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~ terly, the Edinburg, the North British
and the Westminster Reviews, and BLACK
woods Magazine. Leonard & Co., Pub.
fishers. 20 Fulton and.54 Gold street, New
York
These periodicals are the critical censors
Of the British scholastic and literary world.
BY their criticisms, they aid readers in the
selection Of standard valuable books; and by
the epitomes which they present, often OBJ
viate the necessity of consulting works too
voluminous for general examination. They
I'll place which American magazens cannot
supply; for they discuss topics relating more
strictly to the affairs, political, religious, scien-
tific, and literary the Continent of Europe.
They are conducted by the best talent of
Great Britain; and are engaged with the
most important questions which interest or
agitate the civilized world. Whoever SUBJ
scribes to them all, may read the ablest rep
resentatives of the principal parties into
which the people of Great Britain are devi-
ded.
The EGinbs0g Reriew.
The exponent of the Wing praty in Great
Britain, having from its commencement ad =
vocated freedom and the rights Of the people.
When the war, apparently of determination,
was waged against France by British Tory
rulers, and during which occurred the Sc
cond great struggle of England with our own
country, this Review first unfurled the flag
of resistance, made, by its unanswerable and
eloquent appeals in behalf of inalienable rights
the halls of British legislation and even the
throne itself to trimbe. The graphic and
stirring delneations of those events, presen-
ted in the pages of that distinguished journal,
exhibit the truest portraiture Of those perilous
to be found, perhaps, in the language. It's
influence was becoming so apparent, that at
length the leaders of the Tory party, at
whom the thundes of its eloquence was espe>
cially directed, found it too powerful an in
strument to be resisted by ordinary means,
and hence they established the "Quarterly,' ~
or as it is distinguished among American re-
prints.
The London Quarterly Reuicw.
Whereby to counteract that influence
which its powerful rival exerted againt their
measures. The two great political parties
thus made strenuous efforts through their re-
spective organs, for the PRONUNCIATION of their
antagonist principles; and during a long Sc
ries of years, these two leading periodicals
have concentrated the labors, the talent, and
the influence of the adherents of the Wing
and Tory parties of Great Britain.
Men OF the highest literary rank, as well as
dignitaries civil and cccesiastic, have con-
tributed TO the pages of these works; among
them might be mentioned some of the most
respondent names on the scroll of fame.
Among the regular contributors to the Lon
don Quarterly Review, were Southey Scott,
Lockhalt, Tits present editor,) Appcrlry,
Ferguson, Wordsworth, Lord Mahon, DIR.
Mllman, (whose articles on Oriental Litera-
ture have been so highly esteemed, } and that
wonderful woman OF Science, Mrs. Somer-
vile, with many other scarcely less ceIebra>
ted. Then again in the Ednburg Reveiw,
it is enough to mention the following names,
any one of which would Of itself insure a
high degree ofrenown to any work with which
it might be associated we refer 10 jeffrey,
Napier, Brougam, Macintosh, and Macaul
ey; the first of whom during his long connec-
ton with the Review, actually wrote, on the
average, one third of the articles that graced
its brilliant pages; while the universally ad-
mired essays Of the last, leave us in no man
ner Of doubt rs to their great intrinsic merit
Tie Westminster Reriew.
This able journal was etablished under
the patronage and support Of the ultra be-
rails, so styled, of the British House of Com.
mons; among whom Roebuck, Mil, Bowring
Professor Long, Of the University, Miss
Martineau, and others whose names neeC
not be quoted, conspicuously figured. 1t was
for years under the editorial supervision o
-
ed the sobriquet of the mouth piece of Ben.
thanisn. This work has ever been especi-
ally devoted to the great topics which inter.
ested the mass of the people--its pages have
! teen rie-it will be remembered with a sc.
ries of powerful articles, tending TO the re.
duction of Tory and exclusive privileges, he
redary rights, kingly prerogatvcs, etc
| The astounding developments made few
years since, respecting the wretched, and
! till then, unheard Of horrors of some branch
es ofthe mining population of England, first
| appeared in its pages. Not only have its ar
tcles ever been directed against the afore-
mentioned abuses, but the work has also
maintained an unrelentng crusade against
yirt,,Ittannce of church aud state, and thus
-, p ,I,:,;9', ''tteng to abolish the Parliamenta-
,o,,,,o I'm ID. and eventually to re
| "i''S tllO sun tAlSlIB r6t..,u,,.z e
which continue to atilict the jr,nI
1t has recently become the medium ".1
| winch Golden promulgates his Free Irs5
doctrines, which will give it increased intnr
est to the numerous admirers, here and else.
where, of that great Reformer. In mnny
particulars the Westminster Review esnous.
es political Iath closely allied to that Of on
own couatry--and therefore we NAV. wunou,
any extraordinary effort of charity, be induc.
ed to cherish it as an exotic worthy Of beino
engraited into our more genial soil. It has
recently beer united with the Foreign Omar
terly Review, the more attractive faturcs NJ
the two Reviews being now combined in ,he
W stmnister, and thus adding greatly to
Its value as literary periodical.
The North British Repier.
IS work Of more recent origin than those
already descrbed--but is, nevertheless. des-
tined to occupy as prominent place in the
Republic Of Letters
The great ecclesiastical movement in Scot.
land led to IFS establishment. There was No
journal in the United Kingdom which an
peared to meet the necessities of this anti
church agitation Indeed, the revolution
u