Monthly Magazines have opened a way for every kind of inquiry and information. The intelligence and discussion contained in them are very extensive and various ; and they have been the means of diffusing a general babit of reading through the nation, which, in a certain degree hath enlarged the pablic understanding. HERE, too, are preserved a multitude of useful hints, observations, and facts, which otherwise might never have appeared.-Dr. Kippis. BOSTON : Corner of Water-Street. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED ALSO BY THE FOLLOWING AGENTS :---A. T. GOODRICH & co, NEW-YORK; HENRY WHIPPLE, SALEM ; CHARLES WAJPPLE, NEWBURY-PORT ; WILLIAM NILLIARD, CAMBRIDGE ; J. W. FOSTER, PORTSMOUTH ; SAMUEL JOHNSON, PORTLAND ; G. A. TRUMBULL, WORCESTER ; GOODALE, GLAZIER & co. HALLOWELL ; T. DICKMAN, SPRINGFIELD; GEORGE DANA, PROVIDENCE; JOSIAR C. SBAW, NEWPORT; GOODWIN & SONS, BARTFORD; HOWE & SPALDING, NEW-HAVEN ; E. F. BACKUS, ALBANY ; LITTEL, PHILADELPHIA ; EDWARD J. COALE, BALTIMORE; J. THOMAS, GEORGETOWN ; S. N. TENNEY, NEWBURY-PORT ; JOSEPH TARDIF, QUEBEC ; WARE & 'GIBB, MONTREAL; ANDW.T. WILLIAMS, SAVANNAH, (GEO.) Price $2,50 stitched ; or $3 bound. ADVERTISEMENT. It is now SEVEN years have elapsed since the first Number of the ATHENEUM was presented for public patronage. During this time a large mass of odd numbers has accumulated, and left us in possession of about forty complete sets only, notwithstanding the republication of several volumes. thought adviseable to commence a New Series, as there are many persons who vish a complete set of any work, but perhaps are deterred from subscribing, on account of the number and expense of previous volumes. To those, who have already perused the work, we can only say, that the same spirit which has animated the former volumes will be diffused through the future series ; and that a number of new articles from new magazine will be begun and carried on in short lectures, adapted to the capacities of young readers, and amusing to those already conversant with the subjects, which are, Chemistry and Scientific Miscellany. Other useful and entertaining matter will be inserted, especially Extracts from Modern Travels illustrative of the Manners and Customs of Scripture History. The great increase of periodical works in Europe has necessarily increased the amount and diversity of talent engaged in this pleasing and useful mode of publication. To gleaners, like us, in this extensive field, the harvest is truly great ; and the difficulty of compiling a work like the Atheneum, does not arise from a want of matter in every kind of reading, solid and light, but in making the proper choice of what is best from these abundant fountains. Never has genius and critical acumen been enlisted into more active service, than at the present moment. They stand centinel over the publishing world, encouraging, marshalling and protecting whatever is worthy in morals or in mind, and strangling in embryo the noxious ephemera of literature. It may be truly said, that the wizard regions of fancy are every day extending ; the spacious fields of science and invention are constantly widening ; and the reading public, as in Athens of old, seems destined to embrace the whole community. Under such circumstances, it appears surprising that there are so few Magazine readers in America, compared with those of England. Any thing in the shape of a newspaper, is patronized, torn up, and its contents, if not upon the eternal topic of politics, even forgotten, till the old dish is perhaps hashed up for a new course. The American reader, in contra distinction to the European, seems to entertain a mortal antipathy to any kind of periodical reading that can be laid on the shelf ; his money is freely given for the mental“ food that perisheth, but for that which endureth in sheepskin for the edification of his children, he thinks it a twice-told tale.' The dearth of interest in the old song of politics, since the suspension of party-spirit in this country, has been so great, that the newspapers have begun to occupy the ground which in England is almost exclusively possessed by magazines ; how inconveniently need scarcely be mentioned, as the vehicles of communication are hardly held together during perusal, and at farthest are destined, like Jonah's gourd, to perish on the morrow_" to wrap a package or to singe a goose.” THE ATHENEUM, or Spirit of the ENGLISH MAGAZINES, is published in Boston, on the 1st and 15th of every month. Each number contains forty pages large octavo, forming two volumes of nearly five hundred pages each in a year, at the low price of Five Dollars per annum. The work is regularly forwarded by mail to Subscribers at a distance. Its appearance twice a month renders it more convenient to transport, and with less delay, than monthly publications, whilst by this mode of publication it is enabled to anticipate whatever is novel or entertaining in the literary, scientific, and fashionable world. The publishers receive by every arrival from England the magazines, printed in London and Edinburgh, and the selections are made with a scrupulous regard to the tastes of those who read for relaxation, amusement, or instruction. The first series of the work commenced in April, 1817; and the volumes continue to be dated from April and October in each year. Price bound $3, or in yellow paper $2,50 per volume. GENERAL INDEX. A inter 307 DVISERS, how heeded 418 82 Carnot's memoirs, literary notice of 48 Air, its temperature near the earth 87 Centaur, captain Inglefield 475 Almack's on Friday 118 Character high sirikes 130, 417 Alarm clock 166 Chemical Essays, No. 1, 41. No.2, 94. Algiers, and its vicinity 285 No.3, 188. No. 5, 351. Allister Crotach 301 Chlorine, a remedy in fever 127 Allan sa Sobp 345 Chronometry, Dyar's clock 47 America and Great Britain 410 Chance or fortune 206 Amelie, by M. de Jouy 163 Cholera Morbus 206 April, the month of 243 Chili, Peru and Mexico, Hall's Journal 237 Antonia, salpbur, &c. 351 Chickens batched by steam 986 App Stavert and Amos Bradley 264 Church yards 304, 355 Aptedilurian coad 361 Chimney-sweeper's friend Animal suicide 204 Circulation of ihe blood 370 Apprentices' library, Liverpool 208 Clock, which lights a candle 166 Aroe, Dr. anecdote of 488 Comets, orbits of 195 obtained 88 Ass, sagacity and attachment of an 46 Corpolence, its ill effects on man 25 Asiatic or-goad 57 Cowper, his private correspondence 44, 81 Asbestos stone 207 Copper bottoms, prevention of corrosion 126 Aspull, master George, the musician 483 Columbus, his memoirs 165 Country round Jericho 177 Balls, splendid in Paris 86 Combustion, simple supporters of 188 Batavian anthology 124 Cockney squire described 191 Barton's new poem, notice of 903 Comet of Dec. 1823 207 Bachelor's wife, by Galt, notice of 246 Cochrane's pedestrian journey, noticed 208 Bartace, George James 488 286 Babylon, its predicted desolation 145 Comforts in London 326 Baillie, Joanna 361 Curse of Coldengame 65 Berldoes the poet 361 Custom of making presents 99 Belzoni, letter from bim in Africa 127 Custom of drawing water 279 Belzoni's death announced 248,979, 337, 407 Beagry, its power in females 60 Dew, its copiousness in the eastern counBiography of a centenarian 146 tries 58 Birds, employment and association of 151 Description of a desert 58 Blank book of a small colleger 420 De Monfort, remarks on 361 Bowdich, the African traveller 401 Detection of guilt Bold dragoon 443 Deadly fiery wind 98 Brackish water corrected 56 Decision, by Mrs. Hoffland, notice of 1 26 Brooke's residence in Lapland, notice of 126 Diorama exhibition 287 Breakfast given by Capi. Parry 286 Dogs of the Highlands 290 Brasbridge, Mr. bis life 309 Dover packet described 417 Bride's tragedy, remarks on 361 Dress, its qualities 250 Burke's life, literary notice of 46 Dream of Borreray 347 Bullock's Travels in Mexico 196, 423, 452 Ducis, M. his life and writings 85 Bull-fights in South America 297 Dudley, Rev. H. Bates, deceased 207 Buller, Sir Francis, anecdote of 448 Dutch Poets, specimens of the 210, 358 Budo, Mrs. the tragedian 487 Duke Christian of Luneburg, notice of '247 368 Cataract of the Ganges, a play 167 Eastern bottles of leather 59 |