American Ladies' Magazine Author:Sarah Josepha Buell Hale General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: James B. Dow Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / American / General Poetry / English... more », Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Women's Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The Token And Atlantic Souvmer A Christ-: And New Year's Present Edited by S. G. Goodrich, Boston: Published by Charles Bowen, pp. 376. Here is the Token lor I835 -- looking so bright ainl beautiful that many young ladies will, we doubt not, wish that Christmas was already come. This volume is universally allowed to excel its predecessors. Its literary character is superior; and the engravings are unrivalled in our country. We were particularly pleased with the ' Silver Cascade,' and the ' Mountain Stream' -- the Frontispiece is very beautiful -- the only disagreeable picture is ' The Dream of Youth' -- which is a complete failure. Some of our best writers have contributed to ihe literary department -- Mrs Sigour- ney; Miss Sedgwick ; Miss Leslie; Miss Gould, -- Grenville Mellon; H. B. Thatcher; Kcv. F. W. P. Greenwood; S. G. Goodrich; G. C. Ver- planck, a curious article -- but the best article in the book is from the pen of John Neal. Lectures. The season of public lectures is just commencing in Boston. First on the list comes the Phrenological Lectures. The introductory, by the Rev. J. Pierpont, was delivered on Friday evening the 3d instant ; the Masonic Hall was crowded to a very uncomfortable degree, and the most profound attention to the eloquent lecturer manifested the intere...« less