Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1853-12-29

they aid readers in the selection oil
standard valuable hooks and by the
epi'omes which they present often oh
viaic The necessity Of consulting works
\ 10, yoluminous for general examination.
They fill place which American mag
azines cannot supply for they discuss
topics reIt ting more strictly TO the Ill
fairs, political, religious, scientific
and literary, OF the continent oi Eu-
rope.
The EDiNBuRoH REvIrw is the ex-
ponent of the Wing party in Great
Britain, having from lie commencement
advocated Freedom and the rights OF
he people. When the war, apparently
Of extermination, was waged against
France by British Tory rulers, and du-
ring which occurred The second great
Struggle Of England with our own coun-
try, this Review first uniurled the Gag
ol resistance, and made, by its unahs-
werable and eloquent appeals in behalf
OF maienabla rights, tie halls Of Brit
ish Legislation and even the throne Itself
to uemble. The graphic and stirring
delineations OF those events, presented
in the pages oi that distiugui he'd Jour
nal, exhibit the ruest porlraiture Of
those periIous days to be und,perhaPs,
in the language Its influence was be-
coming 80 apparent, that at length the
leaders Of the Tory party, a, whom the
thunders OF its eoqucnce were especial
ly directed, found il too powerful an in
s,rument to be resisted by ordinary
means, and hence they established the
"Quartery" or as it is distinguished
among the American reprints.
The LONDON QUApTERLY REvIEw,
whereby 10 counieract that influence
which It's powerful rival exerted against
their measures. The two great polll-
cal parties thus made strenuous eforts
through their respective organs, for the
promulgation OF their antagonist princi.
pies aud during long series Of yeara,
these two leading Periodicals have coI-
cen,ratea the labors, the talent and the
influence Of the adherenls oi the Wing
and Tory parties Of Great Britain.
Men OF the highest literary rank, as
we'll ns digni'arles civil and ecclesins-
tic, have contributed TO the pages of
these works: among them might be
mentioned some OF the most resplendent
names on the scroll OF fame. Among
the regular contributors TO the London
Quarterly Review were SoMhey, Scot,
Lockhurt (lIs present editor), Appcrieg,
F, guson, Wordsworth, LOrd Mahon,
DR.. Milman (whose articles on Oriental
literature have been SO highly esteem
ed), and that wonderful woman ol sci
ence, Mrs. Somerriiie, with many Others
scarcely less celebrated. Then again
in the Edinburgh Reriem, il is enough
to mention the following nanes,any one
Of which wou ID Of itself insure high
degree Of renown TO any work with
which it might be associated I'VE refer
to JeGrey, Napier Brougham, Mackin-
tosh, and Macdulay the first OF whom
during his long connexion with the Re-
view actually wrote, on the average, ,one
third OF the articles that graced It's
brillian, pages: while the universally
admi~ed essays of the last, republished
so extensively in our own and the par
enl country, leave us in no manner of
doubt as to their great intrinsic mer-
| it.
The WESTMINSTER RrviEw.--This
able Journal was established under the
patronage and support Of the ultra-hb-
erals, so styled, Of the British House Of
Com mons among whom Roebuch, MIL,
Bowrine, Professor Long Of the Lon
don University, Miss Martineau, and
others whose names need not be quo
ted, conspicuously figured. Ii was for
some years under the editorial supervi-
sion Of Jeremy Bentham, from which
fact it obtained the sobriquet Of tn e
moulb-piece Of Benthamism. This
work has ever been especially devoted
to the great topics which interest the
mass oi the people its pages have
been rife, it will be remembered with
series Of powerful articles, tending to
the reduction Of Tory and exclusive
privileges, hereditary tights kingly pre-
r gatives, &c. The astounding Gevel-
opments male few years since, res
pecting the wre'ched aud till then, un-
II heard OF horrors oi some branches of
tho mining popu'a,on OF England, first
appeared in it's pages. Not only have
it's articles ever been directed against
the aforementioned abuses the work
II has also maintained an unrelentlng cru
sade against the alliance OF Church and
State, thus virtually seeking TO abolish
the parliamentary Religion" OF Eng
land, and eventually 10 remove the still
existing remnants OF ieudalism, which
continue TO afflict the British ma
tion.
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