Index to the London Magazine

Frank P. Riga, Claude A. Prance

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780429647628
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This book was originally published in 1978. The London Magazine is briefly told in the accomplisments and failures of its four editors, and during the fourteen months of his editorship, 1820-21, John Scott succeeded in establishing the London as one of the finest literary periodicals of the nineteenth century. John Taylor, the second editor, maintained the high quality of the magazine by securing many excellent writers. But by the end of 1825, the first year of Henry Southern's editorship, the magazine had lost most of its distinguished writers. When Charles night began editing the London in 1828, its great period was already a memory. This book presents a brief history of the magazine alongside the index.

PART ONE:
MONTHLY CONTENTS WITH IDENTIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTORS

VOLUME I. NUMBER I
JANUARY 1820

1	Preface and Prospectus of The London Magazine. iii-vii. JOHN SCOTT. Robert Baldwin, the publisher, made some alterations of Scott’s draft. Scott/Baldwin Letters.
2	Editorial Notes. 2. JOHN SCOTT. The context and other evidence make it clear that these notes are by the editor. Occasional contributions from others were printed here.
3	General Reflections suggested by Italy, seen in the Years 1818 and 1819. 3-7. JOHN SCOTT. Scott’s footnote on p. 3 of the second edition of volume I refers to his forthcoming Sketches of Manners.
4	Some Account of John Clare, an Agricultural Labourer and Poet. 7-11. OCTAVIUS GILCHRIST. Signed; B. M. Egerton MS 2245/19.
5	Living Authors (Being a Series of Critical Sketches) No. I. The Author of the Scotch Novels. 11-22.JOHN SCOTT. See No. 303.
6	Modest Offer of Service from Mr. Bonmot to the Editor and Ancestral Enormities (Taken, with liberties, from the French). 22-24. T. G. WAINE- WRIGHT. Repr. Essays and Criticisms.
7	The Memoirs of Mr. Hardy Vaux (A Family Man) now residing at New South Wales for the Public Good. 25-31. JOHN SCOTT, prob. Scott refers to this review of Barron Field’s book in No. 253, p. 511; style.
8	Tomb-Stone Warehouse; or magasin des Modes Monumentals, at Paris, 1819. Signed: W. 31-34. B. W. PROCTER. Signature used by Procter elsewhere in London as in No. 90; style.
9	The Influence of Religious and Patriotic Feeling on Literature. 34-41. JOHN SCOTT. Scott’s footnote on pp. 36-37 refers to his article in the British Review, X (Nov. 1817), 434-84.
10	The Traveller, No. I [verse]. 41. JOHN SCOTT.Attr. Brooks, Dissertation.
11	The Advantages and Disadvantages of Rome, as a School of Art; With Descriptive Criticism on the French, Italian, and German Artists in Rome, including particulars of the various Institutions established in that Capital for the Encouragement of Art. 42-48. CHARLES L. EASTLAKE. Eastlake, 95.
12	French Criticism on a Celebrated German Work. 49–52. JOHN SCOTT. See No. 34. Introduction is editorial, the rest a translation from a French periodical criticism of Werther. Scott believed the use of foreign periodicals necessary to the London; and in a letter to Baldwin of 18 Oct. 1819, he mentions that he intends to write an article on French criticism for the first number: Scott/Baldwin Letters.
13	The Searching of the River Tyber for Remains of Antiquity. 52-56. CHARLES L. EASTLAKE.Eastlake, 95.
14	Letters from Venice. By an Italian. Signed: C. 56-58.
15	Farewell in England, Written off the Land’s End, December 1819 [verse]. Signed: H. 58-60. HORACE SMITH. N.L. of S. MS 1706/178.
16	Midnight Hours, No. I. 60-61. Untraced, perhaps J...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• THE LONDON MAGAZINE, 1820–29: A BRIEF HISTORY
• PLAN AND USE OF THE INDEX
• PART ONE: MONTHLY CONTENTS WITH IDENTIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTORS
• PART TWO: INDEX OF AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
• PART THREE: INDEX OF SIGNATURES
• PART FOUR: BOOK REVIEW INDEX
• Author List
• Title List
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• APPENDIX: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE LONDON