The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1841-01-18
PROSPECTUS
or THE NEW YORK MIRROR,

n has been said that the American people are hcke
H in their attachment; that they are fond OF change
and variety anu willingly part with old friend for no
vey of acquaintance. As FAR az relates W US
we can unequivocally deny the assertion II II now
tran seventeen years since we, mere boy az the
me commenced the public OF the New erk silf-
Or and under all its changes and improvements, thou,
saids Of il early friends aud subscribers have adhered
it with cOnstancyno less atterng to ourselves than
it IS complimentary 10 Their permanent attachments.
| We now make an important change, viz: com
mencement ofOur nineteenth year, on this sc 'ond day
Of January, lS4l. IN making this change, we are only
following the example Of many of contemporaries,
who after publishing their papers for several yeais,
under the necessity sfad0plng this plan that their sub
gcbers might not thereafter be confused about the be-
ginning and ending Of The publication year. But the
giving elegant steel plate engraving every month, ma
ny OF which we have already selected, aad have ena-
vers employed on several of them.
In consequence of the disappointment we have met
with from Of engravers, who was TO have fur
nisied January plate, we have been under the ne
cessity of sending only match TO what we have
| formerIy flIrnished Gut faying now number of en-
gravers 1t work, that we may eventually have the
plates engraved and printed al least three months IN adj
vance, shall be beyond The reach OF disappoin
Hsnt and send them to subscribers well dried
and seasoned be almost released from fear their
being injured in the mails by carriage Tho plates we
have now in hand are such as have never been pro-
dGced in any periodical in this country and cannot be
surpassed in the WORLD at least says number ofpeF-
sons TO whom we have shown the twelve already
eced: and we have not the shadow ofa doubt that our
subscribers '. u say the when they then-
We also iAtend TO give, monthly, wooden represen
These additions will cost us exclusive Ofour present
expenses, sc veral thousands of dollars per aunun
This arrangement, while it will afford TO the readers
Of the Mirror than abundant equivalent forthe
tiaing price at which it is published flor the plates
could not be purchased at the print stores separately
for 50, could the music be obtained for that amount)
will, trust, give such an incTsase of subscribers
Will enable proceed with renewed energy and
up aeglAg industry in the prosecution -four literary
laDos, and waraat these heavy expenditures oftime
and money
When we began the publication of the Mirror, there
work of similar character in fths Union, of
any literary merit, which combined such number of
attractions have presented in superior engTayngs,
music, beautiful paper and extreme neatness OF typo
eTaphy. With a determination to render il work
thy Of the extensive support which il has always
ceved we went OH, year utter year, employing talent
of high order, bcautiyng and Ornamenting the work
with gems Ofthe pencil and the PEN Few conceive
the immense amount we have paid for literary and pic
oria contributions. We have been the pioneer in al
most every thing that has lifted The periodical press eff
this country from ITS raeT, to its present position,
until, by common consent, the New York Mirror has
been considered herOr to no literary publication of
a similar character in the world. We, some years
since in consequence OF constantly decreasing
penses raised the price to five dollars, and friends
have paid tcbeenuly from convection that it is now,
and always has been, honestly worth the money. With
in the last few years change has come every
thing particularly the republic of letters Periodicals have
increased in vastnumbers, and the adoption of cash
system, and its certain and prompt result have induced
few publishers reduce the price Ofsubs crpons,
and TO be cOntented with limited poits in consideration
ofthe facilities afforded them by prompt payment.
The subscribers sfthe New York Mirror, entitled
to the full benefit of this change, and have there
fore began A NEW SERIES OF THE WORK on this
second of January, lS4I but motto is ssreduc
ZION OF price, and gradual decrease of EXCELLENCE
bat desire TO follow up seven'ee nyears advance
in all respects, and NOW make the Mirror the most ee
CANT periodical in the world; shah make the exp
sVe adduens before mentor ed, and continue the
charge of only FIVE DoI.l.AhS PER ANNUM PAYA-
ABLE, In ALL CASES, IN ADVANCES.
In thus issuing il at price which would appear all
acquainted with the sub ec scarcely sufficient deiIay
its expenses sfprin and paper; we do not con-
mi unfio in md
efhe Ibcation, editOnally considered. On the
rary, it viii coHtain LITERARY ARTICLES Of IN
TENSE INTEREST; and every exerIion will be made
to furnish he most fashionable, e:soice and popular
mUSlS; and no pans expense will be spar
tain its present high literary Character and TO keep
least in the foremost rank with the most popular pel0d
icals in this ccVntly Europe. We even expect in
this respect TO surpass former efforts, the Editor
by recent arrangement will be released all the
the cOnnectcs with the business and financial de-
parmezt, which has for rested upon him, deprv
ing him OF much of the time he wished to spend in
we ask, in return, frsm the friends orAmercan Lit
erature, tier cordial and hearty support of this NEW
AND EXPENSIVE SERIES, and have doubt but we
shall literally receive ii.
la country towns and villages, where the population
il small in number those who wish TO receive the Mirror,
would find il TO their interest to obtain least
subscribers, that the paper may be rolled up instead of
being folded as the folding seriously n1res both paper
and plates; and less halseven cannot be advantageous
ly rolled.
Where more papers are to one direction,
four Is payment in full for aysaE Bat in all such
May knew friends, Ut least in name, five should ne
be highly favored Ifdesired will write The
address, in pencil, the margin of each paper put
up.
SUMMARY OF CONDITIONS.
The Mirror is printed and published by DANIEL FAN
SHAW every Saturday, his Bookstore, No. las Mas
sau, street, extra super royal quarto fern. II is
belshcd, oncr every month, with splendid SUPER
ROYAL ENGRAVING, and every week with popular
piece of MUSIC arranged for the piano forte, harp,
guitar, sc. The terms FIVE dollars per aanunI,
PAYABLE IN ALL GASES, ONE YEAR IN AID
VANCE.
IL is forwarded by the earliest mails subscribers
siding out of The city ct New York.
,The postage must be paid all communications;
such as relate the editorial department be di-
rected to GEN. G. P. Norris; all others to ID. FAN
SHAW
No subscriptions received for a less period than
year.
N.B Postmasers are authorised, and generally viii
ling forward money TO newspapers free of expense
where the letters sighed by themselves. Persons
wishing remit, Will therefore, when il can be done,
write just what they want the Postmaster to say for
hen that lie VIII OILY have lie Trouble OF signing.
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