Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science was one of the leading American literary monthlies of the late nineteenth century, publishing fiction, travel essays, poetry, and articles on science and culture. This December 1878 issue reflects the magazine’s characteristic breadth, with material touching on European travel, literary criticism, and the social and scientific questions of the Gilded Age.
As a primary document of Victorian American periodical culture and transatlantic literary taste, the issue is of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century print culture, American literature, and cultural relations between Europe and the United States.