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OF ARIHLR,S LADIES' MAGAZlNE
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ea9ed on all Ilailds 10 De equal l m many respects, superior, i character strength interest, and attrac- tivenpss. to any of the magazinS issued. The aim ot the editor ls high one. He repudates the long prevalent system of passing his work upon the repu-
 hon of contributors whose articles, no matter what aHeY have done. are, n so many instances. below medioefitY.
 Nothing gains admission into the pages of this magazine, which is not excellent in itself The source from which an article comes is secondary it's merits always primary. Such a rule, strictly carried 5pt, must give character to any work Ithas given ..Arth0r's Magazine' character acknowl- edged in all respectable quarters where 1t has been received.
 Among the inexhaustible sources that open to the hands of literary caterer German and French lite rature offer wide field for selection Into this re- zion with an admirable corps of tTalsators we are steadily penetrating astonshed at every step by the riches NC meet. Especially is thsthe case il lite ratnra. Already we have given soue splendid aIti- ees from the German, brn full of pure truths. and iofche illustrations of the power of goodHess.- tSileH Love The Governor and lis Successors '' ssTke Unknown Patient" ''Ihe Russian Pfince.'' "The PHgy Counsellor, &.c., all Wi9 have read will remember win delight
 From the French we have also gwen many first rate articles. "The ParpsXed Loves, from Mad ame d. Geuis; also. ''Ihe Lesson d, Misforuna,s and .The Error Of Good Father iom Marmontel, with fine taiez from Dumas LacroiX, Nader Baizac aad other authors Of celebrity
 In selecting from the French, our transatoFs are guided by q strict regard to purity and excellence
 None know better than they do how much that is objectionable abounds in the light literature of this people. But flowing along by thes34 of this impure current. Is another, lucid and pure crystal From tas they dip up the bright waters and present them 10 our lips
 Al this fountain, we shall continue tolet our lead CTS drink. Bat, in doing so. we shall not neglect the exeeilencies of our own Literature.
 Ia ff4a t,if al in this Ne shall make no parade of names. The public are getting to understand pretty claaIlY how much this s Wath and to discover that excellence is net always to be found in the fugitive productions Of writers who have done well in books. Our country IS teemtag with young genius, too often ofetshad- owed and hidden by tse successful who possess not half their intrinsic worth, and whose writings exert not half so healthy an influence. They are crowded from the path in which they fitted 10 walk, and their merits kept out of sight by few who have gained the public ear and eye, aud who are kept before tse pubic, not SC much on account oi what they have done.
 Toacrit wherever we find it, we will give the right hand Of fellowship. We would not accept poor article from the most celebrated writer in the countrY; but good one, let it come from where 1t will, shall find welcome.
 In all sources, at home and abroad, we shall seek the good, the true and the beau6ful For some time and with too much justness in the allegation our magazines hare heen charged with being too lieh and trasv This f9gltwe nave fTJgu the first eadiiv avoided. AT5hurs Magazine will continue to sus- lain high character for excellence in all is depart menfs Something more than mere love tales will be given. lis stores while iull of deep and absorbing interest or, sparkling With wit and happy feelings will have in them a soul living soul oi goodness and truth. Reviews, essays, and sketches, with poetry hai shall be truly called such, will be blended with them in just proportion,
 Thus much in regard to the literary department of ,1tie 43tlft n4 tiai4-that of pictorial embellishments. Custom and taste have rendered them indispensable in literary work like ours. We shall not stand to argue the matter with custom and taste, but proceed 10 open up our intentions on this head inst then We have determined to present the subscribers 10 Arthurs Magazine, during the yeaI with novelty oi highly attractive character. No less than series Of six female characters from Shakespeare! engraved on steel iH highly finished style. This Shakespeare Gallery of Beauty yill present imboded 10 the eye soa ot the noble bards most beautiful creations of the mind, as well as one two celebrated characters III history, around whom his magic pen has thrown aheW charm. What lover of the Poets immortal creations, will not be eager to secure this splendid series of ensraY ings? Not one, surely. Every Fossessor oi copy of Shakespeare and whose library does not contain his works will have, at mere nominal cost SIX ex- quisie Illustrations, not to be eblaned n any ether way. This Is certainly great des!defaLaM. but, besides these beauties from Shakespeare, we are maN- 
 far surpassine, in ovciness ot form and face, and exquisite finish any thing that has yet appeared m any American magazine. Celebrated views, Tn this and other countries will also be leading feature h our work For tbe Ianury number we shatl give a highly wrought view of the Bnd9e of Doon, over which Tam OShanter fled in such hot haste from the kirk and the witches This splendid steel plate will accompany the first of our Shakespeare beauties, aud will make that number of our work highly attractive one No less so will be that ot February. Nor shall there be any falling oil m the style oI em- beshment or in the character ol the literary con tents of the work. From the first We have alaed at a gradual improvement. We do not issue one or two good numbers, and then, after our list of sub scrbtrs is filled up, fall ot. But we endeaHor to make every number better than the one that preceded it. Excellence, as we before said, is our ann
 But besides our Shakespeare Gallery our Gallery of Female Beauty, our Celebrated Views, we snail introduce from tune to time other attractions Tn the way of embellishments.
 In addition to the foregoing, there is yet another feature. no less than new American Novel, from inc pen of the Editor, which will be commenced Tn the January number and continued until completed This will be within lhe year. so tIat all WRo SUD scribe for the Magazine during 1915, Will feeeife this work. Those who have reaa ntf 1ti5i .i Fanny Dale, Insubordination, Six nights Mtttl lhe Washingtonians. SWeet-hearts and Wives &e; ee'; from the pen of Mir Arthur, need not be told that this feature will be a leading one
 h addition to this, Mr. Arthur will also continue to furnish for is pages, his shorter stones' those pointed moral essays told with so much seIi beauty and power The attractions of the EdHof own pen will ih fact form feature oIpeeaiiaf iafsH st to our work, which no other Magazine oai! possess While to one or t9o other periodicals, eaeA aaho.E of his own Magazine will contain many pages P iiis inimitable writings, and the whole work bear the impress ol hia pure taste and sound judgment
 l'he style in which '.Arthurs Magazine ls 10 be issued, viii be as beautiful as Clear new 4PE' fine white paper. aud highly illuminated eoAel' fpronounced be cAastest design taat has yei ae9i= ed) can make l.
 Take ii altogether, the publishers feel confident that, in rerar3 b quality ol literary maiea s1ie of embellishments, appearance. and echanieai sAs cutioa 'Arhur's Magazine will not be surpassed by anv other si.tilar publication.
 This is not merely idle boast and vain pretaniion one who has taken the work through the Inst and second volumes will so deem it.
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