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KNICKERBOCKER GALLERY,

A Miscellany of Literature and Art.

IN ONE SPLENDID SVO VOL, COMPRISING ORIGINAL LITERARY PAPERS BY THE MOST EMINENT LIVING AMERICAN AUTHORS, WITH

FORTY-SEVEN PORTRAITS ON STEEL,

FROM ORIGINAL PICTURES.

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A COMPLIMENTARY TRIBUTE TO LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK, ESQ., FOR TWENTY YEARS EDITOR OF THE KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE.

JA SECOND EDITION of this splendid and popular volume is now ready. To show how it has been welcomed by the public, and the numerous friends of the veteran editor of the KNICKERBOCKER, extracts from a few of the many notices which the work has received are herewith anuexed:

THE KNICKERBOCKER GALLERY has made its appearance in a splendid octavo volume. Its contributors comprise some of the oldest and most illustrious writers in America, with a noble array besides of men of genius and cultu e, who, if perhaps less known to fame, have yet gathered worthy literary honors in both hemispheres. A few examples will show the choice materials which have been employed in the composition of the volume. WASHINGTON IRVING --the beloved and glorious patriarch of our native literature-contributes a delightful paper, entitled Conversations with Talma, presenting some interesting reminiscences of the great French tragedian, and a series of original suggestions on French dramatic poetry. This was written in 1821, and will furnish a welcome specimen of the author's paimiest days to the host of his admirers who so fondly treasure every pro duction of his fascinating pen, A p em, called The Snow Shower, by BRYANT, is the characteristic offering of our greatest American bard. The Emperor's Bird's Nest, by LONGFELLOW MASCACCIO," by LOWELL: 'A Poetical Epistle to Louis Gaylord Clark,' by HALLECK: A Vision of the Housatonic, by HOLMES; I'm Growing Old, by SAXE: To Beautiful Girl,' by PRENTICE: On Lake Pepin,' by EPES SARGENT: Pineco,' by Dr. BETHUNE, are in the happiest style of their respective writers. N. P. WILLIS, instead of rhymes, gives a kind-hearted and cheery letter from his invalid's retreat at Idlewild; and TUCKERMAN has a fine critical essay on Edmund Kean. Among other celebrated writers, whose fame is of more recent date, we opserve the names of MITCHELL, BOKER KIMBALL. STREKT, SHELTON, BAYARD TAYLOR, COZZENS. FIELDS, G. W. CURTIS, and STODDARD. But space would fail us to enumerate all the celebrities on this red-lettered catalogue, which presents a curious illustration of the signal ability which the Editor of the KNICK RRBOCKER has embodied in the long series of his annual volumes. The attractiveness of the work is greatly enhanced by the number and variety of portraits with which it is embellished, forming an extensive gallery of American authors. These are engraved on steel. in the best style of execution. and. in many cases. from original paintings by ELLIOT and other eminent artists. Such a varied and admirable collection of portraits, in which a large portion of the community is interested, we presume has never before been presented to the public. The editorial preparation of the work was intrusted to the charge of Dr. JOHN W. FRANCIS, GEORGE P. MORRI, RUFTS W. GRISWOLD, RICHARD B. KIMBALL and Rev. FREDERICK W. SHELTON, who, it is needless to add, have acquitted themselves of their generous duties in a manner which leaves no room for comment, except that of a congratulatory character.'-Harper's Magazine,

"It is unsurpassed by any thing that has ever been issued from the American press. We hope it will find an extended sale, proportionate both to its varied merits, and to the commendable object in which the work had its origin."-Boston Atlus.

TRULY a splendid volume: admirably printed, richly bound, nobly illustrated, and containing original contributions from some of the most eminent writers who have reflected luster upon the American name. WASHING TON IRVING, who now seldom writes, commencing the volume, and FITZ GREENE HALLECK whose muse has long been reproached for silence, concluding it by a 'Poetical Epistle to Louis Gaylord Clark, Esq.' which shows that his lyre, though long mute. has not lost its power. The forty-eight portraits are finely engraved, and are excellent likenesses. This Gallery of American authors should find a conspicuous place in the library of every American who has enough patriotism and refinement of taste to take pride in the nation's literature."-N, Y. Commer cial Advertiser.

"IT realizes, in beauty of getting up and in the excellence of its contents, all the high wrought anticipations that have been formed of it. The name of WASHINGTOS IRVING heads the list of the contributors, and a fine likeness of him. the collection of nearly fifty superbly executed portraits of the Knickerbocker contributors, The frontispiece is an admirable head of our friend, Louts GAYLORD CLARK, the editor of Old KNICK, and the title page shows us what the proposed Knickerbocker Cottage, the intended result of this publication, is to be. All the articles are from the pens of the first writers in the land, from the North and South, the East and West. and most of them face their contributions in the most speaking manner. The value of this book to the American reader is beyoud estimate. The price demanded for it is infinitely below its worth."-New-Orleans Picayune,

THE most brilliant American book of the reason. It abundantly justifies the high expectations of the public, as well in its mechanical appearance, its admirable portraits, and its high literary merits. Every admirer of the Knickerbocker, its Editor, or its contributors, should have a copy of the Knickerbocker Gallery. No volume of 50 pages octavo was ever published in this country containing an equal variety of sterling original literature." Burlington (Vt.) Sentinel.

"WE make no hesitation in pronounciag it not only one of the handsomest and most delicately conceived of literary testimonials, but one of the most attractive and valuable volumes ever issued from the American press. Such another portrait gallery of our literary notabilities, or so peculiar and fine a collection of their extended mental autography. does not exist, and probably will not, apart from this volume, in our day and generation." New York Evening Mirror.

This beautiful volume is creditable alike to the warm-hearted contributors to its pages, and to the publisher, who has presented it in such an elegant form to the public. The design was to furnish a book, the profits of which should be applied to the purchase of a cottage on the Hudson for Mr. Louis GAYLORD CLARK, the accomplished editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine, a periodical which has been distinguished for the excellence of its papers, and has lived through nearly a quarter of a century. There are over sixty contributions in poetry and prose, from the elite of the writers of the United States, and forty-eight engravings of the authors, including those of WASHINGTON IRVING. BRYANT, HALLECK, WILLIS, W. H. SEWARD, G. D. PRENTICE, LONGFELLOW, HOLMES TUCKERMAN. BAYARD TAYLOR. EPEN SARGENT, IK MARVEL.' etc."-Boston Courier,

"This beautiful and substantial Testimonial,' profusely and nobly illustrated, embodies a collection of writers, with their portraits, which exhausts almost the entire constellation of living American authors."-Dutchess County Democrat.

THESE are but few of the numerous notices of "THE KNICKERBOCKER GALLERY," which have appeared in every quarter of the Union. The verdict of the press every where, and of the public at large, has been

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SAMUEL HUEston, PUBLISHER, 348 BROADWAY, N. Y.

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THE

KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE,

EDITED BY LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK.

THE number for July, 1855, begins the FORTY-SIXTH VOLUME of the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE.

Since the price of subscription has been reduced from FIVE to THREE DOLLARS a year, the circulation of the KNICKERBOCKER has been increased nearly four to one. In many places ten are sold where there was but one before, and through the year it has been steadily increasing. It is now offered as cheap as any of the Magazines, all things considered. Instead of making new and prodigious promises, we submit a few extracts from notices of late numbers, which we might extend to a number of pages.

Those famihar with the Editor's monthly Gossip with his readers, have doubtless, with ourselves, admired the perennial source of its plesant wit and joyousness. In this number The Gossip' holds on its way like some fair rivulet glancing and dancing in the sunshine of a May morning. We used to wonder how Mr. CLARK held out, expecting he must certainly snow brown' in the coming number; but this number gives no sign of exhaustion.—National Intelligencer, Washington.

'Pleasant, genial, delightful Old KNICK. Thy name is a suggestion of all things delectable; tee sight of thy modest, fresh cover, a balm to spiritual sore eyes; a glance within thee, best antidote for the blues. Thou hast given to kindly humor, to piquant delineation, and to side-splitting fun, a 'local habitation,' without which they might go wandering over the domain of letters, calling now and then where a friendly door opened to them but refusing to be comforted for the loss of their old dear home.'-Courier, Burlington Vt.

The great care evinced in the selection of articles that adorn its pages, is a sufficient guaranty that no contribution meets the eye of the reader but those which are known to be worthy of his perusal. When storms and wild tempests are sweeping o'er our hill-side village in these chill winter hours, and all is drear and desolate without, we ask for no more agreeable companion than the KNICKERBOCKER; for while its contents impart valuable information, its sallies of genuine wit are a sovereign specific for all fits of the blues or attacks of the horrors, and time passes merrily on.”— Democrat, Doylestown, Pa.

The KNICKERBOCKER has been and will be a fact of its own; a genuine living thing, all the more desirable now that the new crop of magazines, filled with articles pirated from English authors, makes fresh home creations more conspicuous and welcome.'-New-York Christian Inquirer.

'No one ever rose from the perusal of the KNICKERBOCKER a disappointed reader. Whatever may have been his anticipations, they have always been rewarded. When he took up a new number, he felt sure of a literary treat; it was no mere showy repast he was invited to. Did he seek the grave or didactic essay, the touching story, poetie gems, or the humorous tale, he was always sure of finding the object of his search. And then, besides, there was the Gossip' of Old KNICK.,' always looked to with eagerness, never put down except with regret that there were not more pages of inimitable random sketches-the Knick-nacks of that repast.'-Courier, Natchez, Miss.

THE KNICKERBOCKER. New-York: Samuel Hueston. This best, decidedly best, of the American magazines seems to have improved in appearance and in the quality of its literary matter-always good-even upon its reduction in price. It is a luxury of which no man who has three dollars to spare-and who that has a taste for good reading has not-should deprive himself, to sit down in a retired corner, when the mind has been wearied with the perplexities of every day pursuits, and pore over the well-stored pages of Old Knick." We even now read the old volumes of this work, of a dozen years ago, with more real pleasure than half the new publications of the day. Each number will "bear the wear and tear of half a dozen readings," and then the volume be "worthy of good binding and a place on the shelves," and that is what can be truly said of but few of the magazines of the present day.

The contents of the Knickerbocker are so varied, that almost every one will find something in its pages to please him--to instruct and amuse. The articles are marked by the highest order of merit, and in a long series of years we have found nothing in this work to which the most fastidious could object. It is a work which should be on the centre table of every family.-Knoxville Times.

Rev. F. W. SHELTON, Author of Letters from Up the River, etc., will be a regular contributor. The best talent in the country will be enlisted, and no expense or effort spared, to make the KNICKERBOOKER more than ever deserving of the first position among our original American Magazines.

TERMS.-Three Dollars a year, strictly in advance-there will be no deviation from this condition; Two copies for $5 00; Five copies, and upwards, $2 00 each. Booksellers and Postmasters are requested to act as Agents. Those who will undertake to procure subscribers will receive favorable terms. Specimen numbers will be sent gratis on application, post-paid. INDUCEMENTS FOR CLUBBING.-The KNICKERBOOKER and Harper's, Putnam's, Graham's or Godey's Lady's Book will be sent one year for FIVE dollars; the KNICKERBOCKER and Home Jour. nal

llars a year.

cents per number, prepaid at the office where the work is delivered, quarterly

d all business communications must be addressed, post-paid, to

SAMUEL Hueston,

348 Broadway, New-York.

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