Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal.
Other titles: Monthly Planet Reader
1860--1869 Monthly (irregular)
Philadelphia, PA. Language: English.
Publisher: L.D. Broughton.
1/1, April 1860-9/1, October-December 1869. 6 x 9.

Luke Dennis Broughton (1828-1899) was born in Yorkshire to a family that had long been involved in astrology. His eldest brother,, Mark A. Broughton, issued the first astrological journal in America, Broughton's Monthly Horoscope, after earlier publishing an astrological almanac in Leeds before immigrating to the United States. Luke Broughton was a homeopathic physician and was the originator of the term "Astro-Phrenology." This journal was strongly devoted to political astrology, with horoscopes of Abraham Lincoln and prognostications on the election of 1860: "We are still of the opinion that S.A. Douglas, will be the next President; although when we published our predictions in the August number of the Planet Reader, we appeared to be alone in thinking that he would ever be elected . . . . And so far as we could find out, his most sanguine friends had not the slightest hopes of him succeeding" Rail Splitter's Catalogue, online at http://www.railsplitter.com/sale10/political2.html. Noted in "Astrological Serial Publications in the United States" in S.C. Gould's Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine 18, no. 2 (February 1900): 58-59.