FAMOUS REVIEWS
Reading edition
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"
DE QUINCEY: EDITOR'S NOTE
From Tail's Edinburgh Magazine