Ponola [sic] weekly register. (Ponola [sic], Miss.) 1843-1843, 1843-04-12
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TTNHlS is monthly Magazine, devoted chic
fly 10 Literature, but occasionally finding
room also for articles that fall within he scope
OF Science; and protesting no, distain for taste
u selections, Though its matter has been as twill
continue TO be, in the main or1gutai
Party Politics and controversial
Theology as far as possible, are Jealous
" excluded. They are sometimes so
blended with discussions in literature
- moral science, Otherwise unob-
IectisRable. as TO goln abundance Tor
the sake of the more valuS5le matter
to which they adhere: but whenever
that happens, they arc INCIDENTAL only:
not PRIMARY. They are dross, tolerated
only because it cannot we'll be severed
from the sterling ore wherewith it is
Incorporated.
Reviews and critical Notices occupy
their due space in the work: and it is
the Editors Sim that they should have
a threefoId tendency-to convey, in
condensed form, such valuable truths
or interesting incidents rs are embodied
in the works reviewed,-to direct the
readers 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 inestimable and in
dispensable of auxliaries, 10 him who
does with to Oh scriminate.
Essays and Tales, having in view
utility or amusement, or both-Ilistori-
cal Skctches-and "reminiscences OF
We nts too minute for History, get eluci-
dating it, and frightening its Interest,"
may be regarded as forming the staple
Of the work. And Of indigenous POE
TRY, enough is published-sometimes
no 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 work-not one
alone, but many. The public mind is
! lcverished and irritated still. from re-
cent political striles. The soft, assua-
sive influence of Literature is needed,
to alay that fever, and seo,he that irri-
tation Vice and folly are rioiing abroad
they should be driven by indignant re-
buke, or dashed by ridicule, into their
fitting haunts Ignorance lords il 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 grea,
enemy of popular government may NO
longer brood, like a pertentous cloud
over the destinies of our country. And
to accomplish all these ends, wha,
more powerful can be employed, than a
periodical, on the plan of the Messen.
ger; if that plan be carried out in prac.
tice?
The South peculiarly requires sucl
an agent. In all the Union, south oil
Washington, there are but two Lilera
ry periodicals! Northward of thai
city, there are at least twenty-five O,
thirty! sthis contrast justified by The
wealth, the leisure, the native talent, OF
the actual literary taste, of the Southern
people, compared with those Of the
Northern: No; for in wealth talent.
and taste, we may justly claim at leas,
an equality with QUE brethren; and .
domestic institution exclusively our
own, beyond all doubt affords us, If we
choose, twice the leisure Tor reading
and writing, which they ENJOY.