e of
his death he owned the _Saturday Gazette_, which he and Morton McMichael
had established. His "Charcoal Sketches" (Philadelphia, 1837), which
Charles Dickens republished in London, were originally contributed to
the _Pennsylvanian_ under the title, "City Worthies." His wife, Alice
Bradley Haven (1828-1863), contributed, while a school-girl, several
sketches under the name of Alice G. Lee to the _Saturday Gazette_. She
was generally known as "Cousin Alice," and under this name assumed
editorial charge of the _Gazette_ after her husband's death.

The _Radical Reformer and Workingman's Advocate_ was published weekly
after June 13, 1835, by Thomas Bro., at No. 124 South Front Street. In
October it was issued fortnightly.

The _Botanic Sentinel and Literary Gazette_ (August 12, 1835-June 15,
1840), published weekly by J. Coates.

The _Independent Weekly Press_, "upholding the right of free discussion,
given to us by our God and guarded by the laws of our country," was
published December 5, 1835. It hoped and intended to be a literary
paper, but the quality of its literature is inferior even to that of its
infantile contemporaries.

_Every Bodie's Album_ was a monthly miscellany of "humorous tales,
essays, anecdotes and facetiae," and the other symptoms of albuminous
fever. It was begun July 1, 1836. It was a large magazine, containing a
number of absurd engravings. Charles Alexander, the publisher of the
_Vade-Mecum_, issued this magazine also.

The _Eclectic Journal of Medicine_ (November, 1836-October, 1840) was
published monthly by Barrington and Haswell, and edited by John Bell.

_Saturday Chronicle_ was published weekly by Matthias and Taylor,
Number 84 South Second Street, from 1836 until 1840.

The _Weekly Messenger_ was published from 1836 to 1848.

Adam Waldie built up a lumbering weekly journal, January 6, 1837, which
he called _Waldie's Literary Omnibus_. This carry-all was devoted to
"news, books entire, sketches, reviews, tales, and miscellaneous
intelligence."

The _Philadelphia Visitor and Parlor Companion_, a fortnightly journal,
published from March, 1837, by W. B. Rogers, Number 49 Chestnut Street,
and edited by H. N. Moore, was filled with toys of fashion and shreds of
social folly.

The _American Journal of Homoeopathy_, a bi-monthly publication, was
begun August, 1838, by W. L. J. Kiderlen & Co.

The _United States Magazine and Democratic Review_ was started some time
in 1838 and publi