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The very extensive demand for the first volume of this Miscellany has not only convinced the Publisher of the accuracy of the views which induced him to bring it forward, but also stimulated him to increased exertions to render the work, in its progress, more worthy of the public patronage, and more suitable to the particular object of its destination. How far he has succeeded in these efforts, it would ill become him to decide; but he trusts, that a comparison of the present with the preceding volume, will show that he was not too sanguine in the anticipation of future improvements, which he there ventured to express.

The graphic illustrations for this year, twelve in number, designed and engraved by some of our first artists, aspire by their execution to the highest character to which works of that kind can lay claim; while