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stitutifwal nqb having been ^ stabliehad at the time the au thor wj ; 0 terh' 8-work , 'he leases it to others to express the high hopes they entertain of that paper , Th ^ ^ retiiAg : papers are , on the whole , very atty described , arid Weir arraiigements displayed with more tf ^ n , sufficient
minuteness . The same maybe said of the weekly papers . We ' would falii have offered sundry passing remarks on our siitjthb ^ s . estimate of the ability displayed in the politics and literary criticisms they severally put forth ; but the bristling sbiiaclr ' on is too numerous . We must find room , however , to allude ' with praise to his notice of the Examiner and Spectator ;
to his happy definition of the Old Bell ' s Messenger , as the 4 t Firfcher ' s advocate" ( its literary criticisms are just calculated for the agricultural population ;) to object to his sins of ^ oniis&ion in speaking of the Dispatch , on the one side , and tftfc -4 ge on the other ; and to exclaim against hk * sJight treat * riierft of ilie Weekly True Sim , especially when he has given no notice of the daily paper in its present improved and able C&VftHtioh . He might at least have added in a note that the its
cMcxiWt J \ oti of ( he weekly paper exceeded 15 , 000 ., and that the diH ^ d 4 ^ rved well of country , both for its past talent and ifii ^ g nWj Jind ! spirited renovation from an interval of trouble fegin qiffictflty' ^ which however was attended with no shadow of change 111 principle . M ^ e pass on to the magazines . Some of the anecdotes are as startling at they are curious . Here is Ollfe ! -i " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦
" Among the contributors to the Quarterly in its early days , were Sir , tjien Mr Watyer Scott , and Dr Southey . The Litter still continues to enrich its pages . Sir Walter actually , in one instance , reviewed several of Bis own novels . This was in one of the volumes for IB 1-6 . The Waverley novels were then beginning to attract universal attention ; and Sir Walter essentially aided in extending their popularity b y the . long and elaborate review to which I allude . None of his critics dealt out their
praises of the works of the unknown author with a more liberal hand tj ^ tu ? he did himself . It is true , he pointed out some things which he callecL ^ enji 8 he £ in the works , but this only served to give greater effect t <^ , tbe opromendation lie so liberally bestowed on their general merits . Beudeo ^ , , tba xfay > in which the thing was done displayed great dexterity , ana , proved Sir Walter to be much raorfe of a man of the world than
inoet p £ qp ^ e ygave him credit for . The portions of his works which ho faintjjr 9 n 4 ^ p * ned were precisely those which possessed the greatest naent . ^ An ^ aft he took caie to give various extracts byway of illustrating the vjew , [) w piTofesaed to Udte of those works , people bad an opportunity oSfseeinff aft , opce fche Jniu « tic « of the slight censure with which he visited theuu \ Vi > etJier' Mr Gifford , th ^ editor oti the Quarterly , wa $ aware that tlie , author and reviewer were one and the « ame pcmKnar , is not ; known . If l | & ^ ras aware of the « afrcumstance , he commifted a ' gross breach of faith In permitting Sir Walter to be th ^ ittviewer of hi * own works , and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/56/
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