The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-06-07
PROSPECTUS
AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE,
1--WE poLLAns pER YEAR.

FIVE DOLLARS PEk YEAR
nN the first of January was published the first number Of
Othe ninth volume OF the American Monthly Magazine
This will commence the second year Of the New Series
Of the American Monihy" One year has passed since,
by the union OF the New England Magazine with tins
well established periodical the 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 al once SO broad basis to the work as TO
stamp its national character and ensure its peTnanency
The number Of pages which have each month exceeded
hundred, the time increased, 10 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
the country How far the literary contents of the Maga
zine have Kept pace with these secondary improvements
the public the best judges The aim Of the popretos
has been from the first establish periodical which
should have tone and character of its and which,
while rendered sufficiently amusing ensure its crcula
on should keep for its main object the promotion Of
good taste and sound vigorous and fearless thinking up
whatever subject it undertook to discuss which, in
word, should make way public favor and establish
its claims to consideration, rather by what should be
found IN its pages than by any ecai which the names of
popular contributors the dissemination OF laudatoy
paragraphs, could confer Nor has the American Monthly
had any regret having adopted and folowed
the prescribed to itself from the first Ii has in
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 fopnon with themselves
il has been sustained with spirit and hberay, 1t h. S
been enabled TO merge from infancy and dependence upon
exrinsic circumstances; and the quckening power Of
many misds, iaborng successively or In unison, has
fused vitality into the creation while shaping il into fom
until has living principle Of its own. II has be-
something, il is hoped which the world would
willingly let die"
But though the subscription list of the American Monthly
has enlarged with the publications Of every number during
the last year, il is not yet sufficiently full to justify the
publishers in carrying into effect their plan Of beraly
compensating both the regular contributors and every
that furnishes casual paper for the week. Nor till
literary labor in every department of periodical is ade
quately thu rewarded can it fully sustain merit the
character which occasional article from well paid
popular pen may give. ."
II these views be Just, there is impertinence in APP
pealing here the public in uItherng them by
promoting the prosperity of the American Monthly Maya
zine. s ..l.
The work which is under the editorial chagre of c. F.
Hoffman and Park Benjamin Esq. will continue TO be
published stimuli aneously the first of every month,
New York, by George Dearborn s. Co., in Boston by Otis,
Breeders & Co. communications received at the Office,
No So Gold Street New York.