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 facetiæ," 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 published until 1840.
"My name has figured, I assure you, on the covers of Graham and Godey, making as respectable an appearance, for aught I could see, as any of the canonized bead-roll with which it was associated."
So Holgrave tells Miss Phoebe Pyncheon in the "House of Seven Gables," and voices Hawthorne's and New England's appreciation of the merit and supremacy of the two Philadelphia magazines which in the middle of this century engaged the services and elicited the abilities of the best American writers.