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DOUBLE NUMBERS FOR 1852!
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE
FOR 1889.
The Magazine of the Union!

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. Ii has won its way,
after years OF success, TO the front rank
among its rivals, and is now universally
conceded TO be
THE BEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE
Its contributors are all of acknowled-
ged ability.
II Gaiary of Literary Names Of II.
naericd.
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Arrangements are perfected for Sc
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writer's as
Henry w. Longfcllow. w. Gilmore
Simms, James Russell Lowell, e. p.
Whipple, J M. Legare, Geo. ID. Prem
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Cullen Bryant. Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Henry VIM. Herbert, Richard Penn
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Miss Grace Greenwood, Miss Mary l..
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The Organ Of American Talent,
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| The reading matter of Graham's Mag
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book unrivalled by any that has ever
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very best American writer's will cOntin-
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will also be brought To aid the worth and
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