Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-18
WANT A MAGAZINE.
LETTERS DEMANDING VEHICLE FOR
SOUTHERN THOUGHT.
4 Member Of writers Urge tho D,spsteh
70 Press Forward the Move
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RrcnxoSp, January Q. 1891.
dior Of he Dispatch.

RICHMOND. January .. 1891.
% DC Editor Of ne Dispatch;
Having read the article in the Dispatch
advocating southern magazine. felt
strongly interested in the subject, and fell
70 wandering in this way When this maya
nine that surely Is to be approaches the
close Of each year will II retire quietly and
decorously AZ becometh the departure
Of Q courteous guest or will 1t turn
hack 80 introduce topics that may ne
cessitate many more interviews with
\ friend that perhaps has become just
a little tiresome2 In short. will its con-
tinued stories begin with the new year or
An November OF December? For some time
Ihad enjoyed o magazine conceded to be
one of the best of its kind. bad become
somewhat tired OF dialectic, stories ana
idealistio poems and promised myselt the
pleasure of a change in 1891.
However. as the new year drew nigh de-
lichtful stories enthralled me-stories
written With all the precision OF our school
day grammars. Surely. thought at last
the fiialectic mission has been fulfilled
The innate nobility of the western frontier
man and the faithful adhesiyeness OF tho
1OutuGru utkIO nhNc bSth
beyond doubt.
must conscientiously admit neverthe-
less that ! enjoyed that sort OF story occa-
sionally, and how much more unintelllgl-
be thew would have been II written IN the
language of me heap big InJun or
"Allee samee Mclean man." so drew
polsce from the fact that in literature, as
in life, there is always might have
BEEN"
To 20 back 10 real facts concerning said
magazine: When not very far from the
door of the new year two very delightful
serials were introduced. All thoughts OF
the coveted other magazine were now
abandoned. For who is there but would
wish 70 follow Brother Jocose and
"Mrs. Hack, of Hanover" TO the bitter
end?
fsyorite. The January number came fairly
seething and foanling with helpful uplift-
ing ideas. Having dgested them, | sat
me down one eve 10 enjoy the stories.
Only one out of the four began with the
new year. The other three made their
bow Of greeting in November and Deem
Der.
This journal, however, gives you, the
privilege OF beginning the year ahead of
time hand in hand with them, provided OF
course your hand holds the subscription
price. A truly generous privilege winch
nv slow nature failed to avail itself OF.
When left my old home / thought,
Show delightful it will be to receive each
month my home church paper" did not
receive 1t, however. until November, when
il bobbed up, or rather down, as serenelly
rs though 1t were progressive worldly
magazine.
Doubtless many share my experience and
may perhaps wonder with me If this south
ern magazine will follow the lead OF its too
enterprising sisters, by being its own adj
vance agent, or will it begin the new year
with some, at least. of its characters fresh
and fair rs an Aphrodite arising out OF the
mist and sea-foam of the past? But when
ever or however il comes, let it be . OF the
South. southy." May we all learn from It's
vet unborn characters the beauty OF the
kindly, sympathetic word and deed that
makes the southern woman so gratefully
loved by the stranger within her gates.
MAY its contributors delineate without
stint that courtesy that makes OF so many
southern men Don Quixote remodelled.
II dialect must have its place in this
southern magazine where can the negro
dialect be so well chronicled as here in the
country, where it first sprang into life and
still greets our ears on every sideT
III, also, the tears of the past must be
wept over again in recording brave deeds
and drawer deaths. who could say nay !
Should not your Lees and Jacksons have an
honored place in the current literature OF
the South? =.
All hail this coming magaZinel May 1t
be deseryedly popular, and may many men
and women find in it channel for the I'M
expressed poetry and wisdom that for
generations has been silently transmitted
down to them.
But these photographic treasures of
thought must wait yet little while. For
there are now enough active brains and