The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 16: 1832-36
John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, [Spring 1830?]
“My dear
Milman,—I perceive your ‘Jews’ are now fast approaching the
close. It is a splendid book, but some wise folks shake the head at some
passages touching miracles. A few syllables would have disarmed them, and will
no doubt do so in the next edition. Meantime I have been suggesting to
Murray that your most efficient
method might be to write a History of Christianity in the same form, and I sincerely hope you
will smile on this proposal.
“But the Quarterly is much in need of your aid, and
that must be my chief concern. I don’t mean that we are falling off; on
the contrary, Murray says the Review has now regained all it had lost at one period. But we are in danger of
becoming a little too business-like, and want grievously the grace from time to
time of a pen like yours discoursing eloquent music.—Yours very
sincerely,
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)
Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was a poet, historian and dean of St
Paul's (1849) who wrote for the
Quarterly Review.
John Murray II (1778-1843)
The second John Murray began the
Quarterly Review in 1809 and
published works by Scott, Byron, Austen, Crabbe, and other literary notables.
The Quarterly Review. (1809-1967). Published by John Murray, the
Quarterly was instigated by Walter
Scott as a Tory rival to the
Edinburgh Review. It was edited by
William Gifford to 1824, and by John Gibson Lockhart from 1826 to 1853.
