The Essayist Volume 1; A Young Men's Magazine (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1833 Excerpt: ... V THE ESSAYIST. Vol. I. SEPTEMBER, 1831. No. I. ntroltutton. We present our friends and the public with the first number of a work which has been heretofore proposed, in the firm confidence of receiving the encouragement which our humble efforts to please and profit them may deserve. Possibly 'we say it who shouldn't say it, ' but our opinion is, at all events, that the course we have marked out for ourselves, will be found neither without interest nor without use to those who may befriend us. And notwithstanding the vast dignity of the move we have made from our chrysalis state in the Essayist, and the huge importance which attaches to our editorial character in consequence thereof, we shall still be gratified to meet and to greetour acquaintances on all proper and convenient occasions. It will be well to save some trouble, however, by pointing out. the subjects we wish our writers to treat upon, and the manner of treatment we wish them to adopt. We do not intend that our magazine shall contain any very long or very elaborate articles. We think it better in most cases to say too little than too much: and the remark is particularly applicable to a work like ours. The fact is, that voluminous papers are not very generally read in this country, however lucid or learned, or sound or sensible they may be. We are too busy, hasty, practical a people--those of us especially so, who belong to the operative class, and are obliged to make the most and best use, at least the most expeditious use, of all the little leisure we can get. In all other circumstances as in this, we are desirous of consulting the particular situation, taste and necessities of those VOL. I....no. i. 1 whom we must mainly depend upon for support. The matter of the magazine, then, must be practic..