Quarterly Review
Quarterly Review Quarterly Review ( 1809 – 1967 ),founded by John Murray as a Tory rival to the Whig Edinburgh Review . Sir W. Scott , who had been harshly reviewed in the Edinburgh, became an ardent supporter of the venture but refused the editorship. The journal stood for the defence of the established order, Church, and Crown; its unwavering adherence to the bishops and the Church was satirized by Peacock in Melincourt . Its tone was magisterial from the beginning, and its influence, both literary and political, was for the best part of the century matched only by that of the Edinburgh. The first editor, Gifford , brought with him several clever writers from the Anti-Jacobin , including Canning and Frere , but the quality of his chief writers (largely Scott and Southey ) could not match that of the Edinburgh,...
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