, 1840-02-29
FIFTEENTH VOLUME OF II
EYECEsEEsE SssCftEss MAGAZINE

IL er, U84o0 commenced the fifteenth
volume of that periodical. The work has
been so long before the public, and such has
been its constant increase in repate and cir.
culation, that little is deemed necessary TO be
said in relation TO its character, which is
now thoroughly established in AMERICA, and
widely and favorably known abroad. As I
new volume, however, affords 4 starting
point for new readers, il may be proper to
say, that it is the aim of the RnickerJOckeT
to reach nearly every division OF general lit
~erature, and to comprehend in It's ample
though transient survey, Il wide range oil
amusement and instruction. Ii has Ere
scented, and will continue to present. inter,
estin. articles, illustrating American society.
the times, manners, etc.; entertaining records
of travel, foreign and domestic; humorous
stories and sketches; tales of the sea. OF pa
thos, and of real life; poetry, and legends
and ESSAYS upon numerous and vpried themes;
with occasional brief articles, of Il more SOL
id description, intended 10 refresh the minds
of the curious and the learned; 10 stimulate
inquiry in the young; and to excite ia all
trains of profitable reflections, and give slim
ulous to thought. In short, the divine, the
| 'IIVl diioAs itlu NiC StA'tSs'liIf ttS "a
observer, and the interpreter Of nature; the
poet and the novelist. have made and will
continue to make the knickerbocker the re-
osirory of their various treasures.
Among the many writers who have con
tribUted original articles 70 this Magazine,
from its commencement, including matter in
store Tor the fifteenth volume, will be found
the following; and it may be asserted, with
out fear of CONTRADICTIONS, that no periodical,
native or foreign, can exhibit So distinguish
ed 4 galaxy OF high and various talent. 1t
should be added, moreover, that the most
eminent of these contributors are not the
least frequently encountered in the pages O!
the knickerbocker. Mr.. lRvIYG has had an
average OF three articles n the different de-
partmentsof each number nF the work. since
his permanent connevion with it; Mr.. CooPEE
followed up his first paper with Others
equally spirited; and itnay vel. be douhted
whether Mr.. BKYAyr has ever ycnned finer
lines than The P~rairics,' the Arctic Lover
~ his Mistress" ard his magnificent poem.
The Winds or whether Professor Ln.a
FELLOW has ever exceeded lis ~scycra! beau
tilul "Psa!ms cf iitc;" or Mr. WARE his
voluminous 'I.etteTs lron pa.mvra,' and
Letters from Rome" all % which had their
origin in the k.IckErRoCKER:
Washington Irving, Rev Henry Pascon5, ~
WillinmC Bryant, Charles Sprayur, Esq
J Fennimore, Cooper, Park Benjamin. Esq
Hon J X PauldinC, Theodore : Fay, Esq
Charles DiCk"n'. (BnzO Mrs Fanny kemble Euilcr
FItz- rccne Iiailrck, Hon ChlHccIlnr Kent.
PIof Ii W Loag:silow, Rev Walter CuIion. 4 : |
Miss VI Sed=wick, f~resideut Ducr, Columbia
Rev Timothy Flint, Oollc-r,
Nicholas BiddIc Esq, Joseph Barber, Esq
Robert Southey, (Ens,1 Miss II + Could. Ma.,
J Sanderson, American in Miss Lsndun, EuS
Pari.) Hon Judge Hall, III
Rev WIN Ware. C'Palmy- William l. Stone, Esq
ra Lettrr,O Rev DR. Brantiev. : G.
Hon Lewis Ca., Nathaniel iIa~ti orn, Mass
Capt + Marrya,, eng Rev n q Peapody,.
J II STEPHENS, clncideEts Charles Anthem, COlun.hi-
Of Travel an College
Sir Edward Lytton Dulwes Alfred 3 Street, Esq Ny
Rev Oviile Dewey, ProfessoTInsrsha III, author
Hon Il VI Charlton, ga. of 'Laftte,'
James C PeTcivaI, Esq. Consul G " Greene, Rome
His ExceilOncy Win II James Brooks. Esq
Seward, Rev DR. Spring,
wilIisGa,lord Clark E.l. } II HilIhouse. Esq
Hon II II Wilde, ga Robert Sands. Esq
Harry Franco VI Bird, author OF Cal
W Gilmore SimmS, Egg avar,'
Mrs l. II SigourEey, Professor FELTON,, Mas.
Rev DR. Bcthuue, (Phila Stacy G Potts, Esq NJ
Miss Leslie, " JIG Whittier,
w ID Gallagher, (Ohio, William Fit Palmer, ESQ |
IonJudre Conrad, Phila. DIR Caruthcrs, Va
Dr D w Holmes, Mass Prof Beck, NY
Joseph C. Neal, Esq Pa Miss VI A Browne, Eng
Prof Hitchcock, Mass Hon Charles Miner, Pa
f. & Einbury Dr 4 Brigham, Conn
ID ID Barnard, Edward : Gould, Esq
Mr. Catherwood, Onental Charles Hoffman. Esq
Traveller Mrs + F Ellct, : &
Justice MelIen, Maine Rufus Dawes, Esq {
Burts. U ) Hon p w Richards, Phila
5 ID Dakin, ESQ Grcnville Mellcn, E.u
Rev Mr. Gannct., Mass Horace Greeley, ESQ :
Mrs Gilmnn, G Rev DR. Pise, ny
4 Il Martin, Esq George Lunt, Esq
T. Burton, Comedian y b Thatcher, E.q Boston {
II Ellsworth, DC w e Red6eld, Esq {
Rev DIR Bcasley, NJ II L Tuckerlann, ESQ :
! Il Schoolcraft, Esq Massachusetts,, :
Tyrone Power, Esq Com DR. Caleb Ticknor, Mass !
Rev } P~ierpont, Mass w II Simmons, Mass
Ion G & Verplanck, Rev DIR Schroeder, y Y c
;ol I S McKenney u S $ w A Rogers, ESQ Del {
PERSONAL OPINIONS. :
ms ENCELLEScY GOVERNOR EVERETT, OF MASS.
Il peruse the numbers Of the Knickerbock-
r with high qualification. They seem to me
{ an order of merit quite above the average
& tho narinj,,oI- oF A., ol,.,