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TENTH VOLUME OF THE
KNlcKERB0CKER MAGAZINE.
"a N.rn.A1 Periodical Liserature,' says dis
American statesman SIS the graceful Or
men, of civil liberty, and happy restraint up
The asner;tes which political controversies some-
,;m.. ocason. 1t is an embellishments Of society,
and diuses positive good throughout the whole exc
tent of its influence And one OF scarcely less
eminence, both as a man and patriot, has decia-
red, that tLeisuIe and Money bestowed upon ln-
strctiye and entertaining periodical reading, can
nsyer be abused or misapplied; and it is honorable,
he adds TO thousands in our country---of our young
regulation especially---thai both (often obtained
hv much labor and self-denial,) are literally and
worthily applied to this object. The good effects
of this propensity not confined to present intel
lec,ual enjoyment; they pervade the future, win
an influence alike salutary and powerful: Sueh
native literature as is here alluded to, it has been
the purpose of the Magazine, new volume OF
which, is herewith, announced, &c render hoscss a
home and respected abroad. Its editors have aim
ed 10 suit their periodical to readers OF every de-
nominalion-to make it generally ente fanlng anu
| useful. They have endeayored to blend lnstruc-
ton with amusement---to pass from light and gay
illusions to stern disquistion; to magie erud.ton
with wits 10 allure and please the studious and the
grave. as well as the lover Of light readng to the
former suggesting matter for reflection and remark,
infsing into the latter the love of knowledge, and
affording 10 both not inelcgant nor unlnstructve
relaxation and amusement.
| On the first day of July 1887, will commence
| the tenth volume Of the KNicKERBocKER,o or NE"
| YoRx MoNrrLy MAGAZINE. The publishers,
s., hirhf
been received at the hands of the public, would em
brace the recurrence of new starting point, as
fit occasion to tlook backward and forward at the
nast and prospective character and course OF their
periodical. Within the brief space of little
I more than two years and half the number OF CO.
pies issued of the Knickerbocker has increased from
less than FIVE hundred TO more than four thousand
without other aid than the acknowledged merits OF
the work---acknowledged not more explicitly oy
this unprecedented success, than by upwards OF
three thousand highly favorable notices OF the
\ Magazine, which, at different tmes have appeared
in the various journals of the United States emDra-
ciug those of the first and most discriminating Glass;
in every section of the Union. OF many hundreds
| who desired specimen numbers, and to whom they
have heen sent for examination, previous to SUBJ
scrbng. not one but has found the work worthy OF
immediate subscription. A correct inference i'll
regard 10 the interest quality of the matter fur
nished by the publishers may be gathered from the
FORGING facts In relation to the quantity given,
it need only be said, that it has aiwsys exceeded
the ma ximum promised, and III the numbers Tor the
last year, by more than four hundred pages. VI
the clearness and beauty of the typographical ex-
ecution and material of the Knickerbocker, and
the character of its embellshments--which, altho'
not expected by its readers, nor promised by its
propriotors have nevertheless been given it is not
deemed necessary to speak. They will challenge
comparison it is believed, with any similar period
/ ical
4 1t has been observed, that the constant aim Of
the editors in the management of the Knickerbock-
| er has been to make the work entertaining and
agreeable as well as solid and useful. 1t is per.
/ haps owing to preponderance of these first named
characteristics, that it has become so widely known
to the public. In addition to several well known
and popular series of numbers---such rs the 'Odds
and Ends of Penny-a-Liner,' sOllapodiana,' the
sPalmyra Letters San Actors Aloquy,' sLeaves
from tho Blank Book of a Country Schoolmaster,'
tWilson,s Conworth,' sLife in FloridL,' sLoafe:.
iana,' The Electic,' Passages from the Common
place Book of Septuagenarian,' Notes from the
Journals of travels in America, and various Foreign
Countries, sThe Fidget Papers, .--liberal space
has been devoted to interesting Tales, llust,a tng
Americac society, manners, the times, etc. embra-
cling, besides, stories of the stories of the sea. and
of pathos and humor, upon great variety OF sub
iects, together with Biographies legends, and es-
says, upon numerous and varied themes, inter-
spersed with frequent articles OF such description
as to secure for the Magazine, in this department,
gratifying pre-eminence and celebrity. But nei-
ther the scientific learned, the solid nor the
useful, has been omitted, lightly regarded. ORR
ginal articles, from distinguished writers, (Which
have attracted much attention in this country, and
several of which have been copied and Landed u
broad,) have appeared in the recent numbers Of
the work, upon the following subject:l
Past and Present state of American Literature
T,>1o Nov finn
Geology and revealed Religion; Insanity and Mon
omaha; Liberty refsus Literature and Fine Arts;
} Early History Of the Country; Connection of the
Phyeical Sciences; Atmospheric Electricity, a new
Theory of Magnetism, and Molecular Attraction
American Female Character; Pulmonary Con-
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Duties of the Age; Health of Europe and Amer
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Right; Poetry of the Inspired Writings; Chinese
! Nations and Languages; Chemistry Laboratory
of Nature) The Past, the Present, and the Flu
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Laws, Public Schools, and Sketches of American
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Modern Liberty; Christianity in France; Ameri-
can Organic Remains; Historical Recollcctions;
the Nature of Comets; Discussion OH Scriptural
Miracles; Sectional Distinctions of the Union;
Peace Societies; Periodicsty of Diseases; Essays
on Music, Fine Writing, etc. together with many
articles Of kindred description, which it would
exceed the limits of this advertisement to enumer-
| ate in detail.
Alluson has not been had TO the Literary Re-