Description: THE PENNY MAGAZINE June 14, 1834 the Flamingo Coffee Bedouin Arabs This is a paper which is 190 years old. It is printed in a small format, measuring 7 x 11 inches in size, and is 8 pages long. It has some typical minor disbinding marks at the spine from coming from a bound volume, but is otherwise in very good, attractive condition. The lead article is on THE FLAMINGO, complete with a great woodcut engraving of several flamingoes, which takes up almost the entire front page. The accompanying text takes up the whole next page, beginning, "The flamingo, although one of the most remarkable of the aquatic tribe for its size and appearance, is by no means well known as regards its habits and manners." The article aims to correct this lack of knowledge in its readers, describing the bird in fine detail, from their physiques and coloring, to habits and uses. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Following this is almost a page (over 140 lines of text) on BEDOUIN ARABS. The story describes two violent encounters where British parties tangled with these natives, and says, in part, "The desert Arabs, or Bedouins, scorn the occupations and habits of civilized, or, more correctly speaking, or settled life. The dwellers in towns and houses they regard with supreme contempt . . . They are robbers by profession . . . If reproached with their predatory habits, they take their stand boldly on the ground, not of necessity, but of right. They are the lords of the desert, which was given to their father Ishmael as his only portion; and if strangers, who have no right to intrude, will pass through, they must pay for it. . . . "The depredations of the Arabs are seldom attended with bloodshed when no resistance is offered; and it rarely is, for the bravest are appalled when aware that if a single Arab loses his life a terrible vengeance will be exacted. . . . "Not only are the paths of the desert but the navigation of the rivers thus impeded by the Bedouin tribes. The shores of the Tigris, for instance, are inhabited by the Beni Lam, the Chaob, and other tribes, who claim a tribute of all vessels that pass to or from Bagdad, and when the Bagdad government is weak, go so far as to plunder them completely. . . ." Etc. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * There is also almost a full page on COFFEE. This article runs about 140 lines of text, describing in detail the best methods of coffee preparation. It says, in part: "In a late Number, we inserted a description which had been sent to us of the best mode of preparing cocoa for use: we shall perhaps do what is acceptable to a greater proportion of our readers by offering similar directions for the preparation of coffee. It is a singular fact that, travel where you may on the continent of Europe, you will everywhere find this grateful beverage prepared in a manner far superior to that which is ordinarily attained even in opulent families in England, where the 'straw-coloured fluid,' commonly introduced under the misnomer of coffee, is certainly not calculated to spread a liking for it as an article of diet. . . . "Coffee, when properly prepared, has the very useful and somewhat peculiar property of exhilarating the spirits and of producing even temporary wakefulness. . . . the medicinal quality of coffee resides in it independent of its aromatic flavour . . . . "The roasting of coffee is requisite for the production of both these qualities; but, to secure them in their full degree, it is necessary to conduct the process with some skill. . . . "Coffee should be ground very fine for use, and only at the moment when it is wanted, or the aromatic flavour will in some measure be lost. To extract all its good qualities, the powder requires two separate and somewhat opposite modes of treatment. . . . "Several kinds of apparatus, some of them very ingenious in their constructions, have been proposed for preparing coffee, but they are all made upon the principle of extracting only the aromatic flavour, while Professor Donovan's suggestions not only enable us to accomplish that desirable object, but superadd the less obvious but equally essential matter of extracting and making our own all the medicinal virtues of coffee." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * There is also an article on HOUSE OF THE FAUN, AND ITS MOSAIC FLOORS, about the ruins excavated in Pompeii. It is over a full page of text, plus a full-page illustration of "Mosaic, from Pompeii." The paper's final story is a page and a half on PROGRESS OF PAUPERISM. *********************** Background on this publication: The Penny Magazine was a weekly 8-page paper put out by Londons Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Throughout the 1830s, an American edition was very popular in the United States, only to dwindle into extinction during the following decade. The paper did not cover the current news of the day, and carried no advertising. Instead, the Penny Magazine provided excellent essays on a wide array of subjects, such as architecture, science, geography and natural history. The paper was compact 7 x 11 in size, and every issue was illustrated with two or more fine woodcut engravings. 141 [gsp10206] _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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