1838-11-The Knickerbocker-To Our Readers

To Our Readers.

The Knickerbocker; or New York Monthly Magazine, v12 n5, November 1838, p. 474.

TO OUR READERS. — Unexpected duties and pressing literary engagements, have prevented the appearance of 'OLLAPOD' in our pages, for three or four of the past numbers. 'Ollapodiana,' however, will be resumed, in due season, and 'Brandrethiana,' will follow close upon the event. We ahve an inkling of something unusually clever, in the shape of a series of letters, of which we have been permitted to read the initiatory epistle, entitled 'Letters from Palmyra.' Lest the reader should infer that ew are going to repeat a popular series, it may be well to state, that the letters are supposed to be written by an eminent personage at Palmyra, in this state, to a distinguished lady of Rome, in Oneida county, the daughter of a renowned citizen of that famous place. The opening is rich, being descriptive of the more prominent scenes that surround the writer, and trenching faintly, toward the last, upon what would seem to be intended as the germ of the papers, namely, the first glimmerings of the Mormon religion, which had its origin, as the reader will remember, near the Palmyrene capital of Wayne county. The spread of the faith, and the persons and characters of its defenders, will doubtless constitute the staple of these papers, intermingled, however, with amusing private adventure. We have, moreover, matured a valuable plan for exchanging with the editors of one or two of the most popular English magazines, the articles of some of our best contributors, for the writings of their more eminent correspondents; thus publishing simultaneously, English and American original matter, which will add variety to the periodicals of both countries; giving to our trans-Atlantic contemporaries an agreeable freshness and variety of matériel, and to our own work a month's advance in the publication of choice original matter, from pens well known, and universally admired, among us. This, however, will exclude nothing from our own contributors, as we shall 'cut our coat according to the cloth.' When we commence our THIRTEENTH VOLUME, upon a new and beautiful type, and have given a programme of literary stock consigned and on hand, we shall be willing to submit, whether the liberal favor with which the KNICKERBOCKER is received at the hands of the public, be not, in some good measure at least, fairly earned.