Ο OF THE Knickerbocker Magazine. THE Twenty-Fifth Volume of the KNICKERBOCKER commenced with the number for January, 1845. The Proprietor does not deem it necessary, in announcing this fact, to enter into an elaborate statement of the claims which it is believed to present to the favor of the American reading public. The work is thoroughly known and widely patronized throughout the United States, and has many readers in other countries. It has always embodied original communications from the first writers of America, with those of others of our countrymen less known to fame, certainly, but who have also established in its pages a wide and enviable literary reputation. Its list of more than a hundred contributors, including several eminent writers from abroad, is wholly unequalled by any native periodical. What American Magazine (or European either, for that matter) beside the KNICKERBOCKER, ever presented in a single number articles from WASHINGTON IRVING, COOPER, BRYANT, HALLECK, LONGFELLOW, WHITTIER, STREET, General CASS, and the American in Paris?-or a galaxy of more gifted writers of any country? Not one, it is confidently asserted. It should be added, moreover, that the most eminent of its contributors are not the least frequently encountered in the KNICKER BOCKER. Mr. IRVING had an average of three articles in the different departments of each number of the work, after his permanent connection with it; Mr. COOPER followed up his first paper with others equally spirited; and it may well be doubted whether Mr. BRYANT has ever penned finer lines than The Prairies,' 'The Arctic Lover to his Mistress,' his magnificent poem The Winds;' his equally noble Antiquity of Freedom,' an Evening Reverie,' etc.; or whether Professor LONGFELLow has ever exceeded his several beautiful Psalms of Life,' or his Saga of the Skeleton in Armor; or Mr. WARE, his voluminous Letters from Palmyra,' and 'Letters from Rome;' all of which had their origin in the KNICKERBOCKER. As an evidence that the constant additions which are making to the list of writers for the work are calculated to enhance its reputation, we need only mention the series of Quod Correspondence, the papers of Polygon, the Reminiscences of an Old Man,' (The Young Englishman,) the Edward Alford,' and Meadow Farm,' articles, the polished Idleberg Papers, etc., etc. The publisher has not been unmindful of his duty, but has produced the work in a style of typographical neatness and beauty which will challenge comparison with any periodical in the world. It remains only to say, that as it is the oldest, so will the publisher and editor continue to strive to make it the best Magazine in the United States. Permanently established; with a fervid esprit du corps among its correspondents; and all persons immediately connected with its interests emulous to sustain its character and enhance its value; the KNICKERBOCKER will not for a moment be suffered to flag. Many of its contributors, since its commencement, are named below: WASHINGTON IRVING, HON. D. D. BARNARD, REV. WALTER COLTON, ORIGINAL PAPERS. ART. I. SKETCH OF MIRABEAU B. LAMAR. BY FRANCIS COPCUTT, STANZAS TO FANNY. BY ALBERT PIKE, Esq., II. IV. ATHIRST FOR LOVE. BY JOHN H. RHEYN, V. THE PHARISEEISM OF THE AGE, VI. LINES TO MY SISTER. BY FANNY FORRESTER, VII. MORUS MULTICAULIS AT TINNECUM: A SKETCH, IX. A DITTY. BY JOHN WATERS, X. NECESSITY FOR A NATIONAL LITERATURE, . XI. THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY'S CALL: A DREAM, XIII. THOUGHTS IN SPRING-TIME, XIV. THE SEVEN TYRANTS. FROM THE FRENCH OF LA MENNAIS, XV. HEART-WISHES. BY SUSAN PINDAR, . XVI. AN INVOCATION. BY ALEERT PIKE, ESQ., XVII. THE ST. LEGER PAPERS. NUMBER THREE, XVIII. TEMPERANCE DICK: AN EPIGRAM, XIX. LINES ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED CHILD, XX. MY GRAND-FATHER'S HOUSE. BY HANS VON SPIEGEL, LITERARY NOTICES: 1. EOTHEN: TRAVELS IN THE EAST,. 2. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW FOR APRIL, 3. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SCHILLER AND GOETHE, 5. HILL'S ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON ARITHMETIC, EDITOR'S TABLE: 1. SOME THOUGHTS ON BORES, 2. AN ORIGINAL POEM BY THE LATE JOHN G. C. BRAINARD, 4. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS, 1. MAY-DAY IN GOTHAM: APOLOGETIC. 2. MR. HUDSON, THE SHAKSPEARIAN COMMENTATOR. 3. A WORD TO M.' 4. MR. MURDOCH'S READINGS. 5. MR. GREENHAM THE POET'S LINES TO 'SWEET LITTLE SUSANNA:' TRANSCENDENTALISM. 6. THE DANCE OF DEATH. 7. OLD BACHELORISM AND ITS DANGERS: OLD vs. YOUNG WIGS. 8. A SUBLIME SCENE FOR A PAINTER. 9. EARLY TERRORS OF INOCULATION. 10. OUR MINISTER TO SPAIN: ANECDOTE OF MR. IRVING. 11. OSTENTATIONS AT THE THEATRE. 12. TENDENCY TO THE HIGH-FLOWN:' AN INCENDIARY. 13. THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND. 14. YANKEE CUTENESS. 15. THE LATE DR. MILNOR. 16. THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN: SOME THOUGHTS ON PORTRAITS. 17. MRS. MOWATT'S COMEDY OF FASHION. 18. OUR 'ORIGINAL PAPERS:' SOME CHAT THEREANENT. 19. MR. FORREST'S TRIUMPH IN LONDON. 20. THE STEAMER KNICKERBOCKER, AND HER OFFICERS. 21. NEW MUSIC, ETC. 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