The Ordeal: A Critical Journal of Politicks and Literature, Volume 1This short-lived magazine was concerned with politics and literature; it devoted several sections to politics, and also gave attention to reviews of recent publications, poetry, and the theater. Cf. American perioidicals, 1741-1900. |
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| Title | The Ordeal: A Critical Journal of Politicks and Literature, Volume 1 |
| Editor | Joseph Tinker Buckingham |
| Publisher | J. T. Buckingham, 1809 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 412 pages |
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