New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-25
LITERARY.

tn, ArHIyEuM was established in 1928 in rivalry
with The Literary Gazette then very popular and
profitable Mr.. J. s. Buckingham, the proprietor
and editor, percevipg that 1t vas succeeding as
weekly publication, resolved to produce If twice
week He did so, and it failed The copyright was
bought for trife, in October, 1890, by Mr. Dixie,
clerk in one of the Government offices, aud Mr. MAJ
tin. capitalist Their frst step was to reduce the
price from sixteen TO eight cents their next to pub
lish il once week only; their last and best to en-
ploy the best talent upon it, and thus make it worthy
Of public support The paper, though essentially
heavy has succeeded, and commands steady sale OF
about 90, 900. OF this, it appears that 1900 are
stamped, 10 permit their immediate free Transition
through the Post-Ofice Mr.. Dixie. who long OIL
cated a. editor, resigned, in 1874 in favor OF Mr. 1.
X. Harvey, clever minor poet who was su ,erseded,
some months ago, by Mr. Hepwoth Dixon, author OF
the {" Life of John Howard
The HoME CosPAsIos is q weekly magazine OF
literature, with few claims to notice.
The Critic, which is published only twice month,
is the property of Mr.. f. w. Cox, lawyer and
y.rsifer who founded and edits it. To those who
desire general Out one-sided glance at the tera.
ture Of the day il may be useful Its great faults are
-pretence and shalo-pess. II is excessively disn-
genuous-dishonest would be tho better word, per-
baps Ire circulation is ereusivey stamped paper
which for each bi.mon,hly issue gives a,s'6 as its
entire circulation. This it advertises against the
2.7oo weekly stamped copies Of The Athep@um,
wholly sinh ing the fact that the latter also sells II 300
weekly without any stamp
The PUBLISHERS CIRCULAR is merely an adver-
tiseuent sheet HOUSEHOLD WORDS IS generally IN
slammed; but few have the stamps TO secure its
4 n
(which has great unstamped crculat,on and rHr
HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE are in the same predicament:
Tho .o--s.iy worth nvtice on account Oh
an, merit of its own. The design WAS to present
monthly narrative OF events at home and abroad at
very email cost This digett is prepared for Mr.
Dickes Tor rather, for Bradbury & Evans his print
ersD BY William Henry Wills, some such mere
compiler, and appears the fret of each month, as
a sort Of supplement, 10 Household Words The
stapp-laws say that any paper, narraDg news, pub
shed at intervals Of than 20 Jays apart, should
not be liable to the newspaper 'tamp-duty. Bot the
Stamp Office sued the publishers Of The Household
Narrative published month for penalties said
to be incurred by not printing on stamped paper
The result vas, that the Stamp Office wss defeated,
in more trials than one. But, the Crown pays no
law costs in England the triumphant printers have
been sadded with the heavy costs by them incurred
10 establish principle.
The LITERARY GAZETTE, for over thirty years un.
der the editorship Of William Jerdsn, its founder,
was once a publication with great circulation.
Most OF the leading iterati Of thu day have written
for IT, and it kept "pet poet in the person OF poor
L. E. l.. II vas published, in those days, for six
teen cents a number, and The Atbensum coming
down to eight the first great blow it felt. Jer-
dan never professed to be critic He was satisfied
II he got an advance copy Of forthcoming work.
and gave some of the best passages az extracts with
out offering any critical opinion. Since Jordan quit
ted IT, The Gazette has passed into various hands,
and is we'll edited now, yet its sale is comparatively
smal-not quite 5000, Of which 47s copies are
sfa