In a retrospect of the hundreds of competitors who have started
for the prize of public patronage since our outset, we shall not,
perhaps, be accused of vanity in placing to our own account the first
appropriation of such means as may have contributed to the partial
success of our contemporaries. We owe them nothing but good will;
for we rather regard things poetically than politically, and we are
anxious to inform and amuse the reader--not to perplex, by constantly
reminding him of his uncheery lot in life.
Ten years' establishment in periodical literature may give us a
sort of patriarchal feeling towards others; for, with one exception
THE MIRROR is the oldest weekly journal of the metropolis. In this
comparatively long career, our best energies have been directed to the
progressive improvement of each department of the work. The plan of
embellishment, which may be said to have originated with THE MIRROR,
has been extended and improved, until few subjects are incapable of
successful illustration in its pages; due regard being paid to nicety
of execution, as well as attractive design. So much for the present,
state of our "representative system."
The selection of materials for each sheet of THE MIRROR has been
regulated by a desire to extend useful information, and to cultivate
healthful indications of public taste. In a journal, like the present,
mainly devoted to the accumulation of facts, errors and misstatements
are inevitable; but, our own diligence, aided by sharp-sighted
Correspondents, has, from time to time, guided us to accuracy in
most cases, and directed fruitful inquiry upon matters of no ordinary
interest or character.
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