Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-05-01
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THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE,
FOR 1S45
FOR lS4
EDITED BY JOHN INMAN AND ROBERT A. WEST.
Prospectus for the Second Year

Prospectus for the Second Year.
At the close ofhis second volume, the magazine
having been commenced on the first of January,
1874. the publisher finds himself irres: :stably call
ed on to express the satisfaction and gratitude
with which he has been filled by the brilliant and
Iunexampled success that has attended his endea-
vors to win the public favor. Notwithstanding
the difficulties, disappointments and vexaons that
almost invariably follow the establishment of a
new periodical in the production of which there
must be the harmonious cooperation of many
heads and many hands Notwithstanding occasion
al shortcomings, especially in the pictorial de-
partment, which no care or diligence could avert
and no expenditure prevent the Columbian Mag
azine has gone on steadily increasing in support
and popularity from the opening number: and If
the unbought unsolicited testimony of the press
may be received as unswayed by partiality and
unbiased by friendship, the efforts of contributors
and editors have been satisfactory to the public
and accepted as fulfilling the promises made fol-
them at the commencement 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 gen.
eral literature that notwithstanding the failure of
many previous attempts to establish such work,
there could be no impossibihty of success with
sufficient capital perseverance and the right sys-
TEN of management both by publisher and editor
stimulated by this conviction he embarked in the
enterprze and the result the first year has proved
that his judgment was correct
1t has long ceased to be necessary, or reasona-
BILE, that we should speak of the Columbian as an
experiment. At all events, it is now an expert
ment substantially tried We feel ourselves upon
as irm basis as any similar journal in the world.
Our principal cares now regard not so much the
securing what ground we have gained (tor we con-
cid bic of
our sphere of action and utility-no so much, even,
the mere enlargement of our subscripton-list, as
the most suitable modes of catering for the amuse-
ment (and shall we say occasionally for the prof
it 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 embellishments of
very superior taste, style and finish. In this re-
spect it is our firm purpose. if possible, to outvie
all competition. Our music and engravings, we
confidently believe, will not be equalled-very GER
tainly 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 authentic fashions
Regarding the literary and editorial conduct of
the Columbian, the publisher does not feel called
upon to say more than very few words. The
general management of this department is con6ded
to the gentleman who has hitherto given abundant
evidence, not only of the highest ability to put
forth meritorious magazine and one exactly
adapted to the tastes of all readers with whom is
associated another gentleman of ability and expe-
rience. The publisher, therefore, has every con-
hdence that what has already been done for the
literary value of this Journal, will be done again.
We are perfectly willing that our future in this re-
sPect should be estimated by our past. The SUBJ
Joined list of those who have furnished articles for
the Columbian during the by gone year, will sat-
sfy, we feel assured. the most fastidious, that we
are resolute to spare, in no particular, either ex-