ABSTRACT
The monthly NEW BON TON MAGAZINE; or, Telescope of the Times (1818–1821) seems to have been a conscious revival of an earlier journal called the Bon Ton Magazine; or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly (1791–1796). Like other “fashionable” journals, it attracted its readership in other ways than by its reviews of serious literature. Only one specimen of its reviewing falls within our scope.
