Secondly, my Reviewerwill find fault (in future) with my indulging my manner.
I am by no means the person which the reviewer had the kindness to represent me.
In respect to the influence of Claverhouse and General Dalzell, the reviewer states that "the author has cruelly falsified history," and relates the actual circumstances in reference to these generals.
The reviewer spoke of Colonel Macirone in no very measured terms.
Let us see how the Reviewer undertakes to controvert it.
There is one point upon which the Reviewer is certain he has "demolished" Calef.
The Reviewer follows his citation, thus: "Mr. Brattle mentions no other person than Mr. C.
The Reviewer takes exception to my statement, that the connection of the Mathers with the witchcraft business, "broke down" their influence in public affairs.
The Reviewer argues that because Cotton Mather is not named at all, in either list, therefore he must be counted in the first!
The Reviewer expresses, over and over again, his great surprise at the view given in my book of Cotton Mather's connection with Salem witchcraft.
The Reviewer has undertaken to make it out that Cotton Mather is the person referred to by Brattle.
The Reviewer seems to imagine that, by a stroke of his pen, he can, at any time, make history.
He also collected the material for the essay on Fairies in the second volume, which was especially praised by the reviewer in the Edinburgh Review (January, 1803).
It seemed to him futile and ungentlemanly for the anonymous reviewer to seek primarily for faults, or "to wound any person's feelings .
Lastly a fourthreviewer attributes to the author 'careful and acute scholarship.
A fifth reviewer however, who seems certainly to have had our Supernatural Religion before him, holds different language.
But however this may be, the language of the reviewer is quite inapplicable to the work lying before me.
A reviewer of Supernatural Religion compares the author's handling of the reconstructive efforts of certain conservative critics regarding the Fourth Gospel to Sir G.
His scholarship,' says this samereviewer again, 'is apparent throughout.
Our first reviewer describes the author as 'scrupulously exact in stating the arguments of adversaries.
Our fourth reviewer uses still stronger language: 'The author with excellent candour places before us the materials on which a judgment must rest, with great fulness and perfect impartiality.
Brown listened occasionally, and with an anatomizing eye, for he does not like literary women; therefore a woman, entering his own arena, must have called forth all his reviewer bitterness.
But you can always find fault with the title of the story which comes into your hands, a stupid reviewer never fails to do this.
The student must, however, follow the advice of an English reviewer and by all means read the book.
The merest playwright or reviewer could have done better in these matters--as the unknown author was soon made to understand.
This truly must be reckoned as another illustration of the extent to which the Quarterly reviewer of 1848 had formed an accurate conception of the character of "Currer Bell.
Lord Macaulay aided the Reviewer in his investigation.
Since writing this note I have seen that the Edinburgh reviewer (Oct.
No reviewer ever taunted me with the fact, but the truth is that 'A Life's Atonement' is a very curious instance of unconscious plagiarism.
On the whole, the reviewer said, “Mr. Malone deserves much praise for his very clear and comprehensive view” of the controversy.
It states that she joined the staff of The Freewoman as a reviewer in 1911.
The reason which the reviewergives for rejecting the theory, is that it "would regard an event as certain which had hitherto never failed; which is exceedingly far from the truth, even for a very large number of constant successes.
No principle of evaluation can provide for such a case as that which the reviewer supposes.
By the way, this reminds me of a passage which I have just observed in Owen's address at Leeds, which a clever reviewer might turn into good fun.
The reviewer speculates on the meaning of the fact "in relation to the hypothesis of an intertropical cold epoch, such as Mr. Darwin demands for the migration of the Northern Flora to the Southern hemisphere.
These poets are cited by the reviewer for their skill with unusual metres and difficult rhymes.
While the same poems are but slightly esteemed to-day, it must be recognized that the attitude of the reviewer was severe for his time.
The reviewer confined his remarks to the first thirty lines of the poem and very properly neglected the rest.
Johnson, whilst the occasional metrical lines remind the reviewer of Dr.
It is in the spirit of a reviewer who wants to smash a man.
Speaking of the second number, the reviewer says it is by no means inferior to the first either in music or in poetry.
But six years later (1821) another Quarterly reviewer (said to be Archbishop Whately) reversed the above unfortunate judgment by singling out the drawing of Miss Austen's fools as shining examples of her skill.
As an AEolian harp is a stringed instrument sounded by the wind, and a whistle belongs to the very distinct class of musical things sounded by human breath, I can only suppose that the reviewer has misunderstood the poem.
Even the Edinburgh Reviewer can take his turn: you have no idea how popular it is; I have not had a gate broken since I put it up; I have it in all my fields.
The reviewer is greater in the commonwealth of letters than the man of rank.
Of course every reviewer is as well-versed in that beautiful language as Professor Geddes, or John Stuart Blackie himself.
Yes, this little preface is written for the Reviewer and nobody else.
He dreamt much of the reviewer of the Daily Tribune, his favourite morning paper, whom he pictured as a man of forty-five or so, with gold-rimmed spectacles and an air of generous enthusiasm.
Nearly every reviewer prophesied brilliant success for him; several admitted frankly that his equipment revealed genius of the first rank.
But the reviewer further says, the objection to the identity of the Niger and the Nile, is grounded on the incongruity of their periodical inundations, or on the rise and fall of the former river not corresponding with that of the latter.
This is all very well: I do not object to the Quarterly Reviewer giving up an opinion which he finds no longer tenable; but when I see in the same review (No.
