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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)
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      The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20) - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and

      Instruction, No. 584, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 584

      Vol. 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)

      Author: Various

      Release Date: November 22, 2004 [EBook #14124]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, William Flis, and the PG Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team.

      THE

      MIRROR

      OF

      LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT,

      AND

      INSTRUCTION:

      CONTAINING

      ORIGINAL ESSAYS;

      HISTORICAL NARRATIVES; BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS; SKETCHES OF SOCIETY; TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS; NOVELS AND TALES; ANECDOTES;

      SELECT EXTRACTS

      FROM

      NEW AND EXPENSIVE WORKS;

      POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED;

      The Spirit of the Public Journals;

      DISCOVERIES IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES;

      USEFUL DOMESTIC HINTS;

      &c. &c. &c.

      VOL. XX.

      London:

      1832

      PREFACE.

      The completion of the Twentieth Volume of this Miscellany presents us with another cause for self-gratulation, and thankful acknowledgement to the reading public. This continued and unimpaired success amidst a myriad of new-born aspirants, is the best proof of our maintenance of public esteem; and so long as our efforts are guided by the same singleness of purpose that first directed them we shall hope for a continuance of such favour. A multitude of contemporaries whet each other; thinking nurseth thinking; and, in like manner, reading nurseth reading, and awakens a spirit of inquiry, untiring and exhaustless, among all concerned in pursuit and wholesome gratification.

      In a retrospect of the hundreds of competitors who have started for the prize of public patronage since our outset, we shall not, perhaps, be accused of vanity in placing to our own account the first appropriation of such means as may have contributed to the partial success of our contemporaries. We owe them nothing but good will; for we rather regard things poetically than politically, and we are anxious to inform and amuse the reader—not to perplex, by constantly reminding him of his uncheery lot in life.

      Ten years' establishment in periodical literature may give us a sort of patriarchal feeling towards others; for, with one exception THE MIRROR is the oldest weekly journal of the metropolis. In this comparatively long career, our best energies have been directed to the progressive improvement of each department of the work. The plan of embellishment, which may be said to have originated with THE MIRROR, has been extended and improved, until few subjects are incapable of successful illustration in its pages; due regard being paid to nicety of execution, as well as attractive design. So much for the present, state of our representative system.

      The selection of materials for each sheet of THE MIRROR has been regulated by a desire to extend useful information, and to cultivate healthful indications of public taste. In a journal, like the present, mainly devoted to the accumulation of facts, errors and misstatements are inevitable; but, our own diligence, aided by sharp-sighted Correspondents, has, from time to time, guided us to accuracy in most cases, and directed fruitful inquiry upon matters of no ordinary interest or character. Scientific

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