Elwood Walter began and Edmund Morris continued the _Ariel_, a fortnightly literary journal, first issued from No. 71 Market Street, May 5, 1827. The _Philadelphia Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery_ was published by R. H. Small and edited by Dr. N. R. Smith from June, 1827, until February, 1828. The _Friend_, a weekly periodical begun October 13, 1827, was published in the interest of the Orthodox Quakers. The _Philadelphia Monthly Magazine_, October, 1827-September, 1829; published by J. Dobson, 108 Chestnut Street. The magazine was projected by Dr. Isaac Clarkson Snowden. It was to give information on the fine arts, sciences and literature, and contained frequent articles on American literature. Snowden was born at Princeton, 31st of December, 1791. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and lived in Bucks County in ill-health. He conceived the plan of the magazine in the spring of 1827. At his death the magazine passed into the hands of B. R. Evans and was enlarged eight pages. A series of good articles began November, 1828, and ran through five numbers, on the History of Literature in Pennsylvania, by R. P. S. (Richard Penn Smith). The _Ladies' Literary Port Folio_ was begun December 10, 1828. It was published in quarto form by Thomas C. Clarke, No. 67 Arcade. An association of physicians published every fortnight after September 9, 1829, the _Journal of Health_. Henry H. Porter, at No. 108 Chestnut Street, was the publisher of this sixteen page magazine, whose motto was "Health--the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss." The _Banner of the Constitution_ was a weekly journal of New York City, from December, 1829, to May, 1831. In the latter month it was transferred to Philadelphia, because, as the editor explained, "As Pennsylvania is without a single paper bold enough to speak out the language of truth in the strong terms befitting the actual crisis of affairs, we have resolved to transfer our establishment to Philadelphia and to resume our old position on the field of battle." The _Protestant Episcopalian and Church Register_ was "devoted to the interests of religion in the Protestant Episcopal Church." It was begun in January, 1830, became the property of John S. Littell in 1838, and on January 5, 1839, appeared in a fresh guise as the _Banner of the Cross_. _Godey's Lady's Book_ was the chief financial success among the Philadelphia magazines, and, after the _Port Folio_, enlisted the services of the greatest number of the best writers. The circulation, largely due to its popular colored fashion plates, increased to 150,000 a month. It was begun in July, 1830, by Louis A. Godey, who continued to direct his continuously prosperous journal until 1877. Some of the earliest compositions of Longfellow, Holmes, Poe, Bayard Taylor, Lydia H. Sigourney, Frances Osgood and Harriet Beecher Stowe appeared in this magazine.