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 . on, who was a contributor to Blaclnvood in its earlyda\s. was John Lockhart (), afterwards editorof the Quarterly, a critic of sound judgment and scholarlyequipment, though given to a severity of expression that some-times bordered on the brutal, but whose cndin-ing fame reposeson his admirable Life—by general consent one of the two orthree greatest biographies in tlie language—of his illus
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 . on, who was a contributor to Blaclnvood in its earlyda\s. was John Lockhart (), afterwards editorof the Quarterly, a critic of sound judgment and scholarlyequipment, though given to a severity of expression that some-times bordered on the brutal, but whose cndin-ing fame reposeson his admirable Life—by general consent one of the two orthree greatest biographies in tlie language—of his illustriousfather-in-law, Sir Walter Scott. LITERATURE. 43 1832] Of a yet curlier date than the birth of tlie Tory JilniLirotiil. or,indeed, than its quarterly predecessor of tlie same politics, was theKadical Examiner, a weekly journal started and for fourteen yearsconducted by the brothers Hunt. The former of these, Leigh LeighHunt (1784-1850), has secured himself a place in the history\>f °-the period, if not by the bulk of his prose-writings—which, indeed,are often undistinguished enough—yet by occasional pieces ofgenuine merit both for thought and style, and by a tincly. LEIGH HUNT, HY ^,E^•.TA^^^• Robert haydox. (SattoMd Portrait Gr of his time. Theimmensely important part played by periodicals in the advance-ment of letters during these years may, pm-haps, be most con-veniently measured ^by viewing it the point oi view u PEACE, EETBENCHMEXT. AND REFORM. (1815 adopted in liis history of Nineteenth Century Literature byProfessor Saintsbury, who, after enumerating Cobbett, Jeffrey,Sydne
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