Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-06-27
FAuuRs OF MAeAziSEs.--The Provi-

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FAruRs OF MAeAzrSEs.--1h Provi-
dence (R. ~ Journal condoles with
those journals, which have been only
Just to Southern literature, on account
OF the death Of Russell's Magazine,
and goes on TO argue, from the fail.
ure Of several periodicals at the South,
that there is no intellectual and
literary centre for them,' (tbe South.
ernes,) mo natural rendezvous where
in friendly converse or contest they
are spurcd to that kind Of labor
which makes n good magazine" &cs
DC.
The comments Of the New York
Journal of Commerce upon this rs.
sumption are so well put that we
make no apology for transferring
them to our columns
One would Judge, from this course Of
reasoning, that all the South wanted,
was some intellectual aud literary
CENTRE" 10 make a magazine flourish
south Of Mason and Dixon's line. II
we should 90 back and follow up this
line Of argument, we might prove
that 10 time not long past, New York
and Boston, we're not literary cen
tres" Where Is the fine old New
York Quarterly Review, enriched by
the pens, Of Spencer, Hawks, and
many others, who, though eminent In
law, politics and divinity, and encum.
bered with many duties, entered low.
ingly into the ranks of essayiste and
reviewersi Where Is the American
Review, which, despite Of It's politics,
was more like Blackwood's Ediuburg
Magazine, than any periodical ever
published in this countryH Where,
too, is the New York Mirror, which,
either as a monthly or as weekly,
once delighted so large number of
readersi Where is the Ladies' Com.
papion, printed in New York, TO
rival Cooley and Graham, Of Phila-
delphia2 y
Where Is Putnam's Magazine, with
its great corps q renowned writers,
its steel eugravings, portraits Of "our
contributors" its late wood.cuts Abo-
litionism and Iowadji editorials 7
We answer, all gomez as the Provi-
dence Journal euphouiously has il IN
reference to other publicatious--into
the grave where the Southern Quar-.
terly Review sleeps so quietly, and
Russelrs Magazine has just been put.
Perhaps it may be said that the Wing
party died out, and their magazine
(the American Review died with il.
But the Democratic party is not yet
dead, while years ago the Democratic
Review, that counted such literary
contributors as Bancroft, Hawthorne,
Whittier and many Others, became
defunct.
Nothing can be argued from
magazines death as 10 the literature
Of the country. What a crop of
quarterlies, mouthlies and weeklies
spring up and die every decade in
Great Britain! But il does not FOL.
low that there els no intellectual.
literary centre" in England. No prop.
erty is more precarious than maya.
zine literature, whether quarterly or
monthly.
ABE BOWS Review" in the South,
and the "Knickerbocker Magazine"
of this city are the only two month
lies Of a miscellaneous nature which
have lived to an advanced age, and
there have been times when neither
of them could do much more than
stem the tide Of Indifference to their
excellencies.
The difficulty with several Of the
magazines which failed, both North
and South, was that they were too
sectional. Others died for want of
strict attention to business. Harper's
is the most successful magazine in
the world, because it had capital and
energy to begin with, and now pat.
ronizes native matchmaking, also,
occasional selections from the choicest
periodical literature of Europe. 1t
employs the best writer's, of both