The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-27 00:00:00

An International Magazine.

We welcome with pleasure the announcement of
a new monthly periodical under the suggestive
title of The Broadway—London and New York.
The object is to provide an international magazine
of light and amusing literature—neutral ground—
on which the best authors of both nations may
meet and mingle their ideas. It is the custom of
the great houses to publish a magazine, and for
almost every field to which a glimpse of a chance has
allured an occupant has been found. The path to
the biggest field of all has not been so much over-
looked, as hitherto rendered impassable. The late
war so roused and intensified prejudice that what
would have answered in England would have been
rejected in America, and what would have been
welcome in America would have been unread in
England. Between such stools the magazine would
have gone to the bottom of the Atlantic ;
but clear away these difficulties, and there
is no periodical published that would have
such a future as one so conducted that
it would be read with pleasure and instruction
alike on both sides. If directed mainly to American
subjects, and mostly written by English authors of
nigh repute, it will command an extensive circu-
lation throughout the States. Let it be edited in
a spirit of truth and fairness, somewhat imbued
with American national sentiment, and no people
will allow more lati tud eth an the Americans in criti-
cising their faults. It is not fair criticism that for-
merly caused so much irritation in America with
English writers, but the gross ignorance of some,
and the stil more gross mis-statements of others.
It is not pleasant for a sensitive people to have their
objects distorted, their intentions vilified, their acts
falsified, and the very nobility of their designs
sneered at and ridiculed, or belied by those who
have attained to fame, whose statements are put
forth with authority and read over Europe. The
proposed magazine will appear in August, and con-
tain 80 pages, illustrated by the best artists, and
published by the well-known house of Routledge
and Sons. It will open with an original novel, by
the author of " Guy Livingstone," and the writers
here number among - other names—The Rev.
J. AL Bellew, Robt. Buchanan, F. C. Burnand, H.
J. Byron, Amelia B. EdWards, John Hollingshead,
Tom Hood, Charles Knight, Samuel Lover, John
Oxenford, Percy Fitzgerald, Ernest Griset, T. W.
Robertson, Hesba Stretton, Mrs. Riddell, W.
11. Russell, of the Times ; G. A. Sala, Arthur
Sketchley, Moy Thomas, Edmund Yates, and others.
The Mesirs. ROUTLEDGE are famous for their cheap
productions, and at the announced cost of sixpence
their magazine will be among the cheapest ever
published. The circulation must be large to re-
munerate them for so costly an enterprise, but they
have a field beyond all comparison greater than any
other. It, in truth, embraces the Anglo-Saxon race—
the English-speaking peoples of the world. We
presume it will appear simultaneously in London
and New York. It will give to some American
authors an English platform, and introduce to
American readers some English literary men who
deserve an attention they have not as yet there re-
ceived. The magazine can scarcely fail to have a
beneficial influence ; and for this reason, if for no
other, it ought to be supported by those who
earnestly desire that " good-will " should reign
between the nations. Every step in this direction
has an especial interest to us, who hold that inter-
national organs are the great means of assimilating
and connecting together the kindred countries,
instead of allowing them yearly to stray further and
further from each other. We have had enough of
stupid, bigoted, and ill-natured criticism, and now

know pretty well whatthe effects are of an indulgence
in such remarks. To write sarcastically, to pander
to the lowest feelings and meanest prejudices, has
been sufficiently easy and profitable to induce per-
sons unqualified for better things to enter this
path. But a new day is dawning, and the great
authors on both sides will remember that their
readers are not American or English, but the Anglo-
Saxon race. We will watch this enterprise with in-
terest, and have little hesitation in prophesying
that it will be amongst the most successful literary
ventures of the time.—Anglo-American Times.