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Hood's Monthly Magazine And Comic Miscellany.
HOOD'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND COMIC MISCELLANY .
HOOD'S MAGAZINE . ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY , 184-1 , PRICE 2 s . Grf .
"UTIIATEVER may be thought of Dr . Dickson ' s theory , that the type of Disease in general is periodical , there can be no doubt of its applicability to Modern Literature , which is essentially Periodical , whether the type be long primer , brevier , or bourgeois . It appears , moreover , hy the rapid consumption of Monthlies , compared with the decline of the Annuals , that frequent fits of publication are more prevalent and popular than yearly paroxysms .
Under these circumstances , no apology is necessary for the present undertaking ; but Custom , which exacts an Overture to a new Opera , and a Prologue to a new Play , requires a few words of Introduction to a new Monthly Magazine . One prominent object , then , of the projected Publication , as implied by the
sub-title of " Comic Miscellany , " will be the supply of harmless " Mirth for the Million , " and light thoughts , to a Public sorely oppressed—if its word be worth a rush , or its complaints of an ounce weight—by hard times , heavy taxes , and those " eating cares" which attend on the securing of food for the day , as well as a provision for the future . For the relief of such afflicted classes , the Editor , assisted by able Humourists , will dispense a series of papers and woodcuts , which it is hoped will cheer the gloom of Willow Walkand the loneliness of Wilderness Row—sweeten the bitterness of
, Camomile Street , and Wormwood Street—smoothe the ruffled temper of Cross Street , and enable even Crooked Lane to unbend itself ! It is hardly necessary to promise that this end will be pursued without raising a Maiden Blush , much less a Damask , in the nursery grounds of modesty—or trespassing , by wanton personalities , on the parks and lawns of Private Life . In a word , it will aim at being merry and wise , instead of merry and otherwise .
For the Sedate , there will be papers of a becoming gravity ; and the lover of Poetry will be sapplied with numbers in each Number . As to Politics , the Reader of HOOD ' S MAGAZINE will vainly search in its pages for a Panacea for Agricultural Distress , or a Grand Catholicon for Irish Agitation ; he will uselessly seek to know whether we ought to depend for our bread on foreign farmers , or merely on foreign sea-fowl ; or if the Repeal of the Union would produce low rents , and only three quarter days . Neither
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Hood's Monthly Magazine And Comic Miscellany.
HOOD'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND COMIC MISCELLANY .
HOOD'S MAGAZINE . ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY , 184-1 , PRICE 2 s . Grf .
"UTIIATEVER may be thought of Dr . Dickson ' s theory , that the type of Disease in general is periodical , there can be no doubt of its applicability to Modern Literature , which is essentially Periodical , whether the type be long primer , brevier , or bourgeois . It appears , moreover , hy the rapid consumption of Monthlies , compared with the decline of the Annuals , that frequent fits of publication are more prevalent and popular than yearly paroxysms .
Under these circumstances , no apology is necessary for the present undertaking ; but Custom , which exacts an Overture to a new Opera , and a Prologue to a new Play , requires a few words of Introduction to a new Monthly Magazine . One prominent object , then , of the projected Publication , as implied by the
sub-title of " Comic Miscellany , " will be the supply of harmless " Mirth for the Million , " and light thoughts , to a Public sorely oppressed—if its word be worth a rush , or its complaints of an ounce weight—by hard times , heavy taxes , and those " eating cares" which attend on the securing of food for the day , as well as a provision for the future . For the relief of such afflicted classes , the Editor , assisted by able Humourists , will dispense a series of papers and woodcuts , which it is hoped will cheer the gloom of Willow Walkand the loneliness of Wilderness Row—sweeten the bitterness of
, Camomile Street , and Wormwood Street—smoothe the ruffled temper of Cross Street , and enable even Crooked Lane to unbend itself ! It is hardly necessary to promise that this end will be pursued without raising a Maiden Blush , much less a Damask , in the nursery grounds of modesty—or trespassing , by wanton personalities , on the parks and lawns of Private Life . In a word , it will aim at being merry and wise , instead of merry and otherwise .
For the Sedate , there will be papers of a becoming gravity ; and the lover of Poetry will be sapplied with numbers in each Number . As to Politics , the Reader of HOOD ' S MAGAZINE will vainly search in its pages for a Panacea for Agricultural Distress , or a Grand Catholicon for Irish Agitation ; he will uselessly seek to know whether we ought to depend for our bread on foreign farmers , or merely on foreign sea-fowl ; or if the Repeal of the Union would produce low rents , and only three quarter days . Neither