Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1843-09-09
National Magazine
OF
LITERATURE, ART and FASHloN'
GRAHAM'S
IAOI'S AND GENTLEMAN's
Magazine.
PROSPECTUS FOR 1878.
PROSPECTUS FOR 1913.

81" RAHAMS IS tue o'aes' "''o "''
IN popular o. the American L'sFa,!
NJ ,Tag,nps. The number for January,
ls33. will be The first of the Both volume
Its long aud universal successful career
from the commencement with ie" nun
dred subscriber unnl the present ume'
when j, has a circulation oftltty thousaEa
COMES month IS perhaps as good an e'>
,deace offs great aad Increasing mefll a.
the publisher has 1t IN his power 10 OF .
IN his old subscriber he trust 10 assufaA
css ara necessary oil hls determination to
maintain It's present ascendency over d"
the rival periodicals. OF the country ne
engagement, during the past year. o, S''''
men az BRIASr; CooPER, DANA, Lone
FELLOW. HoFFMAN. MANCUR ETC.. Of hIsH
reputation in the literary world as FfSu'
lar contributors, in addition 10 a previous
lis, embracing many of the first Tntmes 10
the nation is a sufficient guarantee ina
the work will be the principle medium o
communication between the best an-
,bors and the public Among the at'rac-
non of the thirty filth volume, VIII be sew
eraI tales by J. +. Cooper, GraftaH mr.
Hoffman. Mr.. Herbert, Mss. Leslie, Ma.
~ CiQpers,' Mrs. Embuy, Hrs. EI!et, Il
Hrs. Stephens; Poems by ur. BrId"t, ar
Dana, Mr.. LoagttIIoD, Mr.. Street, Hrs
seBa Smith, Mrs, Osgood and Mrs. Stg-
,urneu; Essays By NJ Fay, -hr. Tucker.
man, Mr.. Jones, .Hr. Poe, etc, etc.
Here follow the names oil about forty
DISTINGUISHED writers, who il is sad, VIII
be contributors to this volume: but when
we have aot room to insert,
SPLENDID EMBELLISHMENTS.
In the department OF EugravIngs, it's
very well known that Gruham's Maya
zne has tar surpassed any periodical
work ever pnbisheI IN TINS or any o'n'
err country. The highest ambition OF RI
val publishers seems thus tar To nave zee"
10 MAINTAIN a respectable limitation ol me
numerous costly ana beautiful works oi
art with which the successive numbers OF
this journal have been graced, IN The
course Of the succeeding volumes many
,tnportautnew features wlIt be Introduced
S,rtain and Sadd the most celebrated
ME2zoTINT ENGRAvERs 10 the bnIon,
and equals of the hes, Of Europe viii con
linue to furnish their exquisite productions
and Rawdou, Wright, and Hatch. A. l.
Dick. q Parker, Gtmbrcde, Jones, Jack
man, and others, OF New ork; and Dad
son, WEIGH. Waters, Tucker, aud others
of Philadelphia ALT among the mo-
eminent LINE ENGRAvERs OF the presen
century, have been engaged to furnish
succession OF highly finished steel engra'
ings, superior to any that have hitherto az
reared in periodicals. Among the plc
lures that will be engraved tor the Volum
1913, are several ORIGINAL PAIN
TINGS by Imam, lnman, Cole, Thorn
son, Freeman, Franquiner, and other q
,ingushed artists. The American per
odcals have hitherto contained, save IN
verv few instances, an engraving copl'
from foreign prints, The publisher
Gtaham's Magazine, will be the first
reform the practice, and to make his wo
arictly original in It's embellishments
we'll as IN Its literary contents.
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.
One of the features OF the coming V
umes will be the Introduction OF porlra
of the contributors TO Graham's MagazIr
which of course will include nearly all
the eminent writer's Of the day. The -
volume will include from the BURNS
Parker, Dodson, and others, portraits e
graved in the highest style OF The arr
Mr.. Cooper, Prof. Long'elow, MARIA
Occidente,' Mrs. Sigourney, Miss Sec
wick, Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs Embury,
several others-aIl from paintings exec
ted expressly for the purpose.
THE EDlTORIA Department
Will continue to embrace notes on c.
rent literature, etc., and reviews Of all II,
American and foreign works Of gene
interest or value. The criticisms of G
hams Magazine are acknowledged in
parts, of this county to be superior in {
umen. honesty and independence TO tht
Of any cotemporary. Indeed, while
majority of the monthly and quarter
journals, have become mere advertise
mediums, for the booksellers. in which {
erv thing Sin print is indiscriminatt
praised, this periodical is looked upon
Just and discriminating arbter betwe
authors and readers, in which both ha
implicit confidence.
TERMS.
GRAHAM's MAGAzINE'wil be publis
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