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LONDON: HAYWARD AND ADAM, 48, PATERNOSTER-ROW; THE Completion of the first three Monthly Numbers, making the first Quarterly Part, will enable the public to comprehend our plan of publication; also to appreciate, in some degree, the spirit in which it is intended to conduct the New Edinburgh Review, and the description of subjects it is purposed to embrace; leaving us, however, still free to adopt any further improvement that longer experience may suggest. Those of our contemporaries who have thought fit to test our claims by comparison with other periodicals have tried us by a standard that we do not acknowledge. We never aimed to be like them; in plan, subjects, and execution our purpose was to be different. To us periodical literature appeared to shew signs of exhaustion or decrepitude; timid, compromising, and calculating; without strength, originality, or independence. It was mostly commercial, sectarian, or tied up to political partizanship; and that portion not so engaged, and literary only, might be playful or ingenious, but wholly vacant of subject; bodiless and aimless in a striking degree. Under this kind of mental leadership the heart and intellect of the country were suffering, appeared to be degenerating, and receding from sound literature and science to polemics, empirics, childish affectation, and extravagance. Now we do not pretend to be wiser or better than others, but different; wholly free, most assuredly, from the seductions and servile bonds to which we have alluded. Old Montaigne himself never felt more at large than we do to disport on any theme likely to amuse or edify our readers. We are, however, not disposed to be needlessly offensive; and least of all, if we can help it, unjust; for though critics professionally, we have really very little gall in us, and a great deal of charity. Notwithstanding these amenities, we do delight in divesting pretenders of a borrowed or illusive plumage; in awarding to genius and desert that which rightly pertains to them; and in not allowing any one, however imposing in aspect, to traverse the fields of science, literature, or public life; or appear among the learned in our great societies, colleges, and national foundations, without occasionally asking them for their certificate, and looking over their testimonials. * In conclusion, we may remark that we are the third generation of Edinburgh Reviewers, the first having lived some ninety years past. All things now aspire to be young;' we have Young Germany, La Jeune France, and Young England, and why not a Young Edinburgh Review? *The first Edinburgh Review' was published in the year 1755, to which Dr. Smith, the author of the Wealth of Nations, Dr. Robertson the historian, Mr. Jardine, and Alexander Wedderburn the first Earl of Rosslyn, were contributors. It was published half-yearly, price 1s., same as our monthly Number, but not so large. From a letter in the second number (p. 121), of what may be considered our literary grandfather, it appears to have failed from being almost wholly devoted to the literature of Scotland; a country just beginning,' as Dr. Smith remarked, to figure in the learned world.' 6 |