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14. The New England Magazine. — The eighth volume will 

 commence on the first of January, 1835. — This magazine has now 

 been published for three years and a half, with a reputation and pat- 

 ronage which have increased, till they are sufficient to insure its per- 

 manent success. With the November number it passed into the 

 hands of new proprietors, who have also become proprietors of the 

 United States Magazine, and propose to conduct the united work 

 on the following plan : 



I. Under the title of Original Papers, it will contain articles on 

 the most prominent subjects of domestic politics ; Sketches of travel 

 and adventures at home and abroad ; Views of foreign and domestic 

 literature ; Personal reminiscences of distinguished men and remark- 

 able events ; Poetical sketches, essays, tales, and miscellaneous ar- 

 ticles. 



II. A monthly Commentary on the most important topics of the 

 time. 



III. Notices of New Publications. 



IV. Historical Record — devoted to the politics and statistics of 

 the States and the Union. 



V. Memoirs of distinguished Americans, lately deceased. 



VI. Literary Intelligence. 



Conditions. — The numbers will average eighty pages each, de- 

 livered punctually on the first of every month, at $5 per annum, 

 payable on the delivery of the fourth number. 



15. Professor Joslin's Memoir on Irradiation. — Contents. — 

 Obvious and well known phenomena of irradiation. — Existing state 

 of knowledge and desiderata in relation to the theory. — The au- 

 thor's first observations in relation to the elongated radiations of stars 

 and distant flames. — Observations on the general figure of a flame. 

 General plan of experiments for determining with more precision the 

 laws of this dilatation. — Appearance of luminous objects surrounded 

 by opake ones. — Appearance of opake objects projected on luminous 

 ones. — Three directions of maximum irradiation in ordinary vision. 

 Proof that irradiation increases with distance — that it depends on 

 nothing exterior to our bodies — that it depends partly, but not chiefly 

 on the combined action of both eyes — that it does not depend upon 

 any of the protecting parts of the eye — and lastly, that it does not 

 depend upon any peculiar affection of the retina. — Relation between 

 irradiation and the structure of the crystalline lens. — Effects of di- 



