From the Pref­ace to vol­ume 1 of The West­ern Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine, and Jour­nal of Edu­ca­tion, Sci­ence, Arts and Morals by George Brew­ster, 1854, Cleveland.

As it was our inten­tion, when we com­menced it, to give it, if pos­si­ble, an endur­ing per­ma­nency, we have admit­ted, of course, no news or gos­sip of the day into its pages, pos­sess­ing merely a tem­po­rary inter­est; and it will, there­fore, con­sti­tute a mis­cel­la­neous vol­ume of last­ing value, suit­able to be bound up and pre­served in the library of the fam­ily, as inter­est­ing in one age as in another, and just as desir­able to be perused, by those who have not read it, the sec­ond year of its exis­tence, as the first.