The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-01-17
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| nouncement OF the Sunny South, the great
weekly literary periodical Of the Southern
/ States. Published in Atlanta, Georgia,
/ in the heart Of the great South, il bears
upon it the impress Of its birthplace and
environment. Formore than twenty-five
years the Sunny South has been a recog
nized factor in the field of Southern liter
allure. II was established more than
quarter OF a century ago as a Southern
story paper and was published for a long
/ time as a weekly and then as a monthly
About one year ago the paper passed
under new management, and N less than
a year it has jumped from a circulation of
- 600 to nearly go 900 The first thing
the new management did was to make 1t
a weekly publication and to reduce the
price to fifty cents per year-less than
one cent an issue-and then infuse into
its columns all the enterprise and literary
ability that money could command or de.
termination secure In less than a year
this remarkable Southern literary paper
has become national in character and It
now has about as many subscribers north
Of Mason and DixOn's line as it has i'm the
South. It's columns abound i'm the best
current literature of characteristic South
ern flavor and no literary periodical pub.
lished anywhere in the country has sue
ceeded in bringing together as many
: Southern writer's of note as has been done
by the Sunny South.
A striking feature of the Sunny Souh's
development of lis introduction during
the past year of many new story writer's
who will be heard from in the wider field
ofthe worlds literature. In almost every
Southern State new literary talent has
been developed to such an extent as to
put the whole country to talking about
the Sunny South few months ago the
Sunny South offered very handsome
prses for a series of the best short stories
by Southern writer's, and more than five
hundred responses were received. Some
of the stories then published in the Sunny
South have been reproduced the world
over. Others are now being published
by it from week to week.
The fact that the price of this splendid
weekly literary periodical is only fifty
rents year has had a wonderful effect in
giving it an extensive field for the devel-
opment Of its plans and purposes. Per-
haps no literary periodical ever establish
ed has made such rapid strides rs the
Sunny South in less than year.
Mrs Mary E. Bryan, whose name has
: long been associated with the Sunny
: South, has been engaged to take charge
of its woman s department. Her services
d will appeal especially to women readers
V throughout the country, as the striking
charm of her own personality pervades
I every column of her most interesting de-
: partment.
The distinctive characteristics of South
i ern authors have always been a great
: charm to their readers The liberal use
Of matter by the leading magazines of the
e United States shows that high regard
= prevalent for Southern literary talent.
The quaint stories of Joel Chandler Har-
ris in folklore of the Southern planta-
tons, and the stories by him and by
/ Thomas Nelson Page, Will N. Harden,
Harry Stillwel Edwards and others oil
/ those interesting phases of human char
{ acter so plentiful in the South, are read
with consuming interest and are seized
3, upon by publishers with great avidty
i As will also be observed from the an.
nouncement published elsewhere, the
u Atlanta Weekly Constitution is offered in
q connection with the Sunny South at 81 q
for the two papers. This remarkably low
u clubbing offer is made to those who order
J. both papers at the same time. The two
papers are entirely different in purpose
Il one being a newspaper and the other
;e literary periodical, each supplements thu
other and the two when taken togethe
furnish an Invaluable combination Il
every Preside. There is only one thin.
20 left to make this combination perfect, anC
: that is yonr own county paper-no fire
ii side can afford to be without that
If The Atlanta Constitution is too familia
to newspaper readers to make any com
~ ment concerning its necessary. 1t is wei
,s and widely known and has the large
circulation OF any weekly newspaper pul
lie ished on the western hemisphere goin
ot into more than 100000 homes. 1t is tn
great home newspaper of a majority 0
O. Southern readers and covers the world il
nt its comprehensive and well edited new
columns, 1t is to the world Of news wha
9, the Sunny South is to The Southern liter
a. ature-the one is without a superior as
great news-gatherer and the other is
H. conspicuous leader in the field of fiction
romance and descriptive writing of genei
y? al interest, The two papers make a
ideal combination for every country home
u Sample copies Of either or both will b
c. furnished free upon application addresse
10 to either at Atlanta, Georgia.
% One dollar and twenty-five cents foi
he warded 10 either of the two papers Wi
n secure both for one year We take pleas
ure in inviting the attention of our read
eTs 10 this very attractive combination