'WE regard it as the very best work of its kind in the Union.' St. Albans (Vt.) Journal. 'THE KNICKERBOCKER was received with unfailing punctuality on the first of the month, which however is the least merit of this agreeable miscellany; for its contents are as invariably good as its appearance is punctual.'-WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, in the New-York Evening Post. THE last KNICKERBOCKER is exceedingly good. There are no less than twenty-four original articles, and all of the right sort; some of them worthy of BLACKWOOD's palmiest days. The Editor's Table is in Mr. CLARK'S happiest vein; varied and racy in a remarkable degree.' New-York Commercial Advertiser. THE KNICKERBOCKER seems to increase in attraction as it advances in age. It exhibits a monthly variety of contributions unsurpassed in number or ability.'-National Intelligencer. 'THE KNICKERBOCKER is one of the most valuable Magazines of the day, and outstrips all competition in the higher walks of literature.'- Albany Argus. 'We have here an old and general favorite; one among the pioneers of the American periodical press; the venerable KNICKERBOCKER. The EDITOR's Table' is always the most attractive portion of 'OLD KNICK.'s' monthly bill of fare-to us at least; and in the present number we have found it-more so !'-New-York Gaz. and Times.' PRESIDENT EVERETT, OF HARVARD COLLEGE, LATE MINISTER TO ENGLAND.I peruse the KNICKERBOCKER with high gratification. It seems to me of an order of merit quite above the average of the periodicals of this class, English or American.' HON. J. K. PAULDING, LATE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.-The manner in which the KNICKERBOCKER is conducted, and the great merit of its contributors, place it in the highest rank of periodicals.' PROF. LONGFELLOW, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. - The KNICKERBOCKER stands high in this quarter. It is superior to most of the English magazines, and well deserves its large list of subscribers.' HON. ROBERT M. CHARLTON, GEORGIA.-The KNICKERBOCKER is a work which requires no puff. ing; and I shall always feel that I am conferring a favor on those to whom I recommend it. MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY.-'I have long regarded the KNICKERBOCKER as the best periodical in America, and it really seems second to none abroad.' THE LONDON TIMES.'-'The London Times' commends the KNICKERBOCKER in cordial terms, and speaks of several articles from which it had selected liberal extracts for subsequent publication.'-LONDON COR. N. EV. STAR.' THE LONDON EXAMINER.-"This very clever Magazine is the pleasantest periodical in the United States. Its articles, which are numerous and short, various and interesting, are well worthy of imitation by our Magazines on this side of the Atlantic." LONDON MORNING CHRONICLE.-'Judging from the numbers before us, we are inclined to consider this the best of all the American literary periodicals. Its contents are highly interesting, instructive and amusing.' THE LONDON LITERARY GAZETTE.-'The taste and talent which the KNICKERBOCKER displays are highly creditable to American writers, and very agreeable for English readers.' LONDON METROPOLITAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE.We have read several numbers of this talented periodical, and rejoiced in them. They would do credit to any country, or to any state of civilization to which humanity has yet arrived.' LONDON ATHENEUM.'- From a very clever Monthly Magazine, The Knickerbocker' of NewYork, we copy the following spirited story,' etc. SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON.-The KNICKERBOCKER is the best American periodical I have yet seen. I take pleasure in enclosing you an article which was penned expressly for your work.' CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ.-I read the KNICKERBOCKER with very great pleasure: it is indeed a most various and entertaining periodical. It affords me pleasure to contribute to the pages of a work which numbers among its regular correspondents such writers as Mr. IRVING.' REV. Dr. DICK, SCOTLAND.- 'I have read a good many of the articles in the few numbers of the KNICKERBOCKER which you sent me, and find them to possess great merit. Some of its papers, it is true, were too light for my serious turn of mind; yet the whole appears well calculated to gratify the tastes of the mass of readers.' CAPT. F. MARRYAT.-'You make an excellent Magazine-spirited, various, and original. I hope my 'Moonshine' will reflect no discredit upon the good company in which it will find itself." TERMS-$5 per annum in advance. New subscribers who will pay $10 in advance shall be entitled to the four past volumes (1844 and 1845) gratis. All remittances must be made to JOHN ALLEN, Publisher. THE following persons are authorized to receive subscribers and collect subscriptions on account of the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE. MR. HENRY M. LEWIS is our Travelling Agent for Alabama and Tennessee. MR. ISRAEL E. JAMES, for the Southern and South-western States, assisted by JAMES K. WHIPPLE, WILLIAM H. WELD, O. H. P. STEM, JOHN B. WELD, B. B. HUSSEY, T. S. WATERMAN, REUBEN A. HENRY and JOHN COLLINS. MR. C. W. JAMES, for the Western States, Iowa, and Wisconsin, assisted by J. ROBB SMITH, J. T. DENT, E. Y. JENNINGS, T. GARDNER SMITH, and FREDERICK J. HAWBE Terms,.... $5.00 a year in advance, or $3.00 for six months. Postage of this Magazine ander the new law, 6 cents. J. H. Tebbetts,........... Montreal. N. Green North,. George S. Galaway,......... MISSOURI. E. K. Woodward,....... Vicksburg.. St. Louis. OF THE Knickerbocker Magazine. THE Thirtieth Volume of the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE will commence on the first of July, 1847. The work has been so long before the public, that it is not deemed necessary to enlarge upon its claims to general favor. The annexed List of Contributors to the Magazine, and a few notices of the work, (up to and including the last number) will sufficiently attest its character and its popularity: WASHINGTON IRVING, Miss C. M. SEDGWICK, REV. WM. WARE, HON. LEWIS CASS, MRS.KIRKLAND, (Mary Clavers) W. D. GALLAGHER, F. W. EDMONDS, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, REV. HENRY BASCOM, HENRY BREVOORT, REV. MR. GANNETT, (MASS.) J. G. WHITTIER, H. W. ROCKWELL, WILLIAM PITT PALMER, FREDERICK W. SHELTON, CHARLES F. HOFFMAN, RICHARD B. KIMBALL, Esq. MRS. E. F. ELLET. PARK BENJAMIN, THEODORE S. FAY, MRS. FANNY K. BUTLER, MISS CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN CONSUL G. W. GREENE, REV. DR. SPRING, ANSON H. CENTER, Esq. THOMAS W. STORROW Esq. H.T. TUCKERMAN, J. H. SHELDON, JR., J. G. SAXE, Esq, JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, (VT.) MR. F. PARKMAN, (BOSTON,) THE foregoing list included also ROBERT SOUTHEY, Rev. TIMOTHY FLINT, Miss LANDON, CH. JUSTICE MELLEN, TYRONE POWER, ROBERT C. SANDS, WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK, B. B. THATCHER, Dr. CALEB TICKNOR, WM. H. SIMMONS, JOHN SANDERSON, the 'American in Paris,' NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Miss MARY-ANNE BROWNE, (Mrs. GRAY,) Eng'and, Rev. Dr. BRANTLEY, South-Carolina, WILLIAM L. STONE, Rev. Dr. BEASLEY, New-Jersey, J. H. HILLHOUSE, and other distinguished writers who have paid the debt of nature.' The following notices of the KNICKERBOCKER are from the American and English press, and from American and British writers of distinction. THE first number of the Twenty-Seventh Volume of this venerable and widely-popular periodical appears upon entirely new and beautiful type, in all its departments; and in its rich and diversified contents, continues to vindicate its reputation as the most agreeable and entertaining Magazine published in the United States. When we first started the old 'New-Yorker,' our friend CLARK had preceded us as Editor of the KNICKERBOCKER about a twelvemonth; it has now reached an age greatly beyond that of any American Monthly; a fact which literally speaks volumes' in praise of the manner in which the work has been conducted. No number of the K. has ever been issued under .CLARK's supervision that did not bear indubitable evidence of editorial care, and anxious thought and well-directed labor enstamped upon its pages. We have known no monthly, of this country or Europe, so thoroughly edited, in the strictest sense of the term. With a corps of contributors embracing the most eminent writers of the country, with not a few from the other side of the water, it has been able to present articles of a high order of merit, and in rich variety; while, as if emulous of the contributed portions, the editorial department has regularly increased in variety and abundance.'-New-York Daily Tribune. 'NOTHING is more remarkable than the unfailing promptitude of this old Monthly, except perhaps its constant and constantly increasing excellence. Mathematicians tell us of certain curves called asymptotes, whose peculiarity is always to approach each other, and yet, even when infinitely extended, never to intersect. The KNICKERBOCKER, which has reached an age for a Magazine uuch greater than a hundred years for a man, and only to be attained by a more marvellous mirac chas perpetually approached the highest possible point of interest and excellence; and yet it seems to have an excelsior, for each number seems better than that which went before. How it is done our friend CLARK may understand - but it is a sealed mystery to us. There is no publication in the United States that has so attractive or popular a feature as the Editor's Table of the KNICKERBOCKER.'-New-York Courier and Enquirer. See third page of Cover. II. STANZAS: RE-UNION, BY J. A. SWAN, Esq., III. WIGGIN'S TREASURE: OR HOW THEY FOUND THE CHEST, IV. THE FARMER-BARD. BY JACOB HOMESPUN, V. LETTERS FROM THE GULF-STATES. BY A NORTHERN TRAVELLER, VII. SHADOWS. BY JOHN WATERS, VIII. TO THE FROG THAT KEPT ME AWAKE, XI. THE OLD INDIAN ORCHARD. By W. H. C. HOSMER, ESQ., XIII. OLD KNICK. BY THE MOHAWK. By H. W. ROCKWELL, Esq., LITERARY NOTICES: 1. GLEANINGS FROM THE OLD FIELDS OF CONTINENTAL EUROPE, 3. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS, 1. RELIGIOUS LICENSE OF THE AMERICAN STATES:' TRIAL OF HOne, author of 271 272 273 |