The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1846-07-04


american Magazine of Literature, .art & Fashion
GRAHAM'S LADY'S AND GENTLEMAN'S
Nj A G. A Il NE.
THE PROSPECTUS FOR lS1G.
Regular Contributors.
Tm. c.. Bryant, H. w. LongfeliOD, j. Feni-
more Cooper, Richard III. Dana, j. r. Lo,oeH, e.
p. Uhipple, G. F. Ho6man, H. w. Herbert.
GRAHAM's s is the oldest and most popular of the
American Literary Magazines. The number for
January, 1916, will be the first OF the 2Slh volume
Its long and uniformly successful career from its
commencement with few hundred subscribers,
until the present time, when il has circulation
ceedng by thousands all others, is perhaps as good
an evidence of its great and constantly increasing
merit as the publishers have it in their power to Of
fer To its old subscribers, they trust, no assuran
ces are necessary of their determination to maintain
its present ascendency all the rival periodicals
OF the country. The engagement of such men as
BRYANT, Lon GFELLow COOPER, DANA, HoFF
MAN, MANcUR and others, of high reputation in
the literary world, as regular contributors, IN add
ton to list embracing many of the first names in
the nation, is sufficient guarantee that the work
will continue to be the principal medium of COM
municaton between the best authors and the public
The following more complete list of contributors
will convince the reader thati is impossible to have
superior corps in the present age:
William Cullen Bryant, Author OF The Ages; The
Fountain, and other Poems; etc.
Henry w. Longfellow, Author of Voices of the
Night; Hyperion; Outer Mer; Ballads and other
Poems; ETC..
James Fenmore Cooper, Author of the Spy; The
Pilot; The Pioneers Naval History; Home as
Found; The American Democrat; etc.
Richard Fl. Dana, Author of The Buccaneers; The
Idle Man; Discourses on Shakespeare; ETC.
James K. Paulding, Author of The Dutchman's
Firesde; Westward Ho! etc. etc.
Fitz Greene Halleck, Author Of Fanny; Alnwick
Castle; etc.
T. C. Grattan, Author of Highways and Byways
Jaqueline of Holland; History of the Neither.
lands; Heiress of Bruges; etc.
N. P. Willis, Author of Two Ways Of Dying fora
Husband; Inkllngs of Adventure; Letters from
under Bridge; etc.
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Author of Wild Scenes
in the Forest and Prairie; Greyslaer; etc.
James Russell Lowell, Author of A Years Life,
and other Poems, Old English Dramatists; etc.
William Falconer, Author of Transations from Co.
temporary French and German Poets; etc.
Henry William Herbert, Author of Cromwell; The
Brothers; Ringwood the Rover; etc.
H. T. Tuckermau, Author OF Rambles and Reve-
ries Isabelle, or Sicily; etc.
Theodore S. Fay, Author of Norman Leslie; etc.
John H. Mancur, Author of Henri Quatre, or tho
Days Of the League, sc.
Cornelius Matthews, Author of The Politicians
The Motley Book; Puffer Hopkins; etc.
Rev. Walter Cotton, Author of Constantinople and
Athens; Ship and Ashore; etc.
Alfred B. Street, Author Of Nature; The Burning
O! Schenectady; ETC.
George Hill, Author of The Ruins of Athens; etc.
Albert Pike, Author of Hymns to the Gods; etc.
Hon. Robert T. Conrad Author of Aylmere; etc.
Edgar A. Poe, Author of Tales Of the Grotesqu
and the Arabesoue: etc,
VIM. Gilmore Simms, Author of Guy Rivers; etc.
Epes Sargent, Author of Velasco; etc.
Park BENJAMIN, Author of Sonnets and Lyrical
Poems; etc.
Rufus w. Griswold, Author Of The Poets and Po-
etry of America; etc.
H Hastings Weld Author OF Corrected Proofs; etc.
Josenn ~ Neal, Author Ct Charcoal Sketches; etc.
John 1nman. an.
Joseph r. Chandler, Editor of the =. s. Gaze,!e'
Robert Morris, Editor of the Inquirer.
William Pitt Palmer.
George Lunt, Author of The Grave Of Byron; etc.
Rev. Louis L. Noble.
George II. Cotton, Author OF Tecumseh; etc.
Reynell Coates, M. d.
Walter Landor, Author of Stanley; etc.
Miss c. M. Sedgwick, Author Of Hope Leslie;
Redwood; etc.
Mrs. Emma C Embory, Author Of Constance Lat
inner, the Blind Girl; Guido, and other Poems.
Mrs Frances Sargent 0sgood, Author of Wreath
of Wild Flowers from New England; etc
Mrs Seba Smith, Author of The Sinless Child; The
Western Captive, ,or the Times of Tecnmseh; etc
Mrs "Mary Clavers," Author of A New Home
. Who'll Follow; Forest Life; etc
Mrs Lydia II Sigourney, Author of Zinzindorf and
other Poems; Letters to Mothers; etc
Mrs Ann S Stephens, Author of Mary Derwent; etc
Fanny Forester, Author of Trippings in Author
Land; etc
Mrs L Ellet, Author of Characteristics of Schil-
er, Rambles in the Country; etc
Mrs Lydia Jane Pierson, Author of Poems and Es-
says; etc s9
Mrs Amelia Welby Author of Poems by Amelia.
Mrs A M F Amman, Author of Tales and Sketches.
"F E F" Author of The Marriage Of Convenience.
Besides these well known and universally popu-
lar writers many anonymous contributors OF dstln-
guished merit furnish articles for nearly every
number, and in each win be found an able letter
upon the literature of Europe, from our able COR
respondent, +. J. GRuND, Esq
OUR ELEGANT PARIS FASHION PLATES.
The splendid fashion plates, with which wa shall
adorn each nunbtr Of "Graham" for 1916, have
already awakened the jealousy of our cotempora-
ries, and they show their annoyance by all man
ner Of torture OF the word "PARIs." II seems to
be both charm and bane to them We have
only to say that our December number contains
specimen of what "our Paris Fashions" are and
will be, and we must Iust the eyes Of the public to
detect the superior value of those "designed, en-
graved, printed and colored Of the headquarters Of
the fashionable world'' over the yapid limitations,
which are got up here at least sixty days old, and
palmed off as correct. In January we shall have
most elegant style of cloak patterns, and as It will
be issued early, say by December 10th, we advise
our fair readers not 10 spoil their material by fol-
lowing the blind guides Of last year, but to adopt