The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-10
NO. $50.

Sanders established two-penny (four GENITAL
weekly illustrated periodical, which had success
Lot a time, until he associated William and Mary
howltt with him. They used to write the
greater part OF each number, and the public
could not stand that-so the publication toppled
over. Mr.. Marston, author of numerous niavs
of which " The Patricisn's Dau ghtern is some.
times performed, has Imagination and learn.
ing-good qualities for his present OCCUPATION.
The editors of the National Magazine write very
little in it, but have obtained a large circle Of
hrst-rate contributors, by paying them first rate
prices. The wood engravings, too, are above
par. On the whole, this weekly (which is not
weekly has great success, and its monthly
parts obtain a considerable extra SALE
In Edinburgh, Blackpood's Magazine con
tlnues to hold towering ascendency, the Mont
Blanc of British periodicals. There sprung ur
there, some months ago, a cheap magazine
called The IFtGR-an improvement on Hoqq'.
Instructor De Quincy has been writing 6
great deal for it. His articles on China have
Just been collected, and published separately in
volume. The Broughs, and some more of the
London msgaziners, have also written for TIL,
TITAN. The proprietors announce that, in flu
ture, it will be the size and price of Blackwood-
l2O pages octave, at half crown. 1t remains tc
be seen whether it will thrive as well at the high
price as 1t did at the low, and whether it was
wise thus to bring it into direct competition
With such potent publication as Blackuood
There is another Edinburgh monthly, called
IdFs Magazine, which had an enormous cir
culation at one time, from its liberal politics
but is now little more than the shadow of a
name.
Across the water there are changes, too. Tile
Du6ttn University Magazine, for a long time in.
ferior only to Bt0cktoood, has found Mr.. Levers
" Fortunes of Glencore," which ran through
several months in its pages, as popular as most
OF his other serial tales, and has resolved To
break new ground. Therefore, that lively wri
ter, Mr.. Shirley Brooks, is engaged to commence
IN 1T new novel, to be called " The Partner"
Mr.. Brooks Is successful dramatist, and his
Russians in the South, originally contributed
to the Morning Chronicle, show that he can OBJ
serve and reflect, as well as invent. He has,
as yet, produced only one work of fiction, Gas
pen Court" which originally appeared in Bent
teys Miscellany, and has the ordinary fault OF
young authors; 1t is too much crowded with
characters. He has "a Story of Modern Life -
In press, which may be better.
Of the new periodical, the Irish Metropolitan
Magazine, put forth by the liberal young liter.
ati OF Dublin, as an Offset to the Tory writers
in the University Magazine, two numbers
have appeared. 1t has not been heard of lately
and, if not dead, is missing" Irish period
Gals, however, have elasticity and vitality be-
yond ordinary publications. Thus, a quarterly
called Botsters Magazine of Ireland, was com
menced at Cork in 1925, and published with
(lrish) regularity until nearly three volumes
were completed. Then came an intermission
after which, the pseudo-Q Quarterly issued its
twelfth number some nine years after the ap.
pearance of the eleventh. There is also an
Irish Quarterly Review, commenced six years
ago in Dublin, and really capital periodical
well printed, well edited, low priced, and espe-
cially strong in local history and antiquities,
biography and criticism. After flourishing ex.
tremely well for two years, it fell into the er-
ror of becoming a class periodical, devoting
half its space to the discussion of philanthropic
- NI toiOrmlng juvenile criminals It con-
tinues to entertain this monopolizinp spb;act
and has thereby imperlled its general popular:
ity. Just now, it has announced that it will
double its matter, and enlarge its price from
half crown to five shillings-a perilous exper-
iment, as the Irish are not much of a reading
people at home, where books are dear. We say
nothing of the Dublin ReUie,C, 1.-THE Catholic
orgsn,) as we have not found it necessary to
mention the Edinburgh and North British, or
the Quarterly, Westminster, and British Quar-
terly ReUieUs.
1t may be added that the young men of
Trinity College, Dublin, are about publishing
literary magazine of their own.