Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1843-09-30
National Magazine
OF
LITERATURE, ART and FASHION
GRAIlAM'S
LADYS AND GENTLEMAN'S
Magazine.
PROSPECTUS FOR lSl3.'
PROSPECTUS FOR 1913.
EDITORS:

EDlrORs'
GEOGE r. GRAHAM g. Il. w.
GRlSWOLD.
REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS:
J. FENNIMORE COOPER, RICH
ARD II. DANA, VIM. CULLEN
BRIANT. II. w. LONGFELLOW
+. c. GRATAN, CHS, +. HoFF>
MAN.
~RARAM'S is the oldest and most
VW popular OF The American Literary
Magazines. The number for January,
1913. will be the first OF the Both volume
Its long and universal successful career
from the commencement with lew hun
dred subscriber until the present ume,
when it has circulation oLiltty thousand
copies month Is perhaps as good an eV-
ldence Of its great and Increasing merit as
the publisher has II IN his power to oilef.
10 his old subscriber he trust no nssuran
ces are necessary OF his determination to
maintain It's present ascendency over All
the rival periodicals oil the country. ne
engagement during the past year. et such
men as BRIANT; COOPER, DANA, Ions
FELLOW, HOFFMAN. hIANcuR ETC.. OF hIsh
reputation in The literary world as regn-
lar contributors, ia addition to a previous
lis, embracing many Of the first snemes 10
the nation IS sufficient guarantee thai
The work will be the principle medium o.
communication between the best au-
thors and the public Among the at'roc-
ton of the thirty filth volume, will be srv-
eral tales by J. T. Cooper, Grdftan' -Hr.
Hoffman, Mr.. Horbert, Mss. Leslie, ia
ry Capers,' Hrs Embwy, Mrs. Ellet, y |
llirs. STEPHENS; Poems By Hr Bgiant, Rr |
Dana, llr. Loagfiiloto, .lir. Street, Hrs
Seba Smith, hrs. Osgood and Mrs Sig
Quincy; Essays By Mr, Fay, .Nr Iaeker,
man, Dr.. Jones, Mr.. Poe, etc, etc.
There follow the names OF about forty
distinguished writers, who II Is SAID, VIII
be contributors to this volume: but which
we have not room to insert
SPLENDID ESTABLISHMENT.
In the department OF Engravlngs, 1t is
very we'll known that Graham's Magi.
zine has far surpassed any periodical
work ever published in this or any 9TH
er country. The highest ambition Of III
val publishers seems thus tar to have been
10 MAINTAIN a respectable imitation OF the
numerous costly and beautiful works OF
art with which tho successive numbers OF
this journal have been graced. In The
course of the succeeding volumes many
important new features viii be Introduced.
!Sartain aud Sadd the most celebrated
MEzzoTlNT ENGRAvERs 10 the Union,
and equals OF the best Of Europe wIi con.
tinue 10 furnish their exquisite productions
and Rawdon, Wright, and Hatch, A. l.. (
Dick, G. Parker, Glmbrede, Jones, Jack !
man, and others, of New York; and bod
son, Wech. Waters, Tucker, and others,
of Philadelphia, all among the most
eminent LINE ENGRAVERs of the present !
century, have been engaged 10 furnish
succession Of highly finished steel ongrav-
ings, superior TO any that have hitherto ap.
pearcd in periodicals. Among the pic
lures that will be engraved Tor the volume
l543, are several ORIGINAL PAIN
TlNGS by lnham, lnmau, Cole, Thomp
son, Freeman, Franquinet, and other dis
tingulshed artists. The American peri
odIcals have hitherto contained, save In
very few instances, an engraving copied |
from foreign prinls, The publisher of
Graham'S Magazine, will be the fist 20
reform the practice, and to make his work |
strictly original in ITS embellishments as
well as IN It's literary contents.
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.
One Of the features OF the coming vol |
tunes will be the introduction OF portraits
of the contributors TO Graham's Magazine,
which OF course will include nearly all OF !
the eninentwriters Of the day. The 35lh
volume will include from the BURNS OF
Parker, Dodson, and others, portraits Ten,
graVed in the highest style OF The arl) OF |,
Mr.. Cooper, Prot. Long.elow, 'Mara del
Occidente,' Mrs. Slgourney, Miss Sedg-
wick, Mrs. Seba Smith, Mrs. Embury, &
several others--al from paintings execu-
ted expressly for the purpose.
THE EDlTORlA DEPARTMENT.
Will continue TO embrace notes on cur,
rent literature, ETC., and reviews OF all new
American and foreign works of general
interest or value. The criticisms Of Ora.
hams Magazine are acknowledged ia all c
parts, of this county TO be superior in ac- Z
lmen. honesty and independence TO those P
If any contemporary. Indeed, while q
Of the monthly and quarterly II
ournals, have become mere advertising c
MEDIUMS, for the booksellers. in which ev 5
ry thing 'in print is indiscrimInateIy a
this periodical is looked upon as &c