1. The early sporting papers such as Bell's Life in London existed to give news of forthcoming events and descriptions of recent ones mostly races and prize-fights. Wasps
2. While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes, Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared. BNC
3. He reprinted articles from other publications, often in weekly parts; translated papers such as those of Mendeleev; and gave news of industrial developments and of exhibitions; he had also a lively correspondence section. BNC