[This e-text comes in three forms: Unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and ASCII. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --If “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the UTF-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, “œ” is two letters, but French words like “étude” have accents and “æ” is a single letter. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). A few symbols-- generally used to mark footnotes-- may be different from their printed form. Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version. Any French words or names will be shown without accent, and “æ” is two letters. But all necessary text will still be present. Italics are shown conventionally with _lines_. Small capitals in headings are shown with +marks+ to distinguish them from full-size capital letters. In the body text, where whole-word capitals are rare, small capitals are generally shown as CAPITALS. The pointing-finger symbol is shown as [->] * * * The New-York Weekly Magazine or Miscellaneous Repository was published for slightly more than two years, from summer 1795 through summer 1797. The two complete years were also published as bound volumes; this e-text is Volume II, nos. 53-104. Volume III, renamed Sentimental & Literary Magazine, only lasted through no. 112. There are no illustrations and no advertising. Each page was in two columns. The arrangement of each issue was: Front Page, in slightly larger type: masthead spanning the top of the page didactic or philosophical essays Inside pages: prose essays (philosophical or educational) fiction, ranging from from a single column to serialized novels Page 7, second column (variable): Marriages Meteorological Observations, including monthly summary short poem Back Page, in slightly smaller type: poetry printer/publisher information spanning the bottom of the page Except for pieces explicitly labeled “For the New-York Weekly Magazine”, and some of the poetry, the entire content was taken from other published sources. Attribution is haphazard. Single lines of asterisks * * * represent decorative lines separating articles in the original. Articles that begin at the top of a column are marked with two rows of asterisks. All other asterisks--notably in “The Victim of Magical Delusion” and “The Baron De Lovzinski”--are in the original. The Index was printed at the beginning of the bound volume. It has been relocated to the end of the text, before the Errata and Sources. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the e-text. Most spellings were left as printed even if they are probably wrong.