The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 36Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths R. Griffiths, 1767 - Books A 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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... History of the World , from the Creation to the prefent Time . By William Guthrie and John Gray , Efquires ; and others eminent in this Branch of Literature . Vol . XII . 8vo . 6s . Newbery , & c . We have already mentioned , in a ...
... History of the World , from the Creation to the prefent Time . By William Guthrie and John Gray , Efquires ; and others eminent in this Branch of Literature . Vol . XII . 8vo . 6s . Newbery , & c . We have already mentioned , in a ...
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... History of Greenland . Containing a Defcription of the Country and its Inhabitants ; and particularly a Relation of the Miffion carried on for above these thirty Years , by the Unitas Fratrum , at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels , in that ...
... History of Greenland . Containing a Defcription of the Country and its Inhabitants ; and particularly a Relation of the Miffion carried on for above these thirty Years , by the Unitas Fratrum , at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels , in that ...
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... history ought to be less oratorical and more fimple . But by delivering us from one evil , it has , though undefigned- ly , brought another upon us , namely that of putting pens into the hands of a multitude of middling authors , who ...
... history ought to be less oratorical and more fimple . But by delivering us from one evil , it has , though undefigned- ly , brought another upon us , namely that of putting pens into the hands of a multitude of middling authors , who ...
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