The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-03-27
A NEW VOLUME.
THE NEW MIRROR
OF

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS
EDITED BY G. p MoRRIs AND N. p. WILLIS.
Each Dumb,r contains beautiful steel engraving
~ GOD as the Mirror has hitherto been good
VI enough to prospeI) we have edited it as the Is
raeiiles built the walls Of Jerusaem--with the best
hand otherwise employed The beginnir s. of all
teIprses are dliiicut-mcre especially beginnings
without capitaland the attention 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 publications One by one (to
change the fgure) these hindeing barnacles have
been washed OF our keel by going more rapidly ahead
and with the beginning of the third volume, BoTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
the MRRoR-equal to setting siudding sails allow
| and a-loft with the wind dead aft full and steady
OF course she will so along ,ci,h bone in her
n,ou h"--as they say of cram with The foam on her
cut.waer.
We i've in the middle of this some hat inhabited
island Of Manhatan, and most that is worth see
ing and hear most that is worth hearing. After the
newspapers have had their pick of The news, we have
a trick of makir spicy hash of the remainder,
Cleaning many choice b', by the way, which had
been overlooked slghted) and We undertake. here
by to keep the readers of the Mirror up 10 The Times.
Every body reads newspaper and gets The outline If the
words going rOund-but We shall do just what the
newspapers leave undone-fll up the outlne-tell
you 'some more" (as the children say)-pu, in the
! lights and shadows of the picture done by newspa'
IN the II ~ What nave 'Titu 10 10 IN
our Letters 10 the National lniolilgeace" and as
our brother editors seem 10 think have succeeded
We WILL Gas we discontinue that correspondence in
April in rather dashing and tighter rein resume
these metro, oli an sketches In the Mirror.
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ten thousand Unto which we are now feeling our
way will be the first move Of the rising tide that
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