n energy untiring and sleepless was devoted to its
business management, and had I not, in an evil hour, forgotten my own
true interests, and devoted that capital and industry to another
business which should have been confined exclusively to the magazine,
I should to-day have been under no necessity--not even of writing this
notice.

I come back to my first love with an ardor undiminished, and an energy
not enervated, with high hopes and very bold purposes. What can be
done in the next three years, time, that great solver of doubts, must
tell. What a daring enterprize in business can do, I have already
shown in Graham's Magazine and the North American--and, alas! I have
also shown what folly can do, when business is forgotten--but I can
yet show the world that he who started life a poor boy, with but eight
dollars in his pocket, and has run such a career as mine, is hard to
be put down by the calumnies or ingratitude of any. Feeling,
therefore, that having lost one battle, "there is time enough to win
another," I enter upon the work of the "redemption of Graham," with
the very confident purposes of a man who never doubted his ability to
succeed, and who asks no odds in a fair encounter.

GEO. R. GRAHAM.

An Acquisition.--Our readers will share in the pleasure with which it
is announced, that JOSEPH R. CHANDLER, Esq., the accomplished writer,
and former editor of "_The United States Gazette_," will hereafter be
"_one of us_" in the editorial management of Graham's Magazine. There
are few writers in the language who equal, and none excel Mr. Chandler
in graceful and pathetic composition. His sketches live in the hearts
of readers, while they are heart-histories recognized by thousands in
every part of the laud. An article from Mr. Chandler's pen may be
looked for in every number, and this will cause each number to be
looked for anxiously.

Editors Looking Up.--It is expected that an early number of "Graham"
will be graced with a portrait of our distinguished rival of the
"Lady's Book," that gentleman having "in the handsomest manner," as
they say in theatricals, sat for a picture of his goodly countenance
and proportions. At our command this has been transferred to steel, to
be handed over to the readers of "Graham," by Armstrong, an artist
whose ability is a fair warrant for a fine picture. Now if any of our
fair readers fall in love with Godey, we shall take