Harry Hazel, the editor, says, “The sailing qualities of ‘The Yankee Privateer’ come fully up to our expectations. The breezes of popular opinion are blowing freshly in her favor, and there in every prospect that she will walk ‘like a thing of life.’” We thought, from her rig and stowage, that she was a sort of _clipper_—for she has all the good things in her. We wish her a fresh breeze and flowing _sale_. Harry offers to “pay liberally for tough yarns.” Here is a chance for the writers of some of the Magazine Prospectuses—_All hands ahoy!_ * * * * * Improving.—Brother Harper promises “_one_ or more original articles,” and “_copious_ selections,” in the new volume. “One swallow does not make a summer,” nor will one swallow sustain “an author and his family.” _Quære._ Whether “Swallow Barn” contains any allusion to authorial capacity for gulping—Bird could tell. * * * * * Delusion Extraordinary.—To suppose that because a man is poor, he has unlimited credit at bank, and can pay all manner of absurd bills and drafts at sight—and gold going out at the rate of a million per steamer, and the rocks in _California_ not all crushed, either. * * * * * Minute.—One of the Magazines, in _numbering_ the illustrations for the month, treats us to the following: “No. IX. Pattern for Baby’s Cap, _one_ engraving, with directions for working it in crotchet.” Who has a nice, small mitten For a very young kitten? Charley! I am afraid of your morals. * * * * * The Game Won.—Our January number was a “sensation number”—and the press and the public are in ecstasies with it. “We turn up Jack” with this number—having but one _point to make_. * * * * * Awful.—Snooks wants to know whether we have “still eighty thousand!” No! we have a very noisy _one hundred and ten_—a good many of them Temperance folk at that—clamorous for “more—still.” * * * * * Sartin.—A cotemporary says, “With the present number we _commence_ securing the copyright of our Magazine.” Where’s the International Americanized German Frenchman? * * * * * A Proper Present.—The New York Tribune, in noticing appropriate gifts to those we love, at New Year, says, “A year’s subscription to some good Periodical is an appropriate and excellent gift.” If you want to pay a delicate attention to your sweet-heart, send her “Graham.” * * * * * Cheap Literature.—A new edition of Cooper’s novels is now in course of publication in England, _in penny numbers_. _Husband._ “Economy, my dear, is the source of wealth.” _Wife._ “I wish, husband, you would go there.” * * * * *