The British Critic Volume 1

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527781726
Total Pages : 676 pages
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Download or read book The British Critic, Vol. 37 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The British Critic, Vol. 37: For January, February, March, April, May, June, 1811 If then a fervice of this nature be efiential to the public if it be defirable that a. Complete hif'tory of the publications of any period lhould be at all attain able', we fay, without fear of contradiction, that thefe objeé'ts cannot be efi'eéted by any one or even all of thol'e publications which notice only eight or ten books in a quarter of a year. The average num ber of works mentioned, more or lei's explicitly, in each monthly publication of the Bat'rrsn Cnrrrc, is about thirty-five, which gives, in the whole year, the number of four hundred and twenty; and even this amount is ufually, as we. Have candidly Rated, deficient. What progrefs then can critics make who notice only forty, at the molt, in the fame period, and leveral of thofe perhaps not c'onneéled with Britilh literature? We delire not to contend about a name, or we might contend, that, in a arew, books ought to be te viewed, whereas, in the publications here alluded to, the title of a book (or even of leveral together) ferves frequently as a mere introduction to an origi nal difl'ertation, of great extent, in which the contents, the merits, or demerits of the introducing work are not even mentioned or alluded to. This then is evi dently not a critique but a new pamphlet on the fame (object, and requiring to be reviewed as much as that or thol'e which gave oecalion to it. But waving this, as bearing chiefly Upon the name of Review, we haf ten to conclude this introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.