The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-12-08

We have received from Taylor & Maury
BlackOoods Edinburgh Magazine for Novem-
Der. AS this is the season for the renewal of
subscriptions to the reprints of the English
Quarterlies, we append the following from the
COngregationalist
Our advertising columns contain Messrs.
L. Scott d Co.'s announcement of the terms on
which they supply American subscribers with
their accurate aud beautiful reprint of the four
great English Reviews and Blackwoods Maya
zine. Our readers are, we presume, mostly
familiar with the distinguishing characteristics
and great value of these reprints.
The North British RevieU = the Free
Church organ-which had wandered somewhat
from its first love, has now, we rejoice to say,
got back to its orthodox moorings, and bids fair
to>be all that the cause there demands.
The Westminster Reoieao, under the care of
Mr.. John Chapman, 1.-THE American. London
bookseller,) is the Liberal and progressive
organ, fighting great fight against Church and
and State in favor of Free Trade, and, to a de-
gree, of free thinking also. Its literary charac-
ter is extremely able, and it utters great truths
mixed sometimes with dangerous errors.
The EdiabargA Reriep, edited by Mr..
Reeve, is the old Wing organ, started by Jeffrey
and Brougham and Sydney Smith, and still
| mighty in maintenance of its principles. A
good notice of book is worth more in its col
umns than anywhere else. o..
| The London Quarterly, under the manage
| ment of Rev. w. Elwyn, was established to fight
| the Edinburgh on Its own ground, and with its
| own weapons, and was carried on by Southey,
| Scott, Lockhart, &c. 1t now defends conserva-
| tive principles, and upholds the Establishment.
| Blackioood's Magasine-Tory to the back
bone-has, in England, circulation, it is said,
of 40, 900 copies. And, though it edits itself,
its corps of contributors is of such vast and va
| ried ability, that it stands at the head of the
| Magazines of the world
| Such is the price paid in England for the
| grade of writing which appears in these period
icals, that the cost of the five, it is said, will
average to their publishers $25 page, or an
| aggregate of near 100000 year. The Eng
| lish public, moreover, have to pay $3l per year
as the subscription price Of the FIVE. Messrs.
Scott & Co. furnish them---as finely printed in
every respect--tO Americans for $40.
The beginning of the year is a favorable
time to subscribe for these fruitful and i'm
portant works. 1t would be wise use of ten
dollar bill-the gift of one or ten, or twenty, or
even forty--in each parish, to make it certain
that every pastor has the reading of their pages
| for the coming year. The congregation would
intelligence and stimulated thought of the pull
pit.
Moreover-in all our villages-it would be
good thing done, fer ten or twenty reading
young men to club together, and procure these
reprints for their own use and benefit. They
will gain more from them than from thrice the
money invested in oysters, sleigh rides, popular
fiction, or pictorial periodicals"
The KnickerbOcker for December is out, and
contains its usual spicy and entertaining talk.
As an inducement to subscribers, the publishers
offer to every three dollar subscriber, old or
new, for 1860, handsome engraving of " Mer-
yy Making an the Olden Time" The same
also to gettersup of clubs.
The Queen of Hearts. BY Wkie Collins New York
Harper & Brothers, For sale by Taylor x MIaury,
Washington, d. c.
The "Queen of Hearts is collection of
stories, most of which have appeared in the col
umns of the Household Words and other Pc
riodicals. A simple love story, running through
the book, serves to connect these tales, and to
give them coherency. The writings of Wilkie
Collins are always popular and we need only
mention this book to secure it readers.
let New York Harper & Brothers. 1859. For sale by
Taylor Maury, Washington, d. C.
Show us how divine a thing
woman may be made,
sings the poet and perhaps it is to this end that
Mrs. Ellet has given to the world these bio
graphical sketches of eminent women artists.
Whatever may be the design of the work, it is
certainly charmingly written, and executed in
a most catholic spirit. The authoress has en-
tered into no elaborate dispositions or crit
iques on art5 but gives "plain, unvarnished
history" of what woman has done. The fol-
lowing extract from the preface explains the
purpose of the work:
"Should the perusal of my book inspire with
courage and resolution any woman who aspires
to overcome difficulties in the achievement of
honorable independence, or should it lead to
higher general respect for the powers of women,
and their destined position in the realm of Art,
my object will be accomplished"