Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-12-04
AMERICAN AND ORIGINAL.
THE KNICKERBoCKER MAGAZINE.

EpIrEp ny Louis GNYIoRp CLARK.
rrHE number for January, 1856, begins the
l. Forty-Sccond Volume Of the knickctbock-
or Magazine.
Since the price Of subscription has been re-
duccd from five To three dollars a year, the
circulation of the kNtCKERBoCKER has been
increased nearly four 10 one. In many places
ten are taken where there was but one before,
and through the year IL has been steadily in
creasing. II is now offered as cheap as any
of the Magazines. all things considered. In
stead of making new and prodigious promises,
we submit q few extracts from notices of late
numbers, which we might extend to a lumber
Of pages.
'Those familiar with the Editors Monthly
Gossip with his Readers have doubtless,
with ourselves, admired the parental source
of its wit and ioyousness. In this number
'Thc Gossip holds on its way like some fair
riyulct CHANGING and dancing in tn" sunshine OF
y Nav morning. We used TO wonder how
Mr.. Clark could hold out. expecting he must
certainly let down in the coming lumber;
but this number gives no sign Of exhaustion
Il National lntelligencer, Washington.
pheasant, genial, delightful 'Old Knickr
Thy name is a suggestion of things delectable ;
the sight of thy modest, fresh cover, a balm
Co spiritual sore eyes; n glance within thee,
best antidote for the blues. Thou hast given
to kindly humor, to piquant dclineatlon, and
TO side-splitting fun, a local hatitation,'
without which they might 90 wandering over
the domain of letters, calling now aud then
where a friendly door opened to them but re-
fusing TO be comfOrtcd for the loss of their
old dear home. '-Courier, Burlington, VI.
"Thc great care evinced in the selection of
articles that adorn its pages, Is a sufficient
guaranty that no contribution meets the eye of
the reader but those which are known to be
worthy of his p%erusal. When storms and
wild tempests are sweeping DER our hillside
village in these chill winter hours, and is
drear and desolate without, we ask for no
more agreeable companion than the 'kNGCK-
E~RBoCKER'; for while its contents impart
valuable information, its sallies of genuine
wit are a sovereign specific for all fits of the
blues or attacks of the horrors, and time
passes mcrTily OF. "-Democrat, Doylestown,
Penn.
"The KNIcKERBocKER has been and will be
a fact of its own a genuine living thing, all
the more desirable now that the new crop Of
magazines, filed with articles pirated from
English authors, makes fresh home creations
more conspicuous and welcome."- New
York Christian Inquirer.
Rev. +. w. Shelton, Author of Letters from
Sup the River etc, will be a regular con-
trihutOr.
The best talent in the country will be en-
listed, and no expense or effort spared, to
make the KNICKERBoCKER more than ever de-
serving of the first position among our orr
ginal American Magazines.
TERMS.-Three dollars a year, strictly il
advance-there will be no deviation from this
condition Two copies for So 90; Five co.
pies, and upwards, 81 90 each. Booksellers
and Postmasters are requested to act as
Agents. Those who will undertake to pro.
cure subscribers will receive favorable terms
Specimen numbers will be sent gratis on ap.
plicatiun, post paid.
INDUCEMENTS FOR CLUBBING.-Th,
KNIcKERBoCKER and Harper's, Putnam's
Graham's or Godey's Lady's Book will b.
sent one year for five dollars the KNIcKER
ROCKER and Home Journal for four dollars
year.
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ed, quarterly in advance.
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SAMUEL HUESTON,
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