Magazine of Travel

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTORY. INTRODUCTORY. What, another Magazine afloat upon the great sea of adventure T Yes, another, and it must take its chance. And yet, tho' it be another, it'Certainly does not exhibit any very striking family resemblance. To our disparagement as a people, it has been said, that a Magazine, to be...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTORY. INTRODUCTORY. What, another Magazine afloat upon the great sea of adventure T Yes, another, and it must take its chance. And yet, tho' it be another, it'Certainly does not exhibit any very striking family resemblance. To our disparagement as a people, it has been said, that a Magazine, to be sustained among us, must be light and frothy T? must swim full with those beautiful creations which bubble up in the brain of the dreaming sentimentalist. It may be so. but we have taken the liberty to raise a question on this subject, believing as we do, that there is truth enough in the'world, practical and real, tragic and comic, to stir the sleepiest mind, to entertain the listliest, instruct the dullest, and even to amuse the siHitKt, without resort to those sentimental trickeries, which constitute, to a great extent, the current literature of the day. We should be sorry to believe, that our subscribers desire us to play the peacock tor them?We have a higher appreciation of Michigan mind. Tliis Magazine, has. we trust, a higher mission than that. Its pages are consecrated to lessons of instruction drawn from common sense views of rnen, and things, from new and strange phases of human character and human enterprise, as witnessed in various and distant quarters of the globe. Its design is to bring home to the hearthstones of its readers the advantages of foreign travel, as truly as tho' they had Crossed oceans and continents to secure them?to give them for a few shillings what it would cost them thousands of dollars to go abroad and accumulate fop themselves?in a word, to do for them what would be almost equivalent to escorting them, nt our own expense, thro' far distant countries, and making them welcome to share with us in the pleasures and advantages so dearly p...