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North British Review

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  • Title: North British Review
  • Date: 7 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01153
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 7 September 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Thara Michaelis Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "North British Review." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01153.xml (TEI)
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NORTH BRITISH REVIEW.—

The North British Review, for August, has been received from the Publishers, Leonard Scott & Co., No. 79 Fulton street, New York. It is a number of more than usual interest, and we are inclined to think, takes the palm from the other quarterlies this time. It opens with an interesting article on Chateaubriand,1 followed by a scholarly review of Gladstone’s2 Homer. In the paper on Biblical Interpretation the Epistles to the Corinthians are ably handled. The student of exegesis will find in it much that is new and valuable. Those interested in Art matters will read with pleasure the article on British Painting and Sculpture. The article on “The Modern British Drama” reviews in a liberal and catholic spirit Taylor’s “Philip Van Artevelde” and “Edwin the Fair,” Charles Kingsley’s3 “Saint’s Tragedy,” Matthew Arnold’s4 “Merope,” and several lately issued anonymous plays. Religious readers will peruse with satisfaction the paper on “Egypt and Syria,” and the scientifically inclined will extract both pleasure and instruction from the article on “Researches on Light—Sanitary—Scientific and Æsthetical.” “Our Army in India” has an exclusive interest for British readers, as also has the review of the present condition of “Political Parties” in England. The article on the “Literary Fund” is marked by a certain vein of quiet satire that will be relished by those whose evil fortune has condemned them to dabble in pen and ink. Altogether this one of the best issues of the “North British” that we have seen for a year.

Notes:

1. Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) was a French statesman and writer. [back]

2. William Gladstone (1809–1898) was a British writer and future Prime Minister. [back]

3. Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was an English historian, poet and novelist.  [back]

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