. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . 6>7 /£/? THE PIONEER JANUARY, 1843 INTRODUCTION. Dr. John North, a man of some mark in hisday, wrote on the first leaf of his notebookthese significant words ; — I beshrew hisheart that gathers my opinion from anythingwrote here ! As we seated ourselves to thehard task of writing an introduction for our newliterary journal, this sentence arose to our seemed to us to point clearly at the arch-want of our periodical literature. We findopinions enough and to spare, but scarce anyof the healthy, natural growth of our soil. Ifnative, th
. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . 6>7 /£/? THE PIONEER JANUARY, 1843 INTRODUCTION. Dr. John North, a man of some mark in hisday, wrote on the first leaf of his notebookthese significant words ; — I beshrew hisheart that gathers my opinion from anythingwrote here ! As we seated ourselves to thehard task of writing an introduction for our newliterary journal, this sentence arose to our seemed to us to point clearly at the arch-want of our periodical literature. We findopinions enough and to spare, but scarce anyof the healthy, natural growth of our soil. Ifnative, they are seldom more than scions of apublic opinion, too often planted and watered bythe prejudices or ignorant judgments of individ-uals, to be better than a upas-tree shedding apoisonous blight on any literature that maychance to grow up under it. Or if foreign, theyare, to borrow a musical term, recollections of Blackwood or the quarterlies, of Wilson,Macauley, or Carlyle — not direct imitations,but endeavors, as it were, to write with thei
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