nerous friend and
former fellow-worker, Washington Irving. "The reader will not fail of
hearing, in good time, all about the worthy Cockloft family; the learned
Jeremy, and the young ladies who are still young in spite of the lapse
of ten years and more. Above a dozen years are past since we first
introduced these excellent souls to our readers, and in that time many a
gentle tie has been broken, and many friends separated, some of them
forever. Among those we most loved and admired, we have to regret the
long absence of one who was aye the delight of his friends, and who, if
he were with us, would add such charms of wit and gayety to this little
work that the young and the aged would pore over it with equal delight."

The Protestant Episcopal Church established the _Episcopal Magazine_ in
January, 1820. It was conducted by Rev. C. H. Wharton and Rev. George
Boyd. The former editor, Charles Henry Wharton, was born in St. Mary's
County, Maryland, June 5, 1748. Notley Hall, the family estate, was
presented to the family by Lord Baltimore. Wharton was educated in
Jesuit schools and ordained a deacon and a priest of the Roman Catholic
Church. In the last years of the Revolution he was chaplain to the Roman
Catholics in Worcester, England, to whom, in 1784, after joining the
Church of England, he addressed his celebrated "Letter." He was a member
of the American Philosophical Society, and for a short time President of
Columbia College. In 1813-14 he was co-editor with Dr. Abercrombie of
the _Quarterly Theological Magazine and Religious Repository_.

The _Episcopal Magazine_ was published by S. Potter & Co. and printed by
J. Maxwell.

The _Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fireside_, a monthly
publication by Richards and Caleb Johnson, was begun in January, 1820.
Its purpose was to give correct views of the science of agriculture. It
also contained articles on slavery, a sketch of Benezet, etc. But the
farmers were not inclined to write out their ideas of agriculture, and
the bucolic journal, after binding its monthly sheaves into a single
volume, asked its own _conge_.

Nathaniel Chapman was the only begetter of the _American Journal of the
Medical Sciences_, which, in its seventy years of history, has known the
touch of so many skilful editorial hands. Chapman issued it as a
quarterly from the publishing house of M. Carey and Son. It was then
called the _Philadelphia Journal of the Medical Sciences_.

In 1825 Dr. Wil