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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 32: press, literature and art. (search)
ed --was unknown in the South. She had but few weeklies; and these were sturdy and heavy country papers-relating more to farming than to national matters. Else they were the weekly editions of the city papers, intended for country consumption. Few monthly magazinessave educational, religious, or statistical ventures, intended for certain limited classes, were ever born in the South; and most of those few lived weakly and not long. De Bow's Review, the Southern Quarterly, and the Literary Messenger, were the most noteworthy exceptions. The business interests of the larger towns supported the first-which, indeed, drew part of its patronage from the North. Neither its great ability nor the taste of its clientele availed to sustain the second; and the Messenger-long the chosen medium of southern writers of all ages, sexes and conditionsdragged on a wearisome existence, with one foot in the grave for many years, only to perish miserably of starvation during the war. But any re