About
The NAPIER AthenÆum
The NAPIER AthenÆum is named for the AthenÆum: A Journal of Literature, Science and the Fine Arts, published by John Francis of London before, during, and after the reign of William IV, a period in which the world first took sustained notice of New Zealand.
It is similarly named for the AthenÆum, Napier founded, as a Mechanics Institute in 1859 and incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1876, an institution that, from a base in colonial New Zealand, endeavoured to pay sustained attention to the rest of the world.
With due respect to the original editor of the AthenÆum, and in homage to the sailor king William IV, the subject area of Science has been replaced with that of Seafaring. Occasional works on the subject of Science may, however, still appear.
Contributions are by invitation. Those desirous of such an invitation, can send contributions, for kindly consideration, to napierathenaeum@gmail.com.
Editorial Board: TBA
Editor: Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
Contents Volume 1. Number 9.
February 2012
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The Appearances and Disappearances of Joseph Gaut
A recent report of Sea Monsters
Colonial Bride of the Sea
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Contents Volume 1. Number 8.
December 2011
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A Stranger to Napier: D. B. Frame & the Clive Memorial
Alexander Pope: A Dying Christian to his Soul
Publius Aelius Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus: Animula Vagula Blandula:
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Contents Volume 1. Number 7.
November 2011
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W. A. Bowring: The Travails of a True Colonial Artist.
Hubert Vaile.
How to name your Whaleboat.
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Contents Volume 1. Number 6.
October 2011
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Worth Quotin’ Reporting the Oscar Wilde Trials.
Sailing Instructions for the Port of Napier (1886).
Charles Campbell: Two Portraits.
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Contents Volume 1. Number 5.
September 2011
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The Long Goodbye: Joseph Severn, Oliver Goldsmith and The Deserted Village.
Robbie Burns, Dunedin.
[an excerpt from] a review of The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith;
The Star of the South and her Fate.
references
Contents Volume 1. Number 4.
August 2011
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Edward Lyndon
A Sea Ballad
Claude Joseph Vernet
Origins of the Ale-Yard Glass and their desirability as a component in glass collections
references
Contents Volume 1. Number 3.
July 2011
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What we know about Samuel Begg
Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
Miscellanea
(being excerpts from a review of Thomas Carlyle’sThe French Revolution: A History, The Athenaeum No 499. 1837)
The great 12-inch guns and brave gunner boys of the seagoing battleship Iowa
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Contents Volume 1. Number 2.
June 2011
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Considering the Library at Kawau
On the death of Sir John Soane
The development of the balloon-back chair (1830-1850)
The fallen angel at the Mock Election (1827)
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Contents Volume 1. Number 1.
May 2011
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Mr. John Perrett in Napier
A Portrait of Sydney Parkinson
Miscellanea
Some Thoughts on John Gibson’s Narcissus (1829)
Construction of Brunel’s Great Eastern
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