Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-01-20
u MON MAGAZINE.

OF LITERATURE AND ART,
EDITED BY
MRS G. M. KIRKLAND,
.author of".a .Ne,o Home," Forrest Lte," etc.
AND FILLED WITH
Contributions from the most eminent 1criters
Of the country.
The Second Volume commences with the January
Number, lS4S.
At the conclusion of the first halfyear of the
Union Magazine, the Publisher feels impelled to
make some acknowledgment of his sense of the ia
vorabe reception accorded to it by the public. Its
success has certainly been unprecedented !; and
while it may be pardonable to ascrbe this in part to
the merits of the work, it must not be denied that
public goodwill and kindness have been abundant
ly demonstrated. The press, in all parts of the
country, has given its voice literally and heartily
in favor of the new aspirant.
To flag after this, would be dishonorable indeed.
1t is the hope of the publisher that the courage and
enterprise which belong to success will be found ra-
ther to have stimulated than slackened bis exer-
tons fthere be talent of suitable kind in the
country, he is determined to make it available to
the Union Magazine in the various departments
He will continue to give superior engravings in
Mezzotint, Line and Wood by H S. Sadd, Thomas
Doney, M. Osborne, Robert Hinshelwood, w. S.
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nal designs by T. H. Matteson, who has the sole
direction of all the designs for the Engravings
The Literary matter will continue to be under
the exclusive control of the Editor, Mrs G. M.
Kirkland, assisted by corps of contributors who
are either established avorites of the reading public
or worthy to become so. Such as Mrs. l.. Maria
Child, l.. Fl. Sigourney, Frances S. Osgood, E. c..
Embury, f. F. Eet c. H. Butler, c. M. Stark,
E. Little, S. H. Whitman, Mary S. B. Dana, and
Iona phon NJ Cd. ol-
F. Gould, Augusta Browne, Louise o. Hunter,
Martha Russell, Elizabeth Emmett, Elizabeth T..
Herbert; VIM. C. Bryant, Fitz Greene Halleck, N.
P. Willis, c. F. Hoffman, T. S. Arthur, II. w.
Herbert, Fl. T. Tuckerman, John Brougham, F. G..
Noodworth Charles Lannan, w. A. Jones, J. H..
Mancur, John w. Bryant. Orville Dewey, w. Gill
more Simms, Redwood Fisher, VIM. GLAND Bourne,
Caleb Lyon.
The paper will be the same quality now used
The Fashions will be coored by T. P. Spearing
There will be two pages of original Music in each
number.
In the course of as many months will be given
acsimles of the characters used in writing fourteen
different languages, with short translation into
English similar to the Chinese and Persian Odes in
the November and December numbers of the Maya
zine, by Caleb Lyon, U. S. Consul to Shanghai
China: which to the curious and intelligent will be
worth at least years subscription to the Magazine
ana every eAerton VIII be made, which literary a.
bility, ingenuity of Artists and adequate capital can
do, to make the Union Magazine worthy of the
place already SO generously granted it in the public
esteem.
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on the first of each month.
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States and the Canadas who wish to become agents
for the Union Magazine. will please apply to the
publisher Immediately. All Post Masters are de-
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be made to them. Aspecimen number will be sent
to any one wishing to see it, application to the
publisher, post paid.