Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-27

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THIS work is conducted in the spirit of
Littelps Museum of Foreign Literature,
(Which was favorably received by the public
for twenty years,) but as it is twice as large,
and appears so often, we not only give spirit
and freshness to it by many things which
were excluded by a months delay, but while
thus extending our scope and gathering a
greater and more attractive variety, are able
so to increase the solid and substantial part
of our literary, historical, and political harv-
est, as fully to satisfy the wants of the
American reader.
The elaborate and stately Essays of the
Edinburg Quarterly, and other Reviews; and
Blackwood's noble criticisms on Poetry, his
keen political Commentaries, highly wrought
Tales, and vivid descriptions of rural and
mountain scenery and the contributions to
Literature, History, and common life, by the
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mixed with the Military and Naval reminis-
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best articles of the Dublin University, New
Hoods, and Sporting Magazines, and of
Chambers admirable Journal. We do not
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and wisdom from Punch; and, when we
think it good enough, make use of the thun-
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variety by importations from the continent
of Europe, and from the new growth of the
British colonies.
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and Africa, into our neighborhood, and will
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of the world; SO that, much more than ever,
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new state of things, which the merely politi-
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Colonization, (which is extending over the
whole worldly and Voyages and Travels,
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fully acquaint our readers with the great de-
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neglccting our own.
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