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american Magazine Of tLiteratirc, mt & Fashion,
GRAHAMs LADY's AND GENTLEMAN's
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THE PROSPECTUS FOR lSiG.
Regular Contributors.
ITin. C. Bryant, H. w LoagteilO,D, J. Feni-
mere Cooper Richa,dH Dana, j. r, Lo,celE Z.
p. HhiRp'e, C. F, H9bma", FL w Herbert:
GRAHAM's is the oldest and most popular of the
American Literary Magazines, The number for
January, 1876 will be the first OF the 2Slh volume.
Its long and uniformly successful career, from It's
commencement with few hundred subscribers,
until the present time when ii has a crculolUn eX-
ceedng by thousands all others, is perhaps as good
an evidence of its great and constantly increasing
merit as the publishers haveit in their power to Of
fer To its old subscribers they trust, aSsuran-
ces arc necessary of their determination TO maintain
its present ascendency over 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 reguiar contributors, IN addi-
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 authOrsand the public.
The following more complete list of contributors
will convince the reader that il is impossible to have
a 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
b. Found: The American Democrat; etc.
Richard II Dana, Author of The Buccaneers; The
Idle Man; Discourses on Shakspeare etc.
James X. Paulding, Author of The Dutchman's
Fireside; Westward Ho! etc etc.
Fitz-Greene Halleck, Author Of Fanny; Alnwck
Castle; etc.
T. C. Grattsn, Author Of Highways and Byways;
Jaquene 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 a Bridge; etc.
Charles Fanno 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 Dramatiss; etc.
William Falconer, Author of Transitions from Co.
temporary French and German Poets; etc
Henry William Herbert, Author of Cromwell; The
Brothers; Ringwood the Rover; etc
II. T. Tuckermau, Author of Rambles and Rove
lies; Isabelle, or Sicily; etc.
Theodore s. Fay, Author of Norman Leslie; etc.
John Ii. Mancur, Author OF Henri Quaue, or the
Days of the League, sc.
Cornelius Matthews. Author Of The Politicians;
The Motley Book; Pufer Hopkins: etc
Rev. Walter Cotton, Author of Constantnople and
Athens; Ship and Ashore; etc.
Alfred r. 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 Il. Conrad, Author Of Aylmerc; etc.
Edgar A. Poe, Author OF Tales of the Groesqu
and the Arabesque; etc.
VIM. Gilmore Simms, Author Of Guy Rivers; etc.
Epes Sargent, Author Of Velasco; etc.
Park BENJAMIN, Author of SopGets and Lyrical
Poems etc.
Rufus w GriswoId, Author Of The Poets and Po-
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 ofByroE; etc.
Rev. Louis l.. Noble.
Geor re H. Cotton, Author Of Tecumseh; etc.
Reynel Coates, NJ ID.
Walter Landor, Author Of Stanley; etc.
Miss C. M. Sedgwick, Author of Hope Leslie;
Redwood; etc.
Mrs. Emma C Embory, Author af Constance Lat
inner, the Blind Girl; Guido, and other Poems.
Mrs Frances Sargent Osgood, 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 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 f Eet, 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 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 dstin-
guished merit furnish articles for nearly every
number, and in each will be found an able letter
updn the literature Of Europe, from our able cor
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