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DOUBLE NUMBERS FOR 1852!
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE
FOR 1852.
The Magazine of the Union!


THE NEW VOLUME of this unri-
vailed and popular Monthly commences
with the January number. Specimen
copies of which will be ready by the
| first of December.
The well established character OF
Graham's Magazine, as The leading A
merican Monthly, renders it unnecessa-
ry to set forth its merits in each recur-
ring Prospectus. 1t has won lis way.
after years of success, to the front rank
among lis rivals, and is now universally
conceded 10 he F
THE BEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE.
lls contributors are all Of acknowIed-
ged ability
II Gaiary of Literary Names Of f.
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GraflaaM's Unrivalicd Writers.
Arrangements are perfected for a Sc
ries of most splendid articles from such
writers as
Henry w. Longfellow, w. Gilmore
Simms, James Russell Lowell, f.. p.
Whpple, ] MI. I.egare. Geo. d. Prem
tlce, Alfred b. Street, N. p. Willis, VIM.
Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Henry VIM. Herbert, Richard Penn
Smith, Ii. Hastings Weld, Theodore s..
Fay, r.. Buchanan Read. III. &. Moore
head, Henry b. Hirst. j. Bavard Tay-
lor, Geo. III. Boxer, r. H. Dana. Robert
J.. Conrad, Robert Morris, Epes Sar-
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L. j. Eames, Mrs. Elizabeth Cakes
Smith, Mrs. Joseph e. Neal, Amelia
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Mrs. Ann s. Stephens, Mrs. Emma G.
Embury, Mrs. Sarah I'll. Whitman, Miss
j.. Virginia Smith, Miss Emma Duval.
Miss Grace Greenwood, Miss Marv L.
La son, with many more known 10 the
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The Organ Of American Talent,
III every department oil mind.
Eeossfie Numbers for 1852!
The reading matter of Graham's Mag
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appeared ~ America or Europe. The
very best American writer's viii coniin-
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wide range of literature of the old world
will also be brought to aid The worth and
variety of the le!ier-press contents OF
the work.
G.. r. r. JAMES.
The original novel written bv this ac-
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commenced in The January number, and
will be found TO he one Of the most en-
terialning ui the many romances by this
universally popular author.
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pect.
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oe elegance that will convince Our friends
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and that s.Graham' will continue to be
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Lie, both ia lis pictorial and literary
character. while The extraordinary in
crease of the amount of reading matter
" ill insure il still wider welcome and
circulation.
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