The _Christian Observer_ was a weekly Presbyterian journal commenced in
1838, and was for many years published from No. 134 Chestnut Street.

The _Baptist Record_ was a religious publication continued from 1838 to
1857.

The _American Phrenological Journal_ was issued from No. 46 Carpenter
Street from 1838 to 1841.

The _Farmer's Cabinet_, devoted to agriculture, was published from 1838
to 1850.

The _Ladies' Companion_ was published by Orrin Rodgers for two years
following 1838.

Rodgers also published the _Medico-Chirurgical Review_, about 1838. Its
life, however, was short.

_Peterson's Ladies' National Magazine_.--It was George R. Graham who
first suggested to his friend, Charles J. Peterson, then editor of the
_Saturday Evening Post_, the publication of a fashion journal, patterned
upon the popular French periodicals. _Peterson's Magazine_ is now (1891)
in its fiftieth year, and is still the best and most popular publication
of its class. Its circulation has been as high as one hundred and
sixty-five thousand. It is to-day a stock company, of which Mrs. C. J.
Peterson is President. The same glittering row of writers who
contributed to _Graham's_ helped also in the making of _Peterson's_.

Frances Hodgson Burnett published her first story, "Ethel's Sir
Lancelot," in _Peterson's_ for November, 1868. The story filled five
pages. Mrs. Frank Leslie thinks that Mrs. Burnett's first literary work
was for Frank Leslie in 1867 or 1868, and that she received her first
check in payment for an article in _Frank Leslie's Magazine_. Mrs.
Leslie says that Mrs. Burnett was then living in Knoxville with her
brother who was a civil engineer.

Mr. Peterson died March 4, 1887. The following editorial note appeared
in _The Philadelphia Inquirer_ of Monday, March 7, 1887:

CHARLES J. PETERSON.

"No man was ever more beloved by his friends--and among them were those
who were great and good in all that constitutes intellectual greatness
and moral goodness--than Charles J. Peterson, whose death occurred on
Friday night last. He was one of that group of men who half a century
ago began to make Philadelphia famous as the literary centre of the
country. Liberally educated, trained to the law, he turned naturally to
literature, to which his brilliant mind, his ripe scholarship, his
fervid imagination, his refined taste directed and impelled him. He
survived nearly all of those who had but a brief while before or after
him enter