American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1822, 1822-03-08
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.


We have just received the January and February
numbers of the Port Folio and have read them with
considerable pleasure. The only objection think
that can be urged against the January number is,
the want of light articles, to render it generally
pleasing. The February number likewise contains
two heavy articles; but on the whole, is more in
teresting than the former. Articles XVII & XVIII
being record of deaths and marriages, might
have been supplied with something more interest
ing. Article XIX contains some very ineligible
hints to d" Delinquent Subscribers - and the OIL
one person in Poughkeeftsie, N Y, is given to the
public. The editor deprecates with becoming sP-
rit, those worthy patrons who give to magazines
but the whistle of name'". There are two ma
my persons of this character, whose names cumber
the subscripton-list of every publication persons
who, at the time of subscribing, lit will not be
unchartable to ayer), never inteAded to pay. This
is vainy prepense: COOL deliberate, heartless fraud
editors have too long suffered this species of i'm.
position in silence they have toled by day and
by night-deprived themselves of innocent enjoy
ment-wasted health and strength and their re-
ward has been empty sounds and base professions
The time has arrived when they owe it to them
selves, to their wives and little ones their creditors
and their honest subscribers to rend the veil which
conceals these literary swndlers and to expose then
to merited scorn and contempt. We cannot con
cude this hasty sketch without expressing our un
qualified admiration of the embellishments from
I" Ivanhoe," by Francis Kearney They do in6nit
credit to that excellent artists and are proof c
the extent to which the arts have been carried il
our country. Anticipating like pleasure from tn
pen and the graver in the subsequent numbers, W
shall joyfully hail their annunciation.
The seventh number of the d" LITERARY an
SCIENTIFIC REPOSITORY" was published i
New York; on Feb 81. 1t comprises 954 octav
pages, 100 Of which are occupied with original re
views the remainder with judicous selection
from foreign publications. The editors of the Ne
York Statesman conclude their remarks upon th
publication in the following words;
"For ourselves we feel well satisfied with the porto
land quality of the allotted US and think til
present number of the Repository fully establishes its cla
=. The first number of the LAW MAGAZINE
lis expected to appear on the first day Of June mex
! The gentlemen who are to superintend the worI
lare Charles g. Haiaes, esq. of New York and Ratt
J Lscksuood, esq. Of New Haven, who will be assis
ed by several of their professional brethren in di
< ferent parts of the union. The publishers ha,
varied from their original plan; and intend ssuin
the magazine every second month instead of mont
lily, as was first contemplated. Each number wi
q contain one hundred pages; terms, 5 s. payable
" the receipt Of the third number, 5 6, if paid
: the end Of the volume. The publishers are Mess
n Gray and Hewitt, of New Haven.
II
q JOHNSON LIFE OF GREENE.-The life of that d
e tinguished officer, general Nathaniel Greene, fro
&c the pen of Judge Johnson, is expected to issue
!. la short time, from the press. To judge from Il
* sources whence the authors information is derive
lit will be the most complete biographical accou
- (which has ever been published. Should it eq,
I'd 1.-THE expectation we are led to form, it will add
1.-THE rapidly increasing literary credit of our cou
s se Try.
nel The editor of the Charleston Courier, after g
n ling an abstrac, of the materials of which the VIC
lis formed, concludes with the following paragral
"From the above sketch of the preface of Judge 10
lson it obvious that his materials have been abundant
Island doubt not that his book, while 1t conveys much
iteresting information, will add green leaf to the lit
IS, lture Of South CAROLINA.