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A FEW WORDS ON OURSELVES AND OUR 

 BOOK. 



It will be perceived that we have made material 

 improvements in the present number, by giving more 

 matter in consequence of using a greater portion of 

 small type than we hitherto did, by making the work 

 more exclusively local and by confining ourselves, with 

 one exception, to original papers. 



When a person would please all, he generally ends 

 in being able to satisfy none, and finds himself in the 

 condition of the old man, who, with his ass have adorn- 

 od many a tale. Our little Museum has met with 

 much more kindly feeling than we could hope for, and 

 the manner in which \\e have been supported by sub- 

 scribers has far exceeded our expectations, in acknow- 

 ledgment of this we would irrntrfully ]>le;ise as far fci 

 possible ; wo will p;iss from " grave to gay from livolv 

 to severe" and furnish s<miethm<_: bf ouch in o\< r\ 

 number, not confining ourselves to any one particular 

 order of readers : so far as our abilities i-o \vo will do 

 our best, but our friends may perceive, that we cannot 

 satisfy all, /o the extent of ettch person's particular 

 wishes, by perusing the Col lowing letters, which AVO 

 select from twenty nine similardoounients, if the authors 

 should blush to find thus promulgated the fame of their 

 benevolent feelings towards us, we are sure their good 

 hearts will excuse our making their letters public. 



i\ln, EDITOR, 



I bought your pretty little magazine a few - at Mr. 



-and I think you have chosen a very genteel colour for tin- 



and have had it printed in an engaging style; I hope v>u 

 intend to introduce a great deal of poetry and numerous pathetic nar- 

 ratives, you might choose a good many nice pieces of prose from M r. 

 Bulwer's novels and select the sweetest verses from the work 

 Barry Cornwall, llavnes Bayley and A. A. Walts. If you take im 

 advice and make your magazine a book of charming: stories, I will 

 speak of it to all my friends, I will even learn the short pieces of pootrx 

 l>y heart and repeat them to my intimate acquaintances and very like- 

 ly I may write something for you myself, in this case I will have the 

 .r/.ine bound in blue morrocco and uold. Mr. shall m:ik<- 



