MAGNIFICENT JANUARY NUMBER.

Specimen copies of which will be ready December 1st, and will be furnished to all who desire to make up Clubs for the coming volume.

The original publisher of the work returns his sincere thanks for the hearty welcome with which his return to this favorite periodical has been hailed by the press and the public, and promises his readers that the past six numbers have afforded but a slight foretaste of the excellence and beauty of what is in store for the new volume. Of the early numbers we shall print EIGHTY THOUSAND copies, and stereotype the work for further increase.

STERLING ORIGINAL LITERATURE.

G. P. R. JAMES, the celebrated novelist, has been regularly engaged, and will furnish several brilliant romances during the year.

GEO. D. PRENTICE will write his exquisite poems exclusively for this Magazine.

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW,

J. R. LOWELL,

S. A. GODMAN,

E. P. WHIPPLE,