The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-06
From the N. Y. Morning News
THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW-NEW VOL
UME-REDUCTION OF PRICE,

UME-REDUCTlON OF PRICE.
The Democratic Review was published yesterday
as double number for'July and Augusta change
and reorganization of the publishing arrangements
at the end of the year closing the Goth June, hav
ing made it convenient to issue the two numbers in
this way. The subscription price is reduced from
IS to S3-for the purpose of multiplying its circula-
on and of bringing it within the reach of thousands
who before felt themselves unable to subscribe for
the work, however they desired to be among its
readers.
The plate of the present number is fine mezzo-
tint portrait of Mr. Blair, late ofthe Globe. 1t is
excellent likeness, from recent portrait by Sully,
and is engraved by Sartain. The portrait announced
for the next (September) number is one of Jackson
in his last days." being a beautiful mezzoint from
the admirable Daguerreotype taken by Anthony and
Edwards few weeks before the death of the old
man, and pronounced by Mr.. Van Buren, and others
to give more perfect idea of Gen. Jackson than
any other portrait A portrait of Cave Johnson,
the Postmaster General, is to follow.
A highly interesting feature of the present num-
Der is the fac-simile of the concluding paragraph
from Gen, Jacksons letter to Mr.. Blair, of April
9th, lS45-corhmencing This may be the last letter
may be able to write you But, alive or dead, am
your FRIEND" &c.-and going on to bequeath TO him
his papers and the guardianship of his fame, 80 far
as justice may be done to it. Every reader will be
surprised that so shortly before his death, while in
state OF such extreme feebleness and suffering, he
should have written so firm and strong hand The
letter, from which it is the concluding paragraph,
occupied FIVE pages similarly written
II would seem that the great reduction thus made
in the price of the Democratic Review, smultane-
ousy with the great reduction of postage--its
monthly portraits being continued and greatly inn
proved In style of execution Ought to secure for it
very great accession of subscribers. The contents
of the present double number are of great variety
as will appear from the table:
l. Statue to Jackson.
g. Annexation.
Blair, of the Globe with fine mezzotint portrait)
a. Fac-Simile autograph Of Jackson.
g. The Innocent Convict A tale. BY Z. f. Briggs.
g. Seeing Friend of in a Packet
l. The Life and Writings Of Heinrich Zschokke.
g. Ode to Jackson. By Walter Savage Landor.
g. To Friend Singing. By X. s. 5. Andres
TO- On Preaching BY w. A. Jones.
H. A Song Of the Past. By II. s. Andres.
- Education. BY II. Norman Hudson. (Concludcd)
H. Transactions OF the chronological Society.
II. Amateur Authors and Small Critics.
'l5 Songs Of Labor-The shoemaker. b. John @. Whit
tier
I6 Fremonts Expeditions.
II ireland and the Shakespeare Forgeries.
is The Mission of Genius-A Tale Of Art. By Mrs. L.
=. Ellet.
TO- Eldop
90 Revenge and Requal. Tale of Murderer rs.
capped By Walter Whitman.
81 The Venus Anadyomene. By T. H. Howard
% Day in Pisa BY the author of Rome; seen by
a New Yorker"
a. The Priest-The Wile--The Family.
2s The Change in the Commercial Legislation of Eng
land.
&c. Lines.
81 Monthly Financial and Commercial Articles
% Our Representatives Abroad--Mr. c. H. Lester.
30 Notices of New Books.
30 Monthly Literary Bulletin
81 New York Historical Society.