THE

Philadelphia Magazines

AND THEIR

CONTRIBUTORS

1741-1850

BY

ALBERT H. SMYTH,

A. B., Johns Hopkins University,

Professor of English Literature in the Philadelphia High School;

Member of the American Philosophical Society.

PHILADELPHIA:

Robert M. Lindsay

1892

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TO

J. G. ROSENGARTEN

A TOKEN OF THE

GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION OF THE

AUTHOR

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
POSTSCRIPT.
INDEX.

PREFACE.

This study in the history of the Philadelphia magazines was undertakenat the request of Professor H. B. Adams, and the results were first readat a joint-meeting of the Historical and English Seminaries of the JohnsHopkins University. At a later date they were again read before theHistorical Society of Pennsylvania. The subject has been found so rich,and the materials so interesting, that, in spite of my best efforts tobe brief, the article has grown into a book. It has been with no littledistrust that I have made this wide excursion from my chosen studies,but the generous aid and encouragement of friends, who are learned inour local lore, have given me heart to complete and to publish theresults of these researches.

A complete list of the Philadelphia magazines is impossible. Many ofthem have disappeared and left not a rack behind. The special student ofPennsylvania history will[Pg 6] detect some omissions in these pages, for allthat has here been done has been done at first hand, and where amagazine was inaccessible to me, I have not attempted to see it throughthe eyes of a more fortunate investigator. I have done my best to makethe story, dull and dreary as it surely is at times, not unworthy of itssubject, or of the city that it describes, and of which I grow fonderyear by year.

My grateful thanks are due to my friends, Professor H. B. Adams, Dr.James W. Bright, Mr. Charles R. Hildeburn, Professor John Bach McMaster,Hon. S. W. Pennypacker and Mr. F. D. Stone, for thoughtful suggestionsand valuable information.

I am deeply indebted to Mr. George W. Childs for his unfailing interestand assistance. To Mr. George R. Graham, Dr. Thomas Dunn English, Mr.John Sartain and Mr. Frank Lee Benedict I owe some of the most importantfacts in this little volume.

Albert H. Smyth.

Philadelphia, 5 February, 1892,
126, South Twenty-second Street.
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"Sweet Philadelphia! lov'liest of the lawn,"
Where rising greatness opes its pleasing dawn,
Where daring

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