PREFACE. IN coming a fourth time with our sober ANNUAL before the world, we need offer little, beside thanks to the public and to our friends, for the ample aid and favor, they have hitherto bestowed upon us. We have already expressed our intention to make the Token strictly national, and to depend entirely upon the resources of our country for the engravings, and the literary contents of the work. We yet see no cause to regret, or change this design, and as in the present volume, so in the future ones, we propose to adhere to it. We have the pleasure of giving in the present work an engraving from our countryman, M. J. Danforth, who has so much distinguished himself in London, within the last two years. We have also one engraving from a fine picture by Cole, for which we owe particular thanks to D. Wadsworth, Esq., of Hartford, to whom the picture belongs, and who politely gave us permission to have it copied. For the piece of music inserted in the volume, we are indebted to Dr Lieber, who received it recently from Germany, where it was among the new favorites of the musical world. As to the future, we need only add, that we have made arrangements to prosecute our work with additional zeal, and we hope with additional satisfaction to the public. If we mistake not, the present volume will be found to possess higher claims than any of its predecessors, to public approbation, and it will be our aim, every succeeding year, to surpass what has gone before. To our contributors we owe many thanks, and some apologies. If any of them have had reason to expect the insertion of pieces which are not to be found in the volume, we beg them to impute what may seem neglect, to simple necessity. We are too deeply sensible of our dependence upon them, willingly to give them just cause of complaint. We may be permitted to say that most of the embarrassment we feel, in the editorial department of our work, arises from the lateness of the period at which the articles are received, and from the undue length to which many of them extend. We need but intimate these things, and hope our friends will hereafter keep them in mind. EMBELLISHMENTS. 1. Presentation Plate-designed for Gray and Bowen, by 2. Titlepage-The Ornamental Part designed for Gray and 3. The Lost Boy, from a Painting by A. Fisher, belonging to 1 27 4. Just Seventeen-engraved by J. Cheney, after a Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence 141 5. Music (St Cecilia)-engraved by E. Gallaudet after Dominichino 107 6. Blind Mother-engraved by J. Andrews, after Lescot 187 7. Isabel-painted by S. Newton, and engraved by M. J. Danforth 217 8. The Shadow-painted by A. Fisher, and engraved by J. 9. American Scenery-engraved by G. B. Ellis, from a Painting by T. Cole, in the possession of D. Wadsworth, Esq. of Hartford, Connecticut 10. The Snow Shoe-drawn by Lieut. Hood, of the Royal 55 285 313 |