The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-08
DURING THE WAR.
souTHERN PUBLISHERS UNDER AD-
VERSE CIRCUMSTANCES.
Thrown Upon Their Own ResOurces-The
Issue of Cheap Reprints-A List of
Southern Periodicals Paper
and Typography.
TCor. Detroit Free Press


fbe IOtomac and communication with the
northern cities thus cut oil, the supply
Of periodical literature was suddenly
stoned and the southern people thus
thrown on their own resources. There
was but one magazine in the COnfederacy
that could claim the name and that was
The Southern Literary Messenger, at one
& time edited by Edgar Allan roe. But
this magazine could not supply the varied
(. tastes OF a large reading population, and
"a they grew loud in their demands for read
In matter.
CHEAP REPRINTS.
81 To crafty this call the publishers of
Isl the COnfederacy commenced the issue of
Il cheap reprints of famous French and
d English novels. The first of these,
BuIwGT- LyttOn's Strange Story, " met
s with tattering success. Hugo Lies
Mserabes " Braddons LADY Audleys
Secret Augusta Evans Wilson's Ma
caria and many others followed in quick
succession.
These books are curiosities as to manu-
Il factnre, icing printed on paper not as
good as that now used for wrapping
purposes and bound in variegated hues
Of wall paper Taken as a whole
they looked about as unlike a book as
book could we'll look, but they
were very welcome to the soldier during
his mOnotOnOus camp life and a blessing
4 to his wounded comrades lying in the
4 hospitals Never, perhaps, were books
50 well thumbed They were passed from
soldier TO soldier until they commenced
+ falling to pieces, and then the leaves were
carefully gathered up and carried to the
Children at home.
In addition to these reports the COnfed-
crate publishers managed to issue quite
number of very creditable periodicals. 1t
Was found that there were more talented
writer's in the south than any one had
supposed, and they came nObiy to the
rescue of the publishers. Most of the
authors were IN the field but they CON
Tlyed to send many articles of merit,
tAoQgh most Of them were tinged with
Tile He they were leading.
S0JTHERN PERIODICALS.
Inc Magnolia Weekly, devoted to fiction
anu general light literature, was a great
1a' oIIie with the young people of the
GOnIedeTacy and enjoyed a large circula-
uoh The southern Illustrated News
gave Ialrly well executed cuts of noted
persons, places and battle scenes, besides
9onle very good stories and sketch matter
~ was very popular with every body. and
nau ABOUT ~, 600 subscribers. a larger list
Ia any OF the other weeklies The
IouLAern lunch was the never failing
a;u14otouS paper 1t was modelled after
~ london namesake. and though it had
~ bu Maurier for its artist or Jerrold for
Tu,'oI' II was cry creditable Its satire
"% Keen and was used unsparingIy
roa1sI the administration when it was
TIusua'ly numerous in its blunders.
nsIe Was also a magazine called The
ASe' mat deserved to live.
~ put the hon Of all the southern periodi-
c Sar was ne Southern Literary Messen-
' Soi' eq ~ during the war by the gifted
p DVnu h. Thomson 1t could not com
pare geographically with the poorest
cons OF TO day, but in the value of its
oC on,eHls would rival the best of them. 1t
tho oUPleu with the people of the south
HE same place that The Century and
of u per Go at this time with the people
At tb nS MhoLe country. Among its authors
M 'jllS TIME were many who have since
name IN the literary world
"a. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
If seldom that the subscription price
Of newspaper is changed. The prices
nr;oo tnlng else may nuctuate but the
4 orico u e t4le paper goes on forever. The
Z isbod VI the books and periodicals pub
Z in nrorl - tile Contederacy did not advance
ate m or sIo1 70 other things as Confeder-
8 the .SPi CNAdeSu III value, though
3 groo4 1CIGa>e ID the cost of production was
Poe tso ad E4an in most things Thus under
ger W. cui'ofsshlp the price of The Messen-
Years Va" of = 20 cents, and during the last
many u otb ,ne war 1t brought but 50, while
the So, liner articles that formerly sold at
A. 'iiie Rrice brou hit SO and moro
q closer ora.t ouSrai lines pressed closer and
B lrinti around the doomed canitoI o-,J
brocurSs material n became more difficult to
FISHERS that a. t became evident to the pub
been one by the periodicals s 4 t6af longer ger
appear re. as III INTO life by the war ceased to
tie rpi as the War drew to close S When IN
last one eG had troops of entered Richmond the
Oiled Zoe Short ru stopped ;P3 publication. Thus
intro n69ded 1t served noble purpose pp ne
nted wri ae,ng to the public a few ' p tai
York '' VINO have since done good