Howitt's Journal, launched by Mary and William Howitt, soon engaged in a journalistic war with their former partner and then competitor, John Saunders.

1. [Howitt, William and Mary]. “Address to Their Friends and Readers.” 1 (1847): 1–2.

Planned Howitt's for “entertainment” and “advancement.”

2. [Howitt, William]. “Author versus Critic.” 1 (1847): 109–12.

Loathed anonymous criticism because it was cowardly, leaving a critic's victim no means to retaliate. Editors of weeklies, such as the Athenaeum, should not hire “nameless and irresponsible agents of critical injustice.”

3. “George Sand.” 1 (1847): 128–30.

Divulged that Sand co-owned the Revue Indépendante and wrote regularly for the Monde.

4. Charles, C. M. “The Movements of the Italian Refugees.” 1 (1847): after 154.

Bruited that Italians living in Britain published the Eco di Savonarola, a cheap but “well got up” organ for Italian “Reformed Christians.”

5. “William Lovett.” 1 (1847): 254–57.

Acclaimed Lovett, the publisher of Howitt's and earlier of the Poor Man's Guardian. He set up a “victim's fund” for those prosecuted for selling the unstamped paper, not unusual in the 1830s when government jailed about 500 people for opposing the stamp duty.

6. “Félicité [de] Lamennais.” 2 (1847): 18–22.

Probed Lamennais' work for the Avenir in association with Count C. de Montalembert and J. B. Lacordaire. After the pope suppressed the Avenir, Lammenais became “a principal writer” and coconductor, with George Sand, of the Revue Indépendante.