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SCOTCH REVIEWERS, THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1802-1815, by John Clive; Faber and Faber, English price 25/-. "HIS is a fascinating book about the most famous of all "little magazines." Byron, who preferred Scotch to the Scots, in spite of or because of his ancestry, was as unfair as most poets in the lampoon that gives Clive his title. The Edinburgh Review could be as savage as Byron himself; but it too was honest and énlightened. It was run by "clever young men with time on their hands," serving the Whig cause in pretty bad times. The young men included Francis Jeffrey,in most ways a model editor, and Sydney Smith, one of the wittiest men who ever spoke or wrote English. Its politicians included Henry Brougham, who managed. to quarrel with almost everybody at some time or other, in a long and important career, Its readers included almost everybody who could read, and wanted to read anything of importance. Its subject-matter included politics, economics, science and literature. Unsigned articles suggest some fear, except perhaps in its editor; but there was no favour. We could do with something of the kind here, but the times are even
more unpropitious. The importance of even the best "little magazine" is diminished, willy-nilly, by masses of newsprint. We shall not see the like again.
Alas.
Anton
Vogt
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 951, 1 November 1957, Page 15
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