The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-11-21
PROSPECTUS
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AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE,

ON the sst Of January published the first number Of
~ the ninth volume Of the American Monthly Magazine
This will commence the second year of the New SERIES
Of the American Monthly" One year has passed since
by the union OF the New England Magazine with this
well established periodical the resources Of publication
which had previously absorbed those Of the American
Monthly Review and Of the United States Magazine
all concentrated in the American Monthly Maya
zine giving nj once broad basis to the work 10
stamp its national character and ensure its pemanency
The number Of pages which have each month exceeded
one hundred, was at the time increased, TO make
for additional supply of original matter and each
number Of the work throughout the year has been
mented with engraving executed by the first artists in
the country How far the literary contents OF the Maya
zine have kept pace with these secondary improvements
the public the best judges The aim Of the propretos
has been from the first establish periodical which
shonld have tone and character Of its and which
while rendered sufficiently amusing to its crcua
ton should ever keep for It's main object the promotion Of
good tase and sound vigorous and fearless thinking up
whatever subject it undertook discuss which, in
word should make its way into public favor and establish
its claims TO consideration rather by what should be
found in its pages than by any ecla which the of
popular contributors the dissemination of audatoy
paragraphs could confer Nor has the American Monthly
had any regret having adopted and followed out
the prescribed to itself from the first II has in.
deed lost both contributors and subscribers by the
some of it's papers but by the enlightened who have
judged of the tendency Of the work in the aggregate and
not by its occasional difference oopinon with themselves
it has been sustained with spirit and iberality 1t has
been enabled to merge from infancy and dependence upon
extrnsc circumstances and the quickening power Of
many minds laboring successfully in unison, has
fused vitality into the creation while shaping it into FORM
until it has living principle Of its own II has be.
something it hoped, which the world would
willingly let die
But thoughthe subscription list Of The American Monthly
has enlarged with the publications Of every number during
the last year, is not yet sufficiently full to Justify the
publishers in carrying into effect their plan Of literally
compromising both the regular contributors and every
that furnishes casual paper for the week. Nor til
literary labor in every department of periodical is adc
quatey thus rewarded, it fully sustain merit the
character which occasional article from well pad
popular pen may give.
II these views be Just, there is impernence in an
pcalng here the public to assist in furtherng them by
promoting the prosperity Of the American Monthly Maya
| zine.
The work which is under the editorial chagre of G. F
| HOFFMAN and Park Benjamin, Esq. will continue be
published simultaneously the first OF every month in
New York. by George Dearborn L. Co., in Boston by OTIS
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