" A Yournal for the Scholar, the Antiquarian, and the Collector."



MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
                       WITH NOTES AND QUERIES.

     HE confident anticipations expressed by us a year since, in our proposal
 T    to estabIish a Magazine of American Historv on a broad And natjoi ti
 basis, to fill a want long felt in the United States, have been fully realize .
 From the outset the enterprise has received a more hearty welcome than our
 most sanguine expectations had led us to hope for, and our list of subscribers
 has since steadily increased.
    Our contributors have been drawn from every walk and profession of life.
Their articles have covered a wide field of investigation, and the first volume
brings together, in permanent form, a large and exceedingly interesting amount
of valuable historical material.
    The appreciation with which our enterprise has been met bv the historical
students and scholars of the country. is shown by the fact that the numbers is-
suetld do not now appear in the market, and when found, command a liberal
premium on the cost.
    Under this substantial encouragement we have been able not only to fulfill
our promise to subscribers of twelve numbers of sixty-four pages each, but
have added a number of choice engravings illustrative of the text. The pub-
lishers. in looking forward to the second volume, can but point to the contents
of the volume just closed. as an indication of their purpose, and while they be-
lieve in the old adage that " performance is better than promise," they will say,
that they have a high ideal of what such a periodical should be, and with
proper encouragements they will spare no effort to realize that ideal. The
paper and press work will be of the first quality.


                      OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
                         From the New- roXr World.
   The Magazine of American History felicitates itself very warraintahl v upon a succes-
fula vear just closed. The first volume, which the December number cornpletes, is a valu
able repositorv of interesting matter relative to the history of the United States. fromn the
pens of contributors admirably qualified to treat of the subjects upon whicl they have
written.
                       From the Commercial Adm-rtiser.
   This most admirable publication has completed its first year, and starts out on its
second with the most brilliant prospects.    X
Among those who have contributed to its pages in the year past are some of the m-'t
eminent writers in the country, and the result is a large and exceedingly interesting amount
of valuable historical material.
                      Fron the Wilmisgtox Commercial.
   The disquisition on Verrazano (in the February No.) is of the kind to go straight to
the heart of an antiquarian.

    All communications relating to the editorial management should be a-d-
dressed to the Editor, JoHiN AUSTIN STEVENS, Box too, Station D, New York
City.
    Persons desiring to subscribe, will kindly send their names and addres-es
to us. Subscribers are respectfully cautioned against sending money through
the mail otherwise than by check, post-office order or registered letter.
    Subscription Price, 5.oo a year. Single Numbers, 5(t cents.
                         A. S. BARNES & CO., Publishers,
                                               NEW YORK AND CU1lCA;e.
  JANUARY. 1878.