, 1857-07-10
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE,
OUR JULY NUMBER, 1851,
Commences the 49h Volume Of
Graham.

WITH 1t we shall also commence various improve
w ments in the typography, style, contents and
business arrangements Of the work. that readers
may look forward with peasurable anticipations
thereto. 1t will be our endeavor to make the Maya
zine worthy Of the high reputation it has previously
enjoyed and Of the liberal support generously ex-
tended to it by an appreciative public. Bringing to
its aid years of experience in the walks of popular
literature and in the not less important departments
Of publication and typography, together with all the
modern facilities for issuing rstclass Magazine, we
feel confident of being able to place Grahams Ameri
Monthly in the front rank Of national period
ca literature. No effort our part shall be wanting
to the accomplishment of this end and whatever en-
terprise, judicous outlay taste for the elegant
the picturesque, the refined, the interesting or the
valuable can command, shall be furnished To the
readers Of this Magazine. Stimulated by desire to
nuse fresh spirit into the work, shall not conne
our scope TO particular vein Of literary pictorial
matter, but shall comprehend all that may be desired
by the popular taste in such periodical Recogni.
zing the truth that genins is of cline country
we shall endeavor to make our Magazine cosmop-
otan our country and as the latter is the refuge
Of all nations and people aspiring for republican free
dom, so, the former shall always have place for
whatever is really interesting or valuable in the cur
rent miceaneOus literature Of the world At the
same time we shall with especial care study to pre-
serve the high character which Graham's Magazine
has always maintained, the organ of our pecu-
liar national writers. Deeming that the public look
for something better in periodical of this kind than
mere fugitive or occasional productions we shall not
publish anything which is not interesting, valuable,
spirited entertaining matter from what source it
may come or how eminent may he the name Of its
author. On the other hand. we shall feel pride in
rescuing genius talent from Obscurity and be ready
at all times to give place to any good article, even
though the writer may not have the sanction of a
popular name.
The active, enterprising, vigorous and powerful
mind OF the nation requires, we think, nutriment
which shall add to its strength, stimulate its growth
and correspond with its own high hopes and glorious
destiny. The dreamy, sketchy, and insubstantial
Of too much OF our current literature affords
no type for those who would venture upon career
of success in this line. It may minister to the pleas
ure of passing moment, though that is doubtful
in such community. But it cannot do more. For
the figures upon the must not be those OF
still e they must speak to our feelings and sympa.
thes The writers must take their subjects from the
great drama of actual e which is going on so busily
all around us. We know that it is difficult to do all
this and that 1t is much easier to promise than to
perform, yet, broken promises would be of no ad-
vantage to enterprise of this character we could
hope to gain nothing more than a mere temporary
success by holding up deceptive lures And regard
ing the field before us with the perceptve faculties of
practical men, who have long been accustomed to
deal with the popular taste and have experience
of the channels in which it runs, think we make
no promises which we shall not be fully able to per-
form, as soon as our operations may be rightly under
We shall study to present the public, monthly,
with an ingenious and agreeable variety Of cOotents
afordlng mental feast not to be met with in other
periodicals And that the taste for the fne-arts now
so rapidly growing in the interior may not want fos
tering, we shall present every month large number
of the best engravings, by European and American
artists, on subjects Of interest to general readers
Our fashion department, always superior to that of
our cotempOraries, will still continue to be So We
SHALL for this purpose, engage the services of persons
who earliest apprized of the variations of the
modes in the fashionable circles Of Paris London
New York and Philadelphia. On this Magazine
therefore, patrons in the interior may surely rpy
the best monitor Of the fashions in America Our
review of new books will he guided by thorough indie
pendence of tone and thought.
Such are the views with which we enter upon our
career. If merit can command success we shall
most earnestly strive to deserve it. And having an
abiding faith in the correctness, generally of the
popular Judgment, we feel sangune of a liberal sup
port.
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