The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-29

Sixty years ago G0dey's Lady's Book was
the wonder vi the magazine held, ana repre-
scented what was best IN periodical literature.
Edgar Alan Poe contributed his earlier work
To- IL. and some oil LOngieilOw's best poems
first saw me hght of day m iio pages. bayaio
TAYLOR was one Of It's most regular conirOu-
tors. willie Harriet Beecner @tOWe practically
made .er early fame through her writings iu
il. OuYcr Wendell Holmes name figured
prominently In tue early GOde}, While Mrs.
lydia umtley SigOurney and Frances Ear
gout OsgO0d were counted as It's leading
writers. Mrs. Sarah J. Hale was the editor
when G0deys was az The zenith oi It's career.
Then Louis a. Cooley, the founder ana owner
Of fhc magazine, introduced cOlulcd l1shlOh-
plates. ami in few years he ran iue oliciiia-
tiou uu tO the then unne ard-Oi nOtch oI IJO,v9V
comics per month. SO magazine had ever
ATTAINED such success. It's rivals were many,
but each iR tuYn was absorbed 10y the fhua-
delphia periodical But with the progress Of
magazine art and material GOdey's influence
began % wane, ana from 1911 until me present
daT IFS career has been cDeckeled one.
Some wears age Jenny June attempted ~
revive the magazine. but 10 was failure ana
part OF Mrs. Cr0ly's savings were 7walioWed
ND i'm She Unlucky experiment. since mat
time G0dey's has been the property Of New
York advertising man. lis present clrculh-
lation is l5.0O) copies per month, ana ihou-
sands know not that the magazine was even
published. But. ike two other old-ume
fayOrites- Pelers0n's Magazine ana AIlhuI
Home INSTRUMENTATION still cling 20 NE,
GodeY S has managed 80 appear each mohlh'
and formed one OF This trio of Ihiadelphi"
magazines which have always possessed loi
me a sort Of pathetic Interest.
The names OF no magazines as tue three
mentioned suggest so much 10 the student OF
American literary history. They BRING up a
period in our literature when Ihladelphia
wac the literary centre 0f Amei-ca, "heh u
Was recognized at home aad abroad as the
"Atheus Of America city where literary
talent and genius alr Ost ran iot. us peri
Odicdls were WOrld-iamed, Whlle ilS eullolo
are now the greatest names ln literary history D.
No American city can claim sucn fragrant
literary traditions. With the nrst year of the
nineteenth century scarcely opened, Thll'-
delphia began It's brilliant literary career Dy
giving 20 America in Joseph Dennie me Drot
American editor Of shakespeare. Inc itinef
OF Leigh Hunt was then one Oi the RuIhtI
City'- residents, and but Tor an "ccldeh,
which beiell him and necessitaled Tue Ielhof"!
of The family, the poet would nave Deeh
Philddelpuiau by birth. Charles br0ckden
Brown. The inst American novelist was then
beginning his career. In 1872 tine hrsl edition
OF w. ordsworths poems appeared here. John
Howard Payne, then "a LAD VI iouliecn' oileh
passed his DAYS i'm the town OF William Penn.
Iobn Quincy Adams associated himself Win
Philadelphia literature. Thomas Moore
pAs-ed "uights OF mlrtu' with the mouldet7
Of American literary thought mere. Inc nome
OF Joseph HOpklusOn, author OF "iail 1OlUm-
b.a.' vas then the salon OF the city Where
the literary minds almost uightiy cOnslegated
aud where the literary talk OF Josiah Quincy
was often heard and stories were t0id by
Washington Irving.
1neu caiue tue era OF magazines which
brought 10 pli abel pDia the leading men ana
women OF that time. the Portfolio WAS men
the great periodical Of the day, and aiier"afd
came 6rahams Magazine, the American
Magazine fetersOn's. GQdeys, ana Af,nui b
Home Magazine. WHAT these masaIiues
accomplished, even the residents OF I-lla-
dolphla today d. not know. 1t was tnrou 90
Pniladrllhla's periodicals that, ia i'"-
Frances HOdgsOn BIrnett's nrst story Was
printed. thoma, Hoods ">ong oi tne Shift
VAS nrst brought out In America In PDiia-
dflpnia periodical. POe's poem Of "Ine
Bells nrsi came out here. IL was here iDal
Joseph HophnsOn wrote "llail columbia.
In ISIS, john q. Whittier was IhilaJelphi.
editor, as was also later B1ylld idAiot.
Grace Greenwood sat in Philadelphia ciiio-
rial chait ior years. LonsieiioN = "opani>u
student INST saw the light oi uay 30 hit-
hams Magazine. The youngest edil0f oil inal
time was IN Philadelphia, ana nis name was
Edgar Allan Poe; while one oil bis suDOrji-
nate editors WAS James Russell Lowell, then
are'ldent OF Phiadelphia, living a,tbe corner
Of Fourth ana Arch streets. The father 81
Richard W 1'son Glider. toe present editor vf
the Century Magazine. was Likewise a Quaker
city editor. Long before 'East Lynne made
her famous, Mrs. iienry Wood contributed
regularly to the Philadelphia magazines, ana
her start IN literature may be said 10 have
been withn their pages. II was Philadelphia
that likewise gave American fame O. Charlie
Lamb, by publishing his first essays IN ito
Saturday Magazine, and 10 thomas De