Village Magazine Author:Unknown Author 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: THE VILLAGE MAGAZINE. THE RENEWAL.' Jam nova progenies coelo demittitur alto. Virgil. Here again comes the Village Maga!—the realization of the fa... more »bled phoenix, that sprung in freshness and vigour from the yet warm ashes of its former self,— the accomplishment of the poetic vision, in which the cold and bloodless statue was transformed to living and breathing beauty! Here again comes the Village Maga! — not in solemn and ominous silence, as when she first rose to " light, and life, and fame;" but ushered in with sounds of rural revelry and rustic enjoyments—with shouts and feux-de-joie; for—it is the First Op September ! Who that spends his years of feverish existence amidst the perpetual crowd—the ceaseless tumult—the noise, and hurry, and bustle of the Metropolis—where interest concentrates and condenses every feeling of the soul into selfishness, and where the springs of life are worn down by the unchanging and unrelieved monotony of excite- It may be necessary to inform many of our readers, who are unacquainted with the fact of which this article apprises them, that a little work under the title of "The Village Magazine" was some few years ago established and conducted through three volumes with very considerable spirit and success, at the pleasant village of Wath-upon- Dearne, and that it only ceased in consequence of the inconvenience of managing an affair of this nature in so retired a place. It was chiefly at the instigation of many of the parties connected with the previous publication, that " The Village Magazine" has been recommenced where it can have every advantage of literary assistance, with, at the same time, a probability of greater utility and more extensive circulation. Vttl. May. Sept. 1838. B ment, can form a just, or even feeble, conce...« less