The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: for Nov. 1814....Feb. 1815; To be Continued Quarterly, Vol. XXIV
New York: Reprinted for Eastburn, Kirk & Co., 1815. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing thus. Leather bound. Front board almost completely separated (held by the string). [6], 560 pages. Substantial page foxing. Contains Numbers XLVII, November 1814 and XLVIII February 1815. Contents of No. XLVIII present page present. Quarterly list of new publications. Index. Among the contents of Number XLVII are: The Excursion by William Wordsworth; Kater on the Light of Telescopes; The History of Fiction by John Dunlop; Agriculture of Scotland by John Sinclair; Revival of the Slave Trade; Researches by Alexander de Humboldt (translated by Williams); M. Carnot's Memorial; Waverly: A Novel [no author stated]; and War in America by Hugh Gray. Among the contents of Number XLVIII are: The Lord of the Isles. A Poem by Walter Scott; Female Difficulties. A novel by Madame D'Arblay; A short Account of experiments and Instruments, depending on the relations of Air to heat and Moisture by John Leslie; A Circumstantial narrative of the Campaign in Russia by Eugene Labasume, Travels to the Source of the Missouri River by Captains Lewis and Clark; Observations on the functions of the Brain by Sir Everard Home; The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805 by Mungo Park. The Edinburgh Review is the title of four distinct intellectual and cultural magazines. The best known, longest-lasting, and most influential of the four was the third, which was published regularly from 1802 to 1929. The third Edinburgh Review became one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century. It promoted Romanticism and Whig politics. Started on 10 October 1802 by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Brougham, and Francis Horner, it was published by Archibald Constable in quarterly issues until 1929. It began as a literary and political review. Under its first permanent editor, Francis Jeffrey (the first issue was edited by Sydney Smith), it was a strong supporter of the Whig party and liberal politics, and regularly called for political reform. Its main rival was the Quarterly Review which supported the Tories. The magazine was also noted for its attacks on the Lake Poets, particularly William Wordsworth. It was owned at one point by John Stewart, whose wife Louisa Hooper Stewart (1818–1918) was an early advocate of women's suffrage, having been educated at the Quaker school of Newington Academy for Girls. It took its Latin motto judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur ("the judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted") from Publilius Syrus. Notable contributors to the third Edinburgh Review were: Thomas Carlyle, Henry Hallam, William Hazlitt, Thomas Babington Macaulay, John Stuart Mill, John Playfair, Bertrand Russell, Sir Walter Scott, and Herbert Spencer. Condition: Poor / Makeshift silver paper dust wrapper present.
Keywords: William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Scotland, Slave Trade, Alexander de Humboldt, War of 1812, Brain, Everard Home, Mungo Park, John Leslie, Campaign in Russia, Eugene Labasume, Missouri River, Lewis and Clark
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