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THE GAZETTE; LITERARY JOURNAL.

THE FIRST NUMBER OF THE LITERARY
G kZETTE for 1826, being No. 4GS, will be published on
SAVIRDA I, January the 7tb.
The unparalleled success of this work, which possesses the most
extensive circulation (embracing every part of the civilized world)
of any Literary Journal ever published in Britain, renders a
formal Introduction of a New Volume unnecessary. But it may
he proper to.remark,_that the increase of connexion and means,
obtained through such extensive patronage, has led to improve-
ments being made, and new departments added, hitherto unat-
Lats.:lsle by any publication, though confessedly necessary to the
eettseleteness of a work professing to form a register of everything
worthy of notice in Literature, Science, and the Arts—and, in
fact, to be a progrrsive History of Human Knowledge and D:s-
coveries during the period it embrace.. r.VOly Weekly Number
tuntiat,s, with the: i-xc-pnon of extracts from New. Books in the
Review Department, of nt ;lay. Ot igitia! itter.•-tbe different
Arts :and Waters, each treated by persons if distinguished' eri-
e in the particular branch—Curre=poudeare Won alt the Chief'
Suns of Learning and Intelligence in Europe—Original Poetry— •
Ls-ays--Vatieties--Notices of Actor.:, 3'o. the Drama, &c. Esc.
the whole (licautittilly printed in a eh:a- type), coispreliending
Beading equal to about Three-tenths of Octavo:
Volume—the Year's Nfoluoiti, conaeliatutli, to as much as Sixteen
Ocrevos. So strikingly is thiswhewn, that several series of P.yers, 1
and Volumes of Poetry, which have orliiitially appeared in the Li-
terary Gazette, of which they only formed small portions. have
aloes been published separately, and become highly popular, at' cost
amounting to the whole price of the periodical whetter they were]
ta keti.The Literary Gonne is pubUshul every Saturday morning, i
un tainpcd Paper, price Is. and sent, like a Nesispaper,:free of
passage, throughout the kingdom, and abroad.
Linder the title of the London Literary Gazette. another, ;lad
unstamped Edition, is published, pike only 8d: for the r articolar
advantage of those whe reside is London and its vicinity ; and
these Numbers may also be regularly had of the principal Book-
sellers throughout all Coe towns in the kingdom.
The Literary (lazi.tto is also published in Monthly and Quar-
terly Parts, for the convenience nt Exportation, and to suit those
who have only oecaseitial opportunities of reccivieg it.
Lastly—the Volt iftes for each Year, which are individually
complete, ma) be had, with Tides, Indexes, Ece. forming together
f an auth.-nt:e and valuable register for future reference.

The Volume for 1825 is i;;)%v ready for delivery, price 365.
At this period it is earnestly requested that Numbers; &c. re-
quired to com:dete preceding Volumes, may be secured withcut
delay.—From New Subscribers wishing to commence with 18.'26,
earl• orders will be obliging, as the necessary arrangements for the
ackauate Annual hicrease of Numbers depend on them.
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