The scope of the present work comprises the American magazines published before 1811. By the term "American magazines" is meant all magazines published in English, whether in the United States or Canada. Periodicals in German, Spanish, French or other foreign languages have been excluded. In as much as the study is primarily concerned with literature it has been necessary, on account of the great scope of the subject, to omit publications of a non-literary type, e. g., newspapers, gazettes, periodicals dealing solely with history, religious magazines, almanacs, etc. This method of exclusion is not an easy one, for during the period under discussion the magazine and the newspaper approached each other, the former printed news and the latter gave specimens of literature, usually short poems. It happened sometimes that a translation which appeared in a magazine had been printed first in a newspaper. For example, _The Name Unknown_, "Imitated from Klopstock's ode to his future mistress. By Thomas Campbell," is to be found in the _Newport Mercury_, 1803, Newport, just three years before it was printed in _The Evening Fireside_, II-165, Phila. This illustrates the importance of the newspaper in this connection, especially since the latter contained also numerous paragraphs on things German, but it is a field for separate investigation and in this connection must take second place as compared with the literary periodicals. Similarly the religious magazines often contain poems relative to our subject, so that it has been necessary to include some of these publications. Thus, the _Boston Observer and Religious Intelligencer_, I-152, 1835, Boston, contains the poem _Trust in God_, "Translated from the German," whereas others indicate on their title page their dual character, e. g., _The Literary and Theological Review_, 1834-39, N. Y., _The Monthly Miscellany of Religion and Letters_, 1839, etc., Boston, and _The Monthly Mag. of Religion and Literature_, 1840, Gettysburg. Most of the religious magazines, however, belong to the period after 1810. Lastly, even some of the almanacs come almost within the range of the present discussion, for the earlier ones have poems[12] and interesting information, and were carefully read by the general public. Most of these had their vogue before the literary magazine became prominent and therefore represent a period before the German literary influence had made itself felt. Of those that were examined, none contained material to warrant their inclusion in the list given in Part V. [Footnote 12: _Universal American Almanack, or Yearly Mag._, 1764, Phila., contains a poem entitled _Golden Verse of Pythagoras_.]