St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-23
AMERICAN and ORIGINAL.
The Knickerbocker Magazine
Edited by Louis GaMord Clark.

The number for July, 1856, begins the 4Sth
volume or the Knickerbocker Magazine.
Since the price of subscription has been re-
duced from five to three dollars a year, the
circulation of the Kniclerbocker has been in
creased nearly four to one. In many places
ten are sold where there was but one before,
and through the year it is steadily increasing
1t is now offered as cheap as any Of the Maya
zines, all things considered. Instead of MAX
ing new and prodigious promises, we submit a
few extracts from notices of late numbers,
which we might extend to number of pages.
sThose familiar with the Editor monthly
Gossip with his readers, have doubtless, with
ourselves, admired the perennial source of its
pleasant wit and joyousness. In each number
the gossip holds on its way like some fair riy-
ulet glancing and dancing in the sunshine Of a
May morning. We used to wonder how Mr.
Clard held out, expecting he must CT. lain ly
snow brown in the coming number; but as
yet we see no sign of exhaustion National
lnteliigencer, Washington.
"No one ever rose from the perrsal of the
Knickerbocker disappointed reader What
ever may have been his antidmtions, they
have always been rewarded. 4 When he took
up,a new number, he felt sure of literary
treat: it was no mere snowy repast he was in
yited to. Did he seek the grave or didactit
essay, the touching story, poetic gems, or the
humorous tale, he was always sure of finding
tina object of his search. And then, besides.
there was the Gossip of Old 'Knick. always
looked to with eagerness, never put down ex-
cept with regret that there were not more pa
ges of inimitable random sketches-the Knick-
nacks of that repast, "--Cburier, Natchez, Mss
''The Knickerbockcr has been and will be a
fact of its own; genuine living thing all the
more desirable now that the new crop of mag
azines filed with articles nj m tod from,
authors, makes fresh home creations more
conspicuous and welcome '--New York Chris
tan Inquirer ID ,.-
Rev +. w. Shelton, Author of Letters from
Up the River, &C., will be regular contribu-
tor. The best talent in the country will be
enlisted, and no expense or effort spared, to
make the Knickerbocker more than ever de-
serving of the first position among our original
American Magazines 4EfaL
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condition; Two copies for five dollars; Five
copies and upwards, two dollars each ! Book
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