NEW MICROCOSM: EDITED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF MANCHESTER SCHOOL. FROM JUNE, 1839, TO JUNE, 1840. MANCHESTER: PRINTED BY CAVE AND SEVER, POOL fold. Sold by C. AMBERY, 91, Market Street, and other Booksellers. 1840. PREFACE. iii IN presenting this little volume to our readers, we cannot help thanking them for the support which our feeble endeavours have hitherto met with. The NEW MICROCOSM has existed for more than a year, during which time twelve numbers have been published. We flatter ourselves that this shows that our little work has not been without attractions to the public, and it has been encouraging to us to find that, as far as we are able to judge, those who began at first to take it in have continued their subscriptions to the present time. In the conduct of the Magazine, we have kept up to our original intentions which we laid down in our first number, viz., that "the contents of the work would be wholly original with the exception of that portion entitled 'The Bee,' in which would be introduced anecdotes and observations from foreign and antiquated authors." The reader will probably have observed that our first number was headed-" The New Microcosm, consisting of miscellaneous literary productions of the Senior Class," &c.; and the second and future numbers"Edited by the Senior Class." This alteration was made by the advice of a friend, who urged that our first title prohibited us from receiving contributions from other parts of the school. We changed the title accordingly, but the result has far from answered our expectations, and the articles have with very few exceptions been confined to the Senior Class. We have thought it proper to make these few remarks at the completion of this volume, as, though the first, it is probably the last which will be ever offered to the public. If, encouraged by their favour, another magazine do hereafter appear in the higher classes of the school, it will be in other hands, and probably published under a different title. We therefore most respectfully bid you our grateful and final adieu. Manchester School, June 8th, 1840. THE EDITORS. |