MONTHLY MAGAZINES have opened a way for every kind of inquiry and infor BOSTON : Published by MUNROE AND FRANCIS, No. 4, CORNHILL, SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED ALSO BY THE FOLLOWING AGENTS :---HENRY WHI Published half-monthly, at $5 per annum. ADVERTISEMENT. THE various and lively character of the English periodical publications is in disputably unrivalled, not only in America, but in Europe; yet as domestic patronage in England is sufficiently liberal to govern the views of their editors, English Magazines abound with matter, which loses all its interest, out of the United Kingdom. To procure, therefore, what delights and instructs us, on this side of the Atlantic, we have been obliged to purchase much, in which we could not have the most remote concern. This has been an objection, and the only objec tion that has been experienced, in the republication of entire English periodical works in this country; and it is this, that we proposed to obviate by our present plan. Having secured a regular supply of the most popular productions of the Magazine class, issued in London, our first object is to select such of the content, and such only, as are calculated to interest readers in the United States. But the exclusion of merely local matter is not the only improvement we ha had in view. Notwithstanding the acknowledged merit of the London Magazin a perusal of any one will satisfy the most ordinary critic, that they contaip pa and dissertations of various merit. The Atheneum has the peculiar and obvi advantage of embracing the most elegant, interesting, and instructive p. Juction several rival publications, without " their imperfections on their head" such : specimens of genius, erudition and research as must please in any country, w refinement prepares the mind for sound instruction and chaste amusement. ) of In an experiment on our plan, we have now completed the first volume of Excerpta, and confess ourselves fully gratified with the candour and encourage which have attended our exertions. The novelty of the undertaking, and an fear of something unpleasant, particularly in controversial politics, subjected t first, to the necessity of letting the appearance of the publication establish it on public patronage. If this judicious caution rendered our enterprise ha in the commencement, the result has given us better grounds of conf could have proceeded from gratuitous favour. The flattering increase scribers, we are persuaded, has not been produced by our promises, amination of our successive numbers. Yet we are not so inflated by the approbation which this comp ceived, as to presume there is not still room for improvement. The appeal for 41 784 519 140 43 519 ADVERTISEMENT. matter before us gives ample scope for nice discrimination. Progressive familiarity with our duty, we trust, strengthens our capacity to perform it, while our own judgment is aided by an attentive regard to the enlightened taste of our readers, Our middle course, between papers too erudite for general interest, and paragraphs too trivial for the respectability of such a selection, must become more distinct from experience. vi By issuing a number, consisting of forty pages, large octavo, in the beginning and middle of each month, we have been enabled to put our subscribers in possession of the work earlier than it could be published in monthly numbers. The satisfaction which we understand has been derived from this prompt circulation determines us to continue the same plan. Eight additional pages of London paragraphs, appended to the last number of each volume, and eight of indices and title-page, will increase the number of pages annually to about one thousand. To those who are swelling our list of patrons, we take this opportunity to return our cordial thanks; and not less to those, who by the public expression of their approbation have extended the knowledge that such a publication exists. We can now, without hesitation, announce that it will be permanent, for the sources from which we draw are inexhaustible, the encouragement which we receive is decisive, and the present bright prospects of our country promise an increasing partiality to such literary works, as depend on the views and interests of no party, and are addressed to the good feelings and cultivated taste of the community. 幕 Boston, September 15, 1817. Bible, method of its translation Boiling tar, curious properties of 835 Carter and Montagu compared 605 Cast steel, important improvement in 466 Caution to experimentalists 555 Charms and omens 101 Cholera morbus 127 Christina, of Sweden 931 Clincher, explanation of 52 244 Cincinnati, Dr. Franklin's opinion of the 399 471 722 College minors 932 Comic Dramas, Edgeworth's 230 Consumptive patients, change of air for 13, 821 Cowherd, the rev. William, his death 179 Criticism, literary 97 Cross buns, origin of 256 Culprit, explanation of Cards, as an amusement Carriers accountable for lost packages 60 Customs and manners in Holland 592 Corpulence, as a disease 251 Dalrymple, Gen. anecdote of Bravery at Waterloo Brazil, Koster's account of Bread improved by carbonate of magnesia 940 Bull and Mouth description of his mausoleum poetical character examined Candle wicks, self consuming Captain Revel and the Countess of Ruzurg 727 Carey's translation of Dantè 681 931 Freebairn, Robert, his death 876 998 359 239, 288 46 418 940 335 93 915 391 907 402 858 718 348 351 Disparater, its meaning ! 240, 241, 296, F. 59 335 Duchess of Angoulême's memoirs 13, 821 Elwes, John, his death 441 Emerson, the mathematician 30 Essays of Dr. Reid 378 Eton montem 934 744 655 937 944 191 293 474 Evasion of debt 936 Experiment of the bottle -- of the lower orders of the Scotch 47 Fashions, ancient and modern 183 911 51 139 47 6.2 101 Earthquakes in South-America 499 42 58 574 681 Females, erring and deserted, appeal for Foxes turned bunters 64 421 4.2 54 38 323 959 934 257 134 319 140 43 519 419 188 |