ANALECTIC MAGAZINE.

(NEW SERIES.)

Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of new publications, Translations from the French journals, and Selections from the most esteemed British periodical works, &c.

THE number for this month, February 1820, is presented to the public as a specimen of the improved style of exterior appearance and embellishment which it is intended shall be given to this journal. Two engravings at least, will accompany each number, executed by some of the most eminent of the American artists, and representing subjects, as far as may be, of general interest. And the paper and typography will be much more elegant than has heretofore been exhibited in periodical publications.

The publisher regrets that the arrangement now made, did not take place sufficiently early, to prevent the want of uniformity between the January and February numbers, but it is hoped that there will be encouragement to reprint the January number in the improved style, when subscribers can be supplied in exchange for those copies, now in their possession.

The publisher relies on the patronage of the American people to remunerate the expense of this, now, very elegant publication; knowing that if equal encouragement is received by this journal, as there is given to the republication of those foreign Reviews, in whose pages the American character is so constantly vilified, the Analectic Magazine may with certainty, be rendered in every respect, an advantage and an honour to American literature.

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