Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-05-27

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torn which seems to demand few words occa.
sIOnaly from the proprietor 70 his patrons and the
public, we will simply and succnctly enumera,e
the chief titles which this sanda I'd national maya
zine has to the enormous patronage which it has
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uninterrupted advance in the favor of the critical,
the literary and the refined, which has ever, in |
degree peculiar to ITSELF characterized The progress
of The work
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the mechanical execution, paper, Typography, etc,
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portant and substantial qualities which ought to
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would point with emotions of pleasure and pride
to the following list of distinguished names, EN-
bracing the principal regular contributors, whose
able pens have exerted so much influence through
the pages Of this magazine upon the literary taste
of the day.
PROMINENT CONTRIBUTORS.
Emma C. Embury, author of "Pctures of Early
Life" the "Blind Girl ETC.
Lydia II. Sigourney, author of boys Reading
Book" Letters to Mothers"
FrancesS Osgood, author Of "Casket Of Fate"
"Wreath Of Wild Flowers" etc.
Mrs. Seba Smith.
Mrs. E. F. Ellet, author of Character of Schiller
etc. Ann S. Stephens
Hannah F. Gould. Mrs. E. r. Steele, author Of
"Heroines of Sacred History" etc.
Mrs A. NJ +. Amman, late Miss Buchanan.
Miss A. D. Woodbridge. Mrs. Emeline S, Smith.
Mrs. H. Lighthpe, Caroline Orne, of Wolfsboro,'
N. II. Miss Mary Ann Browne, England, author
of "Ignatia," and Other poems. Mrs. NJ ST. Leon
Loud, Pennsylvania Professor ]. II. lngraham,
author of "Lafitte" Burton" Capt; Ryd,r ETC.
Louis Fitzgerald .Tasistro. Nathaniel p. Willis.
Theodore S. Fay w Thomas, author of "C!n-
ton Bradshaw" etc; William Burton; Professor
F B Calvert; Lit w Patten; William Wallace; A
D Paterson; H w Herbert; John Brougham, Eng
land; Edgar A Poe; w S. Mayo, D; F Duri.
wage; Rev H Clinch, Boston, Mass author of
Captivity in Babylo etc; Rev Charles Constan-
tine Pise; John Brougham; H 7 Tuckerman, author
of Isabel of Italy," etc; Rufus Dawes, author Of
l"Nix's Mate" "Athenia of Damascus" etc; w
Gilmore Simms, author of Guy Rivers etc;
Epes Sargent, author Of "Velssco," etc; Robert
Hamilton; William B Tappan; George Morris.
author of 'Brier Cliff" and the National Melo.
dies" Daniels; Alexander McMakin, Phi!a-
delphia; Horauo Gates, OF Buffalo, John Neal. au.
thor Of the Yankee" Down Easter" etc; Seba
Smith, author Of 'Maior Jack Downing" etc; Al.
bert Pike, author Of Mexican Sketches" etc.
Isaac M'Lelan, Jr; Thomas Dunn English, NJ D, OF
Philadelphia; William G Howard. of Ohio. John
NJ Cabe, M D; Henry Hirst, of philadelphia.
This list, embraces some of the most profound
original and vigorous intellects of the male sex,
and the most brilliant, graceful and witty of the
fair cannot easily be paraleled by any other mag
azine in the country. 1t affords the surest guar
antee of the determination and the ability of the
proprietor to make the literary character OF ms
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every kind of elegant literature receive proper
attention Poetry, tales, sketches, essays, embody'
ing the brilliant conceptions, the graceful imagln-
ngS, the original lnVenliOus, ana the Why VI pio
found thoughts Of the able writer's we have emu
merated, have and will continue to administer,
each 10 proportion to the amusements and nstruc-
lion of the readers of the Companion.
EDITORS TABLE.
In this department is embraced short notice OF
those occurrences which deemed OF sufficient
interest TO demand attention--critical remarks
upon new books, and upon the productions OF the
age. 1t vii. be object of the proprietor &c
preserve the reputation, which this department
has acquired for sound and unprejudiced decisions
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