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Title: Famous Reviews
Author: Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
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FAMOUS REVIEWS
_FROM THE SAME PUBLISHERS_
FAMOUS SPEECHES. First Series. From Cromwell to Gladstone. Selected and

Edited with Introductory Notes by HERBERT PAUL. In demy 8vo, cloth, 470
pp. 7s. 6d. net.

FAMOUS SPEECHES. Second Series. From Lord Macaulay to Lord Rosebery. Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by HERBERT PAUL. In demy 8vo, cloth, 398 pp. 7s. 6d. net.

FAMOUS SERMONS BY ENGLISH PREACHERS. From the VENERABLE BEDE to H.P.
LIDDON. Edited with Historical and Biographical Notes by Canon DOUGLAS
MACLEANE, M.A. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt. 6s. net.

FAMOUS REVIEWS
SELECTED AND EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTES
BY
R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true,
But are not critics to their judgment too?
_Pope_.

LONDON
1914

CONTENTS
PREFACE
OF CRITICISM AND THE CRITIC
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW: EDITOR'S NOTE
From _The Edinburgh Review_

(founded 1802)
LORD JEFFREY ON--

[SOUTHEY'S "THALABA"
[SOUTHEY'S LAUREATE LAYS
[THOMAS MOORE
[WORDSWORTH'S "EXCURSION"
["ENDYMION"

LORD BROUGHAM ON BYRON
SYDNEY SMITH ON HANNAH MORE
MACAULAY ON--

[SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES
[CROKER'S "BOSWELL"
[W. E. GLADSTONE
[MADAME D'ARBLAY

ANONYMOUS ON--
[WORDSWORTH

[MATURIN'S "MELMOTH"
THE QUARTERLY REVIEW: EDITOR'S NOTE
From _The Quarterly Review_

(founded 1809)
GIFFORD ON--
[WEBER'S "FORD"
[KEATS
CROKER ON--
[SYDNEY SMITH
[MACAULAY
LOCKHART ON--
[THE AUTHOR OF "VATHEK"
[S. T. COLERIDGE
SIR WALTER SCOTT ON JANE AUSTEN

ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ON JANE AUSTEN
W. E. GLADSTONE ON TENNYSON'S POEMS
CANON WILBERFORCE ON--[DARWIN

[CARDINAL NEWMAN
ANONYMOUS ON SCOTT'S--["WAVERLEY"
["TALES OF MY LANDLORD"
ANONYMOUS ON--

[LEIGH HUNT'S "RIMINI"
["SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF AGAIN"
[MOXON'S SONNETS
["VANITY FAIR" AND "JANE EYRE"
[GEORGE ELIOT

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE: EDITOR'S NOTE
From _Blackwood's Magazine_
(founded 1817)
PROFESSOR WILSON ON--[POPE AND WORDSWORTH

(_Christopher North_) [LORD BYRON
[DR. JOHNSON
[CRUMBS FROM THE "NOCTES"

ANONYMOUS ON--

[S. T. COLERIDGE
[THE COCKNEY SCHOOL I
["

"
"
III
["
"
"
IV

[SHELLEY'S "PROMETHEUS"
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW: EDITOR'S NOTE
From _The Westminster Review_

(founded 1824)
J. S. MILL ON--
[TENNYSON'S POEMS

[MACAULAY'S "LAYS"
JOHN STERLING ON CARLYLE
FRASER'S MAGAZINE: EDITOR'S NOTE
From _Fraser's Magazine_
THACKERAY ON DICKENS'S CHRISTMAS STORIES
CHARLES KINGSLEY ON THE LAKE POETS
ANONYMOUS ON CHRISTMAS BOOKS, 1837
W. F. FOX: EDITOR'S NOTE
From _The Monthly Repository_

W. F. FOX ON BROWNING'S "PAULINE"
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