The Connoisseur (newspaper)

(31 January 1754 – 30 September 1756)), was a London weekly eighteenth century newspaper founded and chiefly run by George Colman the Elder and the parodist Bonnell Thornton as a 'plebeian' counterpart to Edward Moore's The World, a periodical of about the same time, which dealt more with the interests of aristocrats.

[1] James Boswell says in his Life of Johnson: I mentioned the periodical paper called 'THE CONNOISSEUR'.

– No doubt it had not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings.

But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner.

His opinion of 'THE WORLD' was not much higher than of 'THE CONNOISSEUR'.