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/^ r ^ WW 6 f tlila , the Writer atftiftfctea t 6 Hjj Mng " tod J « fl £ &J iti fcha&cter for those id wKom Itchiefty acldressed ilpwSR * _* ije alludes to the " working classes" opryy as if we dfjfl > idt tf&HVeas ourselves to a Far more extensive c \ ns&— $ I who cari \ htUk . Many among the working elapses are en coupe inpluftive , Does the writer know nothing of the Meclianic ' s
Institutes ? Yet he designates the class as , — u A body whose intellectual cultivation is necessarily so imperfect as t * o incapacitate them for appreciating the lofty eloquence and profound philosophy which characterised the articles in which their interests were a 4 v < tate £ " —Vol . li , p . 328 .
We all thank him for the compliment , but are not disposed to receive it at such an expense /' ?' Among the leading contributors to the Monthly Repository during the time it waa conducted by Mr Fox , were Mrs Leman Grinistone , a lady of great talent , and the authoress of * Woman ' s Love , ' and one or two ofche * novels ; Miss Martineau , the celebrated writer , on political Mr
^ ogoiay i JSlljott , the author of ' The , Corn Law R , hypp ^ 8 f Mr Hteariie the author of ' The Exposition of the False Mqdium > ' and * Jiidtfs Aedmvus , * son-in-law , I believe , of Mr Francis Place , of CKarfng Cross . "ftTfr Johtl Mill , son of Mr James Mill , author of < The History of British Ihdia , ' tne same young gentleman I have already mentioned as one ol ? ihd ' stated writew for the late Westminster Review , and for the
present Liondon and Westminster Review , is an occasional contributor to the Monthly Repository . He wrote the series of articles which appeared in it a year or two since , under the title of ' Dialogues between Socrates and Plato , ' which excited considerable interest among scholars , and were regarded as the most masterly things of the kind which had appeared in modern times , "—Vol , ii , pp « 328 , 9 .
He might have added many other names , and those among the fir 8 ^ iwriters and soundest h ead s of the period . Still we than k him } ali > eit averse Iq the provincialism of the name of ' Hearne , ' neither do we think the accomplished scholar * ftd phUpaopl ^ er , to J ^ om he also alludes , deserves to be called the " young geiU wp- .
" Fofr upwards of twelve months the circulation of the Monthly Rswmtoryj , like most of its contemporaries , had been gradually diminif jyiny . To reeoier it , if possible , tne expedient of reducing the price frf ^ QQi tbUUng . ftudVsixpencc to one shilling , without any dimiaution in & * quantity of matter , was resorted to . It wai soon found that tho vim was oil U 7 judioiou 9 one . The magazine did not gain above fifty fiitgorlberc by \ t ; whi h , of course , was nothing compared with so great a rt ^ tajft& faprice /^ Vol . fi , pp . 329 , 80 . j h ^ s } jtn 6 i Jiofji Ipad tp ))* trw > hut too true to he goo ^ ; and IIIPJto ^ ] wMatjn& to OUT , ^ bwribers Chftt we think w 6 shall be obliged io put it back tp the former « um could not well have occurred . Our readiness to reduce
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 710, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/58/
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