The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-08
A NEW VOLUME.
THE NEW MIRROR
OF
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EDITED nv c. p MoRRts AND N. p, WILLIS.
Each numbr contains beautiful steel engraving J
~ GOD as the Mirror has hitherto been good
VI enough to prosper) we have edited it as the l..
raelites built the walls Of Jerusaem-with the best
hand otherwise employed The beginnings Of all en-
tefprises are diflicut-mOre especially beginnings
without capitaland the ttention Of editor has
been ccupled with The Of the machinery
in regular operation, while the Ohio I'LL the
Germ should be prosperous, was compelled TO labor
diligently for other publica ions One by 90
change the fgure) these hindenng barnacles have
been washed OFF keel by going more rapidly ahead
and, with the beginning of the third volume, BOTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
the MlRRoR-equNl to setting sudding sails allow
aud s-loft with the wind dead att full and steady
or course she will now 90 along ruth bone in her
paouh'-as they say Of cram with the foam on her
cut-waer
We live in the middle Of this some y hat Inhabited
iland of Manhattan, and most that Is worth see
ing and hear most that s worth hearing. After the
newspapers have had their pick Of The news, we have
/ trick Of making spicy hash Of the reminder,
CLEANING many choice BIT, by the way, which had
been overlooked or slghted) and we undertake here
by to keep the readers Of the Mirror tp 10 the lines
Eyerybo reads newspapers and gsh The outline Of the
worlds going round--but we shall do just what the
newspapers leave unJone-6ll up the outline-tel
you some more (as the children say)-put IN the
nights AMI SHADOWS OF tue picture OOne ny ncWspa'
pers in the rough II IL what we have tried To do in
our Letters the National lntellgencer" and D.
our bro her editors seem to think we have succeeded
we will (as we discontinue that correspondence IN
A pril) in rather dasng aud lighter Uein resume
these metropolitan sketches IN the Mirror.
secret Tor your ear, dear reader By selling The
plate Of each number Jor half ioha IL is ooh you gel
the reading for nothing Each plate IS worth a shll-
ling, TO put in album-and the whole Mirror costs
but sxpence SO il 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
are ssdomost described and best worth describing
OF course we can only afford this by very small pro-
fits on very large circulation, and ten thousand
subscribers are but the turn of tue tide. The next
ten thousand Unto which We are now feeling our
way will be the first move Of the rising tide that
overruns into our pockets.
We keep eye in the back Of our head TO see Il any
body IS likely to overtake land TO try their trick
before they come along side) and We keep look oia
both sides from the salient balconies Of ina
gnaton) for any stray breezes Of novelty for which
II IS poss bic to trim sail. And--to show you our
hand ttle-we have bagged, like Eolus,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi-
ton II nothing overhaul MS, shall try our speed
by and by with sky-scrapers and adjust to smuse
the reader and show regard for hIs respectable
siypence.,
/ Our plates by the way, we undertake to say, shall
be, from this date, Of twice the excellence (at least
Of those heretofore given. Experience and inquiry
! with little more money! make more difference
in the lettering Of this branch OF business thar
OF most others
! Nor, ErsE Subscribe, in all cases, (if you wish
to serve us-do your BT LETTER TO OURSELVES. Tn,
| Postmaster will forward II free Of expense.
! ? S.-As TO our ExrRAs, they are, to booksellers
what the mamma must have been to the Jew ba
kers You don't need coaxing to help yourselves e
anything cheap and heavenly. Take what has fall
~, and be that oaves, crisp and satisfying
baking in the clouds.
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! ADVANCE.
The first number Of the new year will be issued OF
the sixth day of April next The work is sent b.
mail TO all parts Of the country. Address (postag
free) NORRIS, WILLIS & co.
Editors and Proprietors, No 4, Ann street
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