Description: THE PENNY MAGAZINE May 28, 1836 This is a paper which is over 180 years old. It is printed in a small format, measuring 7 x 11 inches in size, and is 8 pages long. It came from a bound volume and has typical minor disbinding marks at the spine, but is otherwise in excellent and attractive condition. The lead article in the issue is titled ALPINE PEASANTS RETURNING FROM THE MOUNTAINS. It is headed with a nice wood engraving of three workers carrying heavy loads in the mountains. The accompanying article takes up the remainder of the front page and 3/4ths of the second page, for about 150 lines of text. It begins, in part: On a fine evening early in the last autumn, on passing through the valley of the Salza, which is surrounded by some of the richest Alpine pasturages, I met numerous herds of cattle descending from their summer pastures in the mountains. The herdsmen were laden with the pails, churns, and other utensils used in the making of the cheese in the mountains; and here and there were seen happy groupswives and children coming out to greet them after their long sojourn in the Alps. The accompanying sketch represents a party who had just reached their native village after an absence of three months, each heavily laden with the produce of the summer pasturage. . . . In these Alpine heights are built log-huts, called chalets, in which the herdsmen and their cattle are sheltered. In some parts of the higher Alps the peasants remain during the whole season . . . . Sometimes a single man . . . remains for ten or twelve weeks hung up amidst pine-forests, rocks, and glaciers of ice, without seeing a human being. . . . The higher ridge of the Scheideck, when we passed it, was crowded with cattle . . . . we came to a chalet . . . . Here a fire was already blazing in a sort of pit or trench dug around by way of seat . . . a huge kettle hung over for the purpose of cheese-making . . . . All the utensils were made of maple. . . . We noticed the portable seat with a single leg, oddly strapped to the back of those who milk the cows. . . . The chalet itself was . . . composed of clumsy shigled, gave vent to the smoke in the absence of a chimney. . . . The be-room of the shepherds is a wooden gallery, hung up over the melkgang . . . . The ground round the chalet is so broken, poached, and made filthy by treading of cattle, that without stepping-stones, it would be difficult to reach the door; to finish the picture, a herd of swine ranges about, waiting for the allotted portion of butter-milk and curds. . . . Etc. * * * * * * * * * * * This is followed by an ornithological article of more than a page on MIGRATION OF SWALLOWS. Also in the paper is an article of over two pages (more than 325 lines of text) on THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA. This is the first of a series of articles on the subject, and begins: The history of the ancient and once honourable Knights Hospitallers of St. John is an interesting but very large subject, being, in fact, for several centuries interwoven with, and a leading part of the general history of Christendom. A short sketch, however, like that we recently gave of their rivals, the Knights Templars, may amuse and instruct our readers. . . . Etc. The issue also has a page on THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE, CORNWALL, complete with an illustration. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Background on this publication: The Penny Magazine was a weekly 8-page paper put out by Londons Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Throughout the 1830s, an American edition was very popular in the United States, only to dwindle into extinction during the following decade. The paper did not cover the current news of the day, and carried no advertising. Instead, the Penny Magazine provided excellent essays on a wide array of subjects, such as architecture, science, geography and natural history, often illustrated with fine woodcut engravings. 266[gsp12306] _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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