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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
                     