The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-05
Southern Revie,o. January, 1868. Baltl
more BLEDsoE g. BROWNE.

Southern Revieto. January, 1868. baltl'
more BLEDsoE s. BROWNE.
This number Of decidedly the ablest
periodical which ever appeared in this
country has been for some days before
as. and should have received an earlier no
tice. We are gratifcd to see by the notice
from the editors themselves that the Re
vieao enters its second year firmly estab-
lishcd. DR.. BLEDsoE, formerly of the dis
tirguishcd corps of professors Of the Uni
versity of Virginia, and for time assist
ant Secretary Of War Of the Southern
Confederacy, is the principal editor.
In form and typographical appearance
this quarterly is equal to any in this coun-
try or Europe. The present number con-
tains 248 pages-a large book. The Reuieao
is published at five dollars per annum.
This admirable periodical takes the name
Southern because a leading feature in
it is purpose to vindicate history on this
continent, which has been so outrageously
falsifed in all its relations to politics by
the grossest injustice to the South. DR..
BLEDsoE, we infer, chiefly takes up the
championship in this department, as we
recognize in it so much from his powerful
pen. No man has greater art in laying
bare the errors and charlatanism Of those
ignorant and prcjudiced men who have
been hoiSted up at the North as teachers,
ool ,,ho,n r,ll nd rot ;ons
have been made textbooks by G. misled
generation. In the No. before US there
is scathing criticism of DR.. DRAPER's
history of the Civil War;" the first
volume of which had been issued by the
UARPERs when it received the notice OF
Our reviewer. We have rarely seen SC
vigorous and scathing criticism. II
HAEPERs were honest publishers, and DR..
DRAPER, professor of Chemistry and
Philosophy in the University Of New
York." etc., had less sectional bitterness
and more regard for his reputation as q
truthful historian, they would, after read
ing this damning review Of the book, recall
it, and correct its falsehoods before it
should 60 forth to the world as completed
The Southern Revielg must be terror tc
tho HARPERs-those men Of evil deeds
who have retained about them coterie o.
poorly Informed bigots and partisans, ane
have flooded the land with their false
hoods, false teachings, and sectional malig
mites. Hardly number of the Southern
Revieao appears which does not grind t.
powder some Of these wretches. Th'
great professor Of chemistry is the lates
victim, and ne is as completely dissected a
if the professor of anatomy in his owl
school had taken him to pieces secundaa
drtem.
This No. Of the Reuie,o is deeply in
teresting. We have architecture Of tn
animal Kingdom German Romance-J. !.
Rousseau-Ihe SchoolmaSter-School His
tories of the United States-1he Empero
julian uackery in american Literature
Book Notices. All the work of accom-
plished aud graceful writer's. The articl
on the Quackeries of American Literatur
is racy and pungent in the highest degree
1t would be really instructive to thos
authors of tho North who are rapid
passed through the hackle of the Reuie
to read what is said of their writings.
would benefit them somewhat. Indeed
they should all rally to the support of
periodical which is doing so much to er
tighten them and point out the deformitie
which have marred the compositions {
some Of their best writer's: the result {
national bigotry and selfconceit whic
induced them to believe that they kne'
everything, and made them write Of every
thing with an assurance unexampled in tn
world outside Of this continent.
We commend the Southern ReUieac to tn
support Of all who appreciate truth an
Justice.
TAsTIDIoUs.- venerable and priY
Radical member of the Convention fror
Lynchburg, named LYDIcK, has such
8 &hok L,