...as for a time the editor. , the best of the reprints from foreign journals, was begun in 1844. The most picturesque of the Boston periodicals of the time was , published quarterly by a group of New England Transcendentalists from 1840 to 1844. Such an organ of the new thought had long been talked of, and as early as 1835 Emerson had proposed to Carlyle that the latter come to America and act as edito...