The Dublin Review, Vol. VIII: February & May, 1840
London and Dublin: C. Dolman & J. Cumming, 1840. Hardcover. 8v, half green leather and patterned boards, very good, light ex-library marks, light wear and rubbing, spine mellowed to a brown color. 572 pp, index. Ostensibly a Catholic periodical founded in 1836 by Daniel O'Connell and colleagues, it lasted until 1969, but filled with reviews and articles not necessarily Catholic in content. Early issues had a succession of editors, irregular publication dates, and a lack of subscribers -which caused financial difficulties. With Henry Bagshawe taking over as editor from October 1837 to the end of 1863, things stabilized. The journal stayed away from extreme political views. Charles William Russell was an early and frequent contributor and drafted a number of his colleagues at Maynooth to contribute articles as well. John Cardinal Newman was an early supporter and encouraged Tractarian converts to publish in the journal. These two issues, bound together (nos. 15 & 16 overall), includes reviews of The Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches (1833), Napier's 7th ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, plus reviews of the Edinburgh, London and Cabinet Encyclopaedias, the Family Library, the Library of Useful Knowledge, d'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, Scott's Arabian Nights and other editions of the tales including Lane, Halsted's Life of Margaret Beaufort, German editions of Dickens, Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Nicholas Wiseman's Sermon preached at the Opening of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Derbry (1839), Mores Catholici (1831-39), Charles Waterton's Autobiography, William Palmer on liturgy etc., Decpetiaux's De l'etat de l'instuction populaire et primaire en Belgique, James Fraser's Travels in Koordistan and Mesopotamia, First Annual Report of the Irish Temperance Union (1840) and other works and speeches on temperance, and more. Very good. Item #H29394
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