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New York.
EDINBURGH REyIEw.-The July number of
this time honored and popular review is unuSu-
ally we'll filed with valuable matter. The open
ing chapter is devoted to a powerful delinea-
ton of the Austrian Court Of the 18th centu-
ry." Articles upon the I" Nations of India"
Lord Grey's Colonial Administration, French
Navy" " Relations of England with CHINA,
&c, all greatly interesting, we pass over to al
low space for remark upon the topic of "Popu-
lar Education in the United States" which
forms principle item in this number The
tone of the article evinces the growing respect
of English writer's for every thing American,
and is even in advance Of the Edinburgh The
subject is treated of in unmitigated praise, and
the moral of the reviewer seems to be that as
the general education in the United States has
produced such great advantages in the increase
Of wealth. mechanic art, science, diminution
Of pauperism and crime, that England should
OOiIlldly W oOiliC OpIlI-
ions expressed by few of our contemporaries,
we believe the tone of the Edinburgh Review
has for many years been partial to American
institutions, growth, &c, and the remark Who
reads an American book" did not originate
with this review. The reviewer in the article
in question gives some interesting statistics in
reference to education in this country. The
whole number of children in Massachusetts who
attended the free schools in 1851 was 199, ,429.
The whole amount expended in schools in the
same state for that year was 81 1853, 700 63. The
school fund amounted to Sl,000,000 In New
York the whole number Of children taught in
the schools 794 800, at an expense of 81 ,766668
In Pennsylvania the whole number Of children
registered in the schools was 424 ,344, for the
education ofwhich S926,447 65. In Richmond
and New Orleans measures are in progress to
improve their system of free schools. la most
of the western and southwestern states congress
has made large reservations Of land for educa-
tional purposes. st. Louis appropriates yearly
100000 to its public schools In Texas
schools exists in every county, and nearly 200
churches are in progress. Iowa is distinguish
ed for her efforts for education Ohio has made
great progress-though we have no statistics
before US in the review in reference to these
states.
To this great net work of schools spread
all over the land, and every year growing to-
greater perfection, the writer justly attributes
our growth in all the valuable and peaceful arts
of life. The article is high tribute to Amer
ican character If such works as the Edinburgh
can break down that contracted feeling exhib-
tied in the writings of such men as Sir A. ALI
son, and in the present English anti-educational
policy, England's star will advance far to an
unobscured meridian.
LONDON QUARTERLY.-The prominent fea-
ture in the July number of this review is crit
icism upon Lord John Russell's memoirs of
Thomas Moore The reviewer aims to prove
the insincerity Of the author, and to unfold the
frailties of Moore as exhibited in his diary, and
autobiography, and he certainly succeeds IN his
ungrateful task. 1t contains also several ecle-
siastcal articles, and a review of a work by an
Italian opening the vista Of the italian rebel
lions Mazzini receives no mercy at the hands
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