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In one respect, republican America has,al-
ready exercised amost beneficial influence dyer
the literature of England. She has contributedio
diffuse it amongst our'own people. To a recent
period books in England, except, perhaps, a few
school books, old ballads, and the Bible, were in-
tended exclusively for the rich. Their C7ost
placed them far beyond the reach of °the pdor.
They were a luxury Which they tould nut
enjoy. As America, speaking our language,
and having a reading population, came
into the market for our books, it was
found necessary to enlarge the editions
which 'contributed to the cheapness of such
volumes. But when the Americans came
to print our most popular works, and published
books fbr half-a-crown, or even for the price .of
a newspaper, which here cost a couple of guineits,
it was soon found necessary to follow in their
track. England is, we think, mainly indebted
to the republicans, amongst whom a love of read-
ing is widely diffused, for the present cheapness
of books, by which our literature has ceased to
belt mere liikury for the rich' and was brought
within the reach of the bulk of the people, till
they were impoverished by the Corn-laws.
In time, the change in the price of books will
have another most beneficial effect. Because
books were a luxury only for the rich, authors
studied their opinions and wrote chiefly to please
them. Since literature has been more diffused,
opinions have become more democratic, and it
is now profitable to write for the other classes as

well as for the aristocracy. A. more healthy and
a more truthful spirit must pervade modern
works, the foible_s of the great and the rich will

no longer be and are not exclusively-flattered,
and the vices only of the poor branded with re-
probation. For. that improvement in thought
itself; or at least in the written expression of
thought, we arc chiefly indebted to the great
Republic and not to our aristocracy, who have
been desirous to make as close a monopoly of
literature as of land.

When we are told of the patronage of litera-
ture by the aristocracy, to what does it amount ?
Authors of every description are not only far
more independent, they are far better paid since
books were brought within the reach of the
people than when they were confined to the
aristocracy. If the nobility and courtiers of
ELIZABETH'S reign contributed to nourish into
existence the vast intelligence of that period of
which SI! AKSP EARE was the symbol, whichis,
however, doubtful—for bath he and they, and all
the intellectual wonders of that age, seem to have
been the common products of a general mental
agitation and growth, such as the world has not
since witnessed—the nobility and courtiers both
of the first and the second CtitAni.r.s, by their
imitation of foreigners and their importation of
foreign tastes, did much to corrupt the literature
as well as the morals of England. They patronised
little or no native genius, and it was not their
fault that SHAESPEARE was not buried for ever
in oblivion, and that the name of MILTON did
not die out of memory as his contemporaries
passed away. England might have had a na-
tional music had the aristocracy not frowned it
down by their patronage of foreign musicians,
rend made PURCELL be forgotten by his own coun-
trymen for nearly a century. So there arose at
a later period a genuine school of English art in
painting, but the people, rather than the aris-
tocracy, patronised the works of HOGA ATP'.

Little or nothing of great value in science.
literature, or art, can be traced in England to
the exertions or the patronage of the aristocracy,
and therefore we dispute the assertion that they
are the grand source of our civilization. We
should not, however, have entered on such a
subject, did not the monopolist press, not satis-
fied with supporting our aristocracy in their de-
sign to maintain their power at the expense of
humanity and justice, hold them up to mankind
as examples of all that is wise, brave, virtuous,
and lovely. By their legislation and their con-
duct the aristocracy have brought the commu-
nity into its present condition, and our Contem-
poraries demand that the public should reverence
more than ever the authors of the mischief. Our
remarks are intended to counteract, if we can,
their erroneous statements.