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