New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ng matter, during colonialtimes, is astonishing. Such books as reached Ne^#/Jersey from England or Scotland, or were printedin America, during this period, were largely of areligious character and distinctively , together with the statute laws, proceedingsof colonial legislatures, and an occasional pam-phlet upon some current political topic, with asmattering of novels and the classics, embracedthe range of general literature. Magazines, in thelatter day sense, were unknown, although the]Vet^ American Mag
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ng matter, during colonialtimes, is astonishing. Such books as reached Ne^#/Jersey from England or Scotland, or were printedin America, during this period, were largely of areligious character and distinctively , together with the statute laws, proceedingsof colonial legislatures, and an occasional pam-phlet upon some current political topic, with asmattering of novels and the classics, embracedthe range of general literature. Magazines, in thelatter day sense, were unknown, although the]Vet^ American Magazine appeared in 1758 in Wood-bridge, one of the earliest ventures of its kind inthe colonies. From the newspapers and the almanacs themass of the people derived most of their informa-tion concerning public affairs. Not until the lat-ter part of the year 1777 was there a newspaperpublished in New Jersey, when Isaac Collins es-tablished his New Jersey Gazette at that period the newspapers of Philadelphiaand New York had a limited circulation through. 2^ G ^tr\t Ir« CondJct, president/>o. Um. of (JUM-Iiii (uow RiitgerbiCollege, nOHSlO; 6. Oruige, N. J., Feb. 21, 1764; of New Jersey, ITSS; licpnBed t« jiTeach at NewBnmawick i:t«i , d 1810. 366 NEW JEESEY AS A COL the settled portions of the colony. The colonialjournals contained but few of the features of themodern newspaper. Editorial utterance, as dis-tinct from news, had no assigned place, commentand criticism frequently taking the form ofsigned letters, usually written under the nom-de-plume of a famous Greek or Roman. News, assuch, was presented unattractively, being writtenwith no typographic or reportorial touches. Per-sonal affairs were eliminated, except fulsome no-tices of marriages, panegyrics of the dead, andcomplimentary mention of the movements ofprominent officials. Maritime matters receivedmuch attention, while the rest of the news con-sisted of European letters from two to six
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