ans." Also, like the
English story-book of the previous century, this American "Miscellany"
introduced _Maxims for a Student_, found, it cheerfully explained,
"among the manuscripts of a deceased friend." Puzzles and conundrums
made an entertaining feature, and as the literary _chef d'oeuvre_ was
inserted a poem supposed to be composed by a babe in South Carolina, but
of which the author was undoubtedly Mrs. Gilman, whose ideas of a baby's
ability were certainly not drawn from her own nursery.

A rival to the "Juvenile Miscellany" was the "Youth's Companion,"
established at this time in Boston by Nathaniel P. Willis and the
Reverend Asa Rand. The various religious societies also began to issue
children's magazines for Sunday perusal: the Massachusetts Sunday School
Union beginning in 1828 the "Sabbath School Times," and other societies
soon following its example.

"Parley's Magazine," planned by Samuel G. Goodrich and published by
Lilly, Wait and Company of Boston, ran a successful course of nine years
from eighteen hundred and thirty-three. The prospectus declared the
intention of its conductors "to give descriptions of manners, customs,
and countries, Travels, Voyages, and Adventures in Various parts of the
world, interesting historical notes, Biography, particularly of young
persons, original tales, cheerful and pleasing Rhymes, and to issue the
magazine every fortnight." The popularity of the name of Peter Parley
insured a goodly number of subscriptions from the beginning, and the
life of "Parley's Magazine" was somewhat longer than any of its
predecessors.

In the south the idea of issuing a juvenile magazine was taken up by a
firm in Charleston, and the "Rose Bud" was started in eighteen hundred
and thirty. The "Rose Bud," a weekly, was largely the result of the
success of the "Juvenile Miscellany," as the editor of the southern
paper, Mrs. Gilman, was a valued contributor to the "Miscellany," and
had been encouraged in her plan of a paper for children of the south by
the Boston conductors of the northern periodical.

Mrs. Gilman was born in Boston, and at sixteen years of age had
published a poem most favorably criticised at the time. Marrying a
clergyman who settled in Charleston, she continued her literary work,
but was best known to our grandmothers as the author of "Recollections
of a New England Housekeeper." The "Rose Bud" soon blossomed into the
"Southern Rose," a family paper, but faded away in 1839.