Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-10-06
THE BOSTON EDITION OF
THE PENNY MAGAZINE.
NJ Price Reduced to 81 50 for 576 Pages!
VIM. M. MORRISON, AGENT.

tTTfUN the completion Of TIE HIST volume o.
| ~ the Penny Magazine" it may not be in
expedent to offer few observations to the pur.
chasers of this little work, whose sale has been
justly regarded as one of the most remarkable
indications of the extent to which the desire for
knowledge has reached. 1t is most satisfactory
to consider the species ofreading which has had
such an extensive and increasing popularity.
In this work there has never been a single sem
tence that could inf1ame vicious appetite; and
not a paragraph that could minister to prejudi-
ces and superstitions which few years since
| were common. There have been no excite
ments for the lovers of the marvellous; no tattle
| or abuse for the qualification of diseased taste
for personality; and, above all, no party poll
tics. The subjects which have uniformly been
treated have been Of the broadest and simplest
character. Striking points of Natural History;
Accounts of the great works of art in Sculpture
and Painting; Descriptions of such Antiquities
as possess historical interest; Personal Nara
tives of Travellers; Biographies of Men who
have had permanent influence on the condi-
ton Oft world; Elementary Principles ofLan-
guage and Numbers; Established facts in Sta
tstics and Political Economy-these have sup
piled the materials for exciting the curiosity of
million of readers. This consideration fur
niShes the most convincing answer to the few
Gf any there now remain) who assert that Gene
raj Education is an evil. The people will not
therefore to think Let them be addressed in
the spirit of sincerity and respect, and they
will prove that they are fully entitled to the
praise which Milton bestowed upon their forefa-
theirs, as a nation not slow and dull, but of
quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit-acute to
invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not be-
meath the reach of any point the highest that
human capacity can soar to-"
From the high concentrations bestowed up-
on the Penny Magazine" and its unexampled
success In Great Britain, the publishers were in
duced to undertake the republication of that
work in this country. They have completed
one volume, containing $40 pages imperial &C.
tavo, and 292 wood cuts. which they have fur
nished to subscribers at the moderate price of
Two Dollars The unexpected encouragement
which they have met with, has now induced them
to offer thesecond volume to subscribers at One |
Dollar and Fifty Cents containing the same
number of pages and to be executed in style |
equal to their first volume
During the past year, stereotype plates of this |
work, after having been nearly worn out in Lon
don, have been imported into New York, and |
the impressions from those plates sold at One |
Dollar and Fifty Cents for twelve monthly parts,
containing only SIG pages, being SIXTY pages |
less than the Boston edition.
The wood cuts and stereotype plates of the
Boston edition are entirely new, executed by
the publishers, who, being both practically ope-
rative in the two most important departments of
the Book Business, (that of Engraving and Ste
reotyping,) they feel confident that they can
compete with any foreign manufacturer in their
inc, as it regards the style of execution and
,heapness. They will therefore issue 4s pages
IN the first of every month, commencing with
July. oct 6-3t II