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Monthly Archives: August 2009

An Explanation of the New Series.

Sunday, 9 August 2009

Anthony…though a delightful companion, and brimming over with active intelligence, was in no accurate sense of the word intellectual, and as unhelpful and impatient an arguer as I ever met… – Alfred Austin, 1864. THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, one of the most influential English-language periodicals of the 19th century, was the invention of Anthony Trollope, who, [...]

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The Editors and Contributors.

Sunday, 9 August 2009

Denis Boyles | Director,  The Brouzils Seminars, Les Brouzils, France. Anthony O’Hear | Professor of Philosophy, University of Buckingham, and Director, Royal Institute of Philosophy, London. ♦ Peter Riley | Poetry editor. Former co-editor of The English Intelligencer, former editor of Collection, and the author of fifteen books of poetry, and some of prose. His [...]

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The Production and Life of Books.

Tuesday, 4 August 2009

C. Kegan Paul: It may seem an obvious matter that no one has any business to write if he have not something definite to say, which is, or at least appears, worth saying. But this is not so. If a person have fallen into poverty, say a lady left by the death of father or husband with limited means, or a gentleman who has failed in business, the lady is recommended to keep a school, the gentleman to take pupils, and both to write a book.

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