The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-28
BOOK AND MAGAZINES RECEIVED

From Henry Taylor, Sun Iron Building
TIE PIRATE of Petersons Series of Waverly Novels
HARPERs MAGAZINE for July.
From the publisher
THE AMERICAN FARMER for July.
1t is no small advantage to have had a career
when that career has been altogether honorable
and beneficial. Mere length of existence is pretty
conclusive proof of original vigor of constitution
and subsequent obedience to the laws of health In
man, it shows that the gifts of heaven have not
been abused-in journal, that original advantages
have been progressively improved, and that the
prestige of age is by means accompanied by its
infrmities. Magazine which has long outliyed
the generation of its birth-and which has passed
through successive hands with constantly increa-
sing reputation-may fairly claim the rank of an
established institution which has past to pledge
as well as future to promise.
The American Farmer, of which the present
number is the first of the first volume of the fifth
series, is of this class. We observe in it a COM
munication for a subscriber in his eightieth wear
who has taken the Farmer forty years, and vet at
no period ofits history the Farmer so vigorous
and enterprisng at present. In his preface to
the new volume the editor saws:
We have little to say in opening new volume by way
OF preface profession We wish ged by
what we do than by anything may say of ourselves
hink 1T is matter of interest to readers to
Know that as proprietor of magazine protesting excu
sve and independent devotion the interests agr
culture, we have byinterest of to subserye
ana that apart from property in it, have not one
dolars worth that we do not hold in common with the
great body of andholders South Mason and Diyons
hne. Our connection with the american Farmer is n
natural one 1t has resulted from Unborn and inher
ted TASTE cultivated and matured by many years of ag
rcuual experience; from conviction that there is no
work OF usefulness more promising than that which is
calculated to make agriculture profitable to the
lahdhoder and our country homes the the
counrys life more attractive the rising generation
This work are aiming do by the means at our
command and we expect to reap from it the pecunary
recompense due to well directed abour, and a higher
reward in the approval and good will of those for whom
We labour. ....
The cash system has just gone into opera
ton with this number in the business depart
ment OF this old favorite and we consider
this as by no means one of the least i'm
provements effected in its management 1t is incul-
eating in practical way great lesson of morals,
which farmers of all men, ought most carefully to
heed. Thee is no class which is so hampered bv
mourning of debt, and to which the 'pay you-go"
system yields such satisfaction and profit The pro-
prietor is Offering very large premiums as induce
ments to subscribers-a concession, we presume
rather to the active spirit of competition with which
he has to contend than that the Farmer is not worth
its subscription price Such at all events isnot our
Judgment, and we cordially tender to valued
contemporary our wishes that redoubled measure
of prosperity and usefulness may in future at
tend it.