LIST OF MAGAZINES EXAMINED. The principal libraries where the work for the present study has been done are: in Philadelphia--The Philadelphia Library (including the Ridgway Branch), the Mercantile Library, the libraries of the University of Pennsylvania, of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, and of the American Philosophical Society; in Boston--the Boston Public Library, the Atheneum Library and the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society; in Cambridge--the library of Harvard University; in New York City--the New York Public Library (including the Lenox Branch), the libraries of the New York Historical Society, of the New York Society, and of Columbia University; in Baltimore--the libraries of the Peabody Institute, of the Maryland Historical Society and of Johns Hopkins University, and the Pratt Library; in Washington--the Library of Congress, and in London--the library of the British Museum. Some of the smaller libraries visited, which contain only duplicates of periodicals accessible elsewhere, have been omitted from the above list. =The American Mag.=, or a Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies.--Phila. Nos. 1-3. Jan., Feb., Mar. 1741. [Edited by John Webbe and printed by Andrew Bradford.] =The General Mag. and Historical Chronicle= for all the British Plantations in America.--Phila. I, Jan.-June 1741. [Edited and printed by Benjamin Franklin.] =The Boston Weekly Mag.=--Boston. Nos. 1-3, Mar. 2, 9, 16, 1743. =Amer. Mag. and Historical Chronicle.=--Boston. I-III, Sept. 1743-Dec. 1746. =The Independent Reflector=, or Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects.--N. Y. Nos. 1-52, Nov. 30, 1752-Nov. 22, 1753. =The Occasional Reverberator.=--N. Y. Nos. 1-4, Sept. 7-Oct. 5, 1753. =The Amer. Mag. and Monthly Chronicle= for the British Colonies in America. By a Society of Gentlemen.--Phila. I, Oct. 1757-Oct. 1758. =The New Amer. Mag.=--Woodbridge in New Jersey. Nos. I-XXVII, Jan. 1758-Mar. 1760. =The New England Mag.=--Boston. Nos. 1-2, Aug. 1758. =Universal Amer. Almanack, or Yearly Mag.=--Phila. I, 1764. =The Penny-post.=--Phila. Jan. 9-27, 1769. [A literary periodical.] =The Amer. Mag.=; to which are added the transactions of the American Philosophical Society.--Phila. Jan.-Sept. 1769. [Nine numbers only were published. Cf. Sabin, _Dictionary of Books relating to America_, I-142.] =The Censor.=--Boston. I, Nos. 1-17; II, Nos. 1-7; Nov. 23, 1771--May 2, 1772. [Replies to attacks upon Tory officers by the Whigs.] =The Royal Amer. Mag.=--Boston. Jan.-Dec. 1774; Jan.-Feb. 1775. =Penna. Mag.=--Phila. I, 1775; II, Jan.-June 1776. =U. S. Mag.=--Phila. A Repository of History, Politics and Literature. I, Jan.-July; Sept.-Oct. 1779. =The Boston Mag.=, containing a collection of instructive and entertaining essays.--Boston.