TO CORRESPONDENTS.
“Charles K.” is a well written tale, and, as it is apparently founded upon facts, would undoubtedly interest those personally acquainted with the scenes which it describes; but, unless we misjudge, it would strike others differently.
“Evening Thoughts,” an article on William Wirt, and a “Sonnet,” are declined.
“The Seminole,” with some metrical alterations, may appear in our next.
“A Rhyming Mood,” is accepted.
The author of “Niobe,” and “Spring,” (we suppose them both from the same pen,) would do well to use the ‘file’ a little more freely, and also, read, at his leisure, a chapter or two of some treatise on Perspicuity.
“My Village Home,” “The Pleasures of Innocence,” and “The Future,” (which, from the paper and chirography, we judge to be the productions of one and the same intellect,) might, perhaps, be creditable to the powers of an Infant School poet; but, Dii Immortales! can it be possible they have been perpetrated by any one of riper years? Take a specimen or two.
“But ah! where’s now their boyish pranks
Since last I saw those sloping banks;
Time’s stern mandate, bid to hardy toil,
Some with Fame—the rest on Nature’s soil.”
“Oh! ’tis that off distant hill
By the shady grove, all leafless—still
Where I’d seek an humble place
To lay low my care-worn face.”
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.
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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