Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1842-11-18
PROSPECTUS
TO THE NEW VOLUME THE
UNITED STATES MAGAZINE
AND
DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.


VOL. xI, COMMENCING JULY, iS42.
JONI L. O'SULLIV:7.N: Editor.
EDY an increase in the pages, and by an altera-
I'D alton in its typographical arrangements, the
quantity of matter heretofore furnished to the read
It's future numbers about
SEVENTY-FIVE PER CENT.
The Editor expects valuable aid to his own ec-
forts, during the course of the coming year, from
number of the most able pens of the great Demo-
cratic Party, together with that of others, in its
purely literary department, to which the same po-
litica designation is not to be applied. Among
them may be particularly named:
Bancroft, J F Cooper, Amos Kendall, Whittier,
Scdgwick, Gilpin, Butler, Parke Goodwin, Haw-
thorne, Davczac, Pauldng, A II Everett, Brown
Eames Bryant, Cass, Ingersoll.
The Monthly Financial and Commercial articles
which have frequently been pronounced by the most
intelligent criticisms during the past year in them
selves alone worth the subscription to the work, will
be continued from the same able hand.
An arrangement has been made, by which the
Boston Quarterly Review, edited by Mr. BnowS-
SON, will be merged in the Democratic Review, the
latter being furnished to the subscribers of the form
err, and Mr.. Brownson being frequent and regular
contributor to its pages. Ii is proper to state that
r..
name-though to most readers they would doubt
less reveal themselves by their internal evicence
and that has been agreed under the circumstances
,hat these contributions shall be Independent Of the
usual liability to editorial revision end control-the
author alone having similar responsibility for
whatever popularity of views they may contain, as
though appearing in the original work which has
1ccn heretofore edited bh such distinguished ability
by himself.
Among other attractive papers in preparation for
forthcoming volume, will be found some person.
Sketches "reminiscences, and anecdotes of the pri-
rate life of General Jackson, from the pen Of an in
innate friend and member of his Cabinet.
The Portraits with which it is intended to illus
,rate the numbers Of the ensuing year, and which
will be executed in fine style of engraving hv j.
l.. Dick, of this city, are those Of
Col II M Johnson, Kentucky,
Hon Silas Wright, of New York,
James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania,
John G Calhoun, of South Carolina,
Il H Benton, of Missouri,
RI Walker, of Mississippi
Theodore Scdgwick, of Massachusetts,,
G. G. Cambreing, of New York,
Governor Dorr, of Rhode Island,
Porter of Pennsylvania,
With two or three of the most eminent member of
the great Liberal Party of Europe, from different
countries or else of others of home production"
according to the facility of procuring portraits from
abroad.
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umns, from bourgeois type, cast expressly for the
purpose, and upon fine white paper; thus giving
10 the work an increase in the amount of matter Of
over seyenty-five per cent. The Portraits for the
coming ycar, one of which will be given in each
number, will be executed on steel In an aectze and
finished STYLE, by !. Dick, which will be accom-
panied with an original biography: a feature in the
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