The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-05
A NEW VOLUME.
THE NEW MIRROR
OF

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EDITED BY @. u. Morris AND n. Il. WILLS.
Each number contains beautiful steel engraving
~ GOD the Mirror has hitherto beer (g ,od
" enough TO prospect we have edited 1t as the Is
Taelites built the walls of Jerusaem-with the best
hand otherwise employed. The beginnings of all
ter prses dIfiicut-more especially beginnings
without caEital-and The attention Of one editor has
been occupied with the management Of the machinery
now in regular operation, while the other, I'LL the con
cern should be prosperous, was compelled TO labor
diligently for other publications.. One by one TO
change the fgurc) these hlndoing barnacles have
been washed OF our keel by gol more rapidly ahead,
and, with the beginning of the third volume, BOTH
EDITORS will be- ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
the MRRoR,-equN to setting sludding sails allow
and a-luft with the wind dead aft foil and steady
OF course she will now 90 along pih bone ia her
pouh"-as they say of a craft with the foam on her
cut-waier.
We i've in the middle of this somev hat inhabited
i-land # Manhattan and STE most that is worth
ing and hear most that is worth hearing. After the
newspaper have had their pick of the news, we have
trick of makiog spicy hash OF the remainder,
CLEANING many choice bit, by the way, which had
been overlooked or slghed) aud we undertake, here
by TO keep the readers of The Mirror up 10 the times
Every body roads newspapers and ge the outline Of tie
worlds going ruund-but we shall do just what the
newspapers leave undOne-6ll up the outllne-tell
you some more" los the children say)-put in the
lights and shadows Of the picture done by newspa.
our Letters 10 the National lnteligencer," and
our brother editors to think we have succeeded
We will, (as we discontinue that correspondence IN
April in rather dashing aud lighter rein resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror.
secret for your ear, dear reader By selling the
plate Of each number for haf ohat IL is ,oorh you get
he trading for nothing Each plate is worth shIl-
ling, to put in album-and the whole Mirror costs
but sixpencc SO il is, in fact, for nothing that you
get sixteen pages of the best literature that we can
procure for you, including the things about town that
are ssldomosl described and best worth describing
OF course can only afford this by very small pro-
fits on a very large circulation and ten thousand
subscribers but the turn of the tide. The next
ten thousand Unto which now feeling our
wsy) will be the first move Of the rising tide that
overruns into our pockets.
We keep eye in the back Of our head TO If any
body is likely TO overtake land to try their trick
before they come along sideO and keep look o,i
both sides from the salient balconies Of our ina
gnation) for any stray breczes Of novelty for which
II is possible to trim sail. And-to show you our
hand lite-we have bagged, dixie Eolus,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi-
ton. If nothing overhaul US, shall try speed
by and by with sky-scrapers and adjust to amuse
the reader, and show our regard for his respectable
siXpence
Our plates by the way, undertake to say, shall
be- from this date, of twice the excellence (at leat)
Of those heretofore given Experience and inquiry,
! with a little more money! make more difference
in the lettering of this branch of business than
OF most others
Nor, BEsE Subscribe, in all cases (if you wish
to serve us--do you' by LETTER TO OURSELVES. The
Postmaster will forward it free of expense,
| = S.-As to our Extras, they are, to booksellers
wba, the mama" must have been to the Jew ba
kers You don't need coaxDg to help yourselves to
anything so cheap and heavenly. Take what has fall
rn, and be that oayes crisp and satisfying
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| ADVANCE.
| The first number Of the year will be issued OF
the sixth day Of April next. The work is sent by
mail to all parts of the country Address (postag,
free) MORRIS, WILLIS s. co.
Editors and Proprietors, No 4, Ann street
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