The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850Smyth, Albert Henry
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The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850
Smyth, Albert Henry
American periodicals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Dennie's _Port Folio_ continued to be the admiration and the despair of
contemporary editors and authors. In 1821 appeared the _Post-Chaise
Companion or Magazine of Wit_. By Carlo Convivio Socio, Junior Fellow of
the Royal Academy of Humorists. It was begun in January, 1821, and was
issued from 15 North Front Street. In its first "leader" it deprecated
comparison with the favorites of the hour: "With the venerable Mr.
Oldschool, who for almost twenty years has delighted or instructed the
'mind of desultory man,' I would not presume to enter into a
competition, still less should it be provoked with the profound labours
of the editor of the _Analectic Magazine_ and his host of 'the most
eminent literary men' who promised to eclipse the dissertations of the
famous Northern lights" (p. 3).
The little paper contains a long article on Mr. Kean's acting (pages
37-51).
The _Philadelphia Medical Museum_ was conducted by John Redman Coxe for
five years, from 1805 to 1810, and was published by A. Bartram.
The _Eye_, by Obadiah Optic, was published every Thursday by John W.
Scott, from January to December, 1808, at three dollars a year. It was
filled with odd, historical and alliterative articles.
The _Philadelphia Repertory_, a weekly literary journal, was published
in 1810 by Dennis Hart.
The _Eclectic Repertory and Analytic Review, Medical and Philosophical_,
was commenced in October, 1811, and continued until October, 1820. It
was published quarterly, and edited by an association of physicians, and
published by T. Dobson and Son.
It was continued in January, 1821, as the _Journal of Foreign Medical
Science and Literature_, conducted by S. Emlen, Jr., and William Price,
and published by Eliakim Littell. It finally ceased October, 1824.
The _Freemason's Magazine and General Miscellany_ was published from
1810-1812 (?). It was edited by George Richards, a school-master and
clergyman of the Revolution. He was the author of "An Historical
Discourse on the Death of General Washington" (Portsmouth, 1800), and of
a number of patriotic poems of the Revolution.
ROBERT WALSH began, in 1811, the publication of the first quarterly that
was issued in the United States. It was the _American Review of History,
of Politics, and General Repository of Literature and State Papers_, and
was published for two years, in four volumes, by Farrand and Nichols.
Walsh was born in Baltimore in 1784. He was educated in Catholic schools
in Baltimore, and at the Jesuit College at Georgetown. While at college,
in 1796, he delivered a political address before General Washington. He
began the practice of law in Philadelphia. In 1817-18 he edited the
_American Register_.
The _National Gazette_, a daily newspaper, was established by him in
Philadelphia in 1819, and his connection with it did not cease until he
sold it, in 1836, to William Fry.
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