New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-22
ENGLISH LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

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Some changes in periodical literature have lateiy
been made and others snnouneed, which appear
worthy Of notice In London, which was once cele
brc:ec for its Magazines that entertaining description
OF Literature is almost in allegiance. OF the lonSsstab
Hsbed magazines, Tie GcRGeEaR's (which Hrst ap-
peared l96 wears ago i now the best. 1t receatly
cane into the bands Of sn intelligent, spirited pub
Usher. who has got il under excellent edi,orshp and
altei il still Is tie antiquarian organ Of the time, many
new and agreeable features have greatly improved and
populsrized it. Frasers Magazine continues, with 9
circulation which probsby pays expenses, and may
Weld some small profit. Siuee the death Of hsginn
and the reunien OF Mahony {" Father Prout and
Carlyle, it has become second-rate periodical Tor
time it recovered some of its popularity, while Kings
lev wrote for IT, but it has atterly gone back. iEs-
--g~,I and the N,r Hnfiiy Magazines, once - well
conducted. row Weld very limited profits They con-
nue to be taken in by circulating libraries book clubs
and such institutions but have very few individual
purchasers. They are conducted on the principles
S,,ag one in the eud-of paying nothing, or next TO
nothing contributions and the result Is, they are
sled wit weak insnities, in prose and verse. Mr..
Airsworth, good novelist, is bad magazine editor.
Even the magazine which bears his was ill-con-
Quoted from the time that the suicide of its excellent
.ub-ed,tor, Lamar Blanchard threw il back wholly
on its proprietor. hands. So too With The NEG
sfoHtllg. successfully edited by Thomas Campbell,
CYRUS Redding, S. c. Hail. Edward Lytton BUiwer,
Thomas Hood and Theodore Hook. 1t i. NOW wholly
in Mr. Ain.worths hands and may be said TO edit il
SELF pretty much, but not pretty well. There Is also
Btnhcgs Miscellany, which actually hourshed for
some wear, whiercnducted by Dickens, who was sue
A. 10 .anr.fa .lN
got Up, and is now even worse, having also passed
into Mr. Answorths propretorship and fatal editor
ship.
Per contra There is a National Magazine lately
established in London under the new law of Limited
Liabilities on Partnership, by a joint stock company
which is rapidly and deservedly making way. 1t has
two ediors-one, poet, j. Westand Marsion, the
other also dramast, but an experienced editor aud
man Of business to boot Twelve years ago Mr. Saun-
ders established twO-penny four cents weekly Illus
trated periodical which had success for ume until
he associated William aud Mary Hewitt with him.
They used to write the greater part ct each number,
and the rubc could not stand hat-so the publication
toppled over. Mr.. Marston author OF numerous plays
of which "The Pa,rician's Daughter is sometimes
performed has Imagination and learniDg-good quail
ties for his present occupation. The editors of The
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tanned large circle OF irst-rate contributors, by pay
ing them frsi-rae prices. The wood engrayingS too,
ale above par. On the whole, this weekly (which is
not ,rcoy has great success, and it, monthly parts
obtain a considerable extra sale
In Edinburgh Blackwooas Magazine continues to
hold towering ascendancy, the Mont Blanc of British
periodicals. There sprung up there some months ago
cheap magazine called The TaaH--an improvement
4. II ha1 bppn
great deal for it. His articles China have Just
been collected and published separately in volume
The Broughs and some more of the London maya
liners have also written for Tie Titan. The propre-
tor. announce that in future It viii be the size and price
of BlackrOod-l2S pages octave at halt crown IL
remains to be seen whether it will thrive as well at
the gh price a. it did at the ior and whether It was
wise thus 10 bring il into direct competition with such
potent publication as BiGckrood. There IS another
Edinburgh monthly called IaHs Magazine, which
had an enormous circulation ut Que tne from its ND
eral politics hut now little than the shadow Of
name.
Across the water there are changes too. The Dub
hn Unirersay Magazine for long time inferior only
| to Biackrood, has found Mr. Levers Fortunes
of Glencore' which through several months IN lt'
pages as popular as most Of his other serial tales and
lively writer Mr. Shirley Brooks, is engaged to COM
mence in it new novel, to be called "The Partner.
Mr.. Brooks is successful dramatist and his Rus
d" SLAMS in the South" Originally contributed to The
Morning Chronicle show that be can observe aud re-
fleet a. well as invent. He has as yet produced
only one work Of fiction, aspen Court, which orr
ginay appeared in Beatleys Miscellany, and hss the
ordinary fault of young authors is too much crowded
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in press, which may be better
OF the new periodical, The Irish Metropolitan Nag
G.ine put forth by the liberal young Iterdts OF Dublin
Offset to the Tory writers 10 The Cn'rers1y Mdga-
zine two numbers have appeared 1t has not been heard
Of lately aud if not dead Is missing Irish perodi
Gals however have elasticity and vitality beyond or
binary publications. Thus quarterly, called BofsfeT
Magozineo Of IrelaHd commenced at Cork In 1873
and published with Irish regularity until nearly three
volumes were completed. Then came aninternission;
after which the pSuedo.Q Quarterly Issued It's tHeyrh
number nine years after the appearance oil The
el,renht There is also an Irish Quarterly Rer~~,
commenced six years ago in Dublin, aud really cap
tai periodcal-we-p rinted weledited, iow-prlced,
and especially strong in local history and antiquities
biography and criticism After iiourishing extremely
well for two years it fell into the error Of becoming
periodical devotng half it, space TO the dscus-
sion Of phanthrophic plans for reforming juvenile
criminals. 1t continues to entertain this monOpoizing
subject and has thereby imperled its general popu-
lary Just il has announced that il will double
ii. matter and enlarge its price from half crown to
five shillings-a perous experiment, as the Irish are
not much of reading people, at home, where books
are dear. We LAY nothing OF Tile Dublin ReT'e'c (the
Catholic organ as we have not found it necessary to
mention The Ed,aJurgb, and North British, or The
Quayfe,iy Hesfninster, and British Quarterly Re-
views.