The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1847-03-02
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'THE fourth volume of the Weekly Mirror in its
present formS commenced on the lith April,
1916 fhe reduction OF the subs :ription price
from Three Dollars to Two marks in the
histor- of ths popular and widely circulated Jour
ual-a .urnai which, though IL hath many
changes during the twenty years of its existence,
has obtained high and permanent place in the
gratifying to the publisher to be able to that
scarcely day now passes that does not add to ita
subscription list nor mail arrive that does not
bring some favorable mention of it by contempo-
rary journals.
TIL, new and attractive feature of the present
Volume is the publication of original Novel of
great interest, written expressly for the Mirror,
entitlcd
MARY EcKAR: A SCHOOL FOR YOUNG
WIDOWS"
This beautiful story increases in interest it pro.
grcssc5, and no one. whose taste has been per-
verified by high spiced tctions of the French school
read sin Gle chapter without a desire for the
whole of it, Calculating on the intrinsic excel
lcnce OF the work to make its own popularity,
without the aid of putting, we have laid aside a
few hundred complete sets OF the present vo,uine
containing all tn chapters far published,
aud for which there il now daily demand.
II " could only make up mi ads and our
mouths to blow our own trumpet we might easily
IN Ike noise cnnagh about The School for Young
Widows to create an excitement in tie public
mind, and arouse the curious in literary matters,
TO loud call for the anonymous author. Bot we
much prefer to leave readers to find out them
selves, what = good. without prompting. TO pre-
face every thing which appears in our columns
with puff, wprld be quite distaseful to our
selves, rs insulting to the judgment of the reader.
stand behind
chair while eating and comment upon each dish
upon the table. As good wine needs 40 bush, md
good deeds no praise, good books and good din
ners viii be sure to go down without the aid of
putting.
The story Of Mary Eckar' is written by a lady
altogether unknown an authorcss, who has
thrown of this SPONTANEOUS production as the
flowers yield their perfume, and the birds sing
their songs, not for money for fame, but as the
poet says, from LDYe'S excess'-thc natural info
rcsccnCe Of true woman'5 heart
by gentle feelings long subdued,
Subducd and cherished long,
The interest of the story mainly centres in the
character Of the heroine, Clara Auncslcy the
dan !htcr of a poor English Clergyman, who dies
leaving the lovely orphan alone in the world, with
no iuhcritlure but the fatal dover Of beauty
Like N heroncs abe is fair md sweet and good
like Woodsworth's
Lovely app7ritiou sent
70 be moments ornament
She marrlc7 tan angel in - m1nce would he stu
diving ftther md trouble commences. Bot we
must q sclosc her history no farther except by
" 'rtlv inst sediments.
Tn additi n t. this, the Weekly Mirror is mostly
made up " or giual contributions of the highest
order Of merit Several able writer's are regularly
employed IN the various departments of the paper
and. without boasting, may safely Challcnoc
for the Mirror IN its Essays. Criticisms, Original
Poetry, Domestic and Foreign CorrcsDondcuce,
&c, &c. comDa risou with any similar journal in
the United States. In Morals, "a we'll as Litera-
turc, tho character and tone Of the paper
ceptionable In politics IL j. entirely free and
fearless and in literature and rci giOn unrammcl-
ed by clique or sect.