The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-07-03
PROSPECTUS OF A NEW AND VERY
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49, ~ OF NEW AND FEhl
CHEAP MAGAZINE
:, % the first day of April, was commenced new
under the title of the
BALTIMORE MONTHLY ViSITER
u Is issued with far heater cover, on good paper
ana type, and is composed of closely printed matter,
a,ounhg 70 nearly four hundred pages per volume.
Each number will be accompanied by very fine
wood cut, illustrating the natural history and Gus.
toms @ The month for which each number is intend
Cd Each design will be accompanied by both prose
ana PGeue sketches not only of the general feature.
and holiday customs, but likewise of the agricultural
Peeuhafiies OF every month. This will be new
feature, and II IS hoped, will render the MoErnLY
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ei taoH' Inc hrst number is likewise embellshed
WIN an Engraving representing Shakespeare IS Tanning
the Shrow illustrated by story from the men of tbe
late Charles Lamb one of the mos, nonular author,
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'railons IL The months, have never appeared in any
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me q,aiity OF the reading matter Of the Baltimore
nohthy siter may be inferred from the following
list OF contributors to which other distinguished names
VIII be, rom time to time, added. To instruct and
10 amllse will be our aim
CONFEDERATION. T.. Y. Reese, Rev Leander
, norr, rpiessor ). H. w Dunbar, Professor Edward
Foreman Professor Chapin A. narris DIR C. C. COY
Or. James Hamilton, DIR. John Fonerdcn Messrs M
lopham Evans, i. S. Arthur author o. the supurdi
nate, w II. Carpenter, J. b. Jones, author of West
eih SCENES, L. j. FoiSt H. +. Colburn, }. Austin
Sperry, J. f. s. Rochester, Thomas c. Atkinson, Dr..
:. w, Geyer, Mrs. Lydia Jane Pierson, Mrs. Amelia
b, Welby, MIS- Esther Wetherad The Author OF
" The Two Christinases," David Hoffman, Esquire,
Messrs. Q Barbour, +. C. Squer S. +, Glenn,
George Yeiot, NJ. $. Lovett, Il, Tudor Horton,
" The Milford Bard" The Author of "The Desert
ed Husband John Smith of Jno., The Author OF
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