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I July number. Its long and universally successful
career, from its commencement until the present
time, when it has circulation erceeding 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 maintain its present ascend
ancy over all the rival periodicals of the country
The ability to DO this is known by the engagement
RI permanently, OF such men Bryant, Cooper Paul
ding, DANA Longfellow, Hoffman, Whipple, Low
ell, Neal, etc. of high reputation in the literary
world, as rGgutGr contributors in addition to pre-
vous list, embracing the names Of the rerg best lCr-
teTS i1t .3meTica
/ The Founders Of our National Literature.
t The contributors of Graham are not mere fedg-
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= all over the world, and in Europe their names are
S ranked beside those of the most eminent writers
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cnt as the following eminent writer's: John Feni-
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Poe, James Russell Lowell Nathaniel Hawthorne,
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: Charles Fenno Hoffman, E. 2. Whipplc, Hon. r.
Conrad, Il. ]. Tuckcrman, Francis J. Grund, w.
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