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The article presents guidelines for authors who intend to submit their manuscripts to the periodical "Plant and Soil." The periodical publishes original research papers and solicited review articles that deal with the interface of plant biology and soil sciences, are of general interest, and provide a clear mechanistic component. "Plant and Soil" provides publication of full-length papers which describe the results of original research. The periodical will publish special issues containing a collection of articles on a theme considered by the editors to be of general interest to the readers.

Information about papers delivered at two symposiums held in 2009 is presented. The May meeting of the American Literature Association discussed the history of poetry in American periodicals and the American Periodicals Series Online created by ProQuest LLC. The October meeting of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers discussed women essayists in the 18th and 19th centuries; the history of advice columns; and letters sections in American periodicals from the 19th century to the 21st century.

On July 11, 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published in the United States. This novel had a huge impact on American society, becoming the second most popular book after the Bible. The author received a Pulitzer prize for it and many other honors and awards. However, a new book from Harper Lee had to wait longer than half a century. Go Set a Watchman was a sequel of To Kill a Mockingbird, but chronologically it was created first. Both novels were the focus of interest of domestic researchers, while other works by Harper Lee still remain little-known and unexplored in Russian literary studies. Thе paper introduces all works ever published by Harper Lee in USA since 1937 to 2006, and gives the list of Lee's manuscripts which could be discovered in the future. The bibliographic descriptions are arranged in chronological order and contain fragments from unknown works by Harper Lee. The presented list gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the content of “small forms” in which the author worked throughout her life. These are essays, parodies, one-act plays, poems, satirical columns, open letters, etc. The paper is dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's first novel.

Comments on the article 'The Media: Playing the Government's Game,' by William A. Dorman,' published in the August 1985 issue of the periodical 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.'

The article lists several resources related to the teaching of American periodicals including "Breathing New Life into Research Papers," by George T. Blakey, "Online News," by Susan Brooks-Young and "Special Edition: Using Newspapers in the Classroom," by Mackie Rhodes.

Comments on Harrison Brown's article in the October 1985 issue of the periodical 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,' which suggested that a millennium will be required to reach a reasonably secure world, given the current pace of arms control agreements.

This paper explores the relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture within a little-studied American magazine, Life (New York, 1884-1936). It does so by looking at three ways in which Life presented modernism to its readers: by quoting modernist writing, and, above all, by satirizing modernist art, and by offering didactic explanations of modernist art and literature. By reconsidering some of the long-established divisions between high and low culture, and between ‘little’ and ‘bigger’ magazines, this paper contributes to a better understanding of what modernism was and meant. It also suggests that the double agenda observed in Life – both satirical and didactic – might be a way of defining middlebrow magazines.

From the late 1890s onwards, Donegal writer Seumas MacManus was a frequent contributor to leading American periodicals and was often listed alongside noted American local colour writers. Moreover, the first books he published in America were immediately successful. MacManus rooted his work explicitly in Donegal and its seanchaí tradition, and in the United States in particular his works were positioned as representative of an authentic Celticity. But why did MacManus's work translate so readily to the American market? And what were the contexts that engendered the success of his stories and books? Using reviews, profiles, promotional materials, letters, and MacManus's self-presentations, this article explores how his work contributed to the construction and commodification of a transatlantic sense of Irishness rooted in local colour conventions. It concludes that the American reception of his work demonstrates how apparently local formations of regional identity garnered transatlantic attention not only as a function of their exoticness, but also as a result of the instrumentalisation of domestic literary conventions that generated conceptual links between localness and universality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines phrenological tools as instruments of matchmaking and focuses on the personal ad as a site for producing and exchanging knowledge about individuals. It shows how cranial measurement produced character profiles for the purpose of judging suitable marriage partners and how users integrated those profiles into personal advertisements published in the Water-Cure Journal. A popular but contested science of the mind, phrenology maintained that one could truly know others and oneself through measuring "organs" of the mind via protrusions on the skull. While much has been written about phrenology, less attention has been paid to its focus on marriage and mating and to how users enrolled phrenology to find and judge the viability of a mate. Focused on the American context in the 1850s, this essay will show that notions of race and gender, heredity, and marital "relations" were embedded in the shorthand of phrenological measurements and personal ads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several topics discussed at the "America at Century's End, 1890-1900" seminar at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania is presented. Topics include the role of American periodicals in examining the American literary and cultural history. The seminar featured several novels of various authors as well as nineteenth century periodicals.

This article chronicles the visual history of the American Agriculturist (1842-51; 1853- present; New York City), the first farming periodical in the United States to widely embrace artistic engravings. Long recognized as one of the most popular and influential periodicals in the mid-nineteenth-century United States, the Agriculturist's efforts to cultivate rural artistic taste has largely escaped investigation. This article recounts the development of the farming journal's interest in art-reproductions of paintings, original compositions, and other pictorial images-and explores its careful positioning as a mediator between the spheres of practical agriculture and fine art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This special issue probes our definitions and understandings of both the ‘radical’ and the ‘American’ in North American print and periodical culture. As many of the subsequent papers demonstrate, notions of radicalism as expressed in American periodicals often necessitate(d) looking beyond the nation state. Similarly, this issue highlights the fluidity of ‘radicalism’ as a temporal and technological concept; relatable not only to literary content, but also to graphic design, editorial control, foreign language use, subscription policies, and other aspects of production, dissemination and reception. Thematically and conceptually diverse, the articles collated here provide a judicious intervention into the developing field of periodical studies.

The article focuses on the monthly women's magazine "The Delineator," especially during the period from the 1890s to the 1920s while the magazine was under the leadership of editor Charles Dwyer and his successors including Theodore Dreiser and William Hard. The magazine during this period was notable for its representation of the "New Woman" who enjoyed sports such as golf, archery, and gymnastics, appreciated new technologies such as automobiles, and embraced social reform. The article also discusses Ebenezer Butterick, founder of the magazine and Butterick Publishing Company; the Settlement movement; author Helen Winslow's social themes, and women's suffrage.

The article considers how editors of 19th century periodical would have illustrations created for their magazines prior to commissioning the writing of accompanying text. The author focuses particularly on illustrated monthly magazines published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania such as "Godey's," Graham's," "Peterson's," and "Sartain's Union." The author argues that the practice of writing "illustrations" for etchings was part of the literary milieu of the era and explores the editorial policies which awarded such commissions. The writings and careers of authors Henry William Herbert and Caroline Kirkland are also considered.

The article presents abstracts from panels sponsored by the research society for American Periodicals at the American Literature Association, May 2004. Some of the abstracts are: "Modernism and the Yellow Journalism"; "From Grassroots to Massroots: Third Wave Feminism, Global Activism, and Marie Claire"; " Rooting Out the Miserable Monthlies: The Una and the Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement"; "The Daily Alta's Unladylike Correspondent: Elizabeth Stoddard's Engagement with the Public Sphere," etc.

An essay is presented on the impact of periodicals in the nineteenth-century American literature in the U.S. It cites the integration of historical periodicals in the classroom and the publication of American novels and short stories in American periodicals. Moreover, the role of periodical research in the nineteenth-century American literature is explored.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of teaching American periodicals.

The article lists publications on American periodicals from 1998-2001, including the book "Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker," by Renata Adler, the dissertation "Domestic Violence in the Popular Discourse: A Victim-Centered Problem," by Nancy Sharon Berns, and the article "To Watch the Faces of the Poor," by Charles Cunningham.

The article addresses the time spent by Edgar Allan Poe as editor of "The Gentleman's Magazine," a duty that he shared with William Evans Burton for a year, beginning in June 1839. The magazine was founded two years earlier by Burton after his move from England. The article analyzes the magazine, including the frontispiece, the title page and the advertisements. During 1839, both Poe and Burton made significant contributions to the magazine to save money. Poe's desire for his own magazine is illustrated by quotes from letters he wrote to Philip P. Cooke three months after joining "The Gentleman's Magazine." The author suggests that Poe wrote his story "Peter Pendulum, The Business Man," first published in "The Gentleman's Magazine" in February 1840, as a self depiction.

The article discusses early American women's magazines, focusing on "(American) Ladies' Magazine," which was published from 1828-1836. Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor, used her editorials to support women authors and to encourage women to speak up for equal rights. The rest of the magazine was used as a platform for issues facing women at the time. The author states that the magazine and similar publications helped middle-class women to feel that they were participating in a struggle to empower themselves.

The article lists several books from recent scholarship on American Periodicals including "Black Journalist: White Media," by Ainley Beulah, "Flash!: The Associated Press Covers the World," edited by Vincent Alabiso and "All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement," by Carlotta R. Anderson.

The article lists the annual selected checklist of scholarship in American periodicals in the U.S. from 1996-1999 which includes "Magazine-Made America: The Cultural Transformation of the Postwar Periodical," by David Abrahamson, "Irving Howe-Socialist, Critic, Jew," by Edward Alexander and "You Must Go Home Again: Duty, Love, and Work as Presented in Popular Magazines during World War II," by Susan Alexander and Alison Greenberg.

Reports the resignation of Charles Smith Jr. deputy editor of the journal 'American Family Physician' in May 2003. Reason behind his resignation; Contributions to the journal.