Record Number: 27321
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare say, sell 12,000, it only shows that you have an estate which produces wholly independent of its culture. All that ridiculous importance given to Dupin, a wretched ecrivasseur, and that affectation of naval statistics, I think very unsuitable. Your "Alchemy" is appropriate enough, great elaboration and pomp of work ending in smoke and dross. If Dalzell's "Lectures" are as obscure and dull as your commentary, they were not worth reviewing, no more than the commentary is worth reading [...] The article on Hazlitt is good, and that on the Scotch novels [italics]excellent[end italics].'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Nov 1821 and 22 Dec 1821
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
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Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Review of Dupin, On the Navy of England and France
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Social Science
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsIn the Quarterly Review No. 46 (1821), published by John Murray
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:27321
Source:Samuel Smiles
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Title:A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1891
Vol:2
Page:54
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Citation:
Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, (London, 1891), 2, p. 54, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27321, accessed: 12 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Croker also had an article (on the French Revolution) included in the same number of the Quarterly. Author of text, and title of work reviewed in it, identified by source author.