Riverside Magazine For Young People
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 Cover of the April 1870 issue | |
| Editor | Horace Scudder |
|---|---|
| Categories | Children’s magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Hurd & Houghton |
| First issue | January 1867 |
| Final issue | December 1870 |
| Country | United States |
The Riverside Magazine For Young People was a monthly United States children’s magazine, published between January 1867 and December 1870. It was founded by Henry Oscar Houghton, who named the periodical after his former business, Riverside Press, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] The magazine was published by Hurd & Houghton in New York City[2] and it printed stories written by Mary Mapes Dodge, Sarah Orne Jewett, Rose Terry Cooke, Hans Christian Andersen and other authors who were well known at the time.[1] In 1871 the magazine merged with Scribner’s Monthly.
The editor was Horace Scudder, who stressed literary value over the moral-of-the-story style emphasized in some children’s magazines of the nineteenth century.[1] Scudder believed that reading material offered to children should not be limited to stories written especially for them, and he regularly included Shakespeare, plus translations of Greek and Roman authors in the magazine.[3]
Content
The magazine contained 48 pages of well-illustrated short stories, articles, poems and serialized stories. The page count did not include advertising sections at the front and back of each issue. No advertising appeared amongst the stories.[2] Each copy of the monthly magazine had a red and blue cover illustrated with morning glories.[4]
Subscription price was $2.50 per year; clergymen and teachers were offered a discounted subscription price of $2.00 per year.[2]
Hans Christian Andersen
Horace Scudder was an admirer of Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark. Scudder taught himself to read and write the Danish language in order to correspond with the writer, and to check the translations of Andersen’s stories. In March 1868 he offered Andersen $500 for a dozen new stories to be published in Riverside Magazine For Young People.[5]
Sixteen of Andersen’s stories were published in the magazine, and ten of them appeared there before they were printed in Denmark.[5]
