The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-27
THE NEW MIRROR
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.


LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EDITED BY G. p. Morris AND N. p. WILLIS.
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GOD as the Mirror has hitherto bee & od
VI enough TO prosper) we have edited II as he Is
raeliles built the walls Of JeTusalem-with the best
hand otherwise employed. The beginning. of all en-
terprises are difiicult-mors especially beginnings
without capital-and the atte nion Of editor has
been occupied with the management Of the machinery
now in regular operation while the other ill the
cern should be prosperous, was compelled 10 labor
diligently for other publica ions One by one Ito
change the fgure) these hindenng barnacles have
been washed oil our Keel by goiog more rapidly ahead
and with the beginning of the tn rd volume, noTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
to the MiRRoR-cquh to setting sudding sails allow
and a-loft with the wind dead att full and steady.
OF course she will now 20 along ruth bone IN her
niou h-as they say ofa craft with the foam on her
cut-waer
We live in the middle of this somew hat inhabited
bland Of Manhattan and see most that is worth
ing and hear most that is worth hearing. After the
newspapers have had their pick of the news have
trick of making a spicy hash Of the remainder,
CLEANING many a choice bit, by the way, which had
been overlooked or sghted) and undertake, here
by to keep the readers Of the Mirror up 10 The fines
Every body reads newspapers and gets e outline II the
worlds going tuund-but we shall do just what the
newspapers leave undone-fll up The outlrne-tell
you "some more las the children say put IN the
lights and shadows Of the picture done by newspa-
per- in the rough II is what we have tried do in
our Letters TO the National Integencer," and as
brother editors seem TO think have succeeded
sc will (as we discontinue that correspondence in
Apn) IN rather a dashing and lighter rein resume
these metropolitan sketches In The Mirror
secret for your ear, dear reader By selling the
plate Of each number for haJ tohaf Is north you get
ne reading for nothing Each plate is worth a shll-
ling, To nut IN album-and the whole Mirror costs
but six pence So IL is in fact for nothing that YOU
n .tx a,fs he .at hat,
procure for you, including the things about town that
ssldomost described and best worth describing
OF course only afford this by very small pro-
fits on very large circulation, and ten thousand
subscribers are but the turn OF the tide. The next
ten thousand Unto which we are feeling our
way will be the first move of the rising tide that
oyerruns into our pockets.
We keep eye IN The back Of our head TO see IL any
body Is likely to oyertakc land to try their trick
before they come along side) and keep look oid
both sides from the salient balconies Of ina
ginatoH) for any stray breezes of novelty for which
II is poss BILE TO trim sail And-to show you our
nd little we have bsgged, dixie Eolus,) breeze
or two which shall reserve awhile for competi-
ton. II nothing overhaul us, shall try our speed
by and by with sky-scrapers and adjust TO smuse
the reader aud show our regard for hs respectable
sixpeDce.
Our plates by the way we undertake TO say shall
be- from this date, of twice the excellence Cat cast)
OF those heretofore given. Experience and inquiry,
with little more money! make more difference
in the betterng Of this branch of our business than
OF most others.
Nora BrSE Subscribe, in all cases, (if you wish
to serve us--do your BY LETTER TO OURSELVES. The
Postmaster will forward II free Of expense.
7. S.-As to our ExTRhs, they are, to booksellers,
what the =" mamma 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 osyes crisp and satisfying,
baking in the clouds
TermsoTHREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN
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 h co.
Efitors and Projectors, No. 4, Ann street
march 26-n