NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
VOLUME V.
JUNE TO NOVEMBER, 1852.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
MDCCCLII.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine closes its Fifth Semi-annualVolume with a circulation of more than One Hundred Thousand copies. ThePublishers have spared neither labor nor expense to render it the mostattractive Magazine of General Literature ever offered to the public;and they confidently present this Volume as evidence that their effortsto add to the value and interest of the work have kept pace with theincrease of its circulation.
Special arrangements have been made, and will continue to be made,to render the next Volume still more worthy of public favor than itspredecessor has been. The abundant facilities at the command of thePublishers insure an unlimited field for the choice and selection ofmaterial, while the ample space within the pages of the Magazine enablesthe Editors to present matter suited to every variety of taste and moodof the reading community. The Pictorial Illustrations will maintainthe attractive and varied character by which they have been heretoforedistinguished, while their number will be still farther increased.
In the general conduct and scope of the Magazine no change iscontemplated. Each Number will contain as hitherto:
First.—Original Articles by popular American authors,illustrated, whenever the subject demands, by wood-cuts executed in thebest style of the art.
Second.—Selections from the current literature of the day,whether in the form of articles from foreign periodicals or extractsfrom new books of special interest. This department will include suchserial tales by the leading authors of the time, as may be deemed ofpeculiar interest; but these will not be suffered to interfere with adue degree of variety in the contents of the Magazine.
Third.—A Monthly Record, presenting an impartial condensedand classified history of the current events of the times.
Fourth.—An Editor's Table, devoted to the careful andelaborate discussion of the higher questions of principles and ethics.
Fifth.—An Editor's Easy Chair and Drawer,containing literary and general gossip, the chat of town and country,anecdotes and reminiscences, wit and humor, sentiment and pathos,and whatever, in general, belongs to an agreeable and entertainingmiscellany.
Sixth.—Critical Notices of all the leading books of the day.These will present a fair and candid estimate of the character and valueof the works continually brought before the public.
Seventh.—Literary Intelligence, concerning books, authors,art, and whatever is of special interest to cultivated readers.
Eighth.—Pictorial Comicalities, in which wit and humor willbe addressed to the eye; and affectations, follies, and vice, chastisedand corrected. The most scrupulous care will be exercised that in thisdepartment humor shall not pass into vulgarity, or satire degenerateinto abuse.
Ninth.—The Fashions appropriate for the season, with noticesof whatever novelties in material or design may make their appearance.
The Publishers here re