ranklin on food.

P. 235.--Duche's Description of Philadelphia.

P. 263.--Insurrection in New Hampshire.

P. 293.--Dr. Franklin's Prussian Edict.

P. 295.--Impartial Chronicle, by W. Livingstone.

P. 300.--Poetical address to Washington, by Governor Livingstone.

P. 363.--Earthquake in New England.

P. 400.--Battle of Long Island.

P. 473.--Franklin's idea of an English school.

P. 488.--"How to Conduct a Newspaper,"--Dr. Rush.

The same cause that led to the suspension of the _Columbian Magazine_
put a period also to the _American Museum_, and in the same month. On
December 31, 1792, Matthew Carey, in bidding farewell to the public that
had supported his undertaking, ascribed its failure to "the
construction, whether right or wrong, of the late Post-Office law, by
which the postmaster here has absolutely refused to receive the _Museum_
into the Post-Office on any terms." Although the circulation of the
magazine had been large for those days, the publisher had derived small
profit from his venture. The subscription price, $2.40 per annum for two
volumes, making together more than one thousand pages, was too low; and
during the six years, between 1786 and 1792, Carey was always poor, and
in his _Autobiography_ declares that during those years he was never at
any one time the possessor of four hundred dollars. But in those years
of personal penury and public turmoil, Matthew Carey laid the foundation
of the American system of social science.

Six years after the suspension of the magazine, Carey attempted to
re-animate it, and published _The American Museum, or Annual Register of
Fugitive Pieces, Ancient and Modern_, for the year 1798, printed for
Matthew Carey. Philadelphia: W. & R. Dickson, Lancaster. Matthew Carey,
whose introduction was dated June 20, 1799, wrote of the renascent
publication, "If this _coup d'essai_ be favorably received, I shall
publish a continuation of it yearly." No other volume was ever issued.

_The Medical Examiner_ was published in 1787, and made one volume octavo
of 424 pages. It was edited by J. B. Biddle.

_The Philadelphia Magazine_, the first that ever bore the name of the
city, made two volumes. The first volume extended from February to
December, 1788, and contained 448 pages. The second volume began in
January, 1789, and closed in November of the same year (416 pages). The
magazine is said to have been edited by Elhanan Winchester. His
"Lectures on Prophecies" are bound