THE ROSCOE MAGAZINE. No. I.] THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1849. INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. In introducing another journal to the notice of the public, it is not our intention to overload our pages with those numerous professions which frequently preface similar publications, and too often share the fate usually assigned to "good intentions." As was explained in the prospectus, it is our aim to minister to a public want, by recording the proceedings of the different Institutions and Societies of the locality, by explaining the objects of each, and enforcing their claims to public support; and in addition, we propose to give that prominency to features of Literature, Art, and Science, which are of too local a character to receive particular notice from the metropolitan press. How far we are competent to the task we have undertaken, our Magazine itself must show. We can only promise to do our best, and to assure our readers that our pages will be enriched with contributions from writers favourably known to the public. We enter upon the work with an earnest desire to make it worthy of its name and birth-place; and we hope to receive the co-operation and support of those who are favourable to our purpose. As our contributors are numerous, varied opinions will of course exist amongst them; we shall not aim, therefore, at literal consistency, but trust that our pages will always manifest that unity of spirit which should animate the promoters of a common object. |