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Northern periodicals.
We are pleased to learn that the publication of Godey's Lady's Book has been discontinued in all of our Southern cities.
This was the last lingering parasite of Northern literature that continued, even after the war, to twine around our Southern tree, and suck the vigor of its life away to sustain its own pestiferous existence.
When we recollect the character and number of the Northern weekly and periodicals which used to infest the South, we are lost in wonder that such a nuisance should ever have been permitted in our borders.
There was Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper, and the worse than worthless host of the same abominable kind, which was sold at every bookstore and agency in our Southern cities, and scattered broadcast over the whole South.
If there had been no other objection to these things than their entire want of literary merit of any kind, that would have been sufficient.
The miserable stuff they were crowded with was enoug