We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that they have flocked to our columns—that the sentiment has found its echo in the breast of the public, and hence that success which has attended our humble efforts. The cause is so great, that we may well be pardoned if we boast that we have had both hand and heart in it.
And so, with all the earnestness and heartiness which befit this happy season, when
"No spirit stirs abroad;
The nights are wholesome; when no planet strikes,
No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time,"
do we greet all our friends, whether contributors or readers, with the good old English wish,
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!