Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-08-17
ADDING TO IT'S LITERARY MERITS,

ADDING TO
but also to make it more accessible to all classes
of the community, bv
Reducing the Price of Subscription.
For the former purpose, besides continuing the
services of
PROFESSOR FROST,
whose ample scholarship, enlarged information,
correct taste, and acknowledged ability as ele-
giant and instructive writer peculiarly qualify him
for the management of a periodical devoted to
young people, the publisher has engaged the
EDITORIAL AID OF It. S. ARTHUR,
gentleman so favorably known to the American
public, through the medium of his unsurpassed pro-
auctions, that it would be idle TO pronounce any
euloey on his merits. Perhaps no living author
is emnently fitted TO mpart instruction in an
attractive and impressive form than Mr. Arthur.
Endowed with an extraordinary acuteness of per-
ception, and the most vivid power of delineation,
he has applied these gifts to the development
of practical truths, and while every thing which
falls from his penis calculated TO attract and TX the
highest degree of interest 1t mpreSses at the same
time the most useful moral Thousands, it may
confidently be asserted, have already been ava
kened to sense of duties unperformed, or evil
habits unrestrained, by the simple and unobtrusiye
but searching lessons he has taught, and IN the new
field which his connection with the editorial de-
partment of the Young Peoples Book will open to
him, doubt can be entertained that he will reap
fresh honors for himself, and confer fresh benefits
on the community.
In addition to the labours of the editors, whose
energies will be constantly directed TO maintain
and improve the high character which the Young
Peoples Book has acquired, the various literary
and scientific persons, whose contributions have
given dignity and force to the work, will continue
10 be regular correspondents, and TO these will be
united almost every native writer, male or female,
whose aid may be made instrumental III promoting
the great object of the work-namely, to convey
useful knowledge in such form as will crafty
the tastes while it will improve the minds and
hearts of those classes to whom it will be espe-
cially addressed.
Without intending the slightest disparagementI
to either of the many admirable periodicals now
issued from the American press, the publisher of
the Young Peoples Book feels justified in saying
that his work possesses advantages, in some re-
poets, which no other can fairly claim Avoiding
the one hand whatever is frivolous in itself or
false ia its teachings, and on the other, whatever
is tedious unentertaining, it occupies middle
ground between the magazines exclusively devo
led to light literature and those of purely scien-
tifc character, and by making the graces of COM
position subservient TO the nculcation of practical
knowledge it is calculated alike for pleasure and
profit.
In point of establishment the Young Peoples
Book will not suffer by comparison with the cost
hest productions Of the times.
The MezZolint and Steel Plates
it has furnished have all been prepared by artists
Of the greatest celebrity, and some Of the former
are universally admitted to surpass in appropriate
ness Of design and elegance of execution, any 9TH
ers which have been published in this country.
Those intended for the forthcoming volume are
not less distinguished by fitness and beauty; and
adding to these the
NUMEROUS ENGRAvINGs ON WOOD
which will also be given, it may be predicted with
safety that the pictorial department will be sucn,
OF itself will merit the most extended patronage.
The Young Peoples Book though, as its name
implies, principally designed for youth of both
sexes, is adapted TO all classes. Persons of eye-
~ aye who are competent to read understandingly
may derive both information and amusement from
it's pages, and in every well ordered family circle
it cannot fail to prove an acceptable and agreea-
bic companion, through whose agency both men,
tai recreation and mental discipline will be pro-
NOTED To enable every family, no matter how
limited its pecuniarY circumstances may be, to
subscribe, the publisher has determined to reduce
the price of the work, notwithstanding the new
arrangements he has entered into will considera-
bly augment the outlay he is compelled to make.
For his compensation he relies on an enlarged
subscription list, which he cannot permit himseli
10 doubt he will Immediately obtain.
The Young Peoples Book is published Month
w. Each number will contain an ample variety
Of original Reading Matter, Mezzotint or Stee