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Mr. Johnson has neglected nothing that could make his work complete; and it does equal honour to his intelligence and his industry."- Lit. Gaz. 181 Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, comprising Original Anec- 1840 "A valuable body of information upon the course of the British army in India, in Spain, and the South of France."-Atlas. We like Twelve Years' Military Adventure very much.”—Blackwood's Magazine. No. IV.] FOR THE MONTH. "I will make a prief of it in my Note-Book."-SHAKSPERE. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.-Continued. As specimens of the influence of Blackwood's Magazine, and the manner in which he conducted it, we give the two following extracts from a bundle of his letters which a contributor has forwarded to us, with permission to make what use we please of them. "11th June, 1824. "I am very anxious to see the pamphlet which you mention, and your commentary on it. Cadell has not said any thing about it to me, but I should think you are right in your conjecture. In a letter from him the other day, he says, 'In confidence I have to inform you that the Archbishop of Dublin, in a letter lately received, thus expresses himself:-If you can put your friend BLACKWOOD in possession of the fact, that the Papists here have, in the person of O'CONNELL (their chief demagogue), pointed at the Archbishop of Dublin as an object for ASSASSINATION, he may make a good use of it for the public advantage. Both the papers sent herewith it might be well to send to Blackwood, and promptly."" 7th March, 1825. "On Saturday I received your letter with the article on Lord John Russell. I am very sorry that I must return it to you, as I know it will do no good to Maga, and I find it would mortally offend at least one of my best friends, and one whom I chiefly depend upon. "We do not agree about Sayings and Doings,' as I cannot help wondering at your again mentioning the introduction of Hook's name, when this was done by yourself throughout the whole of your article, and has been done in all the critiques upon the book in every periodical in the kingdom. That he cares for this, no one can be so stupid as to believe, but it is surely a very different matter with the public mention of the name of a shy retiring lady, who is unknown to the world and wishes to remain so. I cannot help my stupidity in still thinking that the article we had printed before I received yours the most useful one of the two, both for Maga and the book itself; and moreover, however much it is my interest to conciliate Hook, I hardly think if you had been upon the spot, that you would have advised me to print a second article in my March No. He personally has surely no cause to complain of the way he has been treated in my Magazine, as we had a personal defence of him before, and this he has not had in any other periodical. "Your opinion of the American writers differs from my own as well as that of almost all my friends both here and in London. From every thing I have heard, I believe that there are not many articles I have had which have done so much for Maga as those of this writer. He is a singular person certainly, but no one can read his articles without seeing that he is a person of power and originality. I know nothing of him personally, but I can say confidently, that in all the correspondence I have had with him, he has acted [APRIL, 1851. like a gentleman, and one who is most anxious to promote my interests. It was an article by another contributor which appeared in No. 96, which your friend Mr. Walter, I believe, rejected. I dare say he may have rejected articles written by this person, but his series on the American writers he began, altered, extended, and enlarged at my suggestion, after I had got one or two of his other articles. By the bye, so much did Mr. Walter think of that on the American President, that he asked my permission, through his publisher here, to reprint it in his Review. and other Taylor's Magazine is beneath all contempt. It is going to the dogs as fast as your friend worthies can drive it. I wonder you had not seen his last No. His attacks on my Magazine are stupid, as might be expected. "I am happy to tell you that my Magazine is rising as well as Colburn's. I have never spared expense or trouble, and I do not despair of getting a good deal a-head of him yet, if I am not so already. I need hardly repeat what I have already told you, that with you in London giving me your friendly, serious, and zealous aid, I feel confident that my Magazine might be made a very different thing from what it has yet been. In the state to which I have now got my Magazine, it requires a constant exertion and watching over." As the letters of Mr. Blackwood contain much literary information connected with the history of his Magazine, which perhaps stands at the head of the monthly periodicals of England-we shall probably return to them. THEODORE HOOK'S NOTES ON LONDON. (Concluded.) The Queen's Palace, 1834. The palace here shewn exists no longer. Upon its site exists the New Palace, built after designs of Mr. Nash, a man to whom London is more indebted for its splendid improvements than any other architect on record. The New Palace has been subjected to much criticism, and the completion of it confided to Mr. Blore. I suspect, when time shall have overcome prejudice and jealousy, it will be duly appreciated. of this work, the Tower of the Exchange has been The Royal Exchange, 1834. Since the publication pulled down and rebuilt. Royal Institution.-Sadler's Wells. - Society of Agriculture. Somerset House, 1884. Since this plate was published, the unfinished wing of Somerset House has been completed, and a new range of buildings erected, in which is established a new institution called "King's College." The Stamp Office.-The Stock Exchange. E |