Charles Kemble is reported to have said that Fanny's is, beyond doubt, the best and truest book ever published, with the exception of Byron and the Bible. To Readers and Correspondents. For this we had many reasons which it will be unnecessary to mention in detail. But although, in the infancy of our journal, such a course might have seemed to us expedient, we are now under no obligation to continue it. We shall therefore, for the future, suffer our various articles to speak for themselves, and depend upon their intrinsic merit for support.
Many poetical favors are under consideration.
We avail ourselves of this opportunity again to solicit contributions, especially from our Southern acquaintances. The award was, however, subsequently altered, so as to exclude Mr. P. from the second premium, in consideration of his having obtained the higher one. Here follows the extract. It would hardly be doing justice to the writer of this collection to say that the Tale we have chosen is the best of the six offered by him. We presume this letter must set the question at rest.