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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW

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be fonnd, perhaps, in the Language. Its influence was
becoming so apparent, that at length the leaders Of the
Tory party, at whom the thunders of its eloquence
were especially directed, found it too powerful an in
strument to be resisted by ordinary means, and hence
they established the Quarterly. - or as it is distin-
guished among the American Reprints,
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
whereby to counteract that influence which its power
full rival exerted against their measures. The two
great political parties thus made strenuous efforts
through their respectives organs, for the PRONUNCIATION
OF their antagonistical principles; and during q long
series of years, these two leading Periodicals have con
centrated 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 digni-
taries. civil and ecclesiAstic, have contributed 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 contributor TO the London
Quarterly Review were SourHEY, Scurr, LoCKHARr. Tits
present editor,) AppERlEY, FERGUSON, WORDSWORTH,
LORD MAHoN, DIR. MlMAS, (whose article on OrtShtal
literature have been SO highly esteemed and that
wonderful woman of science, Mrs. SoMERvnIE. with
many others scarcely less celebrated. Then again in
the Edinburgh Rerier, it is enough to mention the
following names. any one of which would of itself in
sure a high degree of renown to any work with which
it might be associated:-we refer to JEFFREY, NAPIER,
BRouGHAM, MACINTOSH, and MAcAuLAY; the first of whom
during his long connexion wsth the Review ACTUALLY
wrote. on tn. average, one third of the articles that
graced its brilliant pages; while the universally ad-
mired essays of the last, republished so extensively
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 RoEErCK,
Mills, BowEING, PROFESSOR Long Of the London Uni
versity, Miss MARrSEAU, and others whose names need
no. be quoted, conspicuously figured. 1t sas for some
years under the editorial supervision Of JeremS Beth
am. from which fact it obtained the sJriquet Of the
mouth. niece of RpnthamlSm. 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
ding to the reduction Of Tory and exclusive privileges,
hereditary rights. kingly Herogatives, &c. The as
founding developments mste a few years since, re-
specting 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 feudalism, which
continue to affiict the British nation. It is has recently
become the medium through which Golden promul-
gates his Free trade doctrines. which viii give il in
creased interest to the numerous admirers, here and
elsewhere, of that great Reformer. IN many particu-
lars, the Westminster Review cspousss 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 e~ngrafted 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 y.
place in the Republic of Letters.
The great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland led to
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
observations: nor could they give utterance to their
new perceptions of State and Church P~olity-their new
sympathies-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 BR1r1sH
REVIEW. The basis of this Journal is the EVANGELISM
of the Nineteenth Century; nor is it to be overlooked
az one of the striking characteristics of the times.
that the grand priutiple which Robertson, Smith. and
many of the eminent men of Scotland took the field a
century ago to write do'cn, is now ddacated and vindi-
Gated in this able work, and in the same literary me.
tropois.
This Periodical is not ultra in Us views on anv one
of the grand departments of human knowledge: at the
same time it never drifts from its moor,nps on tho
shores of pure Evangelical religion of the Bible. Nor
will it fail to compare most favorably with every other
contemporary in the amount of talent, 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.
II is nat 10 be considered strictly a Theolooicul Re1.,,
for topics Of every kind calculated to occupy and inter,
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 unfolded; 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 DR.. 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' ED1NBURG 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, bjopranhv
narratives, historical and fictitious poetry, critical
analyses of new works, &c, &c. The high order of its
disquisitions 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
Of it's numerous contemporaries. Again. in it's hic-
graphical department, and narratives of VOYAGES and
travels, no. Jess than in its papers on subiscts nurejv
scientific, this admirable Periodical has ever disnlave
resources unquestionably 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 witchinc is it's
rhetoric, and SO consistently uniform ia it in its ant;
republican %obliquity, that, however obnoxious its ten
cts, it is impossible for the reader to fail of heinz
charmed by tue perusol bf its briIispt pages. The
fact Of this distinguished Magazine having for a series
OF years, maintained a circulation in Great Rr;+a;n ~