Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-04-16
AMERICAN AND ORIGINAL.
THE KNICKERBoCKER MAGAZINE.

EDITED ny LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK.
THE number for January, 1885, begins the
l. Fortv-Sccond Volume Of the kuickerbock-
err Magazine.
Since the price OF subscription has been re-
duced from five to three dollars a year, the
circulation of the KNIcKERBocKER has been
incrca sed nearly -four TO one. In many places
ten are taken where there was but one before,
and through the year IL has been steadily in
crcasing. II Is now offered as cheap az any
Of the Magazines, all things considered. In
stead Of making new and prodigious promises,
we submit n few extracts from notices Of late
numbers, which we might extend to a number
Of pages.
'Thosc familiar with the Editors Monthly
Gossip with his Readers have doubtless,
with ourselves, admired the Parental source
Of its wit aud ioyousness. In this number
'Thc Gossip holds on its way like some fair
riyulct CHANGING and dancing in The sunshine Of
a N1lv morning. We used to wonder how
Mr.. Clark could hold ont. expecting he must
certainly 'let down in the coming number {;
but thisn number gives no sign Of exhaustion"
i National Htelligencer, Washington.
pheasant, genial. delightful 'old Knick -
Thy name is a suggestion OF things delectable F;
the sight of thy modest, fresh cover, a balm
TO spiritual sore eyes; a glance within thee,
best antidote for the blues. Thou hast given
20 kindly humor, to piquanl delineation. and
70 ~sidc-splitting fun, a local habitation,'
without which they might 20 wandering over
the domain of letters, calling now aud Then
where a Friendly door opened TO thom bat re-
fnsirg 20 be ccmfo-trd for The loss of their
old dear omc."-Courier, Burlington, Vt.
"Thc great care cyinced in tho selection OF
articles that adorn its pages, il a sufficient
guaranty that no contribution meets the eye Of
The reader but those which are known TO be
worthy Of his p%erus1l. When storms and
wild tpmpests are sweeping o'cr our hillside
village in these chill winter hours, aud is
drear and desolate without. we ask for no
more agreeable companion than the 'KNICK-
ERnocKER'; 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 merrily on."--Denocrat, Doylostown,
Penn.
"Thc KNICKERBoCKER has been and will DO
a fact of its own a genuine living thing, all
the more desirable now that the new crop OF
magazines, filled with articles pirated from
English authors, makes fresh home creations
more conspicuous and welcome. o- New
York Christian Inquirer.
Rev. F. w. Shelton, Author of Letters from
up the RIVER ETC., will be a regular con
tributor.
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.
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