The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-11-22
AnIrmoud Dlspatfh.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER q, 1877
Northern VS.. Southern Literature.

.na. r,o :" Illustrations" which nave
nnopared in Ecery Saturday nave o. "
'prN a,-n,u,cd in much better s.y'e
,,nn t,ase in Hd,pe,'S Weekly. hc
came selected illustrations nave n.i"eDso'
not ia say generally, adorned oo'n P"te o.
nh. original ones i'll Ecery oa'"'@"s na'.
o.r,,i,ly been rs good in design as thoso
.no I,-rrkly. and have almost always
49,, hotter printed" come off more
c.a,rly. OF course we must make a' "a
cro,lon in favor OF NAsT's remarkable po'
tt;cal cartoons. AS 10 the comparative
li,crorv merits OF the two weeklies, we
thinl, we can hardly be mistaken in saying
that Ecery Saturday has borne Oh I've
honors. Yet EUery Saturday iai's 'o'
want Of sufficient support, whilst Inc nan
,rps make a. fortune annually ou' Va
t,o,r 1,ceI.yu. In accounting Tor luis tas'
fact. We may give the reasons WY sou'n ~,
periodicals arc So poorly encouraseu. Inv
periodicals. published in New 1olh a,.'
,nS rnust continue TO be, more hoeTany
rssroDizea than those published anywhere
Csc In this country Tor the same lc"s'h
that al A. T. STEWART is not possible eise-
WHARF IN the United States than in that city.
1'nc nutlisbers of that great city nave
patronage which is circunscrlbed only W
tine limits of the region which TRACES 'hefe'
and this they must have without reference
To tae value OF their literary wares. AS sooo
silks are kept for sale in Boston as IN Ne"
York. vet New York sells ten times as
many yards Of silk as Boston. oAAhLks
UCosoR is not better lawyer than some
Of those in Virginia, or, we may say, 10
C.l fornia, yet everybody has heard OF
Cu,s1ys O'CoSoK and scarcely anybody
has ever tcard of the great lawyer or
LAWYERS in California or Virginia VINO
are his equals ut the Oar. JAMES
Co,noy EpsSErT is not man of frst-rate
Talents IS al editor. lie Is unqueStlonably
y 1nau of business capacity. But there are
u hundred men in Massachusetts, who are
slnerior to him as writer's and IN every
other respect. Yet, BENSETTs name Is
known the world over, whilst the hundred
are strangers to fortune and TO fame. HENRY
WARD BrEcuES has national reputation,
Whit the names OF many clergymen VINO
are his equals have never filled the sound
inr trump Of fame. Hdrper'S Monthly has
articulation possibly ten times as large as
that Of the atlantic Monthly, notwlthstand-
Ing that the latter has ten times the merit
cs the former. A WILLIAM 81. TWEED IS
not possible in q city that does not collect
many millions of dollars of taxes. 1t Is the
place that gives notoriety, or fame, or con-
righteousness, or prominence, or whatever
YOU choose TO call it, to such men ; not
tjoir taients. A DR.. JOHNSON in this day
and generation would be nothing more
than u Grabbed contributor to some
monthly, and would not so down to poste-
rlty at all. A Boston or Richmond Ma
CAULAY, who publishes at home, may be
,Ais.lcd down the wind by q New York
"comrilcr." A manufactured article IL
UQrptr's NGJ0ziac brings more fine than
tac most elaborate OF essays in the atlantic.
Abe trash in Ua1per's Is transmitted into
goil by tie advantages which New York
Possesses as a centre of trade, whilst the
II TIRE gold" which is hidden in Dalti-
mare monthly passes only for trash, or not
at all. ihc laws o. trade seem 10 be too
strong TO be overcome by the highest talent
o. TIE greatest merit, The most successful
ot periodicals must therefore be printed in
New York. 1t is not a sign Of dearth Of
t.tcnt in the South that we have no
wc..Suppor:e0 literary periodicals. Nor
j. there any more reason for hold.
ing up such Il fact as a reploach
to Richmond than for making similar fact
Il rcproach TO Albany, Buffalo, Brooklyn,
Columbus, Pittsburgh, Or any other north
c,n city. The Virginia artist is employed
by New York publishers. The artist fur
ni,has the brains; the publisher the
money. And the fact that the Virginia
artist has to sell his work in New York Is
not more properly subject OF reproach
than is the fact that New York has the
money to pay him tor 1t one upon which
that city should plume herself. New York,
therefore. is 4 literary as well as business
centre, and is Z literary because 1t is busi-
ness centre. Men of talents in every part
vt the country will find there market for
thcir wares. The periodicals published
there must necessarily be more widely
known and more profitable than those pub.
iisiied elsewhere, just as her merchants
must do the most business of any in
the country. 1t is u consequence Of
her position, her circumstances, not
IA evidence Of merit in her mer-
chants or OF superior talents in her
native authors or publishers. 1t is fact
stubborn fact and one over which we
have no tears To shed. Whoever, there
fore, wishes to know the extent of the
patronage which can be secured for q lite
raly venture, even of the most unexcep-
tonable and indispensable kind, in Rich
mona, or Charleston, or Baltimore, may
approximate correct estimate by study.
Ing the extent OF such city's business rela.
tons. Cuisines is business )" truly now
AdayS.
Z. s. Since the above was penned, we
have SCENT stated that The HARpERs bough
of EceTy Saturday. This fact, il fact it be
enlorces with double emphasis what We
have said above. The stupid, money-Iov
ing, money-geltins HARrERs silencing the
scholarly FIELDS and his associates, COR, "a.
ther, Offering them greater iGducement.
not 10 publish an illustrated paper than
their patrons offered them for publishing
il! Now, who will say that it is want OF
talent rather than want of money which
depriyes Boston OF an illustrated paper
And who will deny to us OF the South the
benefit of like plea when we are re-
proached with poverty of Intellect because
we publish no first.class literary periodi
cais.
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