1849 
THE CULTIVATOR 
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FARMERS, READ THIS ! 
HOLDEN’S DOLLAR MAGAZINE! 
LARGEST! CHEAPEST!! BEST!!! 
W€>0!» M^MATIIGS EACH MONTH!! 
768 PAGES IN THE VOLUME!!! 
VOLUME III COMMENCES JANUARY 1, 1849. 
T HIS unrivalled Family Magazine, universally acknowledged 
by the Press as the best American Periodical published, offers, at 
the commencement of the 3d volume, unusual inducements to 
subscribers. Its features hereafter will be entirely American, inclu¬ 
ding 
AMERICAN VIEWS, 
AMERICAN PORTRAITS, 
AMERICAN TALES, 
AMERICAN SKETCHES. 
A series of engravings from the Paintings of our best artists, in¬ 
cluding Cole, Gignoux, Durand, Edmonds, and others, is in vigorous 
preparation, and the facile pencil of the inimitable 
DARLEY 
is now actively engaged in enriching Holden with his 
Portraits ot the Public Men of America. 
The Portraits of distinguished American Divines 
will be continued in every number as heretofore, with life-like 
sketches of their lives and ministry. Each number will be filled 
with 
TALES, 
POEMS , 
ESSAYS, 
REVIEWS, 
SKETCHES, 
TRANSLATIONS, 
TOPICS OF THE MONTH, 
and will embrace everything Amusing , Instructive and Readable , 
now in progress in the world. 
As a Family Magazine, tire Editor is confident that no rivalry can 
affect, or opposition lessen its value and worth, and he offers it to 
the world as, in tone, character, literary merit and illusU'ative 
beauty, 
Tlae Model Magas late 
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY!!!! 
No family in the land can afford to be without Holden in its circle ; 
for when such a periodical can be obtained one year for the trifle of 
ONE DOLLAR, 
who will not wish to subscribe ? 
The great feature of Holden is, that while being peculiarly Amer¬ 
ican in sentiment and feeling, it gathers and embodies all the beauties 
of the Fiench, English and American Periodicals , while discarding 
their follies and vices. A combination of the Encyclopedia, the Ga¬ 
zetteer,the Quarterly Review.and the Weekly Newspaper, it is yet sepa¬ 
rate and distinct from all , but possessing enough of their various 
qualifications to commend itself to every reader. 
See what the Press says of Holden : 
* * u The Editor’s table is very rich and amusing—in some 
respects equal to that of the Knickerbocker .”—N Y. Evangelist. 
[Cr“ Holden’s Dollar Magazine for September is an excellent 
number. The literary contents are varied and interesting; the 
sketches of living American Poets and Divines cannot fail of giving 
the work a very popular character. The Editor’s table is lively 
and piquant, and the book nolices copious and candid. We un¬ 
derstand the circulation of this magazine is rapidly increasing. 
Horace Greeley, of the N. Y. Tribune. 
Holden’s Dollar Magazine. —The September number of this 
work has been received, and to simply say that it is a valuable pub¬ 
lication, would not be doing justice to its merits. It is the best of 
Magazines, and must soon assume its place at the head of the lite¬ 
rary press — Democrat , Bloomsbury, N. Y. 
Holden’s Dollar Magazine. —The August No. of this sterling 
journal is now upon our table. In glancing over its contents we 
are forcibly struck at the superior arrangement of everything ap¬ 
pertaining to Literature and Art. The'articles are all of a high or¬ 
der, far surpassing anything that appears in “ Graham’s,” or “Go- 
dey’s Lady’s Book.” The typography of the number before us, is 
most excellent, vicing in whiteness of paper and clearness and dis¬ 
tinctness of type, with any similar work published in the United 
States.— Republican, Jackson, Tenn. 
Holden’s Dollar Magazine is the most interesting production 
of popular literature that we know. The price, as its name im¬ 
plies, is but one dollar a year, and we recommend everybody to 
subscribe for it— Advertiser , Lowell , Mass. 
" We believe there is no other periodical published in America 
that contains so much choice rending matter, and such excellent 
engravings, for so little money.”— Star, Houston, Texas. 
Over three thousand five hundred similar notices have been re¬ 
ceived, but these must suffice. 
The object of the Editor has been to give a Three Dollar Maga¬ 
zine for one third price, and a glance at Holden’s will show the re¬ 
sult. Now, he only asks the support of the community, and in re¬ 
turn will give improvements as they are demanded. 
0 ff* Now is the time to subscribe, as those sending first will re¬ 
ceive the first impressions of" the engravings. The Nos. can be 
furnished from July, 1848, if wished by subscribers—that month 
commencing the previous volume. 
TERMS FOR 1849—(IN ADVANCE.) 
1 copy,.one year, . $1 00 
5 copies,.. “ . 4 00 
20 copies,. c< . 15 00 
PREMIUM ! 
Postmasters, farmers or others, sending twenty names and fifteen 
dollars, will receive Vol II. of Holden’s Magazine, handsomely 
bound in muslin and gilt edged! 
Address, (post paid,) 
CHARLES W. HOLDEN, 
109 Nassau Street, New-Yo?k. 
P. S. Editors copying the above prospectus and this notice, and 
noticing the Magazine editorially, will be entitled to the second vol¬ 
ume of Holden’s Magazine handsomely bound in muslin and gilt 
edged, and in addition a splendid full length Engraving, on tinted 
paper, of Horace Greeley, E.ditor of the New York Tribune, 
drawn from life by Wallin, and engraved by Richardson. The book 
will be mailed to such papers about the 15th of January, when it 
will be ready, on the reception of a paper containing the advertise¬ 
ment and notice marked. Editors copying this and noticing monthly , 
will also receive the Magazine each month for the coming year. 
To tlie Families of American Farmers. 
Farmers ! if you wish a good, cheap, elegant and useful Maga¬ 
zine, one which you can admit into your families as a stricly mo¬ 
ral work, one which every female in the land can read without 
fear of meeting anything to cause the blush upon the cheek; if you 
wish to introduce into the family circle a work which is not made 
up entirely of Paris Fashion Plates, and Fancy Portraits and love- 
stories, but rather a mixture of the useful with the agreeable, the 
instructive with the pleasant, then throw aside the prospectuses ot 
three dollar magazines, with nothing to recommend them but 
their flimsy engravings, many of them reflexes only of second rate 
English and French pictures, and turn to the real and substantial 
work advertised above. For one dollar, it gives every month sixty 
four pages of reading and a number of beautiful wood engravings, 
and for all charges but one dollar for a year’s subscription. Com¬ 
pare the January No. of Holden’s with any three dollar magazine 
in the country, and then see which you pronounce the best. The for¬ 
mer (for January) contains, 1st, a splendid Engraving of Thomas 
Cole’s Painting of Genesee Falls, size of a full page-2d, a portrait o* 
Louis Blanc, of Paris, drawn by Count D’Orsay, and engraved for 
Holden—3d, a portrait of Dr. William Turner, of New-York, the 
distinguished founder of the American chrono-thermal system of 
medicine, a splendid engraving—4th, the Athseneum, of Manchester, 
England, a fine picture—5th, a full length Portrait of Horace Gree¬ 
ley, Editor of the New York Tribune, from a daguerreotype by A. 
Morand, drawn by the well known Wallin, and engraved in ex¬ 
quisite style by Richardson, of New-York—6th, a Portrait of Rev. 
Dr. Chester Dewey, of Rochester, N. Y., well known as the Prin¬ 
cipal of a collegiate school, and/Professor in various institutions in 
the country—7th, illustrated topics of the month, containing an in¬ 
itial letter. 
Can any three dollar Magazine surpass the above list of engra¬ 
vings ? What is better, Holden’s Magazine will contain each 
month, an equally splendid array of engravings. Among the con¬ 
tributors the present month we need only name Horace Greeley, 
Park Benjamin, W. H. C. Hosmer, “ Harry Franco,” Augustine 
Duganne, William Wallace, C. W. Holden, and others too nu¬ 
merous to mention. Are our contributors even surpassed by any 
three dollar publication ? 
Now what we ask of Farmers through the country is this : Let 
your sons make an effort among your neighbors to form a club; 
any young man can easily raise a list of four names without any 
trouble at $1 a year. If he does so he can secure a copy for him¬ 
self without any expense, and if he gets twenty names, he can not 
only have five extra copies, but will receive the second volume of 
the* Magazine splendidly bound, according to the offer in the pre¬ 
miums above. 
Farmers, is not this proposal worthy your earnest attention? If so, 
forward your subscriptions to the subscriber (the money in advance 
and post paid) whenever the list is ready. Be particular and state 
with what month you wish to commence. 
C. W. HOLDEN, 
10 9 Nassau Street, New-York, 
