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    individual in half the great towns of England . There is not enough of originality or peculiarity in any of the numbers that we have seen to give the work a character . The Eclectic Review . 8 vo . 2 s . 6 d . Now in the XlVth Volume of the New Series . This Journal is now in

    the hands of the Calvinistic Dissenters . In its general articles , it is equal in ability to any of the Monthly Reviews ; in attachment to the principles of liberty , it surpasses them all . The cause of Protestant Dissent is

    frequently vindicated with judgment and spirit . To party interest is perhaps to be ascribed the unmerited eulogium sometimes bestowed on miserable theological publications , and the affected contempt which has heretofore , been manifested towards Unitarians .

    The Antijacobin Review . 8 vo . 2 s . Gd . Now in the LVIIIth Volume . From the title , it might be inferred that this is a low Tory journal . Scurrilous abuse is perpetually poured by \ t on Whigs and Reformers , Dissenters , Roman Catholics and Unitarians . One

    part of it , under the title of The Protestant Advocate , is of the nature of a political magazine , directed principally against the Koman Catholics . Out of what fund the expense of this work is defrayed , is a secret ; the public are certainly not guilty of supporting it by their subscriptions .

    The Edinburgh Review . 8 vo . 6 ^ . Now in the XXXIVth Volume . Mr . Jeffrey , the Barrister , is the Editor . The circulation has been , and probably is , unparalleled for a work of such a size . The writer of the article

    Edinburgh , in the Supplement to Enci / clop . Brittany states it to be 15000 copies . The political principles of this Journal are those of the Whig aristocracy . On topees of political economy it has

    eminently distinguished itself , and has diffused a mass of information amongst the public . Its popularity is owing to a new and spirited style of writing , which it is difficult to describe , and to

    its plan of cutting up authors who are so unfortunate as to fall under its displeasure . Some g rievous wrongs and acknowledged palpable errors have been committed by it in this way . From th $ failure , too , of certain of its political predictions , it seems to have grown weary of such speculations . The late numbers have not answered

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    the expectations of those Of itfc readers who look to it only for what is smart and piquant . There is something ludicrous in the Editor ' s custom of inserting in a professed Review , dissertations unconnected with books , and leaving the pr inter or bookseller to put at the head of them the titles of some

    newwork or works , which may or may not have a relation to the subjects discussed . The earlier volumes of this Journal were indebted to the pens of Mr . Brougham and the late Mr . Homer ; and amongst its contributors are named Sir Jaines Mackintosh , the Rev . Sydney Smith , Mr . Campbell , ( the poet , ) and Mr . Mill , the historian of India .

    T 7 ie Quarterly Review . 8 vo . 6 s . Now in the XXIIIrd Volume . The Editor is Mr . Gifford , the Satirist . The sale has been increasing" from the commencement of the work , and is now probably little inferior to that of the Edinburgh . It was set up to counteract that work , and the projectors h ^ ve been most fortunate in their writers .

    Various articles have been attributed to Mr . Canning , Mr . Croker and Mr . Bloomfield ; but Mr . Southey is the never-failing writer . His richly-endowed pen may be traced in every number . In politics , the Quarterly Review is slavishly and ridiculously

    Ministerial ; in religion , it is of the old high-church party : its economical essays are as much below as its classical are above tho $ e of the Edinburgh . The Quarterl y jeers at Reformers - y looks superciliously upon Dissenters :

    expresses special hatred of Unitarians ; praises all kings , but particularly kings for the time being ; is actuated by a chivalrous spirit towards Queens , unless they be out of favour with their husbandsor in favour with the Deoole : husbandsor in favour with the people ;

    , , has a great dread of the press ; Feels deep reverence for Parliamentary majorities ; and casts a longing look , upon the lost superstitions of the Church of Rome , which impelled the people to behave lowly and reverently to their betters . The British Review , and London Critical Journal . 8 vo . 6 ^ . Now in

    the XVIth Volume . This is perhaps the most zealous and seemingly honest Tory Journal which is published . ¦ ' The conductors are attached to Ministers only as they believe them to be the supporters of Passive-Obedience : tod Non-Resistance principles . In religion ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/45/