The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 36A monthly book announcement and review journal. Considered to be the first periodical in England to offer reviews. In each issue the longer reviews are in the front section followed by short reviews of lesser works. It featured the novelist and poet Oliver Goldsmith as an early contributor. Griffiths himself, and likely his wife Isabella Griffiths, contributed review articles to the periodical. Later contributors included Dr. Charles Burney, John Cleland, Theophilus Cibber, James Grainger, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Elizabeth Moody, and Tobias Smollet. |
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Contents
GUIDE to the Liturgy | 1 |
ADAMS on the Globes | 8 |
RORINSONS Poets Manual | 10 |
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| Title | The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 36 |
| Editors | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths |
| Publisher | R. Griffiths, 1767 |
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