FIRST THINGS IN LITERATURE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 1, 3 January 1901, Page 13

FIRST THINGS IN LITERATURE.

The first literary journal ever published was issued at Paris on the 30th of May, 1666, by Dennis de Sallo, ecclesiastical counsellor to the Parisian Parliament. Its title v. as Journal des Savant. This work met with a favorable reception and waa soon imitated throughout Europe. Its author had the gratification of seeing it translated into several languages. The first almanac in England was printed in Oxford in 1673. ' There were,' says Wood, ' nearly 30,000 of them printed, besides a sheet almanac for two pence, that was printed for that year ; and because of the novelty of the said almanac and its title, they were all vended. Its eale was bo great that the Society of Booksellers in London bought off the copy for the future in order to keep the profits in their own hands.' The first daily paper in Paris appeared only a few days prior to the French Revolution and was called the Journal de Paris. The first journal published in France wae edited by a physioiam named Theophraste Renaudot, and appeared on the 30th of May, 1631, under the title of the Gazette. The far-sighted Riohelieu, the man before his age who was sb necessary to France of that day as President Loubet is to the present, greeted its appearance with pleasure. The earliest magazine iesued in America was entitled The General Matja»ine aud Monthly Chronicle for the British Planta~ tion* in America. The first number appeared in January, 1741. The first English literary production penned in America, which has any rank in the general history of literature, is the translation of Ovid's Metamojjhortes, byJGeorge Sandys, printed in London in 1626. The firet collection ever made of American poetry was in 1793 It was edited by Elihu 11. Smith, of Connecticut.

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