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The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 (April 1851) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that assembles a sweeping survey of contemporary letters, art, and scientific discovery. Its opening editorial proudly announces a year of publication, a growing readership, and a network of correspondents in London, Paris, Berlin and beyond, promising readers advance notice of the most important new English works and leading continental miscellanies. The magazine advertises a blend of wit, romance, and original papers from a roster of contributors that includes G. P. R. James, Henry Austen Layard, Bayard Taylor, and many other noted writers, while also committing to regular features such as a Historical Review, a Record of Scientific Discovery, and monthly biographical notices of eminent deceased persons. The contents list that follows the introduction confirms the breadth of the publication, ranging from art reports on Prussian public works and Leonardo sketches to extensive literary notices of Russian, German, French, and American authors, as well as travel accounts, scientific essays, and cultural commentary.
Written in the formal, expansive prose typical of mid‑Victorian journals, the volume reflects the era’s confidence in progress and its appetite for encyclopedic knowledge. Its tone is earnest and cultivated, aiming to satisfy “the best judgments” while maintaining “the highest refinement and virtue.” Readers who relish dense, well‑referenced surveys of the intellectual climate of the 1850s, particularly those interested in the intersection of literature, art, and early scientific reporting, will find this magazine a rewarding window onto the period’s global cultural currents.
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PREFACE TO THE THIRD VOLUME.
The INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE has now been published one year, with a constantly increasing sale, and, it is believed, with a constantly increasing good reputation. The publishers are satisfied with its success, and will apply all the means at their disposal to increase its value and preserve its position. They have recently made such arrangements in London as will insure to the editor the use of advance sheets of the most important new English publications, and besides all the leading miscellanies of literature printed on the continent, have engaged eminent persons as correspondents, in Paris, Berlin, and other cities, so that The International will more fully than hitherto reflect the literary movement of the world.
In wit and humor and romance, the most legitimate and necessary components of the popular magazine, as great a variety will be furnished as can be gleaned from the best contemporary foreign publications, and at the same time several conspicuous writers will contribute original papers. In the last year The International has been enriched with new articles by Mr. G. P. R. James, Henry Austen Layard, LL.D., Bishop Spencer, Mr. Bayard Taylor, Mr. R. H. Stoddard, Mr. Parke Godwin, Mr. John R. Thompson, Mr. Alfred B. Street, Mr. W. C. Richards, Dr. Starbuck Mayo, Mr. John E. Warren, Mr. George Ripley, Mr. A. O. Hall, Mr. Richard B. Kimball, Mrs. E. Oakes Smith, Mrs. Mary E. Hewitt, Miss Alice Carey, Miss Cooper (the author of "Rural Hours"), and many others, constituting a list hardly less distinguished than the most celebrated magazines in the language have boasted in their best days; this list of contributors will be worthily enlarged hereafter, and the Historical Review, the Record of Scientific Discovery, the monthly Biographical Notices of eminent Persons deceased, will be continued, with a degree of care that will render The International of the highest value as a repository of contemporary facts.
When it is considered that periodical literature now absorbs the best compositions of the great lights of learning and literary art throughout the world,--that Bulwer, Dickens, James, Thackeray, Macaulay, Talfourd, Tennyson, Browning, and persons of corresponding rank in France, Germany, and other countries, address the public through reviews, magazines, and newspapers--the value of such an "abstract and brief chronicle" as it is endeavored to present in The International, to every one who would maintain a reputation for intelligence, or who is capable of intellectual enjoyment, will readily be admitted. It is trusted that while these pages will commend themselves to the best judgments, they will gratify the general tastes, and that they will in no instance contain a thought or suggest a feeling inconsistent with the highest refinement and virtue.
NEW-YORK, July 1, 1851.
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