Gents Mag 1844 part 1 p.246
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Gentleman's Magazine 1844 part 1 p.246
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Sir John Barrow
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Sir John Barrow
New St. Spring Gardens, Feb. 12. MR. URBAN, IN your last month's Magazine you have given what the writer truly terms an "imperfect catalogue" of articles by various authors in the Quarterly Review, from its commencement to vol.XIX. with an intention to continue the catalogue. Now, as the contributions of my father Sir John Barrow to that incomparable work appear thus "curtailed of all fair proportion," and as I am possession of a complete list of his contributions, I send you, with his permission, in a general way, the extent to which his assistance has been afforded to his late excellent friend Mr. Gifford, one of the best scholars and most able critics of the age. The writer of your former essay is no doubt aware that a committee of gentlemen, consisting of Mr. Canning, Sir Walter Scott, Mr. Hookham Frere, Mr. George Ellis, and one or two more, originated the Quarterly Review, and were, with the aid of Mr. Gifford, the chief contributors to the first two or three volumes. But as this could not long continue without further assistance, Mr. Canning urged my father strongly on this point, who was not disposed, either on public or private grounds, to refuse compliance with a request so reasonable from one who had always acted towards him with cordiality and kindness, and as my father had just published a volume on China and the Chinese, he selected for his first essay of reviewing De Guigne's Account of the Dutch Embassy to Pekin, which appeared in vol.ii. No.4, and from that time to vol.xix. inclusive, instead of 9 articles, which in your catalogue are correctly ascribed to Sir John Barrow, he actually furnished, as appears by my list, no less than 75 articles, and from the commencement to the end of vol.xxxi (No.62) the number he supplied amounted to 134. At this period Mr. Gifford's illness obliged him to resign his editorship. Mr. (now Sir John) Coleridge succeeded him for a short time, during which my father continued as a contributor, and also with Mr. Lockhart, the present editor, but to no great extent, having only supplied from No.62 to No.145 for January of the present year, 1844, 69 articles, the last of them being, as the first was, on Chinese affairs. Thus then the whole number supplied in the course of 35 years amounts to 203, of which you would not thank me for a detailed account, nor do I consider myself entitled to give it; but, if the following summary will answer your purpose, you are at liberty to insert it:- |
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