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Transcriber's note: Contents for entire volume 3 in this text. Howeverthis text contains only issue Vol. 3, No. 1. Minor typos have been corrected andfootnotes moved to the end of the article.
The International Magazine has now been published one year, with aconstantly increasing sale, and, it is believed, with a constantlyincreasing good reputation. The publishers are satisfied with itssuccess, and will apply all the means at their disposal to increase itsvalue and preserve its position. They have recently made sucharrangements in London as will insure to the editor the use of advancesheets of the most important new English publications, and besides allthe leading miscellanies of literature printed on the continent, haveengaged eminent persons as correspondents, in Paris, Berlin, and othercities, so that The International will more fully than hithertoreflect the literary movement of the world.
In wit and humor and romance, the most legitimate and necessarycomponents of the popular magazine, as great a variety will be furnishedas can be gleaned from the best contemporary foreign publications, andat the same time several conspicuous writers will contribute originalpapers. In the last year The International has been enriched with newarticles by Mr. G. P. R. James, Henry Austen Layard, LL.D., BishopSpencer, Mr. Bayard Taylor, Mr. R. H. Stoddard, Mr. Parke Godwin, Mr.John R. Thompson, Mr. Alfred B. Street, Mr. W. C. Richards, Dr. StarbuckMayo, Mr. John E. Warren, Mr. George Ripley, Mr. A. O. Hall, Mr. RichardB. Kimball, Mrs. E. Oakes Smith, Mrs. Mary E. Hewitt, Miss Alice Carey,Miss Cooper (the author of "Rural Hours"), and many others, constitutinga list hardly less distinguished than the most celebrated magazines inthe language have boasted in their best days; this list of contributorswill be worthily enlarged hereafter, and the Historical Review, theRecord of Scientific Discovery, the monthly Biographical Notices ofeminent Persons deceased, will be continued, with a degree of care thatwill render The International of the highest value as a repository ofcontemporary facts.
When it is considered that periodical literature now absorbs the best[Pg iv]compositions of the great lights of learning and literary art throughoutthe world,—that Bulwer, Dickens, James, Thackeray, Macaulay, Talfourd,Tennyson, Browning, and persons of corresponding rank in France,Germany, and other countries, address the public through reviews,magazines, and newspapers—the value of such an "abstract and briefchronicle" as it is endeavored to present in The International, toevery one who would maintain a reputation for intelligence, or who iscapable of intellectual enjoyment, will readily be admitted. It istrusted that while these pages will commend themselves to the bestjudgments, they will gratify the general tastes, and that they will inno instance contain a thought or suggest a feeling inconsistent with thehighest refinement and virtue.