Hall published a scathing review in the _Port Folio_, December, 1824, of the author of "Logan" and "Randolph," the Baltimorean who was writing for _Blackwood's_. In volume 19 (1825, p. 78) this "nauseous reptile" is still further reviewed. Neal is quoted as saying, "Dennie is dead, John E. Hall is alive; Dennie was a gentleman, John E. Hall is a blackguard;" and Hall retorts that Neal is a "liar of the first magnitude," who prefers "English guineas to Baltimore horsewhips."
The _Port Folio_ was now making a desperate struggle for life. Its publication was suspended from January to July, 1826, and again from January to July, 1827. Its budget was finally closed in December, 1827.
The _Ladies' Museum_ was commenced in February, 1800, and made five numbers.
The _Philadelphia Repository and Weekly Register_ was commenced in 1801. It was edited and published by David Hogan, and later by John W. Scott. It was popular and original.
The first magazine published in America for children appeared in Philadelphia in 1802--the _Juvenile Magazine, or Miscellaneous Repository of Useful Information_, Phila., 1802, printed for Benjamin Johnson and Jacob Johnston.
It was followed by the _Juvenile Olio_ in the same year. This magazine was edited by "Amyntor" a citizen of Philadelphia, and was published by David Hogan.
Charles Brockden Brown, the most important of Philadelphia writers, the first professional man-of-letters in America, and the predecessor of all cis-Atlantic novelists, was born in Philadelphia, January 17, 1771, and in that city he founded, in 1803-4, the _Literary Magazine and American Register_.
Brown had been educated until his sixteenth year in the school of Robert Proud, the historian of Pennsylvania. He then studied law with Alexander Wilcox, of Philadelphia. His health, which had been ever poor, suffered still further from enthusiastic attention to the needs of a belles-lettres club of nine members, and to the law society of his native city. The _Columbian Magazine_ of August, 1789, contained his first published article. It was entitled "The Rhapsodist," and was continued through several numbers of the magazine.
A close friendship sprang up between Brown and Elihu Hubbard Smith, and Brown made his home in New York, where Smith introduced him to "The Friendly Club." After the plague visited New York and Smith died of the fever, Brown returned to Philadelphia to spend the remainder of his life.