Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1902-01-31
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press of its birthplace and environ
ment For more than twenty FIVE
years the Sunny South has been q
recognized factor in the field Of
Southern literature. 1t was estab-
lished more than quarter Of cen
fury ago as Southern story paper
and was published for long time rs
a weekly and then az a monthly.
About one year ago the paper
passed under now management, and
in less than year it has jumped
from circulation of 10, 600 to nearly
60, 600. The first thing the new man.
agement did was to make it weekly
publication and to reduce the price TO
nifty cents per year-less than one
cut an issue-and then infuse into its
columns all the enterprise and liter
airy ability that money could COM
mand or determination 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 in
the South. It's columns abound in
the best current literature of oharac.
teristic Southern flavor, and no liter
airy periodical published anywhere in
the country has succeeded in bringing
together as many Southern writer's of
note as has been done by the Sunny
South.
A striking feature of the Sunny
South's development is its introduo-
tlon during the past year of many
new story writers who will be heard
from in the wider field of the worlds
literature. In almost every Southern
state new literary talent has been de-
veloped to such en- extent as TO mt
the whole country to talking about
the Sunny South. A few months ago
the Sunny South offered very hand
some prizes for a series Of the best
short stories by Southern writers.
and more than five hundred responses
were received. Some Of the stories
then published in the Sunny South
have been reproduced the world oyer.
Others are now being published By it
from week to week.
The fact that tho price of this
splendid weekly literary periodical is
only fifty cents year has had won.
derful effect in giving it an extensive
field for the development of its plans
aud purposes. Perhaps no literary
periodical ever established has made
such rapid strides as the Sunny South
In less than year.
Mrs. Mary e. Bryan, whose name
has long been associated with the
Sunny South hns been engaged to
take full charge of its Womnn's De.
partment. Her services will appeol
especially to women readers through.
out the country,as the striking charm
OF her own personality peryades oy.
cry column of her most interesting do.
partment.
The distinctive characteristics ot
Southern authors have always been y
great charm to their readers. The
liberal use of matter by the lendipo
magazines of the United States shows
that high regard prevalent for south-
ern literary talent. The uuniDi
stories of Joel Chandler Harris IN
folklore of the Southern plantations.
and the stories by him and By
Thomas Nelson Page, Will n. Har-
ben, Harry Stillwell Edwards and
others OF those interesting phases of
human character so plentiful in tho
South, are read with consuming in
terest and are seized upon by pub-
fishers with great ayidity. AS will
also be observed from the announce.
ment published elsewhere, the Atlantn
Weekly Constitution is offered in
connection with the Sunny South at
one dollar and twenty-five cents n
year Isl .25) for the two papers. This
remarkably low clubbing offer is
made to those who order both papers
at the same time. The two papers are
entirely different in purpose, one be-
ing newspaper and the other a lit
erary periodical, each supplements the
other and the two when taken too
gether furnish an invaluable comb.
nation to every Preside There ia
only one thing left to make this com-
bination perfect, and that is vour
home county paper, no fireside can
afford to be without that.
The Atlanta Constitution is too ia
miliar to newspaper readers to max
any comment concerning it necessary.
1t is we'll and widely known and has
the largest circulation OF any weekly
newspaper published on the western
hemisphere, going weekly into more
than $50, 900 homes, 1t is the great
home newspaper Of a majority Of
Southern readers ard covers the
world in its comprehensive and well
edited news columns. 1t is to the
world of news what the Sunny South
is to Southern litereture-the one is
without a superior es great news
gatherer and the other is conspicu-
GUS leader in the field of fiction, ro-
nance and descriptive writing of
general interest The two papers
make an ideal combination for every
country homo. Sample copies of
either or both will be furnished free
upon application addressed to either
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