The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-23


Thompson, +. Q. Tieknor, Sidney Lanier, Mrs War
Held, B. w Frobe President Thomas of Emo ~
college Alexander Means, A. +. Watson, J. R. B
| Wood Davidson Salem butcher L. Yeazey Far nv
| Andrews and many Others
Such names are among the most honorable con-
TINS magazine a deserved prominence Now that
u mas passed into other hands, we still cherish a
warm sympathy for Its fortunes.
Colonel Wylly, oISavannah, who assumes control
oft is an accomplished Christian gentleman, and
| Hayne, Avery and WILDLY. With this combina.
ton we indulge the hope that the margarine will
be more deserving of the support OF the thousands
OF readers tnan In the past, and that It's present
propret9r will reap an ample pecunlary reward for
the capital and labor invested in the enterprise.
W. J. SCOTT.
1.-THE trouble with the magazine for the first
two years was that there was no capital in It,
had just come out of the wreck of the war.
The magazine was succeeding very well when
we sold 1t out Ii we had not sold it it would
have been published now. We sold to Mr.
Wylly, who had very little experience, and
he suspended, l think, after publishing three
numbers. published 1t four years"
"What do You think of the present outlook
fer literature in the south %
81 reply briefly that the Anglo-Norman
strain OF our pest southern population, under
existing conditions, produce it's legitimate
fruit i'll higher style of art culture and of lit
erary achievements. The only world famed
| poet of America was Edgar Allen Poe the
both Of southern birth and lineage. Amelie
Rives is the George Eliot of this country-in-
deed she has moro dramatic power than the
author of Daniel Deronda. have only skim
| med two of her works, but they exhibit high
order of genius
Besides Miss Rives. we have score of bril-
liant southern writer's, of whom / only name
Miss Murfree, George w, Gable, and Mary e.
Bryan.
lou seem surprised at my mentioning Ca
ff,.ax
stupendous faulty, but he is an admirable
writer in despite of his political frowardness.
Alexander the Great, you know. had a wry
neck and Byron q club foot and Gable has
Puritan blood i'll his veins, which at least may
account for his caricatures of the Creoles and
his plumbers about the negro.
There is no reason why the south should
not lead the country in literature as it has
heretofore done i'll craftsmanship, generalship,
oratory, law and medicine. Our great need
at prasent is magazine after the Atlanta
monthly or the Harper of ante-belluIn days,
when our own DIR. Lspscomb was the editor,
II must have $4,000 capital. and back of it a
publishing house with half million more.''
Personally, l have met with
great kindness and fair remuneration
from the only northern paper whose
columns ever sought, but have in my mem
DRY two notable instances in which southern
writers were offered twenty-five dollars by
northern publishers for articles that were af-
forwards sold to English publishers for fifty
pound sterling.
referring again to the need of publishing
houses, IbaYe now under examination a most
excellent work entitled Historical and Pie
turesque Savannah 1t is thei production of
most accomplished southern lady, and yet
believe it will be sent to Boston for publica-
ton. Here are several Thousand dollars that
might be kept in Atlanta II we had adequate
publishing facilities.
There has never been better literary re-
view published than the Southern Ouarterlv
Review, edited by Legare, and bellows
Review. published at New Orleans. DcBow's
Review succeeded admirably up to the war
and so did Thompson's Southern Literary
| Messenger. In the way of magazines the south
is not as well OFF as it was before the war"
OF late a good deal of attention has been
probably given to homo manufactures, and
! while we are asking for other home made things
might we not just as well have some
home made magazines, home made books and
more homespun ideas? So long as others
| select for us the books we read, and even from
| the productions OF our own writers, give us
back those works which suit their own taste,
often consigning to oblivion writings most true
to orr life and traditions, our published
thought will not be free.
In time OF tropical luxuriance in the devel-
opment of mind and matter, the frugal thought
| of Que corner of this country is not broad
| enough for the various elements, different sur
roundings and diverse sympAthies OF this great
people. The appearance in Atlanta of the
American anew candidate for public favor,
makes thesereminiscences timely and interest
ing. w. G. G..