TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The communication, signed A, contains many thoughts of peculiar poetical beauty, yet we regret to see, here and there, blemishes, which materially affect its merits as a whole, and which none but the author can properly remedy. A careful correction would do away those redundancies, with which it is now encumbered, and render it of more finished excellence. For the present, therefore, it is deferred.
Tuum Carmen, Grai, ‘limae labore’ deficiens, “in cineres citissime redegimus” ☞ ‘cinis ad cinerem.’
Z’s manuscript is too extensive for our limited space, and also too obscure for our mental and bodily vision.
The “Musings of Adonis” are also among the “great rejected.” To use his own language, “Their beauty and fragrance,(?)
“Long since in sad silence have flown,
Like thistle-down, far on the gale!”
“Omega” shall receive a place corresponding with his signature, by the by, one most appropriate, and withal, a fine typical emblem of the merits of his performance.
The perusal of the first couplet of the “Apostrophe to the Moon” sufficed us.—“Look!—lo! behold!”
“O! thou shiny orb, that careerest above—
Thy spirit how soothing,—thy light full of love!”
All articles intended for No. 2, we would wish to receive at an early date, through the Post Office.
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE.
TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE STUDENTS OF YALE COLLEGE.
An apology for establishing a Literary Magazine, in an institution like Yale College, can hardly be deemed requisite by an enlightened public; yet a statement of the objects which are proposed in this Periodical, may not be out of place.
To foster a literary spirit, and to furnish a medium for its exercise; to rescue from utter waste the many thoughts and musings of a student’s leisure hours; and to afford some opportunity to train ourselves for the strife and collision of mind which we must expect in after life;—such, and similar motives have urged us to this undertaking.
So long as we confine ourselves to these simple objects, and do not forget the modesty becoming our years and station, we confidently hope for the approbation and support of all who wish well to this institution.
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The work will be printed on fine paper and good type. Three numbers to be issued every term, each containing about 40 pages, 8vo.
Conditions—$2,00 per annum, if paid in advance, or 75 cents at the commencement of each term.
Communications may be addressed through the Post Office, “To the Editors of the Yale Literary Magazine.”
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