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GRAHAM,S MAGAZINE.
9J@NEW VOLUME AND CHEAP POSTAGE.=EE
JULY 1915.

JULY 1910.
Get up your clubs before the rang privilege expires,
and foraUard names before June 10th, ls45. Post
age l-2 cents.
Grahams American Monthly Magazine, will
commence new volume, June 10th l845, 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
10 his old subscribers assurances necessary
of his determination to mairtan its present ascend
ancy all the rival periodicals of the country.
The ability to do this is known by the engagement:
permanently, ofsuch men as Bryant Cooper Paul
ding, Dana, Longieow, Hoffman, Whippe, Low
ell, Neal, etc. of high reputation in the literary
world, as regular contributors, in addition to pre-
vous list, embracing the Of the uery best rori
ters IN .4nerica.
The Founders of our National Literature.
The contributors of Graham are not mere fedg-
lings, or anonymous but they the writers whose
names are identified with National Literature
all over the world, and in Europe their names are
ranked beside those of the most eminent write s
abroad. There is magazine but Graham lat
presents anything like such array of literary tai
ent as the following eminent writers: John Feni-
more Cooper, W. g. Bryant, Hon. James K. Paul
uiIlS, H. H. lana, II. w. LOng.eilOW, .
Poe, James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
J. C.. Neal, Alfred B. Street, Henry w. Herbert,
Charles Fenno Hoffman, E. P. Whipp'e, Hon. f.
Conrad, ID. I. Tuckerman, Francis J. Grund, w.
q. Simms, w. FL. G. Hosmer, ]. B. Taylor, ETC.,
etc.
Mrs. Amelia B. Welby, Miss Sedgwick, Mrs.
Kirkland, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Stephens, Fanny
Forester, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. y IAN, Mrs. Osgood
Mrs. Smith, Mrs Embury Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. Pier
son, Mrs. M'Donald, Miss Sidney, Mrs. Worthing-
ton, Miss Rand, Miss Hervey, and others. Many
names of like celebrity necessarily omitted for
want ofspace.
Editorial and Critical Department.
The editorial department will continue to en-
brace notes current literature and reviews of I'll
new American or foreign works of general interest
or value. The criticisms of Graham's Magazine
are acknowledged in all parts of the country to be
superior in acumen, honesty and independence to
i 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. ]. Grund, ESQ.,, Consul to Antwerp
who will also furnish us with the earliest literary
: intelligence, and short notices of new works, prio
to their appearance here in the shape of reprints
This will give Graham position ad just the value
of foreign works. before the purchaser here has been
dipped by puffs paid for by interested publishers.
Hints on Sports and Pastimes.
We shall devote chapter TO sports and pastimes
\ from the pen of Frank Forester, each month, for
the amusement of the gentlemen The able sketch
es of Forester, in the New York Spirit of the Times
! have rendered his name familiar with American
sportsmen.
Graham's Elegant american Emgravings
The most elegant engravings that have ever ap-
peared in America have been given to the public in
Graham's Magazine. We are now prepared to
give the right direction to the talents of artists,
and are resolved that national tode shall be strict
lv preserved in sGraham." Hereafter shall
place in the engravers' hands but american
pici,reS. Our own country abounds with the finest
scenery in the world 1t is full Of historical associ
a ;ons, of thrilling interest, and on every hand SUBJ
iccts start up, fit for the painters pencil and the
Iengraver's burn Every patriotic sentiment urges
the selection of natoaal 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
Viears I'm the South end West-Eldan Portraits and
Prairie Scenes-.Ie27otints of Scripture and other
subiects-Po,trats Of our ontributors-F4o,oers
from Nature, and all the varieties of elegant illus
tration 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 saw whether
any thing so superb has ever been issued here.
Original Music for Piano and Harp.
We have made arrangements with several must
cal ladies and gentlemen for supply of very choice
and elegant music for the harp and piano, which
volume MIR. Osbourn has also promised ms the Sc
lection of his best songs.
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either old or new, who will send us Three Dollars,
or Five Dollar Bill for two years, will receive the
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