Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-02-07
-=i-We again cam the attention Of our readers

TUESDAY, 1ORNiNG, FEBRUARY 7, 1884.
G5-We again call the attention OF our readers
t"'the publication of the four Quarterly Reviews
and BIackwood. by Leonard Scott & Co., of
New York. The able literary character of
most of these works is well understood wherever
they have been read, and we can hardly add
10 their reputation by anything can say in
their behalf. The Edinburgh Review is, we be-
eve, the oldest of the four. having been establish
ed Ly Lord Jeffrey and S dney Smith, in 1906. Tor
thereubouts,) and Immediately CONNIE need that adj
votacy of Wing principles, which has resulted so
fortunately upon various occasions. It has ever
been The liberal organ of Great Britain, and has
commanded as contributors the talent of the EN-
pire. Jeffrey, Smith aud Macua!ey, are names of
themselves sufficient 10 immortalise the pages of
any review. Their essays, mostly published in
The Edinburgh, now adorn the shelves of every
well selected library, aud are the standard essays
Of the age, aud the work is still conducted by as
able coninhutors aided by the experience of their
world-TenOwned predecessors. The London Quar-
tery or Tory organ. may be in many respects resar
ed as "tother side" in British politics. while Scott,
Southey and host of others rank as its past con-
tHontoFs As purely literary work it ranks among
the highest of English works. The Westminster
Pies Review" In it the character and condition
of the masses has been especially examined, and
the main political end of this review is to elevate
ondimProve the condition of The working people.
the suffering millions of England. Its character
is at once understood when we point TO Jeremy
Bentham as its conductor for series of years. and
that it was the culiar favorite of i'll Roebuck,
and that class of radical English rcformers. The
North British Review is more religious in its o1;
gin, having BEEN established by the eminent DR..
Chalmers and being now edited by his son. in law
DIR. Hanna. This Review is now aided by Brew
ester, Cunningham, Gordon, Buchanan and others.
whase chatac;ers ensure Its ability. The Review
Is by no means exclusively deyot. i TO the exami
nation OF religious subjects but traverses an enlare
ed literary area, which is marked by acumen and
critical abIl ty OF high order. BIackwood's Maya
z'ne IS too well know to need even passing notice.
w no has not heard Of Christopher North and who
IS there imbued with the love of nature that has
not read with rapture his natural scenes in the
humble walks of life. ''Ligh,s and shadows of
Scolsh ite," can hours talk about poetry and in
deed nearly every thing that Prof.. Wilson has yr-
tents SO strikngly unaffected and natural so plain
yet SO toucA ng, that no one fail to admire the
writer, and mosssth man. ItIwas in Blackwood
that ms hand was manifest, and in it now appear,
hrst' the works OF Bulwer, James, Warren, GiIly
anu diners loo numerous 10 mention. Biackwoud
IS published monthly, the other four quarterly.
While American authors are as peu'y as black
berries. (true, very common expression,) yet ali
must admit that their general Contributions 10 lit
eralure do not compare favorably with those of
Great britain. Whether this arises from the diff
lefent tales and occupations OF our society and
money making CT go aheadativeness of the Amer
1cah people, or from other causes, we cannot ex-
actly decide, though We inclined TO believe
mat one great reason for the difference IN the
character OF the British ssays from those of Amer
leans lies!in the fact tina. these authors are paid
and supported bytheir literary contributions. A
contnbu ion to the Edinburgh is not received and
inserted as compliment TO the contributor but it
is paid for according to its value, while in Ameri-
ca, until quite lately, e article was offered by
new contributor 10 any of our magazines, he
might consider himself more than compIimented Gy
It's insertion. We are glad to learn, however. that
some OF our periodicals are beginning to nay for
contributions. When this comes 10 be understood.
the poor author will go 10 work, confident that his
literary Labor will support aud repay him. and not
be compelled as heretofore to snatch moment
from hiss desk counter to STROLL for moment
merely in the fields of literature. We hone soon
TOO see American essLyists take their place along
withthose of Britain, which they can or will do as
soon as the world of literature DEGREES that the
work OF the men of letters must be aid for by the
consumer, as the artizan is paid for his, namely,
according to its value. The publications OF Leon.
ard Scott q Co., are the embodiments of English,
literature as such they stand pre-. eminent, and as
sachtheyshouIdb be taken and read byall who de-
size 10 be well informed and improved.
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