The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-22
THE NEW MIRROR
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.


LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EDITED ny G. p. MoRRIs AND n. p. WILLIS
Each numbr contains beautiful steel engraving }
~ GOD as the Mirror has hitherto been good
VI enough to prospci) We have edited 1t as the H.
raelites built the walls Of Jerusaem-with the best
hand otherwise employed The beginnings of all en-
tefprscs are diliicult-more especially beginnings
without calital-and the attention Of editor has
been occupied with the management Of the machinery
in regular operation, while the other till the
Germ should be prosperous, compelled To labor
diligently for other pubca ions. One by one 90
change the 6gure) these hindedpg barnacles have
been washed of keel by going more rapidly ahead
and, with the beginning OF the thrJ volume, norm
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EkcLUsiyGLY devoted
To the MRRoR-equal to setting sudding sails allow
and a-luft with the wind dead aft full and steady
OF course she will now go along uih bone IN her
mouh'- they say OF cram with the foam on her
cut-water.
We live in the middle Of this somevha inhabited
i-l,nd oi Manhattan and ste most that Is worth
log, and hear most that is worth hearing. Aner the
newspapers have had their pick Of the news We have
a trick Of making n spicy hash OF the remainder,
(glesning many a choice biz, Ivy the way, which had
been overlooked slghted) and undertake, here
by to keep the readers of the Mirror up 10 the tunes.
Everybody reads newspapers and gets he outline Of tho
worlds going rounJ-but we shall do Just what the
new spsp,r leave unJVne-fll up the outhne-,ell
you "some more las The children say put in the
lights and shadows Of the picture done by newspa.
pers in the rough II Is what We have tried 10 do in
our Letters 10 the National Intelligence" and as
brother editors seem to think We have succeeded,
Ae will, las we discontinue that correspondence in
April) IN ratiSr ddsny aud lighter utn resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror.
a secret for your ear, dear reader By selling The
plate Of each number for hab ioai is ,oorh, you get
he reading for nothing Each plate is worth shl-
ling, TO lut 10 an album-and the whole Mirror costs
but six pence So II 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
ssldomost described and best worth describing -
OF only afford this by very small pro-
fits on very large circulation, and ten thousand
subscribers but the turn Of the tide. The next
ten thousand Unto which we now feeling our
Way will be the first Of the rising tide that
overruns into our poe kets.
We keep an eye in The back Of our head to il any
body is likely to overtake (and TO try their trick
before they along side,) and keep look ota
both sides (from the salient balconies Of our ina
gnaiion) for any stray breezes OF novelty for which
Il is poss bic TO trim sail. And--to show you our
b. nd little we have bsgged, dixie Eous,) breeze
or two which shall reserve awhile for compet-
ton. II nothing overhaul us, we shall try our speed
by aud by with sky -scrspers and adjust to amusc
the reader, and show regard for his respectable
sixponce.
Our plates by the way, undertake TO say, shall
be- from this date Of twice the excellence (st least
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. BESE Subscribe, in all cases, (if you wish
to serve us-do your BY LETTER TO OURSELVES The
Postmaster will forward it free Of expense.
7. S-As to our EXTRAS, they are, to booksellers,
what the "msnna" must have been TO the Jew ba-
kers. You don't need coaxng to help yourselves TO
anything cheap and heavenly Take what has fall
en-, and be sure that loayes, crisp and satisfying
baking in the clouds.
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ADVANCE.
The first number Of the new year will be issued on
tho sixth day of Apr, next The work IS sent by
mail TO all parts OF the country. Address tpostsge
free) gas NORRIS, WILLIS n 90
Editors and Proprietors, No. 4, Ann street
march 26-u