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ON the first Of January was 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 OF publication
which had previously absorbed those Of the American
Monthly Review and Of the United States Magazine,
were all concentrated in the American Monthly Maya.
zine giving at broad basis to the work
stamp its national character and ensure Its permanently
The number Of pages, which have each month exceeded
hundred, at the same time increased TO make
for additional supply Of original matter and each
number Of the work throughout the year has been
mented with an engraving executed by the hrst artists N
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 propreton
has been from the first to establish periodical which
should have tone and character Of its and which,
while rendered sufficiently amusing TO ensure its crcua
ton, should keep for its main object the promotion o
whatever subject it undertook TO discuss which, in
word should make its way into public favor and establish
its claims consideration, rather by what should be
found in its than by ecat which the names Of
paragraphs could confer Norh the American Monthly
had any to regret having adopted and followed
the prescribed 10 itself from the first Ii has
deed lost both contributors and subscribers by the Of
Of its 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
il has been sustained with spirit and hberay has
been enabled TO from infancy and dependence upon
extrnsc circumstances and the quickenlng power Of
many minds laboring successfully in unison, has
fused vitality into the creation while shaping it into form,
until now has living principle Of its own. 1t has be.
come something 1t hoped, which the world would not
willingly let die"
But though the 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
compensatng both the regular contributors and every
ter that furnishes casual paper for the week. Nor till
literary labor in every department of periodical is ade
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 ap
pealing here to the public assist frtherng them by
promoting the prosperity Of the American Monthly Maya
| zine.
The work which is under the editorial chagre Of c F.
4 HOFFMAN and Park Benjamin, Esq will continue 10 he
published simultaneously the first Of every month IN
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