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As the proprietor is resolved to furnish good and interesting reading for the million, at a price which all can afford, BALLOU'S DOLLAR MONTHLY is filled with entertaining and popular stories, by our best writers, with sketches, poems, scraps of wit and humor, and a miscellaneous compound of the notable events of the times in both hemispheres, forming an agreeable fireside companion.
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The object of the paper is to present, in the most elegant and available form, a weekly literary melange of notable events of the day. Its columns are devoted to original tales, sketches and poems, by the BEST AMERICAN AUTHORS, and the cream of the domestic and foreign news; the whole well spiced with wit and humor. Each paper is BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED with numerous accurate engravings, by eminent artists, of notable objects, current events in all parts of the world, and of men and manners, altogether making a paper entirely original in its design, in this country. Its pages contain views of every populous city in the known world, of all buildings of note in the eastern or western hemisphere, of all the principal ships and steamers of the navy and merchant service, with fine and accurate portraits of every noted character in the world, both male and female. Sketches of beautiful scenery, taken from life, will also be given, with numerous specimens from the animal kingdom, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea. It is printed on fine satin surface paper, with new and beautiful type, presenting in its mechanical execution an elegant specimen of art. The whole forms a mammoth weekly paper of sixteen octavo pages. Each six months making a volume of 416 pages, with about one thousand splendid engravings.
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We have the first seven volumes of the Pictorial, elegantly bound in cloth, and with gilt edges; forming superb and most attractive parlor ornaments in the shape of a series of books of 416 pages each, and each volume containing nearly 1000 engravings of men, manners, and current events all over the world; of scenery in all parts of the globe; of famous cities and instructive subjects; with title-pages and indexes complete
Besides the many illustrations, they embrace in their pages a vast amount of original tales, sketches, poems, and novellettes from the best American authors, with a current news record of the times; altogether forming an exceedingly novel and elegant series for future reference and present enjoyment, both in regard to reading matter and illustrations.
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