According to the unanimous opinion of the American press, the KNICKERBOCKER has been greatly improved during the past year, and it is certain that at no period of its long career did it ever attract more attention or approbation.  Confident of their enterprise and ability, the proprietors are determined that it shall be still more eminent in excellence, containing all that is best of the old, and being continually enlivened by what is most brilliant of the new.

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PROSPECTUS OF The Continental Monthly

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There are periods in the world’s history marked by extraordinary and violent crises, sudden as the breaking forth of a volcano, or the bursting of a storm on the ocean.  These crimes sweep away in a moment the landmarks of generations.  They call out fresh talent, and give to the old a new direction.  It is then that new ideas are born, new theories developed.  Such periods demand fresh exponents, and new men for expounders.

This Continent has lately been convulsed by an upheaving so sudden and terrible that the relations of all men and all classes to each other are violently disturbed, and people look about for the elements with which to sway the storm and direct the whirlwind.  Just at present, we do not know what all this is to bring forth; but we do know that great results MUST flow from such extraordinary commotions.