# penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17

An audiobook by Charles Knight, read by LibriVox volunteers (1 h 10 min, English).

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which started two months earlier. Costing just one penny, it was aimed at the working class and needed broad circulation in order to survive. Initially successful, its content proved to miss the mark and be of more interest to the upper classes and folded after a couple of years. Its format was to offer short essays on a variety of topics the paternalistic publisher deemed important to its readership. - Summary by LynneT

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## Chapters

1. The Cape Buffalo - Bos Caffer (7:48): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_01_knight_64kb.mp3
2. On the Importance of a Public Declaration of the Reasons of Decisions in the Courts of Justice (4:31): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_02_knight_64kb.mp3
3. On the Hot Wind of Africa Called the Camsin (4:39): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_03_knight_64kb.mp3
4. Forks (3:47): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_04_knight_64kb.mp3
5. The Weaver's Song (6:05): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_05_knight_64kb.mp3
6. Westminster Abbey (12:37): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_06_knight_64kb.mp3
7. The Week (5:02): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_07_knight_64kb.mp3
8. The Labourers of Europe - No. 1 - Italy (9:51): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_08_knight_64kb.mp3
9. The Art of Swimming (6:49): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_09_knight_64kb.mp3
10. The Stormy Petrel (2:26): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_10_knight_64kb.mp3
11. Good Old Times (6:28): https://archive.org/download/usefulknowledge17_2603_librivox/usefulknowledge17_11_knight_64kb.mp3