The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-25
A NEW VOLUME.
THE NEW MIRROR
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
Entrrn nv G. y NoRp,s ,xn n p WINS

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EDITED ny G.. p. MoRals AND n. p. WILLIS
Each numbtr contains beautiful steel engraving
~ GOD as the Mirror has hitherto beer (g iod
" enough TO prospei) we have edited II as he Is
raoites built the walls of Jerusaem-with the best
hand otherwise employed. The begnnir & of all
teIprises difiicult-more especially beginnings
without capitai-and the attention Of editor has
been occupied with the mana gene of the machinery
now in regular operation, while the other i'll the
Germ should be prosperous, was compelled TO labor
diligently for other pubica ions. One by one Ito
change the fgure) these hindenng barnacles have
been washed OF our keel by going more rapidly ahead
and, with the beginning OF the iairJ volume, BOTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
10 the MaRoR,-equN setting sludding sails allow
and a-loft with the wind dead aft full and steady
or course shc will 20 along toh bone in her
mou h'-as they say of craft with the foam on her
cut-water.
We live in the middle of this somcv ha, inhabited
bland Of Manhattan and most that Is worth
log and hear most that is worth hearing. After the
newspapers have had their pick of the news have
trick of making spicy hash Of the remainder,
(gleaning many choice bit, by the way, which had
been overlooked slghled) and undertake, here
hy TO keep the readers of the Mirror mp 10 the fines
Everybody reads newspapers and get, The outline Of the
words going round--but we shall do just what the
newspapr r. leave undone-f up the outline-tel
you "some more" Gas the children say)-put in the
lights and shadows of the picture done by newspa-
pers in the rough It is what we have tried to do in
our "Letors 10 the National intelligence" and as
our brother editors to think have succeeded
Ae will (as we discontinue that correspondence in
Apn) in rather dashing aud lighter pein resume
these metropolitan sketches In The Mirror.
secret for your ear, dear reader BY selling the
plate Of each number for half ,ohaf IL is uoI you get
.he reading for nothing! Each plate is worth a shll-
ling, 10 tut in an album-and the whole Mirror costs
but sixpeDcei So it is in fact for nothing that you
get sixteen pages of the best literature that we can
10 fhc ahn,t a.
are ssldomost described and bet worth describing
OF course only afford this by very small pro-
fits very large circulation, and ten thousand
subscribers are but the turn Of tic tide. The next
ten thousand Unto which we feeling our
way will be the first move of the rising tide that
overruns into our pockets.
Ne keep eye in the back Of our head TO il any
body is likely 10 ovortakc land TO try their trick
before they come along sidc) and we keep look Out
10th sides iron the salient balconies Of ina
gnatoH) for any stray breezes Of novelty for which
It is poss bic to trim sail. Rnd--to show you our
hand little we have bagged, dixie Eolus,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi-
ton. II nothing overhaul us, shall try our speed
by and by with sky.scrapers and adjust to amuse
the reader, and show our regard for hrs respectable
sixpenco
Our plates by the way, VIC 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
Nor, BrSE --Subscribe, in all cases. (if you wish
to serve us-do your BY LETTER TO OURSELVES The
Postmaster will forward it free Of expense.
S.-As TO our EXTRAS, 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 cheap and heavenly Take what has fall
en-, and be sure that more loayes crisp and satisfying,
are baking in the clouds.
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ADVANCE.
The first number Of the new year will be issued on
mail to oil parts OF the country. Address postage
free) MORRIS, WILLIS & co.
Editors and Proprie,or,, No. 4, Ann street
march 26-f