THE POCKET MAGAZINE OF Classic and Polite Literature. WITH ENGRAVINGS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE RECENT WORKS Preface. THE completion of the seventh volume of the Pocket Magazine calls on the Proprietor to return his grateful thanks for the patronage which the work has experienced, and the considerate patience with which his friends have borne the delay that has taken place in giving the plates. He feels great satisfaction that he has now supplied the whole of the engravings, and a confident hope that he will in future be enabled to publish them with the utmost regularity. The Editor has several new and interesting articles in preparation for the eighth volume, among which is an account of the recent successful voyage of discovery in the Polar seas. Several purchasers of the Magazine having desired to be informed how the plates, in illus |