The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-02-03
5000 in Splendid Works of Art

| F-''''o III 'PhfHuiu NOIhs vi Art
FEe-Dollar Engraving to Ever Subscriber.
THE GREAT LIBRARY OFFER.
Agents Getting Rich!
The union of Emersm's Magazine and Put
mans Monthly, has given to the consolidate
WGrEa clrculAtl0n second to but one similar pub-
licat@ III the country, and has secured for ita
combM'lon on literary and artistic talent pr0bsl-
y unNhled ny any other magazine in the word.
llurngth the tirSt month, the sale in the trade md
demand from subscribers exceeded SO, 900 cupes,
and The numbers already issued of the const Flat
ed work are universally conceded to have sur
passed IN the richness of their LITERARY conttnts
and the beauty and profllseness of their pieDrial
lilustratylls, any magazine ever before iSued
from the AMERICAN press. Encouraged BY these
evldencesof favor the publishers have detfrnn-
ed to commence the new volume III .Januap with
sun ad,h@hhl attractions, and to offer sch IN
ducenentto subscribers as cnnnot fail t, place
1t, III crru.lilon, at the head Of American Maga-
zines WIN this view they now anno,nce the
following programe They have purchased that
superb ana costly steel plate engraving,
THE LAST SUPPER"
and will present. n cory of ii to every thrce-dol-
lar SubscrM for the year 1853. II vas engruv-
"a at cost 4 over $4,000, by the late celebrat-
et \. i. Dick, from the original of Raphael Mnr-
gan, after leonardo Da Vmci, and is he lsrges;
steel-plate engraving ever executed in this clin-
try, being thre times the size of the ordinary
| three-d0llar rgraviugs
The first Impressions of this engraving are
held at SO sud it was the intention Of the artist
that none ofibe engravings should ever b. offer
ed for less sum than So, being richly worth
that amount. Thus every thne-doiar subscriber
Will receive TIL Magazine one ycar--cheap at 50
and this splendid engraving, richly worth 50;
thus getting for SO the value of -
We shall commence striking off the engravings
linmedlnteli, YET It can hardly BE- expected that
impressions ct 50 large a plate can b. taken as
fast as they canbr called for by subscribers. We
shall, therefore, furnish them in the order III which
subscriptions are received Those who desire to
obtain their engrvings early and trom the first
impressions, Shoubl send in their subscriptions
without delay The engraving can be sent on
rollers by mail, or in any manner, as subscribers
shall order
$4,000 EWORKs OF ART
In addition to thr superb ,ugravingS of THE
LAST SUPPER which will be presented to
every thret-dclLlr snhscber for lS5~, the pnlish-
ers have completed arrangements for the distri-
button. on the 18th day of December. 1863. Of
series of splendid works of art. consisting Of enc
hundred rich and rare Oh Paintings, valued at
from $io0 to j ,000 each. Also, 1900 magiii-
cent Steel-Iae EnMavings, worth from ;s} to
- each, and ZOO choice Holiday Books, worth
from + TO - each; making, in all, over THREE
THOUSAND GIFTS, worth TWENTY THOU
SAND DOLLARS.
INClOSE S3T0THE PUBLISHERS AND
YOU WILL COMMENCE RECEIVING THE
MAGAZINE BY RETURN MAIL YOU
WILL ALSO RECEIVE WITH THE FIRST
COPY 4 NUMBERED 81, DESCRIPTION RE !
CElPT EMITTING YOU no TIE ENGRA- |
WING OF
THE LAST SUPPER