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TIE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE FOR 1916.
EDITED BV JOHN INMAN & ROBERT A. WEST
Prospectus for the Second Year.

A T the close ofhis Sc :ond volume, the Magazine
~ having been commenced on the first of Jam
uary, 1914. the publisher finds himself rresistiby
called on to express the satisfaction and gratitude
with which he has been filled by the brilliant and
unexampled success that has attended his endeav-
ors to win the public favor. Notwithstanding the
difficulties, disappointments and vexatons that al
most invariably follow the establishment of new
periodical in the production of which there must
be the harmonious cooperation of many head and
many hands-notwithstanding occasionally short
comings, especially in the pictorial department,
which no care or diligence could avert and no ex-
penditure prevent, the Columbian Magazine has
gone on steadily increasing in support and popu-
larity from the opening number and if the unbought
unsolicited testimony of the press may be received
as unswayed by partialty and unbiased by friend
ship, the efforts of contributors and editor have
been satisfactory to the public and accepted as fui-
! filling the promises made for them at the COM
mcncement 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 a magazine of gen.
era literature; that notwithstanding the failure OF
many previous attempts to establish such work
there could be no impossibity of success with suf
gcient capital, perseverance and the right system
Encouragement both by publisher and editor; slim.
ulated by this conviction he embarked in the enter.
prise and the result of the first year has proved that
his Judgment was correct.
1t has long ceased to be necessary, or reasonable
that VIC should speak of the Columbian as an ex.
pertinent. At all events, it is now an experiment
substantially tried. We feel ourselves upon as
firm basis any similar journal in the world
Our principal cares 7aOaU regard not so much the
securing what ground we have gained (for we con.
slider this sufficiently secure) the extension o.
our sphere of action and utility-not much, cv
en-, the mere enlargement of our subscription list
as the most suitable modes Of catering for the a
musement (and shall we say occasionally for the
proft!) of our subscribers in the present and in
the futurc-the many whom we have. and the ma
ny more we shall undoubtedly have as time roll:
on.
We have made arrangements which will enable
us to present our friends with embellishments O.
very superior taste, style and finish. In this res
pcct it is firm purpose, if possible to outvic al
competition. Our music and cngravings, con
fdently believe, will not be cquallcd-vcry Ger
tany they shall not be surpassed in real merit by
those ofany other magazine. We propose to give
each mo- til two or moro superb engravings, indie
pendentIy of two pages Of music, by the most emf
ncnt composers, and plate of authentic fashions
Regarding the literary and editorial conduct o
tue Columbian, the publisher does not feel caet
upon to say more than a very few words. The
general management Of this department is, a.
heretofore, entrusted to gentleman posscssin;
every qualification for the task, and who has Civ
en- abundant evidence, not only of the highest a
blty to put forth mcritorious magazine, but o
the ability to put forth magazine exactly adap
ted to the tastes of our readers. The publisher
therefore, has every confidence that what has al
ready been done for the literary value of the jour
nal will he done again. We perfectly willing
that our future IN this respect shall be estimated
by our past. The subjoined list of those who hav
furnished articles for the Columbian during the by
gone year will satisfy, feel assured, the mos
fastidious that we resolute to spare in no par