Norris Henry of the sixteen-page weekly. In July of that year the periodical was renamed the
National Recorder and changed into a literary miscellany or eclectic. It contained reprints of American newspaper articles; selections from foreign magazines such as essays on politics, economics, science, and literature; papers read before the Agricultural Society of Philadelphia; and some original copy. Some earlier American magazines were eclectics because original contributions were not to be had. During the second half of the eighteenth century, about three-quarters of the contents of American magazines were extracted from other American and British publications. In 1819, however, magazines were eclectics due to the popularity of the format, not because of a shortage of literary work produced by American authors. This literary piracy, as it was regarded by some, was perfectly legal. International copyright laws were passed only at the end of the nineteenth century.
While in Philadelphia Littell also published religious and medical journals, and for several years in the 1820s and 1830s he had a bookstore with his brother, editor and author John Stockton Littell. From January 1821 to October 1824 he published the Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature as a continuation of the Eclectic Repertory and Analytic Review, Medical and Philosophical, a quarterly that had been edited by an association of physicians and published by T.
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