Our notice of the American press would be incomplete without some account of that ample supply of religious literature which is furnished by thousands of weekly, monthly, and quarterly periodicals. The religious newspaper is almost peculiar to America, and is far superior to any similar publication in England. The English paper is more ecclesiastical and less religious; the American, while equally strenuous and careful in the advocacy of denominational claims, supplies much of what we usually obtain here from the _Sunday Magazine_ and the _Family Treasury_. The literary superiority of the religious press over the secular in America arises mainly from the fact that its conductors and contributors are mostly clergymen who have been graduates of colleges, and are possessed of a considerable amount of classical culture and training. Every denomination has a large number of weekly organs. The two leading newspapers of the class are the _New York Independent_ and the _New York Observer_, the former an organ of the Congregationalists, and the latter of the Presbyterians. The _Independent_ was originally conducted by the Rev. Dr. Bacon, the Rev. Dr. Thompson, and the Rev. Richard Storrs, jun.; it afterwards passed into the hands of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who wielded it with great power and efficiency in the anti-slavery cause; and it is now managed by Theodore Tilton in company with several others. It contains a great variety of religious, political, and general news, devotional and literary pieces of great merit, together with foreign and domestic correspondence, written with an excellent spirit. Mr. Beecher has established, and conducts, the _Christian Union_, another religious paper, which is rapidly rising to popularity and power. _The Advance_, a religious paper published in Chicago, and conducted by Dr. Patten, is one of the best of the religious papers of America. The _Observer_ is one of the oldest and best established papers, once exceedingly Conservative in its views of slavery, but always distinguished by sound judgment, good taste, and fair culture. The Methodists are well represented by the _Christian Advocate and Journal_, and the Baptists by the _Examiner and Chronicle_. The monthly organ of the American Tract Society has a circulation of about 200,000, which it owes to its catholic character and its extraordinary cheapness. The quarterly literature of the American churches is of a very high character. The _Bibliotheca Sacra_ is the great organ of New England theology, and the _Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review_ is the leading representative of the Calvinism of the Westminster standards. These are the two most powerful reviews. The _Bibliotheca Sacra_ is published at Andover, the scene of the learned labours of Moses Stuart, the biblical expositor, and was established twenty-seven years ago. It differs from the _Princeton Review_ and all British reviews in publishing the names of its contributors, and it has