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A Century of Reviewing
November 6, 1902 issue

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There had been various attempts from the close of the seventeenth century to review the current literary production, but these criticisms had invariably fallen into the hands of booksellers hacks and other obscure hirelings. It was, then, a complete and welcome novelty to find honest men of vigorous intellectual parts writing down with absolute fearlessness their personal judgment on the books of the day. And if to-day there are still those who have the courage of their literary convictions and feel that the appeal to first principles is always salutary, they are the legitimate descendants of the courageous young men who founded the Edinburgh Review.

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LITERATURE; CRITICISM; INTELLECT; YOUNG adults; BOOKSELLERS & bookselling; INTELLECTUALS
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