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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 9: a literary club and its organ. (search)
ter (March 27), he writes:-- Brought home with me Brownson's Boston Quarterly Review, for April. This is the best journal now current on this side of the Atlantic, but falls far below the idea of the best minds among us. Its circulation is limited. A better work will appear before long. Some of the freest pens now lie idle for want of a channel. . . . The Christian Examiner is timid and conservative. Alcott's Ms. Diary, XII. 542. Again, in his record of a meeting of the club, May 8, 1839, it appears that the first topic of discussion was The present temper of our journals. He continues, recording his own remarks but not those of others:-- I said that they were destitute of proper freshness and independence. The Liberator was then the only journal which had root in the soul and flourished. Alcott's Ms. Diary. XII. The Club went on meeting, now at Mr. Emerson's in Concord, now at Dr. Francis's in Watertown, now at Mr. Bartol's in Boston. It was made up of unu