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THE

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American Monthly

MAGAZINE.

"True Liberty."

VOL. V.

NEW SERIES.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY GEORGE DEARBORN AND CO.,

NO. 38 GOLD STREET.

1838.

NEW-YORK:

Printed by SCATCHERD & ADAMS,

No. 38 Gold Street

INTRODUCTION.

A PERIOD of more than five years has elapsed since the establishment in New-York of that Magazine, whose title this Journal now bears. A longer period has passed away since the first appearance of the New-England Magazine, and a still longer since the American Monthly Review was regularly issued in Boston. The latter periodical was merged in the New-England Magazine two years before that became united with the American Monthly Magazine. In this triple union the last-mentioned name was retained as the most general and expressive.

This journal is now, indeed, both a Magazine and a Review ; for, in addition to Original Papers, it contains full, though concise, criticisms on the most interesting new books published in this country, as well as of republications of trans-Atlantic works. It is proposed hereafter to render the Review department still more valuable by analytical notices of English books, which possess a strong literary interest without being deemed by publishers sufficiently popular to be presented to American readers. The most celebrated productions of Germany, France, and Italy, will also be spoken of; and translations of remarkable passages given in these pages. An acquaintance with many of the most attractive foreign works of the day can only be acquired through the expensive editions which find their way to us, or through the reprints of Foreign Reviews, which are strongly biassed in their opinions by national or political prejudice. Their number and extent also forbids any thing like a single and comprehensive view. A journal, which should afford such a view, which should take 'a general survey of the

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