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the trumpeter of his own fame . Thousands were tadutfefl to rtallrttfe Waverley novels who . had not read them before—for they 1 w ^ th <* i only beginning to make a sensation in the literary warlbV—hi conggkgtieage of so very eulogistic a notice of them in one qf the leading pcxioj&qals « of the day : would they have done so had they known tjiat all tjie praise proceeded from the author himself ? "—Vol . ii , pp . 262—^ 4 .
We leave everybody to make their own reflections ori tHe above anecdote . The work contains a quantity of these dis- > coveries . As to the praises bestowed on Mr Lockhart , the present editor , we are not disposed either to disagree with or
echo them . His great kindness and hospitality to those who , in the next number of the Quarterly , receive a " specimjen of literary butchery , ' * is a compliment in one sense / and a Wry " ug ' y feature" in another . The accounts of the Westminster ,
and the London , Reviews , both before and since their junction , is very well done , though containing several errors , , The Hritish and Foreign also receives well-deserved pi ^ ise ' at his hands . Of the Monthly Review , he tells us that " the bjow it struck Kirke White , and from the effects of which he nev § r reqwerecT , recoiled on itsetf , " and that its circulation immediately began to suffer to a very great extent . We wish the sa 4 ne ljaij ))
appened to the magazine that struck the btovv at K ea ^ s frppi £ be effects of which he never recovered . He says various handsome things of the learning , cleverness , and wit , qf Ijaser ^ but passes over its other peculiarities in a very gentle mauner . With the following observation on the Metropolitan , we perfectly coincide . . t t »
" I know no periodical in which the literary notices ar& Writteri with greater taste than in the Metropolitan . They are froni the pen of Mr Howard , the sub-editor , who is also an extensive and ' talented Contributor of general articles . "—Vol . ii , pp . 324 , 5 . ' : Perhaps our readers would like to see what he says , of the Monthly Repository ? ;
" The politics of the Monthly Repositoi ^ y are ultra-LiberalJIt identifies itself with the most zealous of the Movement party . It was Tt » ry popular about two years ago , partly because of the decided libertrtttjr bf its politics , and partly because of the great zeal , talent , and eloquence with which they were advocated . Mr Fox himself wrote largely for it . And some of the articles which proceeded from his pen contained pasftdgtis , Width , ' for the purity and fervour of their eloquence , have seldom becneqtnalkscj in modern times . Others of the papers which appeared frotn time to time
in the Monthly Repository , were characterised by profbund bmldsophy , and by great powers of reasoning . But though the riiagtiinrie feraafe ' iicL * mired by aU who read it , and was perhaps more liberally and generally praise 4 by the newspa ^ pesara than any of its contemfx > rttrfe * / Ht never reached a larg ^ circulation . When at ks highest , the sale' hettfr exceeded a , thousand copies . " - * -Vol . ii , pp . 327 , 8 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/57/
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