The _Nineteenth Century_ was begun in January, 1848. It was published by
G. B. Zieber and Co., and edited by C. Chauncey Burr. The first volume
was embellished with a steel engraving of Horace Greeley, and the second
volume with an engraving of John Sartain. The motto upon the title-page
was Goethe's famous "Light, more light still."

The first number was dedicated to Douglas Jerrold. "The Heart Broken," a
story of Brockden Brown's life, death and burial, was contributed by
George Lippard: "He became an--author! Yes, a miserable penster, a
scribbler, a fellow who spills ink for bread! For a career like this he
forsook the brilliant prospects of the bar. Yes, he set himself down in
the prime of his young manhood to make his bread by his pen. At that
time the cow with seven horns, or the calf with two heads and five legs,
exhibited in some mountebank's show, was not half so rare a curiosity
as--an American author!"

Among the contributors to the magazine were Mrs. Sigourney, T. B. Read,
Bayard Taylor and Dr. Furness.

The _Friends' Review_ was the creation of the Orthodox Friends, in
1847. Its first editor was the mathematician, Enoch Lewis, who continued
to direct it until his death, in 1856. A remarkable literary incident is
associated with the issue of January, 1848. In that month Elizabeth
Lloyd (Howell), widow of Robert Howell, of Philadelphia, contributed
anonymously to the _Review_ a poem, entitled "Milton's Prayer for
Patience," in which the Miltonic manner was so deftly imitated, that
even the very elect in criticism were deceived by it, and the poem was
actually printed in the Oxford edition of Milton as Milton's own lament
for his loss of sight.

Most of the Philadelphia magazines of the last fifty years have been
enriched by the busy hand of Mr. John Sartain, and two of the most
interesting of the city's periodicals were owned and edited by him. Mr.
Sartain, who has won the highest place in the history of American
engraving, was born in London, England, October 24, 1808. He came to
America in 1830, and settled in Philadelphia at the persuasion of Thomas
Sully. No living engraver has accomplished as much work as this untiring
and skilful artist. But it is not as an artist or an interpreter of art
alone that he has won high honor; his literary labors, though less
conspicuous and less splendid, are significant and interesting.

_Campbell's Foreign Monthly Magazine_ began September 1, 1843. It was
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