PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
SINCE we received COCHRANE'S Foreign Quarterly Review, a number of the old Foreign Quarterly has reached us. It appears to possess sufficient variety in the classes of the books, but not so much variety of subjects as its new rival; to which, indeed, it is in mmy respects interior. It also seems to limit itself to a review of books rather than to aim at indirectly exhibiting in addition the living spirit, as it were, of foreign literature and life. We have not read enough to enumerate the scope of the articles and to assign their respective grades of merit, but that on KOSCIUSZEO is interesting for its extracts; that on the " Italian Romantic Poetry" better in matter than manner. The slight traces of haste we noticed in COCHRANE'S are more visible in the old. Both would have been better for more revision and derision on the part of the editors. Sonic of' the contributors seem not to have read their proofs.
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