The Fortnightly (Volume 67) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... lowest, perfectly harmonious conclusions.... About the Review--though I felt almost sure that you would approve of it, and enter into it with the warmth which I wish were as characteristic of all our friends as of you, it is no less satisfaction tome to find that I waa not mistaken. The project advances, and if we had a sufficient list of good writers on whom we could rely, so as to be independent of chance contributions, we couldj start almost immediately; bat, unhappily, " the harvest is great, and the labourers are few "--there are scarcely any first-rate minds forming--indi origo mali--we want such an organ quite as much to train up public instructors, to erect a Normal School of Literature as for any temporary or party purpose. Though I do not say so to any one whose zeal I am afraid of damping, I do not think we shall be ready before the 1st of January next year. We can do little till Parliament meets, and our friends come to town; and our arrangements will not be made in time to publish the firtt number before the end of the session, which is so bad a time for a new literary undertaking that it will be better to postpone, and employ the delay in accumulating a stock of good articles to start with. Meantime, we shall increase our corps, and shall ascertain the result of several experiments, especially Tait's reduction of price (Roebuck, who has just come from Bath, says the reduction will tenfold the sale in that city, but then Tait's magazine means Roebuck's magazine, at Bath, where his popularity is boundless. I say boundless, because he is able to get over everything though constantly meeting with rubs. Two public meetings have been necessary to obliterate the impression produced by his having, in Tait, termed Watts' hymns a 'wretched farrago')....