Judge ye, if we have not 'fought our way to your good graces valiantly, and showed our passport at every barrier.' Our success is abundantly satisfactory, so far as reputation and an increasing subscription-list are concerned. 'The pressure,' however, which has borne so heavily upon all business, and all professions, has not been without its influence upon the pecuniary interests of this Magazine. Many of our _unthinking_ readers--we will harbor no worse opinion of them--unwilling to curtail their expenses, by stopping their subscriptions, have been quite ready to lessen them by not _paying_ for a work which they could not bring themselves to forego. To such we have only to say, they cannot be fully aware of the injustice of which they are guilty, nor of the unmitigated exertions which they so illy requite. The 'never-ending, still beginning' labor which is going on for their benefit and amusement, long after their heads are upon their pillows, or while they are indulging in the relaxations from toil which are denied to the less fortunate laborer in the literary vineyard, should be promptly rewarded; and we cannot but hope that each delinquent under whose eye this paragraph may fall, will yield tardy justice to those who have wrought long and faithfully for him. Having said thus much, explanatory, denunciatory, and expostulatory, we enter upon a new volume with an enhanced patronage, enlarged hopes, and a settled determination to lose no opportunity, and to spare no labor nor expense, which may increase the reputation of this Magazine, and widen the already far-reaching boundary of its circulation and influence. * * * * * ERRATA.--In the poem 'Floral Astrology,' page 498, the word _us_ should follow the final '_under_,' in the third line of the third stanza. In the Lay of the Madman,' p. 518, the seventh line from the close should read, 'They _tremble_ and dart through my every vein.' * * * * * Transcriber's Note: Obvious typographical errors were repaired. Valid archaic spellings (e.g. redoutable, matresses) were retained. Errata changes stated at the end of the document were made directly in the text. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837, by Various