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��Publishers' Departtneyit.

��PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT.

��With this the January issue the Granite Monthly starts on its eighth annual voyage. We acknowledge the addition of many new names to our subscription list but regret the loss of the support of certain patrons, on whom we counted as surely as on the perma- nence of the Granite Hills of New- Hampshire. Some of them have been with us from the first issue of the mag- azine. We do not so much mind the withdrawal of a patron who has given in his support for only one year, but when an old subscriber " sends in his resignation " we know that there is some fault of ours which the said act is sup- posed to chide or reprove. The mag azine has many faults ; it is intensely local, which precludes a general circula- tion ; it doubtless contains much chaff amongst the wheat. The way for its patrons to correct any fault of this na- ture is to keep the publisher well supplied with articles of historic, literary, and intrinsic value, and allow him a wide range for selection.

That the magazine has lived for seven years, and that it is almost impossible to obtain a full set of the publications.

��proves that there is a demand for such a periodical.

The past year has been a very severe one for nearly every class in the com- munity ; nearly every species of property has been shrinking in value ; but the Granite Monthly has lived through it, while several more pretentious publica- tions have gone to the wall. It is des- tined to live in the future at least as long as the pubUsher lives — and it needs the hearty support of the repre- sentative citizens of the State, whether at home, or in other communities.

When the reader feels inclined to write a censorious letter let him be sure to inclose his own subscription in his letter together with that of some friend and neighbor.

One disinterested friend sent the names of twenty subscribers, all from a distant city. A friend in California sent in the names of six subscribers.

Just now the publisher needs one thousand new names. The labor di- vided among many will be trivial ; de- volving upon one individual the task becomes Herculean.

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