One of the magazines mentions the astounding sum of “$500!” as designed to be spent upon the illustrations of each number. We have published many a number on which we have expended _four times_ that sum, without any parade about it. The printing and paper of one of our steel-plates costs over that sum always, to say nothing of the original cost of the engraving, which is from one to two hundred dollars. We shall have to begin to brag. * * * * * An Impostor.--A fellow who signs himself “G. W. Fox, Ag’t,” has been taking subscriptions for Graham’s Magazine. We have no such agent. Take your magazine of an editor or postmaster, and you wont be cheated. * * * * * In Graham’s Magazine will be found _one hundred and twelve_ pages every number this year. We remember a magazine that promised one hundred pages each number, two years ago, but the April number could have been convicted of only sixty pages, for which the December issue only atoned so far as ten additional pages went. _But, as_ Graham _promises, we have multiplied 112 by 12 and get 1344, an amount its readers may devoutly expect._--_Republican, Winchester, Va._ Other magazines, _this year_, occasionally imitate this feature of Graham, but even by counting the pages of advertisements, plates, and even the cover sometimes. It is supposed that nobody knows this, but we find that those who have bound volumes of the first six months are wide awake, and the whole twelve numbers of the year will tell the whole story. Next year we shall surprise all parties. * * * * * Beautiful Music.--Messrs. Firth, Pond & Co., of New York, the extensive music publishers, have sent us copies of their latest issues, all of them produced in the highest style of art. We give a list of them for the benefit of our readers. VOCAL MUSIC. Ella Dee--a Southern ballad. Words by Julia M. Harris, of Alabama. Music by A. S. Pfister. Will no Maiden Marry Me. Written by Charles P. Shiras, Esq. Music by H. Kleber--and really a taking song. Click Clack, or The Song of the Village Wind-mill. Music by Albert Smith. Broken Hearted Weep no More--and, Be of Good Cheer. Two pleasing and easy ballads. By T. B. Woodbury, the popular author of Forget Not the Loved Ones at Home. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PIANO-FORTE. Spirto Gentil, from Le Favorita, easily arranged by Charles Wels; The Pearl and The Elena. Two beautiful polkas, by Kleber. Institute Polka Rondo, for young players. By Wm. Juchs. I’d Offer Thee this Hand of Mine--the well-known melody, arranged with variations. F., P. & Co. will mail copies to any address. * * * * *