miscellany, was published by Thomas G. Condie, Jr., 22 Carter's Alley,
in 1813.

A French weekly was started in 1815, _L'Abeille Americaine, Journal
Historique, Politique, et Litteraire a Philadelphie_, A. J. Blocquerst,
130 South Fifth Street. Matthew Carey took subscriptions for the work,
which continued several years.

The _Parterre: by a Trio_ (Cora and Charles Chandler), 1816, printed by
Probasco and Justice, 350 North Second Street. This worthless little
weekly was begun June 15, 1816, and ended June 28, 1817.

The _American Register, or Summary Review of History, Politics and
Literature_--Phila.: Thos. Dobson, 1817-1818--made two volumes.

The _American Medical Recorder_ appeared in 1818, supported by a number
of physicians. It was a quarterly publication. The title was changed in
1824 to the _Medical Recorder of Original Papers and Intelligence on
Medicine and Surgery_. It was merged in 1829 into the _American Journal
of the American Sciences_.

The _Ladies' and Gentlemen's Weekly Literary Museum and Musical
Magazine_ was a weekly publication begun, January 1, 1819, by H. C.
Lewis, No. 164 South Eleventh Street.

Washington Irving's first literary adventure was the publication of
_Salmagundi_. It was begun in New York, January 14, 1807, by Irving and
James Kirke Paulding. The origin of the venture is not quite clear, but
it was an outcome of the alert and gay society in New York, of which
Brevoort and Paulding and the Irvings were conspicuous members.

Mr. Paulding said of the enterprise, "It was when fairly initiated into
the mysteries of the town that Washington Irving and myself commenced
the publication of _Salmagundi_, an irregular issue, the object of which
was to ridicule the follies and foibles of the fashionable world. Though
we had not anticipated anything beyond a local circulation, the work
soon took a wider sphere; gradually extended throughout the United
States, and acquired great popularity. It was, I believe, the first of
its kind in this country; produced numerous similar publications, none
of which, however, extended beyond a few numbers and formed somewhat of
an era in our literature. It reached two volumes, and we could easily
have continued it indefinitely, but the publisher, with that liberality
so characteristic of these modern Maecenases, declined to concede to us a
share of the profits, which had become considerable, and the work was
abruptly discontinued. It was one of those pr