The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1846-04-04
american Magazine Of fLiterdt,ue .art & Fashion
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THE PROSPECTUS FOR lS46.
Regular Contributors.

Regular Contributors.
HIM. c. Bryant, II. W. LOngfelloU, J. Feni-
more Cooper, Richard H. Dana, J. r. LolceH, E.
p. Uhippie, G. F. Ho6mlca, H w. Herbert
GRAHAM's is the oldest and most popular of the
American Literary Magazines, The number for
January 1916, will be the first OF the 2Sth volume.
Its long and uniformly successful career from its
commencement with few hundred subscribers,
until the present time, when it has circulation ex
ceeding 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, assuran.
ces arc 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
munication between the best authors and thepublic
The following more complete list of contributors
will convince the reader that 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 Fenimore Cooper, Author of the Spy; The
Pilot; The Pioneers; Naval History; Home as
Found The American Democrat; etc.
Richard III. Dana, Author of The Buccaneers; The
Idle Man; Discourses on Shakespeare; ETC.
James X. Paulding, Author of The Dutchman' 5
Freside; Westward Eo! 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 for a
Husband; Inklings of Adventure; Letters from
under Bridge; etc.
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Author of Wild Scenes
in the Forest and Prairie; GreysIaer; etc.
James Russell Lowell, Author OF A Years Life,
and other Poems, Old English Dramatsts; etc.
William Falconer. Author of Translations from Co.
temporary French and German Poets etc.
Henry William Herbert, Author Of Cromwell; The
Brothers; Rngwood the Rover; etc.
H. T. Tuckermau, Author of Rambles and Reve-
res; Isabelle or Sicily; etc.
Theodore s. Fay, Author Of Norman Leslie; etc.
John II. Mancur, Author OF Henri Quatre, or the
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
Of 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 Arabesque; etc.
VIM. Gilmore Simms, Author of Guy Rivers; etc.
Epes Sargent, Author of Velasco; etc.-
Park BENJAMIN, Author of Sonnets and Lyrical
Poems; etc.
R,,f,e w Author of Tho popfs and pa.
etry OF America; etc.
Fl Hastings Weld Author of Corrected Proofs; etc.
Joseph C. Neal, Author of Charcoal Sketches; etc.
John Inman
Joseph, r. Chandler, Editor of the u. S. Gazette.
Robert Morris, Editor of the Inquirer.
William Pitt Palmer
George Lunt, Author of The Grave of Byron; etc.
Rev. Louis L. Noble.
George H. Cotton, Author Of Tecumseh; etc.
Reynel Coates, M. d.
Walter Landor, Author Of Stanley; etc.
Miss C. M. Sedgwick, Author of Hope Leslie;
Redwood etc.
Mrs. Emma Embory, Author of Constance Lat
imer the Blind Girl; Guido, and other Poems
Mrs Frances Sargent Osgood Author of A Wreath
of Wild Flowers from New England; etc
Mrs Seba Smith, Author of The Sinless Child; The
Western Captive, ,or the Times of Tecumseh; etc
Mrs "Mary Clavers," Author of A New Home
Who'll Follow; Forest Life; etc
Mrs Lydia H Sigourney, Author of Zinzndorf and
other Poems; Letters to Mothersi etc
Mrs Ann Stephens, Author of Mary Derwent; etc
Fanny Forester, Author Of Trippings in Author
Land; etc
Mrs L F Ellet, Author of characteristics of Schil-
Ter, Rambles in the Country; etc
Mrs Lydia Jane Pierson, Author of Poems and Es-
says; etc
Mrs Amelia Welby, Author Of Poems by Amelia.
Mrs A NJ + Amman, Author of Tales and Sketches.
''F f +" Author of The Marriage of Convenience.
BESIDES these well known and universally popu-'
lar writers many anonymous contributors Of disn-
guished merit furnish articles for nearly every
number, and in,each will be found an able letter
upon the literature Of Europe, from our able cor
respondent, F. J. GRuND, Esq
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adorn each nuBibty of "Graham" for 1916, have
already awakened the jealousy OF our cotempora-
lies, and they show their annoyance by all man
ler oftorture Of the word "PARrs." 1t seems to
be both charm and bane to them. We have
,nly to say that our December number contains a