The remainder are intellectualized,
and many of them are emancipated from the conventions of the last
generation, if not from those of their own. These demand a new
vitality of brain, emotion, and spirit in their literary magazine, and
it must be given to them.
No better proof of all this could be sought than the renaissance
in our own times of the reviews and the weeklies, probably the
most remarkable phenomenon in the history of American publishing
since the birth of yellow journalism. By the weeklies I do not
mean journals like _The Outlook_, _The Independent_, _Vanity Fair_,
which are merely special varieties of the typically American magazine.
I refer, of course, to _The New Republic_, _The Nation_, _The
Freeman_, _The Weekly Review_ in its original form, periodicals formed
upon an old English model, devoted to the spreading of opinion, and
consecrated to the propagation of intelligence. The success of
these weeklies has been out of proportion to their circulation.
Like the old _Nation_, which in a less specialized form was
their predecessor, they have distinctly affected American
thinking, and may yet affect our action in politics, education,
and social relations generally.
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