REVIEWS NEW SPECIES OF PALEOZOIC FOSSILS. 153 



" Of Blackwood we hardly know what to say. Although it may be called the 

 embodied genius of Toryism, yet its witching rhetoric, its captivating style, its 

 profound disquisitions, its range of elegant fiction, its slashing yet brilliant criti- 

 cisms, its poetry, biography, historical and fictitious narratives, so charm the sense, 

 that criticism is disarmed, and we are lost in admiration. The circulation of 

 Blackicood in England is said to be 40,000 copies. It is also widely circulated in 

 this country, and is universally admired. The publisher recently informed us that 

 ' Blackwood edits itself,' yet its list of contributors is well known, and embraces 

 an amount of talent and genius which has rarely, if eVer been concentrated on a 

 single periodical. 



The present editor of the Edinburgh is Mr. Reeve ; of the North British, Prof. 

 Fraser [?] ; of the Westminster, .Tohn Chapman (the American London book- 

 seller) [?] ; of the Quarterly, Rev. W. Elwyn. An able corps is attached to each 

 Review, selected from the choicest talent of Great Bi'itain. 



Sustained, then, as these distinguished works are and ever have been, by the high- 

 est order of scholastic ability and political sagacity, we need not be surprised to 

 find them occupying such a proud pre-eminence among the literary productions of 

 the world, and the neglect of their high claims upon the consideration of all classes 

 of the intelligent community, would necessarily argue a corresponding indifference 

 to the great interests of the common weal. 



Every intelligent reader should subscribe to these periodicals furnishing so much 

 seasonable intellectual aliment, and which the enterprise of American publishers 

 has placed within the reach of all," 



Had it suited the publisher's purpose, we should have preferred an 

 extract from a southern editorial notice, being curious about the recep- 

 tion of some of these quarterly visitors by over-sensitive southern gen- 

 tlemen of a bilious or choleric turn. But v^e have not heard of 

 Messrs. Russell & Jones of Charleston, or Mr. Bell of Alexandria, 

 Va., or Mr. Morgan of New Orleans, who figure on the wrappers, 

 being tarred and feathered for the sale of incendiary publications ; so 

 we presume it is all right, and perhaps, indeed, upon the whole, con- 

 soling to wounded southern feelings to think, while perusing these 

 American reprints, that the meddlesonae British scribe is never a 

 picayune the better for all the copies that circulate from Maine to 



Florida. 



D. W. 



Descriptions of New Species of Palceozoic Fossils. — [Extracted from 

 the Report of the Regents of the University, for 1856.] — By 

 James Hall. Albany, 1857- 



The two volumes already published, of the Palaeontology of the 

 State of New York, by Professor Hall, of Albany, comprise the fossils 

 of the respective subdivisions of the Lower and Upper Silurian forma- 



