Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Number One's, Broadway Journal (New York), June 21, 1845, vol. 1, no. 25, p. 396

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NUMBER ONE’S.

We have received the first number of three new weekly Magazines during the past week. Two of them sprung up in Boston, and one in New-York. The most important of these new comers, in appearance, and doubtless containing the largest amount of vitality, is called “The Harbinger;” it is dedicated to “Social and Political Progress.” No editor is named, but it is to be furnished with matter by Park Godwin, W. H. Channing, Albert Brisbane, Osborne Macdanniel, Horace Greely, George Ripley, Charles A. Dana, John S. Dwight, L. W. Ryckman, John Allen, and Francis S. Shaw. Some of these gentlemen we know to be matter-full men, and if they lend their aid to this new magazine, it must shortly become an important organ in the world of journalism. It emanates from the Brook Farm Association at West Roxbury, and is, as a matter of course, an advocate of Fourierism. The first number contains the beginning of George Sand’s famous story “Consuelo,” translated, we suppose, by F. S. Shaw, as the copy-right is secured to him. The Harbinger is as well printed as any paper of its class, but coming from an Association like that at Brook Farm, we expected a greater degree of elegance in its externals. Tuttle & Dexter are the general agents.

“The Jester,” is another Boston birth; an imitation of Punch, but a very slender imitation indeed. The illustrations are better than the matter illustrated, an unusual case in an American publication. It wants a Lemon to give it flavor.

“The New-Yorker,” a semi-monthly paper of eight pages, devoted to Temperance, Morality, and several other good things, is published in New-York.