up with the second volume of the
periodical. The lectures were originally issued in each volume.

_The Arminian Magazine_, Vol. I, 1789, pp. 600; Vol. II, 1790, pp. 620,
was published by Prichard and Hall, in Market Street, and was edited by
John Dickins, the scholarly pastor of the church that he named the
"Methodist Episcopal."

In magazines addressed to women, Philadelphia has always been fertile
and successful. "The first attempt of the kind made in this country" was
"_The Lady's Magazine and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge_, Vol. I,
for 1792. By a Literary Society. Philadelphia: W. Gibbons, North Third
Street, No. 144."

The motto chosen by the editors was "the mind t'improve and yet amuse;"
and the fair sex, who are supposed to have received the proposals for
the work with "extraordinary marks of applause," are assured that "the
greatest deference shall be paid to their literary communications," and
they are promised month by month offerings of "the most _lively prose_
and _pathetic verse_."

The magazine contains anecdotes, poems, female correspondence,
similitude between the Egyptians and Abyssinians, manners and customs of
the Egyptians, schemes for increasing the power of the fair sex, essays
on ladies' feet, etc., etc. It began June, 1792, and lived until May,
1793.

_The Philadelphia Minerva_ was filled with old and new fugitive pieces.
It was published weekly by W. T. Palmer, at No. 18 North Third Street,
beginning in 1795 and ceasing in July, 1798.

_The Pennsylvania Magazine_, of the very slightest significance, was
issued in 1795, and made one volume.

_The American Monthly Review or Literary Journal_. Jan.-Aug., 1795.
Phila.: S.[amuel] H.[arrison] Smith.

_The American Annual Register, or Historical Memoirs of the United
States_, made one volume in 1796.

_The Literary Museum, or Monthly Magazine_. Jan.-June, 1797. "Printed by
Derrick and Sharples, and sold by the principal booksellers in Phila.
Price, one quarter of a dollar."

_The Methodist Magazine_ was founded by John Dickins in January, 1797,
and was edited by him until his death, in 1798 (September 27). It was
printed by Henry Tuckness. It was chiefly made up of sermons.

_The American Universal Magazine_ consisted chiefly of selections from
other periodicals. The first volume began Monday, January 2, 1797, and
was completed March 20, 1797. It was embellished with Du Simitiere's
portrait of William Penn. It was "printed by S.[a