Mercury (periodical)

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Mercury was published in San Francisco from 1894 to 1899, withWilliam John Walters as the editor. It was initially written for children, since Walters was Conductor of the Lotus Circle children's group in San Francisco. In 1897, the Mercury Publishing Company produced a cookbook that included an advertisement for Mercury. It was advertised as "A Theosophical monthly, dedicated to the study of Oriental philosophy, the Occult Sciences and the Brotherhood of Man."

Contains 32 pages; has a special Forum department to which readers are invited to send questions; Theosophical news; Book Reviews and a "children's corner." It is the official organ of the American Section of the Theosophical Society. [1]

Index to the periodical

The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals[1] provides a searchable index to this periodical online, listing article titles and authors in chronological sequence.

Notes

  1. Wachtmeister, Constance, and Kate Buffington David, editors,Practical Vegetarian Cookery (San Francisco: Mercury Publishing Co., 1897), 180.

Additional resources

A. B. Clark. "Mercury". The Pacific Theosophist 5:1 (August, 1894), 11-12. This is a review, available at Google Books.