THE FOREIGN REVIEWS.
WE wish to point out to our readers an article in the Foreign Quarterly Reriew, No. VI, on the Arts and Manufactures of France. All real lovers of information—all persons interested in the true sources of national happiness—will be obliged to us for referring them to this, the first article of the new Number. The quantity of the instruction to be derived from it is only to be equalled by the benevolence of the spirit in which it is written. The characteristics of this Review arc—the utility of its objects and the care and steadiness with which they are followed up : everything is weighed, finished, and serious. Its rival, the Foreign Review, forms in this respect a singular contrast ; and if they both mean to live, they do well to choose paths so distinct. The Plfreign is dashing ; the Foreign Quarterly is intelligent : the former aims rather at captivating the imagination ; the latter at instructing. or at gratifying rational curiosity: analogous to these qualities, we may observe that the Foreign is often inaccurate, flippant., and un- satisfactory; the Foreign Quarterly sometimes sinks to the mere communication of barren facts. it would be paying too high a compliment to compare the ifircielt to the Edinburgh Review ; while we should do the other but strict justice by calling it empha- tically the Foreign Quarterly—a MunttAv abroad.
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