1832, pubdate 1833. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penny_Magazine Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue…" by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge is a general-interest periodical written in the early 19th century. It offers an educational miscellany aimed at broadening access to practical information and agreeable reading, blending history, geography, natural history, literature, moral essays, and brief notes for a wide readership. This issue opens with an editorial championing inexpensive reading for all, followed by a historical sketch of Charing Cross and an illustrated note on its monuments. A substantial article traces the early colonization and growth of Van Diemen’s Land, while shorter pieces cover the antiquity of beer, a witty moral anecdote (“Fair Play”), and brief observations on manners and animal sagacity. Reports from the Zoological Gardens describe a Wapiti shedding its antlers and the fearsome grizzly bear. “The Week” supplies compact notices on Descartes, All-Fools’-Day, and William Harvey. A reflective essay urges diligence in humble stations, and an obituary appreciation of George Crabbe introduces his portrait of the virtuous labourer Isaac Ashford. Further items include a playful sermon on “MALT,” a statistical and social overview of Poland, assorted aphorisms and curiosities, and a postscript affirming the magazine’s mission to diffuse useful knowledge through an affordable weekly format. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20070519171033knight 1832 gb Reading ease score: 61.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en English periodicals AP Text Category: Journals 102455 2025-09-30T08:10:43.095451 text/html 77135 2025-07-22T10:54:16 text/html 1745997 2025-09-30T08:10:47.465433 application/epub+zip 1744457 2025-09-30T08:10:44.572541 application/epub+zip 128539 2025-09-30T08:10:43.690473 application/epub+zip 2160701 2025-09-30T08:10:49.528399 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2148830 2025-09-30T08:10:46.603421 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 84420 2025-09-30T08:10:42.807500 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 64306 2025-07-22T10:54:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15730 2025-09-30T08:10:49.664406 application/rdf+xml 9281 2025-09-30T08:10:43.948427 image/jpeg 1654 2025-09-30T08:10:43.818427 image/jpeg 2144981 2025-09-30T08:10:43.135515 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia