Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-03-08

wrote, on the average. one third of the articles that
graced its brilliant pages; while the universally ad-
mired essays of the last, republished 500 extensiveiy
in our own and the parent country. leave us in no
manner of doubt as to their great intrinsic merit.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
This able Journal was established under the patron
age and support of the ultra liberals, so styled in the
British House of Commons: among whom ROEBr OK,
Mills, BowRING, PROFESSOR LONG of the London Uni
versity, Miss MARrNEAr, and Others whose names need
not be quoted, conspicuously figured. II was for some
wears under the editorial supervision OF Jeremy Beth
am. from which fact it obtained the sEriGut Of the
mouth piece of Benthamism. This work has ever
been especially devoted to the great topics which inter
est the mass of people: its pages have been rife, it will
be remembered, with a series of powerful articles, ten
ding to the reduction Of Tory and exclusive privileges,
hereditary rights. kingly perosatives, nc. The as
founding developments made a few years since, re-
spect ting the wretched and, till then. unheard of hor-
rors of some branches Of the mining population of
England. first appeared in its pages. Not only have
its articles ever been directed against the afore- men
toned abuses; the work has also maintained an unre-
lenting crusade against the alliance of Church and
State, thus virtually seeking to abolish the 'Parlia->
mentary Religion of England, and eventually to re-
move the still existing remnants of feudaiism, which
continue to aflict the British nation. 1t is has recently
become the medium through which Golden promul-
gates his F~reetraae doctrines, which will give it in
creased interest to the numerous admirers, here and
elsewhere, of that great Reformer. In many particu-
lars, the Westminster Review espousss a political
faith closely allied to that of our own country; and
therefore we may. without any extraordinary effort Of
charity, be induced to cherish it as an exotic worthy
of being engrafted into our more genial soil. 1t has
recently been united with the Foreign Quarterly Re-
view, the more attractive features of the two Reviews
being now combined in the Westminster, and thus
adding greatly to its value as a literary periodical.
THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW
is a work of more recent origin than those already
described-but is, nevertheless, destined to occupy q
place in the Republic of Letters.
Tho rroof oecfnsia Stira1 mnvoropf IN CnCf1arI ln1 IN
its establishment. There was no JOURNAL in the UNI
TED KINGDOM, which appeared to meet the necessities
of this Anti National-Church agitation. Indeed, the
revolution caused by the disruption induced a new
state of things, placing the actors in a new position of
observation: nor could they give utterance to their
new perceptions of State and Church Polity-their new
svmpathies-their new emotions, without some or
other organ Of thought than any extant. Hence the
spontaneous agreement of the great master of minds
among them, in the necessity of a new outlet Of opin-
ion, and the immediate creation of the NORTH BRIrIsH
REVIEW. The basis Of this Journal is the Evangelism
of the Nineteenth Century; nor is it to be overlooked
as one of the striking characteristics of the times,
that the grand priuciple which Robertson. Smith, and
many of the eminent men of Scotland took the field a
century ago to write doUn, is now advocated and yind;-
Gated in this able work, and in the same literary me-
tropolis.
This Periodical is not ultra in rs views on any one
of the grand departments of human knowledge: at the
same time it never drifts from its moorinps on the
shores of pure Evangelical religion of the Bible. Nor
will it fail to compare most ~favorably with every other
contemporary III tut ANlOuuL u Ldle0l, energy and
spirit, enlisted on its side. The names Of Sir David
Brewster, Drs. Hanna, Cunningham, Lorrimer. Can
dish, Gordon, Buchanan, Smith, &c, are a host with
in themselves: Much foreign talent is also pledged to
adorn and enrich its pages.
is not to be considered strictly a Theonqica1 RerIe,c
for topics of every kind calculated to occupy and ;nter'
est the well cultivated mind are introduced. Political
questions, not SO much in their party aspects as their
general character, are considered. Literature and the
literary merits of works are discussed, and discoveries
in mental pnd physical science untolded; the discuss
ion of religious subjects, however, in a dispassionate
and Christian split, form ~adistinct feature of the
work, and will continue to occupy a prominent place
in its pages.
The lamented DE-. CHALMERS was the founder and
principal Editor of this Review, and since his death
has been ably conducted by his son-in-law, DR.. Hanna.
BLACKwOODs' EDINBURG MAGAZINE
is less exclusive in its character than the works AL
ready noticed; its contents may be considered under
the general heads of classical literature, biography.
narratives, historical and fictitious poetry. critical
analyses of new works, &c, &c. The high order of its
dispositions has long renderedit proudly distinguished
in the department Of Greek and Roman archaeology.
while its range of elegant fiction may be said to dis
cover a mastery power and skill, unsurpassed by any
graphical department, and narratives of voyages and
travels, no less than in its papers on subjects purely
scientific, this admirable Periodical has ever displayed
resources nnquestionably superior to any similar work
in the world. As to its political opinions. although
deeply infused with Troyism, to an extent the most
jealous partisan could desire; yet, so witchinp is it's
rhetoric, and so consistently uniform is it in its anti
republican %obliquity, that, however obnoxious its ten
cts, it is impossible for the reader to fail of being
charmeed by the perusol bf its brillisnt pages. The
fact of this distinguished Magazine having, for q series
Of years, maintained a circulation in Great Britain of
abont 40, 900 copies- Nprodigious and unequaned cir
%culation for that country, where the price is 81 so q
year, will alone settle the question of its prominent
merits. The same remark is equally applicable to
even in the United States, is already far above that Of
any other work of its class, Notwithstanding the I'M
paiatable character of its politics, a fact which can
only be accounted forb by the transcendent ability which