The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-17
Current Literature.
EVERY SATURDAY: An Eclectic Weekly: Five
dollars per annum in advance. Fields, Os
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! EVERY SATURDAY An Eclectic Weekly: Five
dollars per annum in advance. Fields, U.s.
good d Co.: Boston.
As this is the season in which people who have
any literary leaning whatever are making
provision for their supply of intellectual pabu-
lum for the year, 1t may be allowable to call the
attention of such to y hcbdomadal which has
many claims upon their patronage. We know
of no American journal which promises more
to its readers than the enlarged and greatly
improved weekly issue Of the Boston publish
ers, Fields, Osgood & Co., which comes to us
under the name of Every Saturday.
IT is wholly an eclectic, and caters for us
with an cpicurean nicely Of taste and selection
from the rich and almost oewilderlng abun-
dance Of English literature. For the past year
we have been turning largely to tho stately re-
| suits of British culture for the wherewthal TO
satisfy our mental cravings. We are not go
ultra-AmerIcan as to be unwilling to confess
that, after oil, old mother England is, in many
respects, very satisfactory parsonage. We
feel security when we are dealing with her
scholarship that our finer scnsibilities shall not
be wounded, nor our fixed opinions contra
yened, nor our tastes offended, nor the per-
vading aroma of casscism be found wanting.
1t may be objected that there Is an absence OF
.opLi paw i,I.>,C @lJlclcit:IlCc
there is in our stubborn preference for AXmins-
ter carpets, or Sheffield cutlery, or Lyons silks.
AS we have said we have been accustomed
of late to entertain ourselves, not to speak of
the gravcr reviews, with such foreign pcriodi-
calls rs Frazer and Macmillan, and The Cora
hill and London Society, aud the Dublin Uni
uersity Hugasine, and The Saturday Rerier,
fand we have been thus able to institute q run
ming comparison between them and the clectic-
ism of Ercry Saturday: and we can conscl-
entiously say, that We think it has been OF the
most judicious and appreciative character.
Not q trcnchant piece of criticism has appear
cd in The Saturday Rerie,o, which has not
been reproduced here for us-not tcrsc bit
has dropped from the pen of Matthew Arnold,
which these pages have not given us; not n
marvellous outflow OF verse from the whilom
taboocd Swinburne, that has not been re
set for us; not u sonnet from Jean Injeow,
that Erery Saturday has not cnbalmcd in
in its columns.
One Of its prominent and new features is
the introduction Of protusc illustrations. To
some minds this may, at first blush, be sugges-
tive Of friyolity. rs the rage for illustration
has become so ripe as to degenerate into 4
positive vice. But if we arc to be furnished
with such artistec wood engrayings as the por-
trait of Tennyson In one of the recent issues,
by all means letus have rs many rs we can.
They are absolute studies, and our children
must of necessity have their eyes educated If
snch models are put before them. Compare
the management Of light and shadow in the
picture of 1.-THE Spanish Boy" with that of the
same of the steel cngravings or the StippleS Of
many OF our magazines, which set on edge the
teeth of any one who lays claim to the least
iota Of artistic taste.
So earnest are we in desiring to see the best
forms of culture introduced among our South
ern youth, that perhaps we may appear too
urgent in our mode of pressing this admirable
periodical upon the public. II so, our apology
must be the conviction that the daily reading
provided for the flreside must tell upon the in
tcllcctual status of the family.
Every Saturday is cheap publication, when
we consider what it provides for us. Fice dot
la's in the difference Of o bonnet for yonr
daughter, q pair of boots for yonns hopeful,
will make the circle around the library table
happier, ut least for one night every week dur
ing the year. Is it not worth while to try the
experiment at all events anu see