, 1877-12-02
The Dead and Buried Boston Maea-
zlnes-"-The Chagria Of Bcs- +.
tonians.
The New Magazine That Seems Born
Not to nic.--.i History Of
lis Birth.
a Little Woman Out Of the West at the
Helm, and Beston's Frank Ap-
probation.
An Englishman's study~of Thoreau--.
Thoreau and Emerson Com
pared.

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| from OUR Our. CORRESPONDENT.
I Boston, Nor. 223.-A few years ago, when the
1oung foiks' 4Nagazine vanished from this Bos-
| ton town that We are so proud CT, to be
'Mereea," as the Polite phrase is when 6ach
| literary deaths occur, in the ST. 4vtcheas, we all
| felt good deal Of chagrsE thereat And other
| literary deaths OF the same nature have 10.
| tended to heal this feeling First amongst the
! Important periodicals went the pretty Nperstdt,
then the Young F3iks, Then tn: fine Eoery Sa:.tr-
| day, then the Old anu 49ep, and at last New
furk house comes in 10 divide honors with the
most Eos:onsa Of all tie mag azi1es-thc 4ittan-
! Tic. But We have the satisfaction Of knowing
that the monthly really owes its breath aDi be-
ing to Bastoa after all; that it IS edited ia
Cambridge ty Mr. llowells, who is, in spite Of
Ills dry hits OF humor at BastoIians more Bos-
tcnl2u than many native; that it is made up by
the Riverside Press in the same town, anu
through and through has all the troper tIayor Of
the city of 'sc1ftur." So We c.n still hold on
to the 1tant.c. But
ON THE RUINS OF ALL THIS
tower and temple Of rna.az,ne-building there
has arisen new structure Ut which ut this date
every Bostonian eau anosd to be justly proud,
and prophetic OF Il fine and enduring fame.
Ana this structure is that magazine for young
pcoplc called the H'ids-inate. Three or four
Years ago, when it was first started from
the pnb}:slllug-hbuse Of D. L1thrup & TO-,
which then had Its Office in the old and crowded
store on Cornhlll, it Made little impression
upon the general public, though even tncn it
was very good both in Ietter-press and matter:
THIS lack ol Impression WAS 10 doubt owing to
by, and slowly the magazine gained Oh
its own merits to great extent. Peo.
pie began to see extracts in the newsoa~
pers ''From the jtMe-4inake." Tie extracts
were SO good that they created an appetite for
more t. Wn.re is the tFnfe-auy.ts published! u
asked go;'d lady who thought SHE knew all
about magazines n! that time When she was
told that it WAS in her own Boston her amaze
mcnt WIS unboundea. But fancy few people
ask that question now. The Hlde-d,rate now
has distinct recognition, anil, more than that,
us mitch Of literary circle Of its own as the
atlantic. And all this is due not to n CAM |
bridge or q Boston editor, but to a little woman
WHO has come to us out OF the West We have
cit fur ourselves Boston magazine, published |
tEa Boston house, which bids fair to be an |
e:!tlurnG pride and glory to us. But n little !
woman out uf the West has built it up ior us. |
many, there was published in the Atiantic |
very notable and Interesting narrative Gu
titled
stTwo GIRLS WHO TRIED FARM1SG."
Perhaps not Il dozen persons who read it had !
any idea that this narrative had anything more /
than a suggestion Of the truth. Yet in every |
particular it WIS the actual experience OF two |
girls,-two Western girls who tried farming /
rs Il Probable means Of solving the grcat +
couunaTuEl Of what we shall eat, an:l what VIZ |
shall drink, and whrrewithAl We shal! tc cloth t
ed Que oil these girls. the one who tells the
story, was Ella Forulan, the e.lisrcss Of the |
V*ide-4nake. Something Of her literary ability |
may he perceived In this simple, straightforward |
endurance which have carried the 5Ftle-Atcass up
to its r.escnt height The magazine, as one |
might say, was her Inspiration. Long before I
the Atlantic readers knew OF her sne had been
writing books for children, which had been pub |
Iishet in quiet way by Lothfop = Co. At |
length:
OUT OF HER WESTERN HOME
she suggests i magazine for children to this |
w Thought, and the 'IiAe-4iuaSs Is brought out |
with Miss For1lan as its editor In her Western |
home for two wears she attends to her editorial
duties, while the Vide A@a&: finds its feet and
baIf ago. OF finding her charge craving
so rapidly as IT, be little Interchangeable at
such distance from Its monthly debut, Miss |
Forsnan leaves the Wess and establishes herself
III Boston fo- good. And it has ind FED been tar
good, d far as the magazine and the literary |
circle which Centre abaut hsr are concerned. |
and Boston has been greatly the gamer. III
stead Of sending their contributions now to
contributors drop in-if 1Eey are in
the vicinity Of Dostcn-t::tse new fine stor: af
Lothrop i Co.., OF Franklin street, just opro-
sit: to Lee & ShePard's, aud following j co..rte-
Gus clerks direction take their way to 4 small,
pretty room at the farther end Of thu building
md there meet the lide4nake's cdltrcss face to
face.
HAVE sEEH GOOD MANF EDITORS.
never saw one more thoroughly identified, |
more thoroughly interested heart and soli,
Ill his or her work thau Miss Fornlan. 1t is liz
s sfy SIC ieo5 oough' s< u5o lore herself Ei al u ,as
4vllaEiche Of toll both in planning
mud correspondence with her proje:. Of the
Dolls Fair, asked her one day il it was not
great weariuess. Her face Frightened - Web,
get tired, OF course, but it is n9t wearinessi in
31e sense; it is u delight to me- was her aE-
:wer And out Of this Dolis Fair. to which
hundreds of young Hide--dwaEe readers cos,-
ributed from all quarters OF the country ds!l |
lressed by their own hands, which ,Tas finally
distributed to the sick children III the hospitals,
grew the Society OF Wlt2e-4twake Helpers for !
he hospital and needr waits Of h1lmanity:. And
through all this work. and Ter editorial duties.
which an bold to say no editor ever yet dis
:harscd with s,,ch sweet, nnezampled patienye,
Hiss Forlnaa found time tu write one OF the
,ealtliest and most interesting scEias that have
:yer been written for yourg neop!e Her
GoOp-foK~NoTulSG rOI.EYh
one of those stories that 20 far to redeem the
lieh-seasoued iiteratIre-s0-called-tor ci'il-
.ren, which only succeeds in one thilg,-that
II making thu problem Of education still more
and difficult than It was before bS
>Qttln1 premium upoh psItAe9 AAA htiut ! &
less And to the storytelling gift this little
voman out OF tho West adds that OF poet. Tie
'tlrr day 1 picket up little lew book for !!
nillren with the enticiug title Of. ''Snga1
'!un,s" When l had looked it through
bought somebody ought to send us photo
raph OF the farm whcre this poet tried to solve
he first great couundru,i i'll this life, and this
arm should be engraved iu thu Vitfe-Apake
5 one Of the t'poet homes" How much mere
his little woman out OF the West can acorn
list has not Jet trauspired. But ia viex
what she has doue in creating for
$ a magazine that We are all getting to BE-
roud Of. magaziue that Boston editor might
ave made, bnt never d.d, We are, | trust,
ll'Iicicntly apprrciative and grateful The