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THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE FOR lS45.
,n,rrn ny JOHN 1NmAN & ROBERT A. WEST.
AD' - Prospectus for the Second Year.

A r. the close ofhis second volume, the Magazine
"A having been commenced on the first of JAN
narv 1914. the publisher finds himself irresistby
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 disappontments and vexatlons that al
most invariably follow the establishment of new
neriodical. in the production of which there must
he the harmonious cooperation of many head and
MANY Observation-Disclosures occasionally short
cominos especially in the pictorial department,
which no care or diligence could avert and ex-
nendture prevent, the Columbian Magazine has
rome on steadily increasing In support and Popu-
larity from the opening number, and the unbought
unsolicited testimony of the press may be received
as unswayed by partiality and unbiased by TREND
ship, the efforts of contributors and editor nave
been satisfactory to the public and accepted as ful
filling the promises made for them at the COM
mencement of the enterprise.
The publisher undertook the WORK WIN a nrin
conviction that the great city OF Ne" ofk was
the best and the true home for magazine OF gen
eraI Iiterature that Notwithstanding the failure OF
MANY previous attempts to establish such WORK
There could be impossIbllty OF success Win SUI
gcient capital, perseverance and the right system
of management both by publisher and EDITOR stun
uaed by this conviction he embarked IN the enter
prise and the result of the first year mas proved 'ha
his Judgment was correct.
It has long ceased to be necessary, or reasonable,
that we 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 as any similar journal in the world
Our principal cares 11O,U regard not so much the
securing what ground we have gained (for we con-
slider this sufficiently secure) as the extension Of
our sphere of action and utilty-not so much, ev'
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
profit!) of our subscribers in the present and In
the future-the many whom we have, and the ma
nv 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
pect it is our firm purpose, if possible to outvie al
competition. Our music and engravings, we con
fidently believe, will not be equalled-very Ger
tainly they shall not be surpassed IN real merit D.
those ofany other magazine. We propose to Civ
each mo- tn two or more superb engravlngs indie
pendenty of two pages of music, by the most emf
nent composers, and plate of authentic fashions
| Regarding the literary ana edltorlal cohuuct
the Columbian, the publisher does not feel calle'
upon to say more than very few words. Ih
general management Of this department is, a
heretofore, entrusted to a gentleman possessing
every qualification for the task, and who has Civ
en- abundant evidence, not only of the highest a
bility to put forth meritorious 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 be done again. We are 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, we feel assured, the mos
fastidious that we are resolute to spare in par
ticnlar neither exerfion or eynense