of Literature, Wit and Sentiment_ was a magazine
published in newspaper form. It was made out of the _Saturday Evening
Post_, and was first issued by Samuel Coate Atkinson, at No. 36 Carter's
Alley, January 1, 1827. Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807-1834) won a
prize for the "Slave Ship" offered by the proprietor of the _Casket_.

Charles Alexander, the well-known publisher, solicited William E. Burton
to establish a literary journal in Philadelphia, and Burton, who was
sympathetic yet dogmatic, possessed of excellent literary taste, but
never more positive than when in error, founded in July, 1837, the
_Gentleman's Magazine_. The fifth and sixth volumes, 1839, were
conducted by Burton and by Poe. The seventh volume, 1840, was conducted
by George R. Graham. The poetry of Burton's was painfully bad, redeemed
only in the faintest degree by the verses of J. H. Ingraham and C. West
Thomson.

Elwood Walter began and Edmund Morris continued the _Ariel_, a
fortnightly literary journal, first issued from No. 71 Market Street,
May 5, 1827.

The _Philadelphia Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery_ was published
by R. H. Small and edited by Dr. N. R. Smith from June, 1827, until
February, 1828.

The _Friend_, a weekly periodical begun October 13, 1827, was published
in the interest of the Orthodox Quakers.

The _Philadelphia Monthly Magazine_, October, 1827-September, 1829;
published by J. Dobson, 108 Chestnut Street. The magazine was projected
by Dr. Isaac Clarkson Snowden. It was to give information on the fine
arts, sciences and literature, and contained frequent articles on
American literature. Snowden was born at Princeton, 31st of December,
1791. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and lived in Bucks
County in ill-health. He conceived the plan of the magazine in the
spring of 1827. At his death the magazine passed into the hands of B. R.
Evans and was enlarged eight pages. A series of good articles began
November, 1828, and ran through five numbers, on the History of
Literature in Pennsylvania, by R. P. S. (Richard Penn Smith).

The _Ladies' Literary Port Folio_ was begun December 10, 1828. It was
published in quarto form by Thomas C. Clarke, No. 67 Arcade.

An association of physicians published every fortnight after September
9, 1829, the _Journal of Health_. Henry H. Porter, at No. 108 Chestnut
Street, was the publisher of this sixteen page magazine, whose motto was
"Health--the poor man's riches, the