The _Episcopal Recorder_, established in 1822, and edited by Rev. B. B. Smith, Bishop of the P. E. Church in the United States, has always admitted into its pages articles by leading clergymen of whatever sect or creed.
The _Erin_, a weekly paper containing Irish news, was published in August, 1822, by Hart & Co., No. 117 South Fifth Street.
Rev. G. T. Bedell, who had established the _Episcopal Recorder_, was also the editor of the _Philadelphia Recorder_ (1823), likewise a religious weekly published in the interest of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
The _Arcadian_, a literary periodical, of the year 1823, was published by A. Potter and Co.
The _American Monthly Magazine_, January, 1824, to June, 1824, was edited by James McHenry and published by Job Palmer.
The _Medical Review and Analectic Journal_ was edited by Dr. John Eberle and Dr. George McClellan and published quarterly between June, 1824, and August, 1826.
The _Æsculapian Register_ was published from June 17, 1824, to December 8, 1834. Several physicians united in its editorship, and R. Desilver, of 110 Walnut Street, was its publisher; its motto: "Ars longa, vita brevis."
The _American Sunday School Magazine_ (1824-1831) was the first Sunday-school-teacher's journal issued in America.
_La Corbeille_, a weekly journal published in 1824. The editor was a gallant Cavalier, who warns the ladies in the first number that novel reading "induces a sickly diathesis of the mind, or mental marasmus."
In June, 1824, there were published in Philadelphia the _Port Folio_, the _Museum_, the _American Monthly_ and nine other magazines, four religious, three medical and two political. It was in this year that _Blackwood's Magazine_ congratulated America on Charles Robert Leslie's success in art.
The _Reformer_, published in 1824, by Theophilus R. Gates, aimed to "expose the clerical schemes and pompous undertakings of the present day under the pretence of religion, and to show that they are irreconcilable with the spirit and principle of the Gospel."
The _Christian_ was a weekly paper of 1824.
The _Philadelphian_, a large folio sheet, containing religious articles, was founded in May, 1825, by S. B. Ludlow, and published weekly at No. 59 Locust Street. William F. Geddes and Dr. Ezra Styles Ely were among its editors.