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The Prince of american Monthlies.
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE.
8TNEw VOLUME AND CHEAP POsTAGE.ST
July 1915.


July 1915.
Get up yor clubs before the anking privilege expires,
and foraoard names before June 10th, lS45. Post
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine, will
commence new volume June 10th l845, with the
July number. Its long and universally successful
career, from its commencement until the present
time, when it has circulation Exceeding 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
To his old subscribers no assurances are necessary
of his determination to maintain its present ascend
ancy all the rival periodicals of the country
The ability to do this is known by the engagement,
permanently, of such men as Bryant, Cooper, Paul
ding, Dana, Longfellow, Hoffman, Whipple, Low
ELL Neal, etc. of high reputation in the literary
world, regular contributors, in addition to pre-
vous list, embracing the names Of the reTy best oT1-
terS in .america
The Founders of our National Literature,
The contributors of Graham are not mere fedg-
lings, anonymous, but they the writers whose
names are identified with our National Literature
all over the world, and in Europe their names are
ranked beside those of the most eminent writers
abroad. There is magazine but Graham's that
presents anything like such an array of literary tai
ent as the following eminent writers: John Fen-
more Cooper, w. G. Bryant, Hon. James K Paul
ding r. H. Dana, II. w. Longfellow. Edgar A.
Poe James Russell Lowell, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
J. G. Neal, Alfred B. Street, Henry w. Herbert,
Charles Fenno Hoffman, E. P. Whipple, Hon. R.
Conrad, H. T. Tuckerman, Francis J. Grund, w.
G. Simms, w. H. c. Hosmer, J. B. Taylor, ETC.,
etc.
Mrs Amelia B. Welby, Miss sedgwick, Mrs.
Kirkland, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Stephens Fanny
Forester, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Amman, Mrs. Osgood,
Mrs Smith, Mrs. Embury, Mrs. Nichols Mrs. Pier
son, Mrs. M'Donald, Miss Sidney, Mrs. Worthing-
ton Miss Rand, Miss Hervey, and others. Many
names of like celebrity are necessarily omitted for
want of space.
Editorial and Critical Department.
The editorial department will continue to en-
brace notes current literature, and reviews of all
new American foreign works of general interest
or value The criticisms of Grahams Magazine
acknowledged in all parts of the country to be
superior in acumcn, honesty and independence to
those of any cotemporaries Great scope will be
given to this department of the work. and topics
all subjects likely to attract attention will be fear
lessly discussed.
Hints at Fashionable Life in Letters from
abroad,
Written by F. J. Grund, ESQ.,, Consul to Antwerp,
who will also furnish with the earliest literary
intelligence, and short notices of new works, prior
to their appearance here in the shape of reprints
This will give Graham position to adjust the value
of foreign works. before the purchaser here has been
duped by puffs paid for by interested publishes
Hints on Sports and PastimeS.
We shall devote chapter to sports and pastimes,
from the pen of Frank Forester, each month, for
the amusement of the gentlemen. The able sketch
es of Forester in the New York Spirit of the Times.
have rendered his name familiar with American
sportsmen
Graham's Elegant american Engrauings.
| The most elegant engravings that have ap-
peared in America have been given to the public IN
Graham's Magazine. We are now prepared to
give the right direction to the talents of artists,
and are resolved that national tone shall be strict
Ily preserved in ''Graham.'' Hereafter we shall
place in the engravers' hands but american
lpictures. Our country abounds with the finest
lscenery in the world 1t is full of historical assoc-
atoms, of thrilling interest," and on every hand sub
iects start up fit for the painters pencil and the
engraver's BURN. Every patriotic sentiment urges
the selection of national subjects for the pen and
pencil, and feel assured that the American pub
lie will sustain the enterprise. The subjects now
in the hands of our artists embrace Battle Grounds
Vie,cs IN the South and West-Endian Portraits and
Prairie Scenes-.ue=2otints of Scripture and other
subjects Portraits Of our COnt1ibutOrS-Ffoluers
from Nature, and all the varieties of elegant illus
tration that art or taste can devise.
The Paris Fashions in Elegant Style.
We have made arrangements with celebrated
Paris house, by which shall be enabled to excel
all others in the elegance, finish and correctness of
our fashions. We expect to have all the first out
in time for the July number and shall leave il then
to the taste of the American people to saw whether
any thing so superb has ever been issued here.
Original Music for Piano and Harp.
We have made arrangements with several must
cal ladies and gentlemen, for supply of very choice
and elegant music for the harp and piano, which
we intend shall form strong feature in the next
volume. Mr.. Osbourn has also promised ms the Sc
lection of his best songs.
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