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TENTH VOLUME OF THE
KltIckERB0ckER MAGAZINE.
"A NATIONS Al Periodical Literature, says dis
tngushed American statesman, sis the graceful or
namens of civil liberty, and happy restraint up
ON the asperties which political controversies some
times OCCASION. 1t is all establishment of society,
and dffuses positive good throughout the whole ex-
tent of its nfuence.' And one of scarcely less
eminence. both as a man and patriot, has decla-
red. that tLeisule and Money bestowed upon in
structive and entertaining periodical reading, can
never be abused OF misapped and it is honorable,
ne adds. to thousands in our country--of our young
population especiaIly---that both (ofien obtained
by much labor and self-denial,) are literally and
worthily applied to this object. The good effects
of this propensity not confined to present intel
lectual enjoyment; they perVade the future, with
an influence alike sautary and powerful.' Such
native literature as is here alluded to- it has been
the purpose of the Magazine, new volume of
which is herewith announced. to render honored at
home and respected abroad Its editors have aim
ed TO suit their periodical readers of every de-
nominalion-to make it generally entertaining and
useful. They have endeavored TO blend lnstruc-
ton with amusement--to pass from light and gay
illusions to stern disqusition; to minge erudtion
grave, as well as the lover of light reading; to the
former suggesting matter for reflection and remark,
nfusing into the latter the love of knowledge, and
afording 10 both not inelegant nor ullnstructlve
relaxation and amusement.
On the frs, day of July 1887, will commence
the tenth volume of the KNlcKERBocKER, Or NEW
York MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The publishers,
mindful of the favor with which their efforts have
been received the hands of the public, would e-
brace the recurrence of new starting point, as a
fit occasion to slook backward and forward at the
past and prospective character and course OF their
periodical. Within the brief space of a little
more than two years and a half the number OF CO.
pies issued of the Knickerbocker has increased from
less than five hundred 10 more than four thousand
without other aid than the acknowledged merits OF
the work-acknowedged, not more explicitly by
this unprecedented success, than by upwards OF
three thousand highly favorable notices of the
Maya zine, which, at different times have appeared
i'll the various journals OF the United states, embra-
cing those of tie first and most discriminating class,
in every section of the Union. Ofmany hundreds
who desired specimen numbers, and to whom they
have heen sent for examination, previous to sub
scribing, not but has found the work worthy Of
immediate subscription. A correct inference in
regard To the interest quality of the matter fur
nished by the publishers, may be gathered from the
FORGING facts. liz relation TO the quantity given,
it need only be said, that it has alwsys exceeded
the ma ximum promised, and in the numbers for the
last year, by more than four hundred pages or
the clearnes5 and beauty of the typographical ex
ecution and material of the knickerbocker, and
the character of its embeishme nts--which, altho'
not expected by its readers, promised by its
proprotors, have nevertheless been gven-- it is not
deemed necessary to speak. They will challenge
comparison it is believed, with any similar period
cal.
II has been observed, that the constant aim Of
the editors i'll the management of the knickerbock-
err, has been to make the work entertaining and
agreeable well as solid and useful 1t is per-
maps owing to preponderance of these first named
characteristics, that it has become so wide known
to the public. In addition to several well known
and popular series of numbers-such rs the sOdds
and Ends of Penny-a-Liner,' sOllapodiana,' the
palmyra Letters San Actors Alloquy,' 'Leaves
from the Blank Book of a Country Schoolmaster,'
WILSON'S Conworth,' sLife in FloridA,' Loaef-
iana,' The Electic,' Passages from the Common
place Book of Septuagenarian,' Notes from the
Journals oftraves in America, and various Foreign
Countries, sThe Fidget Papers, etc.-lberal space
has been devoted TO interesting Tales. illustrating
Amercac society, manners, the times, etc. embra-
cling, besdes stories of the stories of the sea, and
of pathos and humor, upon great variety of sub
jects, together with biographies, legends, and es-
says, upon numerous and varied themes, inter-
spersed with frequent articles of such description
a gratifying pre-eminence and celebrity. But nei-
ther the scientific nor learned, the solid nor the
useful has been omitted, or lightly regarded. ORR
ginal articles, from distinguished writers, (Which
have attracted much attention i'll this country, and
several of which have been copied and lauded u
broad,) have appeared in the recent numbers of
the work, upon the following subject:
Past and Present state of American Literature
South American Antiquities; Inland Navigation;
Geology and revealed Religion; Insanity and Mon
omania; Liberty refsus Literature and Fine Arts;
EARLY History Of the Country; Connection of the
Physical Sciences; Atmospheric Electricity, anew
Theory Of Magnetism, and Molecular Attraction
American Female Character; Pulmonary Con-
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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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Philosophy of the Roscicrucans; Intellectual PHI
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Modem Liberty; Christianity in France; Ameri-
can Organic Remains; Historical Recollcctions;
the Nature of Comets; Discussion on Scriptural
Miracles; Sectional Distinctions of the Union !;
Peace Societies; Periodicsty of Diseases; Essays
OH Music, Fine Writing, etc. together with many
articles cf kindred description, which 1t would
exceed the limits of this advertisement 10 enumer-
ale in detail.
Alluson has not been had to the Literary Re-