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We publish by request, the following extract of a letter from citizen of this State but now in Geor- ga, to his friend in this place, which will bring be- fore the public the Southern Review, which we deem work of much merit

 The Southern Rerietc-'I am gratifed ts find an increasing disposition among the friends of correct principles, both in politics, morals, and literature, to encourage this valuable journal. It very deserv- edly occupies the front rank among the penodicas of this country The Editor, MT II. S. Legare, (pronounced Legre,) is the Attorney General of S.. Carolina, and confessedly the finest classical schQl lar in America In point of raried learning, he may be the inferior of Charles Butler, the Catholic Bar rister of London--and of Dr Thomas Cooper OPthe South Carolina College; both of whom consider to be the two most learned men living. lie Is, now evel, quite young man yet, and has not had the benefits of the Iucubrati0nis rigiat annorum, which these gentlemen have had. Dr Cooper is himself a contributor to this Review. The fact s, there IS more talent and far more honesty (which is great thing in Reviews nowadays) enlisted in the cause of the Southern Review, than in any other publica- ton of the day.

 The great and the crying evil in this our day, in the republic of letters is that the press IS rendered subservient to the f-pennybitjo jobbing speculat,ng ne,osmongers. It is degraded from its former high vocation of being auxiliary to the promotion of sci ence down to the low and sordd views of the mere

 

 been substituted fo rthe Platonian philosophy. We have pensioned scribers and pensoned presses. Men are hired, not to write what they think, but what suits the interest of their employers. The Review CT praises or condemns, as best subserves the views of ssme great publisher and bookseller. The first is paid for what he writes and the last gets his neration from the gmliibily which is inflicted upon the community. He is enabled to sell books which might perhaps moulder upon his shelves So vitiated has become the public taste, and so dependent the public mind in the northern parts of this Confedera cy and in Europe, that no new work and no new theory, however just it's claims may be, win it's way, unaided, to public favor. The deep broad notes of that great Cerberus of modern literature, the periodical press must beopened upon it before the dull gaze of the populace be pointed to its beau ties A knowledge of these facts has impressed me unfavorably with Reviews in general, but thank Cop, there are some independent presses. Among these humber the Westminster, in London, and the Southern Review in Charleston. This is emphati- cay the case with the Southern Review. It is the property of few distinguished gentlemen in South