Edinburgh Review

Edinburgh Review, The, was started in 1802 by a coterie of literary men in Edinburgh, of whom Jeffrey (afterwards Lord Jeffrey), Sydney Smith, and Brougham were the chief. Jeffrey was the first reguleir editor. The first number appeared on October 10, 1802. Its success was immediate; in the next year its sale was 2,500 copies, in 1814 13,000. Scott and Wilson ("Christopher North") were among its early contributors, but were scared ayvay by its growing Whiggism. Its attacks on the

Lake Poets (especially Wordsworth's Excursion) and Byron are well known. The latter produced' English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Later, Macaulay was a prominent contributor. Its success caused the starting of the Quarterly Review in 1808, the Westminster Review in 1829, and a number of other quarterlies on the same model. Long the organ of Liberalism, it is now considered as "Whiggish" and reactionary by the bulk of the Liberal party. Constable of Edinburgh was the first publisher, but it has long been published in London.