The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1852-03-13

Hent Of Ar, Gahnmfs Magazine has always l.ee,
celebrated. fh~ excellence and brauiy Of It's pic,o
RAJ appointments lar surJass the usual ndornnenis
the Monthly Magazines. The very finest and most
expensive efforts Of the fr,t artists II Enrope nm,
Au"ficn grace III. work. No indifferent or inferior
designs mar e. beauty hut all that TASTE can sir r,s
~ capital command In the way Of elegance. !. 10 be
had ~ the yearly volumes OF this Magazine &c.
The Prospectus of Sartain's Magazine
differs very little from the above, and wc
presume that our readers have already had
enough of such fulsomc self graiula,ions
and have begun to feel apprehcnsons les,
body of mortal publishers may not be
able, in the prosecution Of their designs, to
come NJ to the lofty and high. sounding
phrase of their manilestoes or, in other
words. that Mcssrs Cooley, Graham, and
s,artain, may not, after all, be able to per.
form all that they promise
Such apprebensions are not groundess,
The literary character of these Magazines,
in the first place, is Of very unequal ma.
lure-more often below par than above.
In the prospectus of each periodical we are
assured of the '9nstant contributions Of
such writers as Iongfollow, Hawthorn, and
Irving but If we are sufficiently credulous
to believe that we shall often have the
pleasure of renewing our acquaintance with
these authors in the pages Of Graham "
or Cooley we shall be sadly disappon,
ed. But instead of the masculine aud for.
chile articles, whether prose or verse, which
we might expect from sources like these,
we are treated with dish of literature for
which we can devise no name, and from
which sensible men turn away in disgust,
wondering that anything so inferior can
commend itself or be commended, To the
notice Ut sensible women. Stories of fash.
iouahlc life, the most insipid of themes -
dilute, emasculate, and robbed OF whnt
point they might otherwise possess by the
constant and strained endeayors of their
authors to keep within certain limits pre-.
scrhcd by false notions Of refinement aud
dclcacy-s stories in which heroInes are
ALWAYS angels. men either tdoniscs or Cali
bans lie always ball room, and in which
frations aud marriages are represented ~
the great ends Of cxsicncc--tl,is is not the
kind OF literature TO improve us in tasie,
morals, or ,nanners-to furnish our minds
with satisfying pahuIum, or 10 lead us to a
lust appreciation of what is good or bad
in books aud society That we are not
speaking too strongly. any candid reader
will admit, who ha. had the fortune to pick
up one OF these periodicals OF n spare hour
when nothing else WAS to be had, or has
been scdnccd into huying one by some bla'
tnut advertisement or otliclous bookseller;
aud who has supped his I'LL of its wordy
ccnteats For who that has ever read Il
copy Of Philadelphia Monthly from the
beginning to the end, including sonnets by
new contributors stray fragment OF some
numbering novel, 10y &. =. Il. James, and
stories about the inestimahlc Rupert DE
Lacy, and the charming Glendora ti'z-
1 Melville. hy any one of dozen Misses,
with an alteralcd signature, can forget his
disgust nj such an unsavory banquet, aud
his wonder that it should be relishcd so cx.
cocdingly by such large number OF his
/ fellow beings,
Tmlv, story.wri,lng, MS it Is prac'sed
hy the contributors to the Triad oi Phlla.
delpbia Nagaviucs, has fallen into bad
hands. and we are afraid that the manu-
iacturc OF ESSAYS aud biographies is IN dan
Ger ol similar misfortune. FOR. to humof
r.rtain uneasy ,sinrcs of the literary con
science Of the simple minded public, ard
+, o,,yi,tc nov twadiinp complaints that
Graham or Cooley seemed inclined
/ to comply with the superficial tendencies
| or ,he aoc. these publishes have, no dooE;,
viii fine same immense expenses attendant
unon the getting up OF their fashion plates
and magnificent cngrayipgs. secured the
ser,ices of competent force OF heavy
,,.r;,,rs eclected from the first living talent
,f america" and prepared at any tine TO
snY,npa any quantity oil philosophy, history,
hior,anhy. or criticism, tina. may be called
fcr Particular attention /, given by these
literar, luminarics. iha, nothing of what they
may elaborate shall be of immediate inter
o.t in ANYBODY that thcv shall say nothing
,ho, go, shock the feelings or disturb the
,,on,.l oouilibrinp. of heir readers; that
,bey eball carefully abstain from the vulgar
,es,ons Of so,irc or ridicule in whatever
controversies they may wage in the field OF
fashionable ethics and that they shall
leave all questions, no matter where they
NAV have been found in state OF sublime
aud abstract uncertainty. Such h'eiN
themes as the value OF Hope, the worthless
ness OF Money, and the danger OF fn'e'
NAV always be safely INDUCED IN by con
irilutor to n Philadelphia Magazine Ihe
biographies OF Hannibal or OF socrates as
they are in no danger OF containing person
al,ies, are always acceptable material TO
be operated upon by " solid wiiier Tor