Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-01-19
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW

'f~N'~ ~ NN H'r f"'Nf 'h 't'eh ~ ftii
having from its commencement Advocated Freedom
and the rights Of the people. Waen the war, appa
rently OF determination, was waged against France by
British Tory rulers, and during which occurred the
second great struggle Of England with our own conn
try, this Review first ~unfarlet the flag Of resistance,
and made, by it, ananswerabie and rloq ,ent appeal
in behalf of iaaiienable rights, the halls OF British
legislation and even the throne itself 10 tremble. The
graphic and stirring deiineations Of those events, pre-
sented in the page o. that distinguished journal, cx
hihit the trnent portraltnre Of those perilous days to
be tonnh, perhaps, IN the Language. It's inf 4eucc was
becoming so apparent, that at length the leaders of tHe
Tory party, at whom the ~tttunlers of its eloqusnec
were especially directed, found II too powerful an in
s,rumcnt 10 b. resisted BY ordinary means, and hence
they established the Quarterly, :" or as IL Is distiu
guished among the American Reprints,
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW,
whereby to counteract that influence which It's power
fAl rival exerted against their MEASURES. The two
great political parties thus made strenuous efforts
through tEcir respectiYes organs. for ahe PRONUNCIATION
OF their antagonistieal principles; and during a long
series Of years, these two leading Teriodirals have Con.
centrated the labors, The talent, aud the influence OF
the adheEents OF the Wing and Tory parties Of Great
Britain.
Men of the highest literary rank, as well AS digni.
tariea, civil and ecciesiastic, hEse contributed to the
pages of these works: among them might be mentioned
some e the mos. resplendent names on the scroll of
fame. Among the regular contributors 10 the London
Quarterly Review were SoUrfEf. SCOTT, InCaH4gT. Tits
present e,itor.) ApPEnlEY, FERGUSON. w~eKBsw NTH.
inRD lAItrs, iR- MiLAAS, twhpsc article on Oriental
literature have been so highly estean,sd J and that
wonderful woman Of science, Mas, SpMERvILLg, with
many others scarcely less cclehra ted. Then again in
the Etipbugh R.tae4r. it is enough TO mention the
following names, any one of which wouid of itself in
sure Il high degree OF renown to any work with which
i. might be aSsociatea:-we refer to ~.iEFFnyY, SApER.
l'RDt CHAN, MACINTOSH. aud MACArLAY: the hrst at when
during his long cnnneSion wath the Review ~acctualtt
wrote, on the average, on. third of the articles that
gracea its brilliant pages; while til. universally nd.
mired essays of the last, republished so extensively
ia our own and the parent country. leave u in no
manner OF doubt as to their great intrinsic merit.
THE WESTMINSITER REVIEW.
This able JonrnaI was established under the fatron-
age and support o! the ultra liberals. 80 styled in the
British House Of Commons; among whom RosKrck.
MILLS, H9wRsG, Professor Lose Of the London Uni
Tersitst Miss AARiskAr, and others whose names need
not be- quoted, eonspicnonsly figured. II was for some
years under the editorial supervision Of Jeremy Beth
am. tran which fact it obtained the &ahrigast Of the
mouth piece Of Bentlamisn. This work has ever
been especially devoted to the great topics which inter
est the mass Of people: its pages have tten rife, it will
be remembered. with a series OF powerful articles. ten
ding TO the reduction Of Tory and exclusive privileges,
hereditary rights. kingly peTogatives, sc. The As
founding developments made a few wears since, re.
Spectiug the wretchea and. till then. unheard of her-
rers of some branches of the mining population Ct
England, first appeared in its pages. Not only have
its articles ever heen directed against the afrc. men
toned abuse: Ethe work has also miintaincd III unrr
lenting crusade against the alliance of etiGrcl and
STATE, thus virtually seeking to abolish the 4. TarIia-
Ilentary Religion Of England. and eventually 10 re-
move the still existing remnants of f-~adahsin, which
to aihict the British nation. II il has RECENTLY
become the medium through which Golden rromui
gates his Free-sraie doctrines. which will give ii IN.
interest to the nuinerous admirers, here and
Of that great Reformer. III many par,icu-
lars, the Westminster Review esfoas.s a lo!jiir sf
faith closely allied to that Of our own country; and
therefore We may, without any extraordinary effort of
charity, be induced to cherish, il rs an exotic worthy
of being engrafted into our morc genial soil. Il 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.
TIE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW
is a work of more recent origin than those already
De scribet-hut. is, nevertheless, destined to occur, a |
place in the Republic OF Letters.
The great ecctasaatScal movement IN Scotland led to
its establishment There was n" Joi-KSAL in the Uni |
TED kIHGpoM, which appeared 10 meet the necessities
Of this Anti NatiGnallhurc agitation. Indeed. the
revolution caused by the disruption induced a new
state of things. placing the actors in a new position of
nor could they give utterance to their
perceptions Of state and Church polity-their new |
sym pa hieS-:heir new emotions. without some or
Other organ Of thought than any extaut. Hence the !
spontaneous agreement of the great master of minds |
inong them. in the necessity Of a new outlet Of opin- |
and the imraeeiate creation Of the NoRrH BGIrrsu
The baSis-u this Jou mai Is the Fvanpciisr, !
Of the Nineteenth Century, nor il it 70 be overlooked
as one Of the striking characteristics of the times
.hat the grand principle which Robertson. Smith and
ago to m1itr aasen, IL now adsocated and sfa4f.
'ated in this able work, and in the same literary me
tropol;s.
This Periodical is nor ultra in its views on any mn.
Of the grand departments of human know edge: vi tba I
same time it never drGts from its moorings on tLe
shores oil pure Evangelical religion of the Bible. Nor
will it fail to com pare most favorably witt. every ofher
in the amount of talent, energy and
,pirit enlisted on its SIDE, The names Of Sir DAVID
lrs Hanna, Cunningham, Lorrimer. Can
Hush, Gordon, Buchanan Smith, &c, are n host with.
n tt4pvn, BI yng - Nftrh ii. .-I -
tdorn and enrich its ,age-.
II is not to he considered strictly a Thaoloqsce1 Hs,,es
or topics of every kind calculated 10 occ4py and i,+er'
the well cultivated mind are ;utrnducaj pai:,:lI
questions, not so much in their party aspects as -hair
general character. are considered Ittera, re Ana tbs
iterary Iner Is ofNworhs are discussed and a.c,ra-:az
n mental pnd physical science u%nfobied: the di.cuss.
on OF RELIGIOUS subjects, however, in a iisnas.ion,t.
Ind Christian split, form adistinct featire ~, ~.
work, and will continue to occupy a propiaen. PLACE
n irs pages.
principal E tier of this Re. lew and sincr his Ie,aI,
las been ably con iucted by hi stn-tn-law Ir. ga1.a
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eady noticed: it, contents may be considered rnsar
he general heads of classical literature. biorran nh,
historical and fictitious poetry. critical
of new works, &c, &c. The hip}, n,aor ~ a.
isq uisitions has long rendered it proudly disti,ynisha5
the department Of Greek and Roman are,,aaleaer.
'tiie its range Of elegant Hction NAV be said TO IL
, mastery power ana skill, unsurpassed by any
: fa II as1'r sr' a r )ss"t t. an, . asr*., A e a N il blo
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a t;e world. A 10 its POLITICAL opinions. altbopyb
eepty infused with TroyiSm, 10 an extent the a,asr
saaea. iafisan co4ia desire, yet. so witchi.,p il its
hetoric and - Consistently uniform is it in its .,t;
~obliality, that however obnoxious its Ten
t, u y impossible for the reader to fail If heiro
hafrnesa nF ttie perasoi bf it, orilli&nt pages. The
'et III this distinguished Ma2azine having. for A series
years. maintained a eirculation In Great Britain of
onnt 8'rtoo cnpIes-a p~roaigiDas and meg JAILED cir
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