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Americans, and Some of their Characteristics, T. M. Coan, M.D.,

It has long been matter of surprise and regret that the Literature of America and the Continent should hitherto have remained, to the majority of readers in the British Empire, almost entirely a terra incognita. Many reprints, it is true, of American, and Translations of Continental Works, have from time to time been published in this Country, but absolutely nothing has been done adequately to reveal or even represent, through the medium of their own Literature, the spiritual, the intellectual, and the social life of the nationalities of Continental Europe and the great Republic of the West.

The influence of recent political events, the Civil War in America, the extension of the German Empire, the regeneration of Italy and Spain, and the greater amount of civil, religious, and intellectual liberty now enjoyed by nearly all, have done much to break down all barriers of national antipathy, prejudice and jealousy between one nation and another; have widened their sympathies and enlarged their hearts, till they feel they belong indeed to the great family of mankind. Nowhere have these

influences been felt more than in this country; and they have naturally resulted in an ever-increasing desire for a more intimate and extended acquaintance with our neighbours, and especially with our American cousins, with whom our relations are now so inseparable, and our sympathies so keen. And how can this knowledge be gained better than through the medium of their thoughts, as expressed by their Journalists, Poets, Novelists, Historians, Philosophers, and Statesmen.

It is the aim of the Proprietors and Editor of the " AMERICAN AND CONTINENTAL MONTHLY" to satisfy this desire, by producing for the British Public what it has never before had within its reach, a Monthly Magazine containing the crème de la crème of current American and Continental Literature. In doing this they will always endeavour to meet the requirements of every educated taste, and be guided by the broad and liberal spirit of the age, as they may find it manifested in the different countries whose Literature they may represent.

For the most part, "THE AMERICAN AND CONTINENTAL MONTHLY" will contain Selections from the best American Authors, in the following departments of Literature-Serial Tales, Short Stories, Essays biographical and descriptive, Poems, Notes of Travel and Adventure, Literary Intelligence, Popular Papers on Science; and Translations from the Continental Magazines.