Excerpt from The Atheneum, or Spirit of the English Magazines, Vol. 4: April to October, 1830 The character which the Spirit of the English Magazines has for so many years enjoyed, will not be materially affected by the change above proposed. The reader is not to infer from what we have said respecting long articles that such only are hereafter to be made use Of. On the contrary, brevity and condensation will be studied, and a great num ber Of'pages Will be devoted to one article only when its superior interest or importance may seem. To demand it. Several new English publica tions have been ordered, and we shall be enabled to commence the new volume with greater resources than we have hitherto enjoyed. We would remind. The reader. That, in pursuance of the measure now to be adopted, the Atheneum will contain more than 1100 pages in a year, of the same size as those of the present volume, and in the type used for this Preface. We respectfully solicit from our present patrons, to whom our thanks are now due, and from the lovers of English literature in general, the patronage which it will be our constant aim to merit, and which alone will enable us to continue to contribute to the amusement and instruction of their leisure hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.