Magazines &c

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MAGAZINES &C.

The Edinburgh Review, for October, has been issued by Leonard Scott and Co., corner Fulton and Gold streets, N.Y. It opens with a notice of the Duke of Buckingham’s memoirs of the Court of England during the Regency. The next article is on the interesting topic of the Madeline Smith poisoning case. One of the subsequent articles will be perused with great interest by the novel reading public, as it is a slashing cut-up of Guy Livingstone, the authorship of which is attributed to Charles Astor Bristed.¹ But the most interesting article, to the American reader, is one founded on the fact of the establishment of a pro-Slavery paper, “The Cotton Plant,” in London. The Edinburgh denounces slavery with all the vigor which it displayed in battling with the peculiar institution when Lord Brougham² was its leading spirit. It asserts that the anti-Slavery feeling in England is as strong as ever; and that every effort that the British nation can make will be made to abolish the slave trade utterly. It states that this year, since the withdrawal of the British squadron from the Western waters, 20,000 to 30,000 slaves have been conveyed to Cuba under the American flag. It plainly intimates that England will endeavor to stop the slave trade, whether carried on under the American, Spanish or French flag, even if it has to fight all three nations on the subject. If the people of England generally endorse this language of the Edinburgh Review, there are lively times ahead for the military profession of the leading powers of Christendom.

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for December has been issued by Messrs. Phillips, Sampson & Co., of Boston. The publishers this month announce the forthcoming publication of a serial by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.³ The contents of the present number are of the usual high character, and contribute to assure the Atlantic of the position it has undeniably acquired, of the leading first class magazine of the country.

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