Longfellow contributed frequently to the magazine. His translation of "The Blind Girl of Castel Cuille" appeared here in January, 1850. Poe contributed "The Bells" (November, 1849) and his "Poetic Principle" (October, 1850). Harriet Martineau wrote for _Sartain's_ her "Year at Ambleside," which ran through the year 1850, and T. Buchanan Read, George Henry Boker and Frederika Bremer were frequently in the pages of the magazine. POSTSCRIPT. Since the final revision of these pages I have learned that Samuel Stearns was the editor of the second volume (1789) of the _Philadelphia Magazine_. He was a physician and astronomer, born in Bolton, Mass., in 1747, and died in Brattleborough, Vt., in 1819. He made the calculations for the first nautical almanac in this country, which he published in New York, December 20, 1782. Twenty-eight years of his life were spent upon a "Medical Dispensatory," which he left unfinished at his death. Of one publication of the eighteenth century, the _Philadelphia Nimrod_ (1798), I have made no mention. Although for a long time a hot questrist after it, I have not been fortunate enough to come by a copy, and of its history I am mainly ignorant. My list of the medical, theological and scientific periodicals of the present century is by no means complete, but it may be serviceable for future correction and extension. There was a publication in Philadelphia, in 1811, entitled the _Cynic_, "by Growler Gruff, Esquire, aided by a Confederacy of Lettered Dogs." It wore the motto: We'll snarl, and bite, and play the dog, For dogs are honest. It was published weekly from September 21 to December 12. The principal purpose of the little paper was to censure and abuse the theatrical managers of the city for abolishing the old theatre boxes. A dramatic review which has a station in the file, and not i' the worst rank either, is the _Whim_, published by John Bioren, No. 88 Chestnut Street, at twenty cents a number. It was a small paper issued during the theatrical season and for sale at the Falstaff tavern. The editor, James Fennell, was born in London in 1766, and died in Philadelphia, June 14, 1816. He came to America in 1793 and made his first appearance in Philadelphia. He published "The Wheel of Truth," a comedy; "Picture of Paris;" "Linden and Clara," a comedy; and "Apology for My Life," Philadelphia, 1814. The first number of the _Whim_ appeared Saturday, May 14, 1814. The argument for the publication was founded upon the pre-eminence of Philadelphia among the cities of the nation, "The city of Philadelphia professedly and avowedly declaring itself the _Athens of the United States_" (p. 8). The journal ceased, I believe, with the tenth number, dated July 16, 1814.