Notes on the stage and criticism of the drama had frequently been given place in the _Port Folio_, and Brown's _Literary Magazine_ had published a farcical account of a "Theatrical Campaign" by Dick Buckram (Vol. I, p. 222), but the first magazine in America that attempted to take the theatre for its province was the _Theatrical Censor_, By a Citizen, first published in Philadelphia, December 9, 1805, and continued until November 17, 1806. It was succeeded by the _Theatrical Censor and Critical Miscellany_, by Gregory Gryphon, Esq., Philadelphia, Saturday, October 11, 1806. Both these periodicals were issued during the theatrical season only, and the latter one was published in the interest of the theatres of Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Charleston. It was published on Saturdays, and made sixteen pages octavo. The second _Theatrical Censor_ was followed by the _Thespian Mirror_, in New York, edited by John Howard Payne, then a youth of fourteen years. Still later came the _Boston Magazine_ and the _Polyanthus_. Matthew Carey introduced the third theatrical journal to the Philadelphians. It was the _Thespian Monitor and Dramatick Miscellany_, by Barnaby Bangbar, Esq. (1809). It was begun Saturday, November 25, 1809. There is but a single issue of this publication in the British Museum, and its contents are almost entirely biographical. This copy was the property of John Howard Payne. In 1810 Samuel T. Bradford was the most enterprising publisher in Philadelphia. With his partner, Inskeep, he printed in 1812 the _Port Folio_. With the same partner he issued in January, 1810, the _Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor_. The editor was Stephen Cullen Carpenter, an Irishman, who had entered the East India service, where he remained fourteen years, retired with the rank of major, and returned to England. He wrote political pamphlets at the commencement of the French Revolution, and was made reporter of Debates in Commons by Edmund Burke. He reported the trial of Hastings, and came to America about 1800, and edited a magazine in South Carolina until he was engaged by Bradford and Inskeep to conduct the _Mirror of Taste_. The magazine was of small octavo size, each number contained about one hundred pages, and was illustrated with a fine portrait of an actor or actress. The regular performances at the theatres were criticised with a good deal of pungency and acumen. It is said in the preface that "London boasts several periodical publications founded on the _Drama_ alone. In America there has not yet been one of that description." In January, 1811, the magazine changed hands, and was published by Thomas Barton Zantzinger & Co., in the Shakespeare Buildings at Sixth and Chestnut Streets.