The Dublin Review, Vol. IX: August & November, 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. 536, xxxv 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. 17 & 18 overall), includes reviews of Staudenmaier's Der Geist des Christenthums dargestellt in den heiligen Zeiten, Julia Rattray Waddington's The Monk and the Married Man, prospectuses of life insurance companies, John Paget on Hungary and Transylvania, Gorres on Athanasius, Spazier's 5 vol. work on Jean Paul Friederich Richter, books on colonization in New Zealand, Alfred Bunn's The Stage, Transactions of the Meteorological Society, the Literary Class Book (Dublin 1840), novels by Georges Sand, Hugo (Notre Dame), Balzac and others, Protestant tracts, Longworth's A Year among the Circassians and other books on the region, review of Birch's translation of Goethe's Faust and several other editions and translations of Faust, accord reached in 1840 between Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia and the Ottoman Empire, Secci's edition of Greek Christian epigrams, etc. Very good. Item #H29395
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