The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1846-03-21
american Magazine Of Literature, art & Fashion.
GRAHAM'S LADY'S AND GENTLE MANS
Nj A G. 4 NE.
THE PROSPECTUS FOR 1916.
Regular Contributors.


Um,. c. Bryant, H. w Longfellotc, J. Feni-
more Cooper, Richard H. Dana, ~. r. Lo,ceH, f.
p. Ihipple, c. r. Hoffman, H W. Herbert. ~
GRAHAM's is the oldest and most popular of the
American Literary Magazines. The number fol-
January 1916, will be the first OF the 28lh volume
Its long and uniformly successful career, from its
commencement with few hundred subscribers
until the present time, when it has circulotion ex
ceeding by thousands all others, perhaps as good
an evidence of its great and constantly increasing
merit the publishers havei in their power to Of
fer. To its old subscribers they trust. no assuran
ces necessary of their determination to maintain
its present ascendency all the rival periodicals
OF the country. The engagement of such men as
BRYANT, LoNGFELLow, COOPER, DANA ,HoFF-
MAN, MANcUR and others, of high reputation in
the literary world, regular contributors. IN addi
ton to a list embracing many Of the first names in
the nation, is a 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
win convince the reader that it 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 H. Dana Author of The Buccaneers; The
Idle Man; Dscourses on Shakespeare; etc.
James X. Paulding, Author OF The Dutchman's
Firesde; Westward Ho! etc. etc. &.
Fitz-Greene Haileck, 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; 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 Translations 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 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 Aymere; etc.
Edgar A. Poe, Author of Tales of the Grotesqu
and the Arabesque; etc.
VIM. Gilmore Smms, Author of Guy Rivers; etc.
Epes Sargent, Author of Velasco; etc.
Park Benjamin, Author of Sonnets and Lyrical
Poems; etc.
Rufus w. Griswod, Author of The Poets and Po-
etry OF America; etc
H Hastings Weld Author OF Corrected Proofs; etc.
Joseph C. Neal, Author of Charcoal Sketches; etc.
John lnman.
Joseph r. Chandler, Editor of the U. S. Gazette.
Robert Morris, Editor of the Inquirer.
William Pitt Palmer
George Lunt, Author of The Grave ofByron; etc.
Rev. Louis l.. Noble
George H. Cotton, Author Of Tecumseh; etc.
Reyne Coates, M. ID. X
w alter Landor, Author Of Stanley; etc.
Miss C. M. Sedgwick, Author of Hope Leslie;
Redwood; etc.
Mrs. Emma Embory, Author Of Constance Lat
inner, the Blind Girl; Guido, and other Poems.
Mrs Frances Sargent 0sgood, Author OF A Wreath
of Wild Flowers from New England; etc
Mrs Seba Smith, Author of The Suless 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 H Sigourney, Author of Zinzindorf and
other Poems; Letters to Mothersi etc :.
Mrs Ann Stephens, Author Of Mary Derwent; etc
Fanny Forester, Author of rrippings in Author
Land; etc
Mrs D r Ellet, Author of Characteristics of Schil-
Ter, 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.
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-
ar writer's many anonymous contributors OF distin-
yushed 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,
+. J. GRUNp, Esq.
OUR ELEGANT PARIS FASHION PLATES
The splendid fashion plates, with which we shall
,dorn each -nuntbsy of .sGfaham" for 1916, have
llready awakened the jealousy Of our cotempora-
les, and they show their annoyance byall man
ler Of torture ofthe word "PARrs." II seems to
,e both charm and bane 10 them We have
,nly to say that our December number contains
narinnsn IF ,..has Daris EaahinnaD and