The oasis., 1894-12-27
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL AND THE MA
 GAZINE.

published at Louisville, Kentucky, suspended publication, after futile effort to survive, which effort was ex- tended over a period of years. Where at the Los Angeles Times, and num- Der of other metropolitan dailies whose Sunday editions are in way real literary triumphs, published long and egotistical screeds upon the de- cadence of the magazine, and its, as serted. gradual crowding out by the metropolitan Sunday journal.
 In this self-gloritication the Sunday press is assuming more than can be borne out by the facts. 1t is true the Southern Magazine went to the wall not because the field of the maga- zine proper is at all diminished; but because of the narrow spirit which gave the Southern inception. Its very name was what in vulgar parlance is called give away It was estaD- lished to cater to the literary wants of a section, and as with the name it's entire tone, coloring and character were sectional. The great world of literature is catholic and 1t wants nothing hide bound or sectional. And that class of people of literary tastes who want something of that kind even in the south--is too small to swell the patronage of periodical to that point where it can meet the ex- pense of publishing first class maga- zine.
 The great magazines of the country and of the world The Century, liar pers', Scribners, The Cosmopolitan, Mac Millan's, and numerous others which could be enumerated, feel in no way the competition of the Sunday press, even with it's blanket sheets, numerous departments and long ar ray of famous contributors. While the Sunday journal has made wonder ful strides in the work presentation to the world of effective and modern literature, still it has been only along the lines of daily journalism. At the same time the magazine has been mak- ing equally wonderful strides in it's own chosen field. The daily journal reproduces only for the moment, and it's issues, while m2rvels of industry and genius, bear but the relation to the magazine that in the world of art the cheap Autograph bears to the fine steel engraving. While the world is content to accept the Sunday journal and all it's pretensions of high class literature, it is still ready to accept the same topics as presented to the mind and eye in the more elegant and artistic pages Of the monthlics. For instance in this renaissance Of Na- p0leon. while some of the great dailies are giving accurate biographies of the imperial prodigy, and accompanying them with portfolios of engrayings from famous paintings depicting his brilliant but ephemcraI career, they do rot take away from the Century one reader who is attracted by Profes- sor Soane's philosophic biography, embellished with rare aud artistic en- cravings, nor is the student of Napo- Icons battles turned from McClurc's magazine from having read series of articles upon the same topic in the San Francisco Chronicle. Rather Is the reader, by what he reads in the daily press, turned to these magazines to see how the same topics are there in treated, and how effected by the superior artistic facilities for present. ing to the mind the salient character istics of that dazzling career.