e use of the pseudonym "Virginianus Hanoverensis."

Davies accompanied Gilbert Tennent to England in 1753, and successfully
solicited funds for the College of New Jersey. He at first declined to
succeed Jonathan Edwards as President of Princeton College, but on the
invitation being repeated he accepted, and presided over the college for
eighteen months. In a note to one of his sermons occurs the following:
"That heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope
Providence has preserved in so signal a manner for some important
service to his country."

The magazine also contained the usual number of miscellaneous articles
signed with the alliterative and indicative names that were then in
vogue--Timothy Timbertoe, Richard Dimple, Hymenaeus Phiz and the like.

Galt, in his life of Benjamin West (p. 77), says that "Dr. Smith
largely contributed to elevate the taste, the sentiment and topics of
conversation in Philadelphia." He certainly conducted the _American
Magazine_ to a considerable literary and financial success; and the
magazine came abruptly to an end on the completion of its first year in
consequence of Dr. Smith's visit to England, where his worth was
recognized and rewarded with honorary degrees from Oxford, Aberdeen and
Dublin.

On the 2d of January, 1769, the American Philosophical Society, the
oldest learned society in America, was formed by merging into one
organization the "American Philosophical Society" and the "American
Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge." Benjamin
Franklin was chosen president. In this month and year, January, 1769, a
new magazine appeared in Philadelphia, printed at the press of the
Bradfords, as we learn from Hall and Sellers' _Pennsylvania Gazette_ of
January 12, 1769, which continued the title of _The American Magazine_.
The editor and proprietor, Mr. Lewis Nicola, was a member of the
American Philosophical Society, having been elected to membership April
8, 1768, and held the office of curator for 1769.

In a certain sense his magazine became the voice of the Society; for
each number, except the first, contained an appendix of sixteen pages
made up of the Society's publications. Nicola was born in Dublin,
Ireland, in 1717. He served in the English army, but in 1766 resigned
his commission, emigrated to America, and settled in Philadelphia.

He was town-major of Philadelphia during the Revolution, wrote several
military works, but is chiefly rem