The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-04-14
Forcipn periodical Literature.


The attention of the reader is again directed to
the advertisements Of MessTs. Leonard, Scott &sCo.
This is emphatically Sreuding age as well as
one devoted to the publication of an innumera-
BILE assortment of books-some good some bud,
some Indifferent And never was there period
in the Literature of the world when the sage
advce-"read few books well selected, was
so necessary as now. So muny works are pub
| lished that are not worth the time occupied in
reading even the title-page that we are compelled
to depend upon reliuble critics to select for US
The Reviews and Magazines published by Messrs.
Leonard, Scott, & Co. perh ps hive done more
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| In addition 10 this, these works have also done
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1t is to be lamented that we have SO few works
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the American reader because in them he will
learn the great changes that are taking place in
the old world, while at the same time by COM
parison and experience he will become better able
to manage the machinery our own Government,
elevate and purify its Literature and advance and
improve its Scientific attainments.
The EDISBURGH RLvIEw was established by
the Wing party of Great Britain to oppose the
measures OF the Tory rulers So powerful an
influence did it exert, that the Tory party found
it necessary to establish antagonist in the LON
DON QUARTERLY REVIEW. Men of the highest
rank in the literary political and ecclesiasc class
es OF Great Britain contributed to these Reviews,
fame, Jetfreys, Napier, Brougham, Macauly,
Southey, Scott, Milman Ferguson, Wordsworth
and others. As liberal principles advanced, the
ultraliberals found it necessary to establish a
the WESTMINSTER REVIEW. This has recently
been united to the Foreign Quarterly Review and
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influential Journals in the old world BLAc X
wooDs MAGAzlNE is less exclusive in its charac-
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Wilson, Warren, Bulwer and james are among its
leading contributors.
The NORTH BRITIsH REVIEW has been recent
ly established Its columns are devoted to the
Anti-Naional. Church agitation in Great Britain
and it was, until his DEATH under the supervision
of the celebrated divine DR.. Chalmers His place
is uow filled by llis Son-n-aw DR.. Hanna. 1t is
not, however, exclusively Theological Review
but it is also devoted to Political questions in
their general character Science and Literature.
By all arrangement with the publishers in Ed
inburgh Leonard, Scott e. Co. obtain the proof
sheets OF Blackwood and it appears here near.
y as soon as in Great Britain. Its American
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1t will thus be seen that the parties Of Great
Britain are each represented in these Reviews
and tile discussion Of the mighty changes that are
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