The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-19
A NEW VOLUME
THE NEW MIRROR
march % Iaw4w
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EDITED BY G.. p. MoRRIs AND n. p. WILLIS.
Each numb,r contains beautiful steel engraving }
~ 90 the Mirror has hitherto been & ,od
VI enough To prospeI) We have edited II az he L.
| raeites built the walls Of Jerusaem-wh the best
hand otherwise employed. The beginnings of all en-
tefprises are difiicu-mors especially beginnings
without captsl-and the attention of one editor has
been occupied with The arrangement of the machinery
in regular operation, while the other till the
Germ should be prosperous, was compelled TO labor
diligently for other pubica ions One by one TO
change the 6gure) these hindering barnacles have
been washed OF our Keel by going more rapidly ahead
! and, with the beginning OF the third volume BoTn
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY aud EXCLUSIVELY devoted
! 10 the MRRoa,-equNl to setting sudding sails allow
and a-loft with the wind dead aft foil and steady
or course she will go along ,nith bone ia her
mou as they say OF cram with the foam on her
cut-water.
We live in the middle Of this some hat inhabited
land e Msnhatt0n aud sc most that is worth
ing and bear moot That is worth hearing. Alter the
newspaper have had their pick of he news have
a trick Of making sp'cy hash of the remainder
CLEANING a choice BIZ, by the way, which had
been overlooked sghlcd) ard undertake, here
hv to keep the readers Of he Mirror UP 10 The tunes
Every body reads newspapers and rdS The outline e tic
words going rouad-but we sl,all do just what the
newspapers leave undonc-fll up the outline-tcl
you some more las the children say) put 10 the
lights and shadows Of the picture done by newspa.
per- IN the rough II u what We have tired TO do in
our Letters 10 the National iniegencef" and as
our brother editors seem to hink We have succeeded
se will (as we discontinue that corresponds nee ~
Aprl) in rather dashiny and lighter rein
these metropolitan sketches IN the Mirror
A secret for your ear dear reader By selling the
plate Of each number for hof ohai Il /, north you gel
:he reading for nothing! Each plate worth shll-
lug, to tut album-and the whole Mirror costs
but sxpenccl So 1t Is, IN fact, for nothing that you
get sixteen pages of the best literature that can
procure for YOU including the things about town that
are ssdomost described and best worth describing -
OF course we can only afford this by very small pro-
fits on very large circulation, and ten thousand
subscribers are but the turn OF tie tide. The next
ten thousand unto which we are now feeling our
way will be the first Of The rising tide that
oyerruns INFO our pc kets.
We keep an eye in N, back Of our head TO If any
body is likely to oyertase land to try their trick
before they come along side,) and we keep look o
on both sides (from the salient balconies IF our in a.
gnatoH) for ary stray breezes Of novelty for which
Il is poss BILE 10 trim sail And-to show you our
hand little we have bagged (like Eous) a breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi.
ton. IL nothing overhaul US shall try our speed
by and by with sky-scrapers and adjust to amuse
the reader, and show our regard for has respectable
,lxpence.
Our plates by the way, we undertake to say, shall
be, from this date of twice the excellence lat leas
Of those heretofore given. Experience and inquiry,
with little more money! make more difference
in the lettering Of this branch Of our business than
Of most others.
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to serve us--do youl ny LETTER TO OURSELVES. The
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7 S.-As TO our ExrBAs, they are, to booksellers,
what the mama" must have been to the Jew ba
kers You don't need coaxing to help yourselves TO
anything so cheap and heavenly. Take what has fall
EN-, and be sure that more oaves crisp and satisfying
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ADVANCE
The first number Of the new year will be issued on
the sixth day of April next. The work is sent by
mail to all parts OF The country Address postage
free) NORRIS, WILLIS & co.
Editors and ProPrietors, No. 4, Ann street.
march 26-u