, 1876-03-18

ntCIAry aVllGleS, UsVINPIVso61' S'S'y su''
VIC hare doae aot. because We deemed all
of'.hcss articles eqr4l ID literary mefi: TO-
selections ae might make from Our ez'i
changes or oopy ti0ia shs~works Of standard,
aa;hos, but rather for the saiae reasons wsI
would pa,ronise lyceun, or support our.
Atheneum meetings, that is 10 encOur0ge'
amateur Efforts made towards literary com'l
position. Ii further pursuance Of this ae'
sign, and as an original srticla Of merit, MS,
well as the prmluct Of the pen of 6 talentedi
young man well known ali over this Sound.
We copy from the Argus the poem on the,
Loss Of the Pa:yfc," which appears in this
issue.
There is always one very important dit
ference TO he observed between writing local
news items, and literary articles; in local
items, or articles chiefly valuSble for facts,
they contain. the originality and value "f,
the article consists in the facts, and 70 obtain
these facts We arc aiwaya ready 10 rewrite,
and conde &c if necessary. 20 fit this class
ofarticl,s for. publication. In poetry or
other purely literary articles, the style Of thel
.ar,icleis one Of the essential elemen q OF its;
originality. Plenty o'frst class articles Of,
.his nas~s can always he selected from ex.,
changes or works Of standard authors;
Neatly every one can furnish US with vail
.pahls facts; very few in any community can,
write good poem, or,frst gl?ss'ii'erary ar.
tcle; many person, whose local commnn!.,
cations We would prize very highly, can,
write nothing else that would be tit for any,
thing Int the waste basket.
Not fully perceiving this difference, as'
well as that we have room for hut one or|
two original poems, and but very few orig
inal literary prose articles each week Wei
not long since received enough original
poems and prose literary articles to have
lasted several months; all written in good
enough shape so that II they had heen pure.|
" news items. We could easily have re-,
written, condensed and used nearly every
thing contributed, and would have beenI
pleased to have received them. Many OF,
these articles were well written, were of
merit, ard were published in our columns
Many others We tried TO correct, yet found it.
very difficult task to correct poem for
instance written by one who expressed an
idea very prr.tily, bu: knew nothing Of the
| technical rules Of vcrsitication This task
fell mainly upon the Associate Editor Of this
Journal after vainy trying TO please all,
and being as'oni>hed at the difficulties pre-.
sentcd he gave vent 20 his feelings in u few
singing rmnrks, that offended some,
stopped the contribution Of much OF this
class Of matter and relieved him of his
lubos.
We have taken this amount of space TO-
explain this matter fully so that our
many friends and contributors will hereafter
know what is most wanted. We desire
their communications especially items of
local news, or local history, we can't get TO-
much Of this class. We also wish to receive
original literary articles, yet of this class we
do hope our contributors will do all in
their power 10 correct ready ior puhlca.
tion before sending tl,m to US; because we do
not know how to rewrte literary article
or poem and re@Ive its originality. The
remarks Of the As,ocintc were meant in thcI
kindesi split, not 10 mi ire the feeling of
any, H. may bark, but will moi bite.