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Periodical: Coming Age

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Coming Age, The.
A Magazine of Constructive Thought.
1899-1900 Monthly
St. Louis, MO. Language: English.
Publisher: Midland Publishing Co.. Editor: B.O. Flower and Mrs. C.K. Reifsnider. Succeeded by: The Arena
1/1, January 1899-1900(?)

Announced in Banner of Light 84/22 (January 28, 1899): 5, and noted in "List of Advance Thought Publications," The New Cycle, March 1900, 159-60. This was edited by Flower in the interregnum before he regained control of the Arena. Like the Arena, this was a learned example of rugged common sense and the virtues espoused by the American Brahmin classes, all tempered with the various flavors of Emersonian New Thought. Contributions by R. Heber Newton, J.A. Edgerton, Henry Wood, Kenneth S.L. Guthrie, et al.

Other Sources:
Issues:Coming Age V1 Jan-Jun 1899
Coming Age V2 Jul-Dec 1899
Coming Age V3-V4 N2 Jan-Aug 1900
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Coming Age was a short-lived monthly published at Boston and St. Louis in 1899 and 1900 by the circle around Benjamin Orange Flower, and folded back into his older magazine The Arena. Its register is New Thought — success, prosperity and abundance presented as the working of a spiritual law that could be stated scientifically, with the Sermon on the Mount read as an accurate description of the constitution of the human being. What distinguishes it from the ordinary metaphysical press is the seriousness of its interest in the new psychology: it discussed suggestion and hypnotism with reference to Jean-Martin Charcot in Paris and Hippolyte Bernheim at Nancy, in the reform-minded, evidence-facing manner that characterised Flower's journalism generally. Alongside this ran cultural criticism, theatrical reminiscence and the social-reform copy its readers expected. It belongs to the turn-of-the-century American confluence of metaphysical religion, experimental psychology and progressive reform, and is best read beside The Arena.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:New Thought