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The Prince Of american Monthlies.
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE.
$JNEW VOLUME AND CHEAP POSTAGE.sEb
JULY 1916.
AMPS MAGAZINE.
July 1916.


age l-2 cents.
Graham's American Monthly Magazine, will
commence new volume, June 10th lS45, with the
July number. It's long and universally successful
career, from its commencement until the present
time, when it has circulation exceeding by thou
sands any other magazine in the country is perhaps
as good an evidence of its great and increasing
merit as the publisher has it in his power to Offer
TO his old subscribers assurances necessary
of his determination to maintain its present ascend
ancy over all the rival periodicals of the country.
The ability to do this is known by the engagement,
permanently, of such men as Bryant, Cooper, Paul
ding, Dana, Longfelow, Hoffman, Whpple, Low
ell, Neal, etc. of high reputation in the literary
world, as regular contributors, in addition to pre-
vous list, embracing the Of the gerry best acr-
ters IN .4mer'ica.
The Founders of our National Literature
The contributors of Graham are not mere hedg-
lings, anonymous but they the writers whose
names identified with our National Literature
all the world, and in Europe their names are
ranked beside those of the most eminent writers
abroad. There is no magazine but Graham's that
presents anything like such array of literary tai
cnt the following eminent writers: John Feni-
more Cooper, w. 9. Bryant, Hon. James X. Paul
ding, R. II. Dana, H. w. Longfelow, Edgar A.
Poe, James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
u. G. Neal, Alfred B. Street, Henry w. Herbert,
Conrad, H. T. Tuckerman, Francis J. Grund, w.
G.. Smms, w. H. G. Hosmer, J. B. Taylor, etc.,
letc.
Mrs. Amelia B. Welby, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs.
Kirkland, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Stephens, Fanny
Forester, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Amman, Mrs. Osgood,
Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Embury Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Pier
son, Mrs. M'Donald, Miss Sidney, Mrs. Worthing-
ton, Miss Rand, Miss Hervcy, and others. Many
names of like celebrity are necessarily omitted for
want of space.
Editorial and Critical Department.
| The editorial department will continue to en-
brace notes on current literature and reviews of all
new American foreign works of general interest
or value. The criticisms of Grahams Magazine
are acknowledged in all parts of the country to be
superior in acumcn, honesty and independence to
those of any contemporaries Great scope will be
given to this department of the work, and topics
all subjects likely to attract attention will be fear
lessly discussed.
Hints at Fashionable Life in Letters from
abroad,
;. Written by F. j. Grund, Esq, Consul to Antwerp,
who will also furnish with the earliest literary
intelligence and short notices of new works, prior
to their appearance here in the shape of reprints.
This will give Graham position to adjust the value
of foreign works. before the purchaser here has been
duped by puffs paid for by interested publishers.
Hints on Sports and Pastimes.
We shall devote a chapter 10 sports and pastimes,
from the pen of Frank Forester each month TOR
les of Forester in the New York Spirit of the Times,
have rendered his name familiar with American
sportsmen.
1 Graham's Elegant american EngraUings
| The most elegant engravings that have ever ap-
peared in America have been given to the public in
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give the right direction to the talents of artists
and resolved that national tone shall be strict
ly preserved in Graham" Hereafter we shall
place in the engravers' hands none but american
pictures. Our own country abounds with the finest
scenery in the world. 1t is full of historical associ
atons of thrilling interest, and every hand sub
ects start up, fit for the painters pencil and the
engraver's BURN. Every patriotic sentiment urges
the selection of national subjects for the pen and
pencil and we feel assured that the American pub
lie will sustain the enterprise. The subjects now
in the hands of our artists embrace Battle Grounds
TielcS IN the South and WeSt-Ldian Portraits and
Prairie Scenes-Ne==oti,,ts of Scripture and other
Isubiects-Portraits of our ContributorS-FloacersI
from Nature and all the varieties of elegant illus
traton that art or taste can devise.
The Paris Fashions in Elegant Style.
We have made arrangements with celebrated
Paris house, by which shall be enabled to excel
all others IN the elegance, finish and correctness OF
our fashions. We expect to have all the first out
in time for the July number, and shall leave it then
to the taste of the American people to say, whether
any thing so superb has ever been issued here
Original Music for Piano and Harp.
We have made arrangements with several mus.
cal ladies and gentlemen, for supply of very choice
and elegant music for the harp and piano, which
we intend shall form strong feature in the next
volume. Mr.. Osbourn has also promised ms the Sc
lection of his best songs.
INDUCEMENTS TO SUBSCRIBE.
To facilitate the getting up of clubs for the new
volume, we offer to Postmasters and others an orr
ginaL Portrait Of Washington for every Subscriber
with Three Dollars enclosed-for every club of two
with Five Dollars encoscd-and for every club of
five with Ten Dollars enclosed. Any subscriber,
either old or new, who will send US Three Dollars,
or Five Dollar Bill for two years, will receive the
full length portrait of Washington.
Other Clubs
Graham's Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book
for Five Dollars.
Grahams Magazine and two copies of Meals
Saturday Gazette for Five Dollars.
Single Copies, 5 per annum, in advance
Clubs, S 6
$40 "
$I5 " I"
IL 500 "