, 1843-01-28

MAGAZlN E..
THE PROSPECTUS FOR 1888.
GEO. r. GRAHAM & r. w. .GRIswoLD.
REGULAR CONTRIBUTIONS;
]. Fenimore Cooper, Richard Fl. Da.
ma, William Cullen Bryant, Henry
w. LonfelIow. T. c. Gratian,
Charles F. Hoffman.
GRAHAM's is the oldest and most
popular of the American Literary
Magazine. The number for Janua.
ry, 1913, will be the first of the thir.
~ fifth volume. Its long and uni.
formly successful career, from ITS
commencement with a few hundred
sub ,cribers, until the present time,
when it has a circulation Of fifty thou.
sand copies per month, is perhaps as
good an evidence of its great and
constantly increasing merit as the
publisher has it in his power 10 offer.
To its old subscribers, he trusts, no
assurances are necessary of his de-
termination to maintain its present
a%scendency ove all the rival period
Gals of the country. The engage
ment during the past year OF such
men as Bryant Copper. Dara. Long
fell 10, Huffman, Mancur and others,
of high reputation in the literary
world, rs regular contributors. in nd
dition TO a previous list embracing
many OF the first names in the ma
ton, is a sufficient guarantee that
the work will continue to be the prin-
cipal medium OF communication be.
tween the best authors and the pub
lie. Among the attractions of the
thirty filth volume. will be several
TALES by Messrs. Cooper, Graitan,
Hoffman. Mancur. Herbert. Miss
Marry Clavers," Mrs. En-.
bury. Mrs. Ellet and Mrs. Stephens:
POEMS by Messrs. Bryant, Dana,
L~ongfellow, Street. Mrs. Seba Smith,
Mrs. Osgomi, and Mrs. S%igourney;
ESSAYS by Messrs. Fay, Jones,
Tuckerman. Poe, etc. etc.
Graham's Lady's and Gentleman'e
has been from its estatkish-
nent more than any other the favor
tie periodical Of the geniler SEX
Though its plan does not entirely ex.
,lude articles of the most important,
;haracter-such ashave raised Black
and some other foreign iourn-
lis to their high influence and reputa-
ion-its pages will be principally de-
to what is usually termed light
literature. 1t viii be distinguished
rom other publications Of similar
inns, by the literary and artistic mer. {
of its contents. While those Of {
'ther works are unknown or anony- I
nous the contributors to this are the s
most eminent authors Of our aye and !
country; the very creators - found !
'rs--of our NATIONAL LTERAruRE.-d
i. it celebrated as contain, i
ng the choicest productions of the '
female writers Of the time
every number contains gems which r
nay be appealed to with pride by a
he sex as indicating their iuteliec-
nal eminence. n
SPLENDID EMBELLISHMENTS. !.
In the department Of Encravings, t
is well known that Graham's Maya y
has far surpassed any periodical $
work ever published in ,hi, or any 4
Their country. The highest ambi-
ion Of rivzI publishers seems thus v
,r 10 have been TO maintain n re- e
.pec,able imitation Of the numerous II
ostly and beautiful works of ART Il
With which the successive numbers ST
{ this journal have been graced. IT. Z
course Of the succeeding volumes Ia
,any important New Features viii p
e introduced by SARTAlN and n
ADD. the most celebrated Mezz0. Il
mt Engravers in the Union, and d.
tu'iH VI tC pcSt ul I.tlIppes VIII l"
o%ntinue 10 furnish their exquisite b'
reductions; and Rawdon, Wright tn
Hatch, G. Parker. a. l.. Dick, p,
imbridge. Jackman, Jones and 9th. ri
3. of New York, and Dodson, al
'elch & Walters, Tucker and others, 10
Philadelphia.--all among the most m
ninent Line Engravers of the pres. tn
It century, have been engaged 10 he
rnish a succession Of highly finish 60
steel engraving, superior to any
have hitherto appeared in peri pr
Ical. Among the pictures that will IN
engraved for the volumes in I843, SIX
e several do
ORIGINAL PAINTINGS, ia
By lngham. Inman, Cole, Thomp- fri
n. Freeman. Franquinet, and other
artists. The Ameri. tel
n periodicals have hitherto contain. en-