Ponola [sic] weekly register. (Ponola [sic], Miss.) 1843-1843, 1843-03-15
PROSPECTUS


Wis is monthly Magazine, devoted chic
fly to Literature, but occasionally finding
room also for articles that fall within the scope
of Science; and protesting no, disdan for taste
fI selectioRs though its matter has been as it will
continue to be, in the main original.
Party Politics and controversial
Theology as far as possible, are Jealous
ly excluded. They are sometimes Sc
blended with discussions in literature
or in moral science, otherwise unob-
icctionable, as TO gain admittance for
the sake of the more valuable matter
to which they adhere. but whenever
that happens, they are INCIDENTAL only
not PRIMARY. They are dross. tolerated
only because it cannot well be severed
from the sterling ore whercwIth 1t is
Incorporated.
Reviews and critical Notices occupy
ihcir due space in the work: and 1t Is
the Editors aim that they should have
threefold tendency-to convey, IN
condensed form, such valuable truths
or interesting incidents rs are embodied
in the works rcviewed,-to direct the
renders attention to books that deserve
to be read,-and to warn him against
wasting time and money upon that
large number, which merit only to be
burned. In this age of publications,
that by their variety and multitude dis
tract and overwhelm every undiscrimi
mating student, IMPARTIAL CRITICISM,
governed by the views just mentioned,
IS one of the most inestimabe and in
dispensable of auxiliaries, to him who
does with to dl scriminate.
Essays and Tales, having in view
utility or amusement, or both-EIistori-
cal Sketches-and "reminiscences of
We nts too minute for History, yet eluci-
dating it, and heightening its Interest,"
may be regarded as forming the staple
Of the work. And of Indigenous POE
TRY, enough is published-sometimes
Off mean strain-to manifest and Gull
tivate the growing poetical taste and tai
ents Of our country.
The times appear, for several rea-
sons, to demand such a work-not one
alone, but many. The public mind is
fcverishcd and irritated still, from re-
cent political strifes. The soft, assua-
siye influence Of Literature is needed,
10 aliay that fever, and soothe that irri-
tation. Vice and folly are rioting abroad
they should be driven by indignant re-
bukc, or dashed by ridicule, into their
fitting haunts Ignorance lords it over
an immense proportion of our people.
Every spring should be set in motion,
to arouse the enlightened, and to in
crease their number; so that the great
enemy of popular government may no
longer brood, like pertentous cloud.
over the destinies Of our country. And
to accomplish all these ends, what
more powerful can be employed, than
periodical, on the plan of the Messen-
ger; if that plan be carried out in prac-
tice?
The South peculiarly requires such
an agent. In all the Union, south of
Washington, there are but two Litera-
ry periodicals! Northward of that
city, there are at least twenty i've or
thirty! Isths contrast justified by the
wealth, the leisure, the native talent, or
the actual literary taste, of the Southern
people, compared with those of the
Northern? No; for in wealth talents
and taste, VIC may justly claim at least
an equality with our brethren: and a
domestic institution exclusively our
own, beyond all doubt affords us, if we
choose, twice the leisure for reading
and writing, which they enjoy.