"Arthur Mervyn."

Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815), a nephew of David Rittenhouse, and
the successor of Benjamin Rush as professor of the theory and practice
of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, edited the _Philadelphia
Medical and Physical Journal_ from November 1, 1804, to May, 1807. It
was published irregularly by J. Conrad and Co.

The _Evening Fireside, or Literary Miscellany_, Philadelphia, 1805-1806,
was established by a literary club, and published by Joseph Rakestraw.
The second volume, which began January 4, 1806, completed the work.

DRAMATIC MAGAZINES.

Notes on the stage and criticism of the drama had frequently been given
place in the _Port Folio_, and Brown's _Literary Magazine_ had published
a farcical account of a "Theatrical Campaign" by Dick Buckram (Vol. I,
p. 222), but the first magazine in America that attempted to take the
theatre for its province was the _Theatrical Censor_, By a Citizen,
first published in Philadelphia, December 9, 1805, and continued until
November 17, 1806.

It was succeeded by the _Theatrical Censor and Critical Miscellany_, by
Gregory Gryphon, Esq., Philadelphia, Saturday, October 11, 1806. Both
these periodicals were issued during the theatrical season only, and the
latter one was published in the interest of the theatres of
Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Charleston. It was published on
Saturdays, and made sixteen pages octavo.

The second _Theatrical Censor_ was followed by the _Thespian Mirror_, in
New York, edited by John Howard Payne, then a youth of fourteen years.
Still later came the _Boston Magazine_ and the _Polyanthus_.

Matthew Carey introduced the third theatrical journal to the
Philadelphians. It was the _Thespian Monitor and Dramatick Miscellany_,
by Barnaby Bangbar, Esq. (1809). It was begun Saturday, November 25,
1809. There is but a single issue of this publication in the British
Museum, and its contents are almost entirely biographical. This copy was
the property of John Howard Payne.

In 1810 Samuel T. Bradford was the most enterprising publisher in
Philadelphia. With his partner, Inskeep, he printed in 1812 the _Port
Folio_. With the same partner he issued in January, 1810, the _Mirror of
Taste and Dramatic Censor_. The editor was Stephen Cullen Carpenter, an
Irishman, who had entered the East India service, where he remained
fourteen years, retired with the rank of major, and returned to England.
He wrote political pamphlets a