d monthly for one year by James M. Campbell, of 98 Chestnut
Street, when it was bought outright by Mr. John Sartain, who changed the
title to _Campbell's Foreign Semi-Monthly, or Select Miscellany of
European Literature and Art_ (September, 1843, to September, 1844).
Sartain engraved a plate for each number, and compiled a laborious
miscellany of the latest intelligence in art, science and letters. Many
famous bits of literature appeared for the first time in America in this
magazine. "The Bridge of Sighs," "The Song of the Shirt" (Vol. V, p.
211), "The Haunted House" (Hood), "The Pauper's Funeral" and "The Drop
of Gin" (Vol. V, p. 138) were first published in these pages.

In 1848 Mr. Sartain purchased the _Union Magazine of Literature and
Art_, edited in New York by Caroline Matilda Kirkland, the American Miss
Mitford. The name of the magazine was changed, and _Sartain's Union
Magazine_ appeared in January, 1849, edited by Mrs. Kirkland and
Professor John S. Hart, of the Central High School. For a few months Dr.
Reynell Coates acted as editor, but in the third year of its history Mr.
Sartain assumed complete charge of his magazine. In 1852 it again
returned to New York, when it was merged into the _National Magazine_.

Longfellow contributed frequently to the magazine. His translation of
"The Blind Girl of Castel Cuille" appeared here in January, 1850. Poe
contributed "The Bells" (November, 1849) and his "Poetic Principle"
(October, 1850). Harriet Martineau wrote for _Sartain's_ her "Year at
Ambleside," which ran through the year 1850, and T. Buchanan Read,
George Henry Boker and Frederika Bremer were frequently in the pages of
the magazine.

POSTSCRIPT.

Since the final revision of these pages I have learned that Samuel
Stearns was the editor of the second volume (1789) of the _Philadelphia
Magazine_. He was a physician and astronomer, born in Bolton, Mass., in
1747, and died in Brattleborough, Vt., in 1819. He made the calculations
for the first nautical almanac in this country, which he published in
New York, December 20, 1782. Twenty-eight years of his life were spent
upon a "Medical Dispensatory," which he left unfinished at his death.

Of one publication of the eighteenth century, the _Philadelphia Nimrod_
(1798), I have made no mention. Although for a long time a hot questrist
after it, I have not been fortunate enough to come by a copy, and of its
history I am mainly ignorant.

My list of the med