The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844: Volume 23, Number 3Various
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The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844: Volume 23, Number 3
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We intend, one of these days, provided our remarks attract sufficient
attention, to publish a volume upon this subject. We have the materiel by
us and about us; and as soon as we can make arrangements with Mr. POH for
a puff in the 'North-American Review,' or the 'Southern Literary
Messenger,' we shall broach the affair to Mr. FIELDS, the enterprising
publisher. We have moreover desired Mr. WHIPPLE to write to his friend Mr.
MACAULAY in England, who will doubtless be proud to foster American
letters by a hoist in the 'Edinburgh.' There is only one other thing
absolutely requisite for the success of the book, and that is the
appearance of this article in the KNICKERBOCKER. Befriend me then with
your fine taste, renowned HERR DIEDRICH! and give me room. I shall not
dive deeply into the matter now; but for the good of my young countrymen,
the labor of whose brains is incompatible with a fruitful development of
whiskers, I wish to put forth a page of advice that may save them a world
of fatigue. It is common with those who are far gone in this tuneful
disorder to set up late o' nights and tipple coffee. Under my new system,
I will engage that they may retire to bed on mulled-punch nightly, at
eleven, and yet effect all that they now perform with the greatest injury
to their eyes and complexions. But _pocas pallabras_--enough of this
preface: will not the thing speak for itself? There needs no farther
introduction for these brief extracts from the aforesaid work:
THE EASIEST WAY OF DISCHARGING A SONNET.
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