The _Young People's Book_ (September, 1841-August, 1842) was published at No. 101 Chestnut Street, and was edited by John Frost, professor of history in the Central High School.
It was the _Dollar Magazine_, commenced January 25, 1843, that offered the prize in June, 1843, for the best story, and, as already related, Edgar Allan Poe entered the lists of fame, and drew the prize in the lottery with the "Gold-Bug." Hawthorne published here, in 1851, "The Unpardonable Sin." The publishers of the _Dollar Newspaper_ were the publishers of the _Ledger_. When Mr. George W. Childs purchased the _Ledger_ he bought also the _Dollar Magazine_, and changed its name to the _Home Weekly and Household Newspaper_.
The _Occident and American Jewish Advocate_ was published monthly by Isaac Leeser from No. 118 South Fourth Street, and was continued from 1843 to 1847.
The _Legal Intelligencer_ began December 2, 1843, and, published weekly from that time to the present, is the oldest law journal in the United States. It was founded by Henry E. Wallace, and has been edited by J. Hubley Ashton, Dallas Sanders and Henry C. Titus.
Miss Eliza Leslie, sister to Charles Robert Leslie, after winning her first literary distinction with her story, "Mrs. Washington Potts," in _Godey's Lady's Book_, began, with the aid of T. S. Arthur, the publication in January, 1843, of _Miss Leslie's Magazine_. In the address of "The Publisher to the Public" the new venture is thus introduced and commended: "_Miss Leslie's Magazine_! There is something in the very name that foretokens a prosperous career. It is a name associated with the pleasantest passages of our current American literature--with the most brilliant triumphs of our most brilliant periodicals. Who does not remember 'Mrs. Washington Potts' and that exquisite tease, 'Old Aunt Quinby,' and the 'Miss Vanlears,' and their pseudo-French gallant; and 'Mrs. Woodbridge,' and her economical mamma, and the thousand other creations of Miss Leslie's admirable pencil; and remembering these, who would not venture to predict that her magazine must be eminently successful? _We_ know that it will be." The first number contained contributions by T. S. Arthur, Mrs. Anna Bache, N. P. Willis, Virginia Murray, John Bouvier, Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, Morton McMichael and Mrs. S. C. Hall.