Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1843-11-11
National Magazine
OF
LITERATURE, ART and FASHION.
CRAIlAM'S
LADYS AND GENTLEMAN'S
Magazine.
PROSPECTUS FOR 1S43.'
PROSPECTUS FOR ls43.'
EDITORS:


REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS:
J.FENNIMORE COOPER, RICH
ARD Fl. DANA, WIN. CULLEN
BRIANT, II. w. LoNGFELLOW
i. c. GRATAN, CHS. +. HOfF-
MAN.
~RAHAM'S is the Oldest and most
" popular OF the American Literary
Magazines. The number for january,
ls43. will be he frs; OF the Goth volume
Its long aud universal successful career
from the commencement with lew hun
dred subscriber until the present time,
When IN has circulation oftifty Thousand
copies d month is perhaps as good an ev-
idence of its great and increasing merit as
the publisher has it IN his power to offer :.
To his old subscriber he trust no assuran'
ces are necessary Of his determination to
maintain its present ascendency over all
the rival periodicals of the country. The
engagement during the past year; OF such
men as BRIANT; COOPER, DANA, Lone.
FELLOW, HOFFMAN. MANcUR elc.. OF high
reputation in the literary world as regu'
lac contributors, in addition to previous
list embracing many of the first Inemes 10
the nation is a sufficien, guarantee that
tie work will be the principle medium OF
communication between the best au.
,hors and the public. Among the attrac-
ton of the thirty fifth volume, vii! be sew
eral tales by J. +. Cooper, Grdttan' Mr..
Hoffman, Mr.. Herbert, Mss. Leslie, Ma
ry Clapers,' Mrs. Embury, Mrs. Ellet, Il
Mrs. Stephens; Poems by Mr.. Bridnt, Mr.
Dana, Mr.. LongfellOw, Mr.. Street, Mrs
Seba Smith, Mrs. OSgood and Mrs, Sig
Quincy; Essays By Mr.. Fay, Nr. Tucker
man, Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Poe, etc., etc.
There follow the names OF about forty
writer's, who II is said, Will
be contributors to this volume: but which
We have not room to insert.
SPLENDID ESTABLISHMENT.
Ia the department Of Engravlngs, it is
very we'll known that Graham's Mage.
zine has far surpassed any periodical
work ever published in this or any 9TH
er country. The highest ambition OF rI>
val publishers seems thus tar to have been
10 MAINTAIN a respe ctable imitation OF the
numerous costly and beautiful works OF
art with which the successive numbers OF
his journal have been graced. in the
course of tho succeeding volumes many
important new features will be introduced.
aud Sadd the most celebrated
NlEzzoTlNT ENcRAvERs 10 the Union,
nd equals Of the best Of Europe will con-
tlnue to furnish their exquisite predictions
and Rawdon, Wright, and Hatch, A. L..
Dick, 6. Parker, Glmbrede, Jones, Jack.
man, aud others, Of New York; aud Dnd-
son, WEIGH. Waters, Tucker, and others,
OF Philadelphia, all among the most
eminen, LINE ENGRAvERs OF the present
century, have been engaged TO furnish a
succession ofhighly finished steel engrav'
ings, superior to any that have hitherto APP
pearcd in periodicals. Among the pic
lures that will be engraved Tor the volume
Ist3, are several ORIGINAL PAIN.
TlNGS by Inham, lnmau, Cole, Thomp
aon, Freeman, Franquinet, and other dis
,lnguished artists. The American peri
odlcals have hitherto contained, save in Z
very few instances, an engraving coPlet
from foreign prints, The publisher o
Grshom's Magazine, will be the first e
reform the practice, and to make his worl
strictly original in its embellishments a.
well as 10 its literary contents.
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.
One of the features Of the coming vol
umes will be the introduction Of portrait
of the contributors to Graham's Magazine
which of course will include nearly all O
the eminent writer's Of the day. The Boil
volume will include from the burins o
Parker, Dodson, and others, portraits Zen
graved in the highest style OF The art) o
Mr.. Cooper, Prof. Long!elIow, maria de
Occiden,e,' Mrs. Sigourney, Miss Sedg
wick, Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs. Embury, {
several others--all from paintings execu
ed expressly for the purpose.
THE EDlTORIA DEPARTMENT
Will continue to embrace notes on cur
rent literature, etc., and reviews Of all new
American and foreign works of genera
interest or value. The criticisms of Ora
hams Magazine are acknowledged in al
parts, of this county TO be superior in &C
umen, honesty and independence to those
of any contemporary. Indeed, while q
majority Of the monthly and quarterly
journals, have become mere advertising
mediums, for the booksellers. in which ev
cry thing sin print is indiscriminately
praised, this periodical is looked upon as
a just and discriminating arbiier between
authors and readers, 10 which both have
implicit confidence.
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