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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
vate the necessity Of consulting works too
yoluminous for general examination. They
fiji n place which American magaziens cannot
supply; for they discuss topics relating more
str city to the affairs political, religious, scen-
tifc, and literary Of 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
aptate the civilized world. Whoever SUBJ
scrbes to them all, may read the ablest rep
resentatves Of the principal parties into
which the people of Great Britain are dey~
ded.
TIE EGirLurg Rcriep.
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 unanswerabe and
eloquent appeals in behalf of inalienable rights
the halls of British legislation and even the
throne :sef to trimble. The graphic and
stirring delneations Of those events, presen-
ted in the pages Of tha. distinguished journal,
exhibit the truest porraiture of those perilous
to be found perhaps, in the language. Its
influence was becoming so apparent, that at
length the leaders of the Tory party, at
whom the thundes of its eloquence was cspe>
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 Lonaon QucrterlY ReUio,5.
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 promuleation 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 W hig
and Tory parties Of Great Britain.
Men Of the highest literary rank as well as
di9nltaries civil and ecclesastic, have con-
tributed to the pages Of these WORKS: among
them might be mentioned some of the most
Fespendent names on tie scroll Of fame.
Among the regular contributors to the Lon
don Quarterly Review, were Southey Scott
Lockhalt, tits present editor) Appcrlry,
Ferguson Wordsworth, Lord NIahon, Dr.
Mllman, (whose articles on Oriental Litera-
ture have been so highly esteemed and that
wonderful woman Of Science Mrs. Somcr-
vile, with many other scarcely less celebra>
ted. Then again in the Edinbure Review,
it s enough to mention the following names,
any one Of which would of itself insure a
high degree ofrenOwn to any work with which
1t might be assOcated--we refer 20 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 fflrd Of the articles that praced
It's brilliant pages; while the universally ad-
mred essays OF the last, leave us in no man
ner OF doubt rs to their great intrinsic merit
The Westminster Reriear.
This able journal was etablished under
the patronage and support Of the ustra-libe-
rails, 50 styled, Of the British House Of Com
mons; among whom Roebuck, Mill. Bowrine.
Professor Long, Of the University, Miss
Mariineau, and others whose names need
not be quoted, conspicnously figured. Il was
for years under the editorial supervision of
Jeremy Bentham, from which fact it obtain
ed the sobriquet Of the mouth-pece of Ben
tbanism. This worf has ever been espcci-
ally devoted to the great topicg which inter
ested the mass Of the peopie--its pages have
been rife-it will be remembered with Sc
rles of powerful articles, tending to the re-
duction Of Tory and exclusive privileges. he
reditary rights, Kngly prerogatiycs, etc
The astounding developments made a few
years since, respecting the wrctched. and,
till then, unhoard Of horrors Of some branch
es ofthe mining population Of England, first
appeared in its pages Not only have lis er-
ticles ever been directed against the afure-
mentioned abuses, but the work has also
maintained an unrelcutng crusade against
the alliance Of church and state, and thus
virtually seeking to abolish tile Parlamenta-
ry Religion Of England, and eventually 10 re.
move the still existing remnants of feudalsm
which continue to aii.ct the British nation.-
Ii has recently become the medium through
which Golden promulga'es his Free Trade
doctrines, which viii give it increased inter-
est to the numerous admirers, here and else-
where, Of that great Reformer. in many
particulars the Westminster Review espous-
es political Iaith closely allied to that Of our
own couhtry--and therefore we may, without
any extraordinary effort of charity, be induc-
ed to cherish it as an exotic worthy of being
engralted into our more genial soil. 1t has
recently been united with the Foreign Quar-
terly Review, the more attractive fatares Of
the two Reviews being now combined in :he
W. 'stminister, and thus adding greatly to
its value as literary periodical.
The Norh British Rcvicac.
is work Of more recent origin than those
already described--but is, nevertheless, dcs-
tined to occupy as prominent a place in the
Republic Of Letters
The great ecclesiastical movement in Scot
land led TO lis establishment. There was no
journal in the United Kingdom which ap
peared to meet the necessities of this anti.
church agitation Indeed, the revolution
caused by the disruption induced new state
otthngs, placing the actors in new positions
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