liams P. Dewees and John D. Godman were associated with
Dr. Chapman in the editorship. Dr. Isaac Hays was added to the staff in
February, 1827, and in November the name of the magazine was changed to
the _American Journal of the Medical Sciences_, and Dr. Isaac Hays
became sole editor, to be in turn succeeded by his son, Dr. I. Minis
Hays. The history of its changes and extension would take us far beyond
the chronological boundary of this book. Nearly every physician of note
in America has contributed at some time to its pages, and nearly every
notable triumph of American medicine has found fitting record somewhere
in its multitudinous numbers.

The _Reformer_ was a monthly religious and ethical publication issued in
1820.

Robert S. Coffin, who had written popular verses under the name of the
"Boston Bard" while a compositor in the office of the _Village Record_,
at West Chester, Pa., came to Philadelphia in 1821 and began a literary
paper, which he called the _Bee_. Not more than two hundred subscribers
were secured, and Coffin sold the unsuccessful paper to Charles
Alexander, who had formerly been employed upon Poulson's _Daily
Advertiser_. On the 4th of August, 1821, Atkinson and Alexander, in the
office once occupied by Benjamin Franklin, back of No. 53 Market Street,
began the publication of the Philadelphia _Saturday Evening Post_. T.
Cottrell Clarke was appointed editor. He retired in 1826 and founded the
_Ladies' Album_, a weekly literary paper, which ultimately merged into
the _Pennsylvania Inquirer_. Morton McMichael succeeded Clarke in the
editorial chair of the _Post_, and, when he too resigned, became the
first editor of the _Saturday Courier_. Other editors of the _Post_ at
various times were Benjamin Mathias, founder of the _Saturday
Chronicle_, Charles J. Peterson, Rufus W. Griswold, H. Hastings Weld and
Henry Peterson. The _Post_ had few important rivals among the family
newspapers and it absorbed a number of the young literary journals. The
_Saturday News_, the _Saturday Bulletin_ and the _Saturday Chronicle_
were merged into the _Post_. Mrs. Henry Wood's early novels, written in
her obscure days before the time of "East Lynne," were published in it.

The _Episcopal Recorder_, established in 1822, and edited by Rev. B. B.
Smith, Bishop of the P. E. Church in the United States, has always
admitted into its pages articles by leading clergymen of whatever sect
or creed.

The _Erin_, a weekly paper co