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American Magazine of Literature, .art and
- Fashion.
LADY'S AND GENTLE
MANS MAGAZINE.
THE PROSPECTUS FOR 1916.


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Regular Contributors.-Wm. c. Bryant, H. w.
J Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, Richard
H. Dana, J. R. Lowell, E. P. Whipple, c. F.
Hoffman, III. w. Herbert. .r.. -..., -1..a
i Graham's is the oldest and most popular of Anne
riean Literary Magazines. The number for Janu-
airy, ls46, will be the first of the twentyeghth vol.
Its long and uniformly successful career, from its
commencement with few hundred subscribers, I'M
til the present time, when it has circulation eX-
tceeding by thousands all Others is perhaps good
an evidence of its great and constantly increasing
merit as the publishers have it in their power to Of
fer. To it's old subscribers they trust, assurances
are necessary of their determination to maintain its
present ascendancy over all the rival periodicals of
the country. The engagement of such men as Bry-
ant, Long elloar, Cooper, Dana, Hoffman, .Marc,r
and others, of high reputation in the literary world,
as regular contributors, in addition to list embrac-
ing many of the first in the nation, is suti-
cient guarantee that the work will continue to be
the principal medium of communication between
the best authors and the public. The following
more complete list of contributors will convince the
reader that it is impossible to have superior corps
in the present age: s .. . -.
William Cullen Bryant, author of The Ages, The
Fountain, and other Poems, etc. .
Henry w. Longfellow, author of Voices of the
Night, Hyperion, Outre 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 I'll. DANA author Of The Buccaneers, The
Idle Man, Discourses on Shakespeare, etc.
James K. Paulding, author of The Dutchman's
! Fireside, Westward Ho etc.
Fitz-Greene Halleck, author of Fanny. Alnwlck
| Castle etc. d..
T. C. Grattan, author of Highways and Byways
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MS, The Heiress of Bruges, etc.
n. P, Willis, author of Two Ways of Dying for a
i Husband, Tnklings of Adventure Letters from
under a Bridge, etc. . T.. .-, ... ..
Charles Fenno Hoffman, author Of Wild Scenes
1 in the Forrest and the Prairie, A Winter in the
West, Greyslaer, etc. -.
James Russell Lowell, author of A Years Life, and
other Poems, Old English Dramatists, etc.
William Falconer, author of TRANSACTIONS from
Contemporary French and German Poets, Resi-
dence in the Isle Of France etc.
Henry William Herbert, author of Cromwell, The
Brothers, The Maid of Orleans, Rngwood the
Rover, Marmaduke Wyvil, etc.
H. T. Tuckerman, author of Ranblcs and Reveries,
| Isabelle, or Sicily, etc.
Theodore S. Fay, author of Norman Leslie, The
Countess Ida, etc.
John II. Mancur, author of Henri Quatre, or the
! Days Of the League, etc.
Cornelius Mathews, author Of The Politicians, The
Motley Book. Puher Hopkins, etc.
Rev. Waller Cotton, author of Constantinope and
! Athens, Ship and Shore, etc.
Alfred B. Street, author of NARre, TIE Burning
| Of Schenectady, etc. .......
George Hill, author of The Ruins of Athens, Tt
| tana's Banquet, etc.
Albert Pike, author of Hymns to the Gods, Sketch
es and Poems, etc. 4
Hon. Robert T. Conrad, author of Aylmere etc.
Edgar A. Poe, author of Tales ofthe Grotesque and
| the Arabesque, etc.
William Gilmore Simms, author ofGuy Rivers, etc.
Epcs Sargent, author of Velasco, etc.
Park Benjamin, author of Sonnets and Lyrical
| Poems.
Rufus w. GriswoId, author of The Poets and Poe
| try of America, etc.
H. Hastings Weld, author of Corrected Proofs, ETC.
Joseph e. Neale, author of Charcoal Sketches etc.
John Inman.
Joseph R. Chandler, Editor of the U. IS. 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.
ReynelI Coates, M. d.
Walter Landor, author of Stanley, etc.
Miss C. M. Sedgwck, author of Hope Leslie, Red
| wood, etc.
Mrs Emma c. Embury, author of Constance Lati-
mer, the Blind Girl, Guido, and other Poems, etc.
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,
ESSAYS, Critical and Miscellaneous, etc.
Mrs. ''Mary Clavers," author of A New Home
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Mrs. Maria Brooks, author ofZophie or The Bride
of Seven, 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. ',t ".
Mrs E. F. EIet, author of Characteristics of Schil-
| ler RambIes in the Country, etc.
MRS. Lydia Jane Pierson, author of Poems and Es-
| says, etc.
Mrs. Amelia B. Welby, author of Poems by Amelia,
| etc.
Mrs. A. M. F. Amman, author of Tales and Sketches.
"F. E. F." author of Marriage of Convenience.
4 Besides these we'll known and universally popular
writers, many anonymous contributors of distin-
guished merit furnish articles for nearly every num-
Der, and in each will be found an able letter upon
the literature of Europe, from our able correspon.
dent, F. j. Gru1ed Esq. -....ss .ssE
Our Elegant Paris Fashion Plates.
The splendid fashion plates, with which we shall
adorn each number of Graham for 1896 have al
ready awakened the jealousy of our contemporaries
and they show their annoyance by all manner o.
torture of the word Paris 1t seems to be both a
charm and bane to them. We have only to say
that our December number contains a specimen Of
what Our Paris Fashions are and will be- and we