The intention of the " Foreign Review, and Continental Miscellany,” is to make known in its Papers, by means of spirited criticisms, supported by faithfully translated passages, every thing, without exception, that is worth extracting from foreign books. We do not design to weary the reader with essays upon German, or French, or other literature. That would be simply to multiply the opinions of which enough have already been promulgated in this country; but our meaning is literally to transfer from foreign languages into our own all that is worth collecting. We purpose-to combine amusement with information-to illustrate even the severer sciences with anecdote and with biographical and other matter, so as to render that which has hitherto been tolerable to the professor only, interesting to the most desultory reader. Our desire is to lose nothing that is worth preserving; but to transplant into English ground every valuable thing of foreign growth, every morceau of wit or humour,-to extract a scene, or a chapter; to collect and compress into our work, the merits of a volume, the wonders of a voyage, the opinions of a philosopher, the discoveries of science, and to disdain nothing but what is bad or tedious. We are aware, that to attempt all this is a matter of some moment; and to prosecute it effectually requires a variety of talent, much industry, and great expense. But the endeavour shall be made: and if reliance was ever to be placed upon efficient coadjutors, it is in the present instance. We risk nothing in asserting, that we can reckon among our contributors many of the most able, the highest, and most renowned Writers of our own Nation, and not a few of the most accomplished Scholars on the Continent. Former attempts to establish Foreign Journals have proved abortive, from the inefficiency of the labourers, and from the narrow policy and ill-contrived schemes of their publishers. The means of the present publishers, however, are most ample-they being more exclusively connected than any other persons with the houses of Germany and France; and they have had resort to such modes of communication with the Continent, that they are assured of obtaining every foreign book, immediately upon its issuing from the press, and in most cases of anticipating the time of publication in this country. In consequence of this, literary importations will now be effected to an unparalleled degree, and with amazing rapidity. It now remains for us to state, why, as there exists already one Review, entitled The Foreign Quarterly Review, we are induced to offer another for the suffrages of the Public; the truth is, that we were joint Editors of the former Journal, and its first Number has been in great measure supported by our own individual friends: and, as we still retain the support of the principal contributors to that Work, and possess, moreover, additional means and more digested plans, we may justly claim a fair share of whatever patronage that Review has obtained, independently of such as our new and more extensive designs may entitle us to. It is not worth while to trouble the Public with the circumstances which have induced us to decline rendering any further assistance to the Foreign Quarterly Review; it is sufficient to say, that we have separated ourselves from the publishers, who, however, still retain the name of that Work. 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