Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . were all men of distinct,if unequal, ability, most of them men of considerable informa-tion, and at least one of them, Brougham, a man of omni-science. Scott lent the services of his pen to its earliernumbers; SAdney Smith contributed wit in abundance: thefuture Chancellor wrote untiringly and with extraordinary speedon every conceivable subject; Francis Jeffrey, the first editor, LTTEEArrEE. 803 18151 was i
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . were all men of distinct,if unequal, ability, most of them men of considerable informa-tion, and at least one of them, Brougham, a man of omni-science. Scott lent the services of his pen to its earliernumbers; SAdney Smith contributed wit in abundance: thefuture Chancellor wrote untiringly and with extraordinary speedon every conceivable subject; Francis Jeffrey, the first editor, LTTEEArrEE. 803 18151 was in many respects heaven-bom to the craft; and thus in afew years time the new hterary periodical had become a powerin the hmd. An ill-judged and ungenerous attack in 1809 onthe Spanish patriots then endeavouring to make head againstthe encroachments of Napoleon disgusted and alienated its Torysubscribers, and the residt was a secession and the establish-. //(oM; lliiUui- X- SOTTHEY, BY KEXRY EURIDGE, {National Poftrait Gallery.) ment of its rival the Qujnterhj. The new review, which com-manded the good-will and active literary assistance of Scott fromthe first, and soon afterwards enlisted powerful recruits such asSouthey, Lockhart, and others, stepped at once into a position ofat least equality with the older periodical; and for more than ageneration the two reviews together may be said to have playedthe part of commissioners to execute that office of LordHigh Censor of Literature, which had beeu filled in earlierperiods with so much authority by individual men of letters. 804 ENGLAXBS STRUGGLE FOB EXISTENCE. Jeffreyasd Ms [1802 but which since the death of Johnson had practically ceasedto exist. They were of course not more infallible than other Boards ofColleagues. Commissioners known to past or even, it may be, to presenthistory; and it was their misfortune that among the mis-takes committed by them were one o
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