The _North American Medical and Surgical Journal_, January, 1826, to October, 1831, was published quarterly.
The _Album and Ladies Weekly Gazette_, begun June 7, 1826, by T. C. Clarke, changed its name to the _Philadelphia Album and Ladies' Literary Port Folio_, and was edited by Robert Morris after consolidation with the _Ladies' Literary Port Folio_.
The _Casket, Flowers of Literature, Wit and Sentiment_ was a magazine published in newspaper form. It was made out of the _Saturday Evening Post_, and was first issued by Samuel Coate Atkinson, at No. 36 Carter's Alley, January 1, 1827. Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807-1834) won a prize for the "Slave Ship" offered by the proprietor of the _Casket_.
Charles Alexander, the well-known publisher, solicited William E. Burton to establish a literary journal in Philadelphia, and Burton, who was sympathetic yet dogmatic, possessed of excellent literary taste, but never more positive than when in error, founded in July, 1837, the _Gentleman's Magazine_. The fifth and sixth volumes, 1839, were conducted by Burton and by Poe. The seventh volume, 1840, was conducted by George R. Graham. The poetry of Burton's was painfully bad, redeemed only in the faintest degree by the verses of J. H. Ingraham and C. West Thomson.
Elwood Walter began and Edmund Morris continued the _Ariel_, a fortnightly literary journal, first issued from No. 71 Market Street, May 5, 1827.
The _Philadelphia Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery_ was published by R. H. Small and edited by Dr. N. R. Smith from June, 1827, until February, 1828.
The _Friend_, a weekly periodical begun October 13, 1827, was published in the interest of the Orthodox Quakers.
The _Philadelphia Monthly Magazine_, October, 1827-September, 1829; published by J. Dobson, 108 Chestnut Street. The magazine was projected by Dr. Isaac Clarkson Snowden. It was to give information on the fine arts, sciences and literature, and contained frequent articles on American literature. Snowden was born at Princeton, 31st of December, 1791. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and lived in Bucks County in ill-health. He conceived the plan of the magazine in the spring of 1827. At his death the magazine passed into the hands of B. R. Evans and was enlarged eight pages. A series of good articles began November, 1828, and ran through five numbers, on the History of Literature in Pennsylvania, by R. P. S. (Richard Penn Smith).