For many years the _Lady's Book_ was edited by Sarah Josepha Hale. She was born in Newport, New Hampshire, 24th October, 1788, and died in Philadelphia 30th April, 1879. From 1828 to 1837 she edited, in Boston, the _Ladies' Magazine_. When that magazine was united in 1837 with _Godey's Lady's Book_, Mrs. Hale became editor of the latter periodical, and made her home in Philadelphia in 1841. She was the originator of the Seamen's Aid Society. She organized the fair whereby the fund for the completion of the Bunker Hill monument was raised. It was through her zealous insistence that Thanksgiving Day was made a national holiday. She published many books in prose and verse, and some fugitive poems, "Mary's Lamb," "It Snows," and "The Light of Home," that were everywhere known. Another ladies' magazine was the _Ladies' Garland_, published by John Libby, April 15, 1837-June, 1838. The _Herald of Truth_, a liberal religious weekly, was published by M. T. C. Gould, No. 6 North Eighth Street, for a short time after January, 1831. The _Presbyterian_ was begun February 16, 1831. The _Lutheran Observer_ was also commenced in 1831. It was a continuation of the _Lutheran Intelligencer_, founded in March, 1826, which was the first Lutheran periodical issued in America. The _Philadelphia Liberalist_, edited by Rev. Zelotes Fuller, was issued weekly after June 9, 1832. The _Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge_ was edited in Philadelphia in 1832 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. The editor was a celebrated botanist, who was born in Constantinople in 1784, and died in Philadelphia, September 14, 1842. His father had been a Philadelphia merchant. Rafinesque became professor of botany in Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. Eight numbers only of the _Atlantic Journal_ appeared. The _Cholera Gazette_, July 11, 1832-November 21, 1832, a weekly paper, was published by Carey, Lea and Blanchard. It was edited by George Washington Dickson, a popular negro minstrel, who published in New York, in 1839, another weekly called the _Polyanthus_. The _North American Quarterly Magazine_ was begun in Philadelphia, in 1833, by Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, the author of "The Cities of the Plain." Fairfield was born in Warwick, Mass., June 25, 1803. The sad story of his life of sickness and distress was told by his wife (Jane Frazee) in 1846. She collected the money that made the existence of the magazine possible, and her pertinacity and courage kept the magazine alive for five years. Concerning the origin of the enterprise she writes: