MAGAZINES.
- A new Magazine, named the Englishman's, has made its appear- ance this month.
We are afraid the day for Magazines is gone by : it is a fornt of publication which does not suit the wants of the reading world, in the present state of literature. The Newspapers and the Weekly Reviews, in their improved and extended form, have taken the ground formerly occupied by the Magazines, with the great advantage of more frequent publication. The talents and informa- tion formerly devoted to the monthly periodicals, is now occupied by journals of a more miscellaneous description. The method of communicating with the public is found to be more efficient by means of the Weekly Paper, which is more ready with its intelli- gence, and more various in its materials of amusement and instruction. Magazines formerly occupied the precise position of some of the present Weekly Papers : witness the list of bankrupts. the obituary, the prices of stocks, &c. which formerly adorned them, and which are now omitted simply because they are fore- stalled by the Newspaper. In this case there can be no hesitation —the information is clearly old : in other matters the anticipation is not so evident, but it is equally complete, and is as thoroughly felt. The Magazines have consequently found themselves confined to papers of humour or light pieces of fiction.
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