The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-12-01
COMMENCEMENT OF THE TWENTIETH VOL
UME.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAzIN


NO cxvl CONTENTS DECEMBER
WASHINGTON IN 1850
With Nine illustrations of The New Public Buildings.
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LITERARY NOTICES.
EDITORS TABLE.
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With Two illustrations.
The presen, Number commences the Twentieth Voum e
of HarPers New Monthly Magazine IN the Iniroduc DRY
Notice rre6xed TO the FIRST Number Publishers
nounced their intention TO present periodical which
who had the slightest relish for miscellaneous
reading the slightest Nish 10 keep bimse info. med
of the progress and results of the literary genius
own age, would willingly be without And they intend
TO publish il al low and give a value 80
much beyond its price, that shall make it's way into the
hands of the family circle of every intelligent ciuzen
the United States"
How far they have succeeded in carrying out their de.
il5 numbers OF Magazine already publls
will show. Each OF these contains as much matter an
ordinary octave OF 400 pages costing, if illustrated
style the Magazine, at least three dollars. The Nine
teen Volumes of the Magazine thus equivalent a
library OF Than hundred Volumes, comprising the
best productions of the foremost Novesls Historians
Essaysls and Poets, of the day.
Without entering into a comparison with other Ameri-
can periodicals, the Publishers may be permitied say
that Harper's Mag aZine contains rs per mai
ter than Blackw Gods, F aser's the Dublin UniveI
sty Magazine. While giving place to many of The bes
productions of European Novelsts and EssayAs, Har
per's Magazine regularly furnishes larger amount
original matter than Is contained any other similar
rodlcal. whether European American. IL has pub
lished articles from Than hundred Amer can
writers, residing in every sscuon and in almost every
Slae OF the Union. BY thus welcoming rbuIiOns
from of The country, the Publishers have effect
ualy prevented the Magazine from assuming a sectional
character or becoming the organ of any mutual adm
ration clique party.
As an Illustrated Magazine, Harper's is wholly with
rival. The volumes already published have con
tanned more than six thousand Engravings, most Of
them executed in the highest style of the from Orig
inal Drawings by DOper, Parsons, Hitchcock, Fred.
ericks, Wslhn, rhwaI,es, Hoppn, Chaplin, Losing
VOghl BeIlew, McLenan. SrOther, Hooper, Dallas and
other Artists For these The Magazine has paid
than hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The
ceeded This amount Harpers Magazine has therefore
in less than ten paid more than quarter of mil
lion of dollars 10 American Authors and Artist.
The Publishers grateful ly acknowledge that this large
has been remuneraive beyond their gune
expectations They hoped from the first that the Maya
zine would make way into the hands family
circle of every intelligent citizen of the United States
but the number of these readers has proved far
than they anticipated They believe that the circulation
the Magazine will continue 10 increase with the growth
and population Of the country For the spirit aud man
which it will hereafter be conducted they OdeI
better guaranty than the contents of the Volumes
already issued.
While the Magazine will continue 10 be sustained by
the writer's whose papers have gained for ii distinct
i've character ATTY welcome will be given to new u
ihors Almosrevery Number fire
the reading publ and the Editors that their
of COnlIiDuIOrs will be yet more enls rged.