Abstract
This thesis presents for the most part a narrative history of the Knickerbocker Magazine. The author has tried to bring out the type of periodical that the Knickerbocker belonged to, and something of its aims and influences. This has been done mainly by showing the material which filled the pages of the Magazine and also by taking into consideration the contributors and the editors of this periodical. | This paper was compiled chiefly from original sources. A short bibliography at the end of this thesis will show in how far the author has depended on secondary sources. One of the chief difficulties which the author encountered was to select from a wealth of material in the Magazine those things which would best bring out the point in question. Another man might have selected a different sort of material. In that the personal element played an important part.