, 1857-05-22

WITH it 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 pleasurable anticipatiOns
thereto. 1t will be endeavor to make the Maya
zine worthy Of the high reputation 1t has previously
enjoyed and of the liberal support generously ex-
tended to it by an appreciatiye public. Bringing to
its aid year, 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 frst-cass Magazine we
feel confident Of being able to place Graham's Amer
can Monthly in the front rank Of national period
ical literature. No effort part shall be wanting
to the accomplishment Of this end and whatever en-
terprise, udicious outlay or 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
infuse fresh spirit into the work, shall not confne
our scope to particular vein Of literary or pictorial
matter but shall comprehend all that may be desired
by the popular taste in such q periodical. Recogn
zing the truth that genins Is Of cline country
we shall endeavOr TO make our Magazine cosmop-
olitan country, and the latter Is the refuge
of all nations and people aspiring for republican free
dom, so, the former shall always have a place for
whatever is really interesting valuable in the
rent micelaneous literature Of the world. At the
same time, shall with especial care, study to pre-.
serve the high character which Grahams Magazine
has always maintained as the organ Of our own pecu
liar national writers. Deeming that the public look
fugitive occasional productions we shall not
publish anything which Is not interesting, valuable
spirited or entertaing matter from what source 1t
may come, or how eminent may be the name Of its
author. On the other hand we shall feel pride in
rescuing genius talent from obscury ard he ready
at all times to give place to any good article even
though the writer may not have the sanction Of
popular name.
The active, enterprisng, vigorous and powerful
mind of the nation requires, we think, nutrment
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 nj
no type for those who would venture upon a career
Of success in this line II may minister to the pleas
ure OF passing moment though even that is doubtful
in such community. But it cannot do more. For
as the figures upon the must not he those of
still life they must speak to our feelings and sympa-
thies The writers must take their subjects from the
great drama of actual life, which Is going busily
all around u.s. We know that II is difficult to do ali
this, and that it is much easier to promise than to
perform, yet, as broken promises would he of no ad
vantage to an 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 perceptive 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, we think we make
no promises which shall not be fully able 10 per
form as soon as our operations may be rightly under
way.
We shall study to present the public. monthly,
with an ingenious and agreeable variety Of coatents
afOrdlng mental feast not To he met with in other
periodicals And that the taste for the inearts now
so rapidly growing in the interior may not want fos-
tering, we shall present every month large number
OF the best engravngs, 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 are 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 NAV surely rely
as the best monitor of the fashions in America. Our
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