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THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE,
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magazine having been commenced on the
first of January, 1874, the publisher flnds
himself irressistibly called on to express the
satisfaction and gratitude with which he has
been filled by the brilliant and unsxampled
success that has attended his endeavors 70 win
the public favor. Notwithstanding the diff
culties, disappointment and vexations that
almost invariably follow the establishment of
new periodical, in the production OF which
there must be the harmonious cooperation
of many heads and many hands-notwlth-
standing occasional shortcomings, especial
ly in the pictorial department, which no care
or diligence could avert and no expenditure
prevent, the Columbian Magazine has gone
on steadily increasing in support and popu-
larity from the opening number, and II the
unbought unsolicited testimony of the press
may be received as unswayed by partially
and unbiased by friendship, the efforts OF
contributors and editors have been satlsiac-
tory to the public and accepted as fulfilling
the promises made for them at the COM
mencement of the enterprise.
The publisher undertook the work with
firm conviction that the great city OF New
York was the best and the true home for
magazine of general literature; that notwth-
standing the failure of many previous at
tempts 10 establish such work, there could
be no impossibilty of success with sufficient
capital, perseverance and the right system
of management both by publisher and editor;
stimulated by this conviction he embarked
in the enterprise and the result of the first
year has proved that his judgment was cor
rect.
1t has long ceased to be necessary, or rea-
sonable, that we should speak of the Colum-
bian as an experiment.. At all events, it is
now an experiment substantially tried. We
feel ourselves upon as firm basis as any
similar journal in the world. Our principal
cares now regard not so much the securing
what ground we have gained (for we con-
slider this sufficiently secure) as the extern
sion of our sphere of action and utility-not
so much, even, the mere enlargement of our
subscription-list, as the most suitable modes
of catering for the amusement (and shall
we say occasionally for the proftO of our
subscribers in the present and in the future
the many whom we have, and the many
more we shall undoubtedly have as time rolls
on.
We have made arrangements which will
enable us to present our friends with em-
belishment of very superior taste, style and
finish. In this respect it is our firm purpose,
if possible, to outvie all competition. Our
music and engravings, we confidently believe,
will not be equalled-very certainly they
shall not be surpassed in real merit, by those
of any other magazine. We propose to give,
each month, two or more superb engravings,
independently of two pages of music by the
most eminent composers, and plate OF au-
Mentic fashions.
Regarding the literary and editorial con-
duct of the Columbian, the publisher does
not feel called upon to say more then very
few words. The general management Of
this department is confded to the gentleman
who has hitherto given abundant evidence,
not only of the highest ability to put forth a
meriterious magazine and one exactly adapt
ed to the tastes of all readers, with whom is
associated another gentleman of ability and
experience. The publisher, therefore, has
every confidence that what has already been
done for the literary value of this journal,
will be done again. We are perfectly will
ling that our future in this respect should be
estimated by our past. The subjoined list
of those who have furnished articles for the
Columbian during the by gone year, will
satisfy, we feel assured, the most fastidious,
that we are resolute to spare, in no particu-
lar, either sxertien or expense.
Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, Mrs kirkland,
Mrs. Ann s. Stephens, Mrs. F. s. Osgood,
Mrs. E. o. Smith, MRS. A. G. Mowatt, Mrs
E. F. Filler, Mrs. M. Silicon Loud, Mrs. James
G. Brooks, Mrs. James Hall, Mrs. M. P,
Hunt, Mrs H. Lighthpe, Mrs. G. H. Butler,
Mrs. E. G. Embury, Mrs. Cary, Mrs. E. R.
Steele, Mrs M. A. Erving, Miss L. Lawson,
Miss Colman, Miss Isabel Jecelyn, Miss
Martha Russell, Miss Emily E. Chubbuck,
Miss Louise M Brauner, Miss Fsnny For.
ester, Miss M. G. Quincy, Author of Sum-
mer Frolicking." j. X. Paulding, VIM. c.
Bryant, Fitz Greene Halleck, Edgar A. Poe,
John Neal, Henry W. Herbert, H. Hastings
Weld, Park Benjamin, William Cox, George
Wilkins Kendall, Henry S. Schoolcraf, T.
s. Arthur, H. P. Grattan, The Author of the
Widow of Bruges," H. It. Tuckerman,
James F. Otis, Robert L. Wade, Samuel D.
Patterson, Edward S. Gould, Seba Smith,
G. Fenno Hoffman, Theo. S. Fay, Rev.
Francis G. Woodwork, c. Donald Mcleod,
VIM. II. Willis, Walter Whitman, Isaac F.
Sheppard, T. B. Read, VIM. GLAND Bourne,
Rich. G. White, Henry A. Clark, G. Wilkins
Eli /, Edward ]. Porter, E. Parmly, Hamilton
Myers, M. G. Hill, M. E. Wilson, Joseph
Boughton, G. McLachlan, VIM. Russell, Jr.
The Author of Times Doings,"A. M. Ide,
Jr. Owen G. Warren, Augustus Snodrgras,
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