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BOOKS PERIODICALS.
British Periodical Literature.
REPUBLICATION, OF II
LONDON QUARTERLY, THE NORTH BRHishs AND
H WESTMINSTER REVIEWS, AND
BLACKWoOp's EDINBURGH
MAGAZINE.
Leonard Scott & Co., Publishers,
"a FULTON AND 81 GOLD sIEEia
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Leonard Scott & Co., Puohsners,
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uyHESIT Periodical are the critical censcrs OF tue
British scholastic and literary wortd. 10y theF
criticisms. they aid readers in the selection OF stand
ard valuable books; and by the epttomes when 'heF
nresent. often obyiate the necessity of consulting works
too yoiuminous for general examination. ihey hna
place which American magazines cannot supply .f
they discuss topics relating more sttieuy 70 ntanans'
political, religious, scientific, and literary. OF the con,
tinent of Europe. They are conducted by the best
| talent of Great Britain: and are engaged with The most
i'm uortant questions which interest or ag1tate the cav
| ilized world. Whoever suhscrfhes to them III, may
read the abiest representatives of the principal parties
into which the people of Great Britain are divided.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW
: the exponent Of the Wing party in Great Britain,
| having from its commencement advocated Freedom
| and the rights Of the people. When the war, app"-
| rentIy of determination, was waged against France by
British Tory rulers, and during which occurred the
| second great struggle Of England with our own ccuH-
| try, this Review first unfarled the flag OF resistance,
| and made. by its unanswerable and eloquent appeals
in behalf Of inalienable rights, the balls Of British
| legislation and even the throne itself TO tsenhle. The
| gra piic and stirring aelineatieas Of those events, pre-
sented in the pages Of that distinguished Journal, eS
hibit the truest portrartnre OF those psrilouE days 1"
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 eioquence
we're especially directed, found it too powerful an in
| struunent to be resisted by ordinary means, and hence
they established the Quarterly u or as it is distin-
cuished 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 respeetiyes organs, for the PRONUNCIATION
of their antagonisticai principles; and during q long
series of years, these two leading Periodicals have con
| eentrated the labors, the talent, and the influence OF
the adhereuts of the Wing and Tory parties OF Great
| Britain.
Men Of the highest literary rank, as well as digui-
taries. ciyi, aud eceiesiastic, have contributed 10 the
pages of these works: among them might be mentioned
some of the most res pisndent names on the scroll OF
fame. Among the regular contributors to the iondon
Quarterly Review were SoUTHsY, SCUTT, LocKBaET, tits
present edi.or,) APFERrEY, FERGUSON NogpswNRTH,
| LORD MAHoS, DR. MLMAS, [whose article on Oriental
| literature have been so highly csteemed,) and that
wonderful woman of sciences, Mis-. SoNfRvLLE7 with
many others scarcely less celebrated. Then again III
the EdiaJpagh Rsrie9e, it Is enough to mention the
following ma mes, any one of which would Of Itself in
sure a high degree of renown 70 any work with which
il might be sssociated:-we refer to JEFFREY, NAPIER,
BRotGHAa, MA0STnsH. and MAcAUlAV the first Of whom
during his long connection wsth the Review ACTUALLY
wrote, on the average, one third Of the articles that
gracei its brilliant pages; while the universally ad-
-n!red essays Of the last, republished so extensively
in our own and the parent country, leave US il no
manner Of doubt as to their great intrinsic merit.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
This able Journal was established under the pstpon-
age and support Of the ultra liberals, SO styled in the
British House Of Commons; among whom RoEBTCE.
Mnts. BowRIyG, PROFESSOR LosG Of the London Uni
versity, Miss MARrrSEsu. and others whose names need
not be quoted, eonspicuously figured. i was for some
years under the editorial SUI ervision OF Jeremy Beth
am, from which fact it obtained the sobgiqtast Of the
mouth piece of Benthamism.} This work has ever
been especially devoted to the great topics which inter
est the mass G: people; its pages have been rife, it will
be remembered, with n series Of powerful articles, ten
ding 10 the reduction of Tory and exclusive privileges,
hereditary rights. kingly perogatives, &c. The as
founding developments made a few years since, re
| specting the wretched and, till then, unheard nF h0r-
| rors Of soule branches Of the mining population of
England, first appeared in its pages.s Not only have
its articles ever, heea directed against the afore men
Toned abuses; the work has also maintained an uure-
lenting crusade against the alliance OF Church and
State, thus virtually seeking to abolish the 'Parlia.
mcatary Religion of England, and eventually TO re
mere the still existing remnants of Journalism, which
continue to afhiet the British nation. Il is has recently
become the medium through which Cobden pronsi-
gates his F~ree-traae doctrines, which will give II in
creased interest to the numerous admirers, here and
elsewhere. of that great Retormer. In many particu-
lars, the Westminster Review esponsss & 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 engraftei 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 4 literary periodical.
LIE Soa1h bN1ilSh hEStEH
is a work of more recent origin than those already
iescribed-bat is. nevertheless destined to occupy a
place in the Republic of Letters.
The great ecclesiastical movement in Scotland led TO
its establishment, There was no Journal in the US-
TED KINGDOM, which appeared to meet the necessities
of this Anti NationalEhurch 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
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 Rgfr1srI
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 priucipie which Robertson, Smith, and
many of the eminent men of Scotland took the field A
century ago to rrite dopga, is now advocated and pfudi.
Gated in this able work, and in the same literary me-
tropolis.
This Periodical is not ultra in LIS views On any one
Of the grand departments Of human knowledge: at the
same time it never drifts from its moorinus m the
shores of pure Evangelical religion of the Bible. Nor
will it fail to compare most fayorably with every other
contemporary in the amount of talent, energy and
spirit, enlisted on its side. The names of Sir David
Brewster, nrs. Hanna, Cunningham, Lorrimer, Can.
dish, Gordon, Buchanan, Smith, &c, are a host with.
in themselves. Much foreign talent is also pledged to
adern and enrich its pages.
It is not to be considered strictly q Thsotooicol Reris,r
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 dea H.
has been ably conducted by his scn-in-law, Dr. Hanna.
BLAcKwooDs' EDINBURG MAGAZINE
=, =.
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 rendered it proudly distinguished