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24-520: Colburn and Frederic Shoberl established The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register as a "virulently Tory " competitor to Sir Richard Phillips ' Monthly Magazine in 1814. "The double-column format and the comprehensive contents combined the Gentleman's Magazine with the Annual Register ". In its April 1819 issue it published John Polidori 's Gothic fiction The Vampyre ,

48-522: A geographical commentary to accompany the translation of Xenophon 's Anabasis by John Selby Watson , which was issued in Bohn's Classical Library , and was republished in 1894 as one of Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books . Ainsworth was also the author of: He translated François Auguste Marie Mignet 's 'Antonio Perez and Philip II,' London, 1846, and edited William Burckhardt Barker 's ‘Cilicia: its Former History and Present State, with an Account of

72-743: A licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh , where he filled the office of president in the Royal Physical society and the Plinian Society . He then went to London and Paris, where he became an intern at the École nationale supérieure des mines . While in France he also gained practical experience of geology in the Auvergne and Pyrenees . After studying at Brussels he returned to Scotland in 1829 and founded, in 1830,

96-830: A son and two daughters. He recorded incidents of his time in Ireland in Ainsworth's Magazine and the New Monthly Magazine . In 1834 he published An Account of the Caves of Ballybunian in Kerry , Dublin. On his return from the Euphrates expedition he published his observations under the title of 'Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea,' London, 1838, with a dedication to Chesney. In 1842 he published an account of

120-401: A week later. In addition to the selected works below and his illustrations, Shoberl's editing is still being viewed. The Forget-Me-Not publications are being digitised because of their value. Poetry that was published includes works by Hester Thrale , Sir Walter Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft . The artwork that was included has also been digitised which continues Shoberl's poetry. It was

144-664: The Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science , which was discontinued in the following year. In 1831 there was an outbreak of cholera at Sunderland ; Ainsworth went there to study it, and published his experiences in Observations on the Pestilential Cholera , London, 1832. This book led to his appointment as surgeon to the cholera hospital of St. George's, Hanover Square . On another outbreak, in Ireland he acted successively as surgeon of

168-643: The London Magazine , appeared in the New Monthly from late 1821, his essay "The Fight" appeared in 1822, and his series "The Spirits of the Age'" was later republished, with essays from other sources, in the book The Spirit of the Age (1825). Charles Knight 's London Magazine merged with the New Monthly in 1829, and in that year Richard Bentley became Colburn's business partner. After Redding resigned in 1830, Campbell found himself unable to edit

192-741: The Moravian school at the Fulneck Moravian Settlement in West Yorkshire . From 1809 he began editing Rudolph Ackermann 's Repository of Arts which had just started and was only at its third edition. Ackermann was seen as the populariser of aquatint engraving and his Repository of Arts was intended to cover "arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics". At the beginning of February 1814, Shoberl and Henry Colburn founded and became co-proprietors of The New Monthly Magazine . For some time Shoberl

216-478: The New Monthly Magazine was complicated by the frequent use of a deputy position, or "working editor". Hook, Hood, Ainsworth, and Ainsworth alone are named on bound volume title pages. Many earlier editions of this publication are now available online. Later volume numbering is sequential by year. In earlier publications, at least one example is to be found of multiple volume numbering in the same year, such as 1822, per examples listed below. The list also illustrates

240-600: The 1820s. Shoberl married Theodosia and they had two sons. William was an assistant to Henry Colburn, and then a publisher in Great Marlborough Street and Frederic, who was printer to Prince Albert in Rupert Street and died a year before his father. His wife died on 18 December 1838. Shoberl died at Thistle Grove, Brompton , London, on 5 March 1853, and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery

264-775: The Mesopotamia expedition entitled 'Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldsea, and Armenia,' London, 2 vols. Two years later, in 1844, he produced his major work, the 'Travels in the Track of the Ten Thousand Greeks,' London, a geographical and descriptive account of the expedition of Cyrus the Great and of the retreat of his Greek mercenaries after the death of the Persian prince. In 1854 he furnished

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288-604: The conduct of several magazines, including Ainsworth's Magazine , Bentley's Miscellany , and the New Monthly Magazine . In 1871 he succeeded his cousin as editor of the New Monthly , and continued in the post until 1879. For some years he acted as honorary secretary to the Syro-Egyptian Society, founded in 1844, and he was concerned to promote the Euphrates and Tigris valley route to India, with which Chesney's expedition had been connected. He

312-474: The editor and publisher's job to identify and then borrow artwork for the magazine. Many of the artists chosen were Royal Academicians and a considerable fee would have to be negotiated. Once engraved the artwork was then used to solicit accompanying texts. Illustrations for a book called Daring Deeds of Elizabethan Heroes is also the work of Campbell. William Francis Ainsworth William Francis Ainsworth FSA (9 November 1807 – 27 November 1896)

336-562: The editorship once more. Contributors now included Catherine Gore , Anna Maria Hall , Letitia Elizabeth Landon , Felicia Hemans , Caroline Norton , Thomas Haynes Bayly , and Theodore Edward Hook . In 1837 the magazine was retitled The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist , to meet the challenge of Bentley's Miscellany . Now edited by Theodore Hook , it published contributions from Leigh Hunt , Douglas Jerrold , Frederick Marryat , Frances Trollope , Charles Robert Forrester , and W. M. Thackeray . Upon Hook's death in 1841, Thomas Hood

360-844: The first significant piece of prose vampire literature in English, attributing it to Lord Byron , who partly inspired it. In 1821 Colburn recast the magazine with a more literary and less political focus, retitling it The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal . Nominally edited by the poet Thomas Campbell , most editing fell to the sub-editor Cyrus Redding . Colburn paid contributors well, and they included Sydney Morgan , Thomas Charles Morgan , Peter George Patmore , Mary Shelley , Charles Lamb , Leigh Hunt , Stendhal , Thomas Noon Talfourd , Letitia Elizabeth Landon , Felicia Hemans , Ugo Foscolo , Richard Lalor Sheil , Mary Russell Mitford , Edward Bulwer , James and Horace Smith , and William Hazlitt . Hazlitt's " Table-Talk " essays, begun in

384-751: The hospitals at Westport , Ballinrobe , Claremorris , and Newport . In 1834 Ainsworth, after studying under Sir Edward Sabine , was appointed surgeon and geologist to the expedition to the River Euphrates under Francis Rawdon Chesney . Shortly afterwards he was placed in charge of an expedition to the Christians of Chaldaea , which was sent out by the Royal Geographical Society and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge . He went to Mesopotamia , through Asia Minor ,

408-409: The magazine on his own and Samuel Carter Hall became editor for a year. In 1831 the novelist Edward Bulwer became editor, turning "the essentially apolitical, slightly Whiggish, literary journal into a vigorous radical organ shouting 'Reform' at the top of its lungs." Hall, a political Conservative, had remained as sub-editor, and resisted Bulwer's efforts: Bulwer resigned in 1833, with Hall taking up

432-679: The passes of the Taurus Mountains , and northern Syria , reaching Mosul in the spring of 1840. During the summer he explored the Kurdistan mountains and visited Lake Urimiyeh in Persia , returning through Greater Armenia ; and reached Constantinople late in 1840. This expedition had financial troubles, and Ainsworth had to find his way home at his own expense. After his return to England in 1841 Ainsworth settled at Hammersmith , and assisted his cousin, William Harrison Ainsworth, in

456-489: The titles used, and gives an indication of the publishing frequency. Frederic Shoberl Frederic Shoberl (1775–1853), also known as Frederick Schoberl, was an English journalist, editor, translator, writer and illustrator. Shoberl edited Forget-Me-Not , the first literary annual , issued at Christmas "for 1823" and translated The Hunchback of Notre-Dame . Shoberl was born in London in 1775, and educated at

480-506: Was an English surgeon, traveller, geographer, and geologist, known also as a writer and editor. Ainsworth was born in Exeter , the son of John Ainsworth of Rostherne in Cheshire , captain in the 15th and 128th regiments. The novelist William Harrison Ainsworth was his cousin; at his cousin's request he adopted the additional Christian name Francis, to avoid confusion. In 1827 he became

504-548: Was editor until 1843. In 1845 Colburn sold the magazine for £2500 to William Harrison Ainsworth , who had earlier edited Bentley's Miscellany and who now edited his own Ainsworth's Magazine . Ainsworth edited the New Monthly with his cousin William Francis Ainsworth as sub-editor. From 1871–79 William Francis Ainsworth was editor. Over the years, the magazine had several titles. These are listed at Periodicals Online , and comprise: The editorship of

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528-639: Was editor, writing many of the articles and reviews and editing Ackermann's magazine. From 27 June 1818 to 27 November 1819 he was printer and publisher of the Cornwall Gazette , Falmouth Packet , and Plymouth Journal . The last was published in Truro in Cornwall. In 1822 he was the founding editor of Ackermann's Forget-Me-Not which was an annual , a new type of publication in England. This

552-553: Was one of the founders of the West London Hospital , and its honorary treasurer until his death at 11 Wolverton Gardens, Hammersmith, on 27 November 1896. He was the last survivor of the original fellows of the Royal Geographical Society from its formation in 1830, was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 14 April 1853, and was also a corresponding member of several foreign societies. He married, and left

576-537: Was the first literary annual in English Shoberl continued to edit the annual until 1834. Shoberl also began overseeing Ackermann's junior annual, The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not from 1828 until 1832. In addition to these editing tasks, Shoberl was an illustrator. He created his own hand-coloured engravings for The World in Miniature: Hindoostan which was published in London by Ackermann in

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