THE THE OF MONTHLY REVIEW Recollections of t BY TIMOTHY FLINT, AUTHOR OF the Last Ten Years in the Mississippi Valley,'' Geography and BENEDICERE HAUD MALEDICERE. VOLUME II. FROM JUNE, 1828, TO MAY, 1829, INCLUSIVE. CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED BY E. H. FLINT, 160 IN STREET. Looker & Reynolds, Printers. 465018 Letters on the Logos-The Trinitarian Controversy, Jurisdiction and Proceedings of the Courts of Probate in Massachusetts, Sermon on Christian Unity, Southern Review No. IV-Aboriginal Inhabitants of America, 331, 380, 436, 493 437 THE WESTERN MONTHLY REVIEW. JUNE, 1828. EDITOR'S ADDRESS. We shall accompany our compliments to our patrons with a brief announcement of our intended course for the coming year. We shall continue to fill something more than a third of our pages, as formerly, with miscellaneous matter, aiming, however, that even that shall have a direct reference to the interests of literature. We shall sometimes, though not often, expose an original tale to the charity of the public. Infinite numbers of these forlorn orphans are cast out on the arid highways, or to float on the lone waters, without even an ark of bulrushes to keep the feeble wailers from perishing. More than half are the fruit of foreign illegitimacy, and by no means as well worth raising, as our own homeborn and honest bantlings. We should think charity began at home. Though a great many of our reading exquisites are scornful of our home manufactures, there is no comparison between the interest of a few of our literary papers, that extract but little, and those albums and monthly and weekly periodicals, yclept 'spirit of foreign magazines' &c. that extract chiefly from European papers. It should seem, that, as a people, we have abundantly more criticism, than taste among us. We have seen, during the past year, numbers of tales and stories and witty matters going the rounds of all the papers, that might claim the first premium for the highest attainable degree of vapidity and silliness. Editors, who commit such naughty actions, ought to be fined for debauching and stupifying the public taste. When we see how nine papers in ten are conducted, we can not avoid thinking of that convenient hydraulic instrument, callVOL. II.-No. 1. 2 |