Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-05-20
Literary" Newspapers.


request that we viii notice them, which
we now proceed TO do, as respects the
whole parcelin general, and the two most
recent arrivals in particular. Our read
crs have doubtless observed occasional
articles in our news columns, commend
iug the New York Ledger, the Mercury,
or some other Of the story papers with
which the cities flood the country. We
hope no one has been green enough to
suppose thst these puffs were our own or
we're endorsed by US. If there has been
any such supposition we desire now to
correct it once for all, and to advise them
that all these pufis, in our own paper and
10 all other papers, are simply adver-
tisements, furnished by the publishers
and paid for at so much a line They
express the opinion Of the publishers, not
our opinion. We wish our readers dis
tincily to understand that whatever they
have seen or may sec in the Standard,
approving any Of that class Of papers
above mentioned, does lot express our
judgment concerning them What we
really DO think Of them we propose now
20 put on record.
A literary ncwspa er that is worthy Of
the name is one Of the most valuable pc
riodicals which the press produces
Pure in sentiment, profound or sprightly
in thought, keen and Just in criticism,
correct in style, enrolling and clevating
IN all is influences, il may take rank with
the most Praisewouhy institutions Of IN,
age. Such papers have been published
IN these United States-would that We
were not obliged to write haze BEEN
Tho Literary World was such paper
We read it with eager relish while il
lived, and now that It IL dead, We would
give more for q single stray copy Of i
than for q whole years issue of any lit
erary paper now published But it woulC
not consent either to debauch the publ,
taste or to paHder to a taste already de
bsuched, and it died Of starvation. Tht
Criterion was another such paper, high
or even in its aim than the Literary
World, higher also in actual accomplish
ment /, shared the fate Of its prede
cessor, in yet shorter time; as mucl
shorter as its merits were greater. Sine,
the death Of those two, there has not beer
published in this country a paper tina
can be called literary" except by th,
most fragrant prostitution Of that term.
Papers called literary we have indeed
whose name is legion, and they are force
upon our notice by every device whic
human ingenuity can imagine. Big hand
bills ON the walls, gorgeous with all til
colors Of the rainbow, inform US of tn
commencement Of some new story by Al
author whose brillian. productions are {
be found only in the New York Ledger
Advertisements, in staring capitals, occu
pyin5 whole columns or perhaps whoI
pages Of the city dailics, announce tn.
the Mercury for week after next is a
ready Issued and may be had Of all ii
periodical dealers. We are enticed
subscribe for the Golden Prize by Il
assurance that gold pencil bracele
or something else worth the full amour
Of the subscription money shall be fort
with delivered to Us. Boys in the ca
tease Us to bay single copies postma
tiers urge US to become subscribers, at
the papers themselves, scattered broa,
cast over the country, attract the ate
ton, waste the time, pollute the taste a,
corrupt the morals Of the people.
So whcnthe Jewish leader stretched his arm.
Aad waved bis rod divine, a race obscene.
Spawned IN the muddy beds Of Nile, came fort
Polluting Egypt; gardens. fields, and plains,
We're covered with The post; tie streets ",
flied;
The crosAius nuisance urkgd in every nook;
Nor palaces, nor even chambers, 'scaped;
And the land staua--so numerous was the fry.
This plain aud strong Saxon utteran
Of Cowper is none too plain OF too stro
fully to characterize the pestilential swal
OF hashy newspapers with which t
country is cursed. The mischief viii
they do Is incalculable. If they on
depraved the taste, they would be less
able to reprobation, though to deprave I
taste OF a nation is by no means a ven
offence. But they do worse than tn
they weaken the minds Of their read,
and unfit them for vigorous efforts, eitl
in the acquisition Of useful KNOWLEDGE.
the production Of that which may be n
iul to others. The staple Of them is
ton and that Of the cheapest and m
worthless kind. Now we DO not condel
fiction indiscriminately. OF the ri,
kind read at the right times, ana in m,
crate quantity. 1t may be harmless, m
be even useful. But the influence