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OF THE

Knickerbocker Magazine.

THE Twenty-Ninth Volume of the KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE commenced on the first of January, 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,
WILLIAM C. BRYANT,
J. FENIMORE COOPER,
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK,
PROF. H. W. LONGFELLOW,
J. K. PAULDING,

Miss C. M. SEDGWICK,
REV. WM. WARE,

HON. LEWIS CASS,
CAPT. F. MARRYAT,
J. H. STEPHENS,
SIR E. L. BULWER,
REV. ORVILLE DEWEY,
J. H. PRESCOTT, Esq.,
HON. R. M. CHARLTON,
JAMES G. PERCIVAL,
Gov. W. H. SEWARD,
HON. R. H. WILDE,
JARED SPARKS,
'HARRY FRANCO,'

NATH. HAWTHORNE,

MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY,
REV DR. BETHUNE,
MRS.KIRKLAND,(Mary Clavers)
MISS LESLIE,

W. D. GALLAGHER,
HON. JUDGE CONRAD,
DR. O. W. HOLMES,
JOSEPH C. NEAL,
THOS. W. PARSONS,
PROF. HITCHCOCK,
MRS. E. C. EMBURY,
HON. D. D. BARNARD,
J. P. BROWN, Constantinople.

F. W. EDMONDS,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH,
CHARLES ASTOR BRISTED.
MRS. GILMAN, (S. C.)
E. T T. MARTIN,
H. W. ELLSWORTH,
H. J. RAYMOND. Esq.
H. R. SCHOOLCRAFT,
REV. J. PIERPONT,
COL. T. S. MCKENNY,
PHILIP HONE, Esq.
JOHN T. IRVING,
ALBERT PIKE, Esq.
REV. HENRY BASCOM,
CHARLES SPRAGUE,

HENRY BREVOORT,
CHARLES M. LEUPP,
HON. G. C. VERPLANCK,
J. N. BELLOWS,

REV. MR. GANNETT, (MASS.)
PROFESSOR FELTON,
STACY G. POTTS,

J. G. WHITTIER,

H. W. ROCKWELL,

WILLIAM PITT PALMER,
HON. CHARLES MINER,
DR. A. BRIGHAM,

FREDERICK W.SHELTON,
EDWARD S. GOULD,

CHARLES F. HOFFMAN,

RICHARD B. KIMBALL, Esq. MRS. E. F. ELLET.

PARK BENJAMIN,

THEODORE S. FAY,

MRS. FANNY K, BUTLER,

MISS CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN
HON. JAS. KENT.
REV. WALTER COLTON,
PRESIDENT DUER,
JOSEPH BARBER,
MISS H. F. GOULD,
HON. JUDGE HALL, (LL)
ALEXANDER WATSON, Esq
REV. W. B. O. PEABODY,
PROF. CHARLES ANTHON,
ALFRED B. STREET,
JOHN WATERS,

CONSUL G. W. GREENE,
JAMES BROOKS,

REV. DR. SPRING,

ANSON H. CENTER, Esq.

J. H. GOURLIE, Esq.
HORACE GREELEY,
REV. DR. PISE,

THOMAS W. STORROW Esq.
R. H. BACON, CAMBRIDGE, MASS
GEORGE LUNT,

H.T. TUCKERMAN,

MRS. M. E. HEWITT,

PROF. JAMES J. MAPES,
REV. MR. BACON,

J. H. SHELDON, JR.,

J. G. SAXE, Esq.,

JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, (VT.)
J. KENNARI), JR.,

MR. F. PARKMAN, (BOSTON.)
JAS. RUSSELL LOWELL, Esq.
PETER SCHEMIL.'

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 RIDDLE, Miss MARY-ANNE BROWNE. (Mrs. GRAY,) England, 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 much greater than a hundred years for a man, and only to be attained by a more marvellous miracle, has 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.

ART. I. THE ENTHUSIAST. BY L. WARD SMITH, ESQ.,

II. STANZAS: MONTEREY. BY J. HONEYWELL, .

III. THE TWO BROTHERS OF CHINA: A TALE. BY S. JULIEN,

IV. A VALENTINE. BY MRS. F. S. Osgood,

V. THE SEXTON OF TIME. By W. H. C. HOSMER, Esq.,

VI. THE BRAZILIAN NEGRESSES. BY HARRO-HARRING,
VII. SONNET: COLERIDGE'S GENEVIEVE,

VIII. A MEMORY IN THE DESERT. BY MRS. M. E. HEWITT,

IX. THE EGYPTIAN LETTERS. NUMBER Four,

X. DEATH OF THE YOUNG: A FATHER'S LAMENT,

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XI. MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR,
STANZAS: TO THE TRUE POET,

XII.

XIII.

WE ARE ALL FOR THE GRAVE. BY J. CLEMENT, .
XIV. THE SPY OF THE MOHAWK. BY HON. WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL,
XV.

DISINTERMENT OF THE REMAINS OF OLIVER CROMWELL,

XVI. THE OREGON TRAIL: OR A SUMMER OUT OF BOUNDS,

XVII. XVIII.

SONG: 'LUFF WHEN YOU CAN, BEAR AWAY WHEN YOU MUST,'
TEARS: FROM THE NORWEGIAN. BY JOHN WATERS,

LITERARY NOTICES:

1. THE NEW TIMON: A ROMANCE OF LONDON,

2. THE NORTH-AMERICAN REVIEW FOR THE JANUARY QUARTER,

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3.

A LECTURE ON AMERICAN PROGRESS. BY GAMALIEL BAILEY, JR., .

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4. THE ADOPTED SON: A HISTORICAL NOVEL. TRANSLATED FROM THE DUTCH, 173

EDITOR'S TABLE:

1. GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE KINGDOM OF POETRY,

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2. THE BATTLE OF THE WINES: A RELIC OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, 176 3. NAVAL SKETCHES: SCENES IN HAVANA,.

4. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS,

. 178 180

1. 'LO HERE! AND LO THERE! AND THE SHAKERS: AN EXPOSTULATORY EPISTLE,
WITH AN INVITATION. 2. THE TWO BROTHERS OF CHINA:' FUNEREAL CUSTOMS
IN THE FLOWERY LAND:' A CHINESE LOVE-LETTER. 3. A LITTLE TALK ABOUT
PIGEONS.' 4. INSULT TO SIR WALTER SCOTT BY A FEMALE: EPIGRAM: 'THE
SPITTER SPITTED.' 5. A MICHIGAN MEDICAL SQUATTER' ROUTED. 6. A COOL'
LIBERTY AT A DINNER-TABLE. 7. 'NEW-YORK MIRROR' WEEKLY JOURNAL: TRIP-
PINGS OF TOM PEPPER.' 8. THE ELEEMOSYNARY SEASON: 'SNAP'S NEW-YEAR'S
ADDRESS TO HIS MASTER.' 9. THE MINERAL WEALTH OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR
REGION. 10. THE NEGATIVE SIDE OF A DOUBTFUL QUESTION. 11. LIFE AND
TIMES' (HARD AND EASY) OF COLONEL ARIAL BRAGG,' WITH SELECTIONS FROM
HIS POETRY. 12. PULPIT ELOQUENCE: REV. DR. LANSING: A GLANCE INTO THE
'BURIAL-AISLE OF THE PAST.' 13. A DOG IN OFFICE:' A SENTENTIOUS WIT-
NESS. 14. ANOTHER COLORED POET:' 'NEW-YEAR'S ADDRESS OF ABRAM GAUL.'
15. A RAT! A RAT! MY KINGDOM FOR A RAT!' 16. THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY
PENSIONER'S QUILT: LETTER FROM THOMAS BELL, Esq. 17. SCOTTISH SONG:
'ANNIE GRAHAM.' 18. DINNER TO PROFESSOR JAMES J. MAPES, AT THE ASTOR
HOUSE. 19. DINNER SPEECHES: LETTER FROM COL. JAMES WATSON WEBB.
20. MRS. MASON'S RE-APPEARANCE AT THE PARK-THEATRE. 11. THEATRES AND
ACTORS IN THE UNITED STATES FORTY YEARS AGO: MR. SIMPSON'S FIRST AP-
PEARANCE AT THE PARK.
22.
'A SIMPLE LOVE-STORY.' 23. WHITEFIELD'S
VIEWS OF AMERICAN CITIES AND SCENERY. 24. RUSS, THE CONDEMNED. 25. JEN-
NISON'S CROTON FILTERS. 26. A TWICE-TOLD TALE, AND A SHORT TALE
STRETCHED. 27. A NEW VIEW OF NIAGARA FALLS. 28. ELLIOTT'S PORTRAIT OF
DAVID AUSTEN, ESQ. 29. OUR BANGOR CORRESPONDENT: THE HOSPITABLE DUTCH-
MAN. 30. THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ACTRESS: MRS. KEAN AND MRS.
MOWATT. 31. A SNORING HOMER.' 32. AMERICAN ODDITIES OF EXPRESSION:
HOW THEY STRIKE AN ABSENTEE.' 33. A TRIBUTE OF HONOR TO PHILIP HONE.
34. COPY-RIGHT OF THE KNICKERBOCKER: THE LITERARY CREDIT SYSTEM.
35. A WORD to CorrespondENTS, PUBLISHERS, ETC.
LITERARY RECORD, 196

NOTICE.

COUNTRY SUBSCRIBERS who are in arrears should recollect to make returns for what we send them. Remittances to be made

to

JOHN ALLEN,

139 Nassau-street, New-York.

Editors and others kindly inMagazine, will oblige us by

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Entered, according to the act of Congress, in the year 1846,
BY JOHN ALLEN.

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

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Nor many weeks ago I received an epistle from Professor Eof Cambridge, which contained the following carte blanche: Touching the manuscript, although time had so destroyed its texture and worn away its color and characters as to assimilate it very nearly to the venerable leaves of the Magnalia in which you found it, it remained for you to disturb its long repose, during a century and a half; it is yours by discovery. I have ascertained that none of the family mentioned in it survive; so that the objection I suggested is removed. Therefore, as far as I am concerned, Libero scriptum religione; put it forth then, if you will; it will illustrate the times and the customs of its reverend author. By-the-by, you forgot the ancient Attic law: He that shall pilfer out of the Lyceum or Academia any thing of the least value, shall suffer death!' give you,' etc.

But I for

Thus my learned relation explained the modus acquirendi, and became art and greatest part in the publication of the manuscript, which appears to be in the form of a diary, and begins as follows: THANKS to GOD for his tender mercies to the College! Ofttimes I pray that, too earnestly applying our hearts to see the business that is done upon the earth, we forget not that pleasant and delectable wisdom which is truly a fountain of gardens and a well of living waters. Yesterday was the commencement. There appeared more than seventy young men, of whom we may say with gladness that They have read and wrote as much as many have done in other places.' Alas! the poor youth whose sudden illness interrupted the proceedings! Though I perceived with melancholy heart his pallid countenance and tottering step, I was soon led to admire the power of the enthusiastic soul to strengthen and compact the walls of its earthly temple. He discoursed of the spirit;

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