Produced by Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ********************************************************** Transcriber's Note: The final footnote contains a Greek passage, which is delimited by '+'. ********************************************************** THE Philadelphia Magazines AND THEIR CONTRIBUTORS 1741-1850 BY ALBERT H. SMYTH, _A. B._, _Johns Hopkins University_, _Professor of English Literature in the Philadelphia High School; Member of the American Philosophical Society._ PHILADELPHIA: ROBERT M. LINDSAY 1892 TO J. G. ROSENGARTEN A TOKEN OF THE GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION OF THE AUTHOR PREFACE. This study in the history of the Philadelphia magazines was undertaken at the request of Professor H. B. Adams, and the results were first read at a joint-meeting of the Historical and English Seminaries of the Johns Hopkins University. At a later date they were again read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The subject has been found so rich, and the materials so interesting, that, in spite of my best efforts to be brief, the article has grown into a book. It has been with no little distrust that I have made this wide excursion from my chosen studies, but the generous aid and encouragement of friends, who are learned in our local lore, have given me heart to complete and to publish the results of these researches. A complete list of the Philadelphia magazines is impossible. Many of them have disappeared and left not a rack behind. The special student of Pennsylvania history will detect some omissions in these pages, for all that has here been done has been done at first hand, and where a magazine was inaccessible to me, I have not attempted to see it through the eyes of a more fortunate investigator. I have done my best to make the story, dull and dreary as it surely is at times, not unworthy of its subject, or of the city that it describes, and of which I grow fonder year by year. My grateful thanks are due to my friends, Professor H. B. Adams, Dr. James W. Bright, Mr. Charles R. Hildeburn, Professor John Bach McMaster, Hon. S. W. Pennypacker and Mr. F. D. Stone, for thoughtful suggestions and valuable information. I am deeply indebted to Mr. George W. Childs for his unfailing interest and assistance. To Mr. George R. Graham, Dr. Thomas Dunn English, Mr. John Sartain and Mr. Frank Lee Benedict I owe some of the most important facts in this little volume. ALBERT H. SMYTH. _Philadelphia, 5 February, 1892, 126, South Twenty-second Street._