ABSTRACT
Mr Gifford was originally bred to some handicraft: he afterwards contrived to learn Latin, and was for some time an usher in a school, till he became a tutor in a nobleman's family.1 The low-bred, self-taught man,2 the pedant, and the dependant on the great contribute to form the Editor of the Quarterly Review.3 He is admirably qualified for this situation, which he has held for some years, by a happy combination of defects, natural and acquired; and in the event of his death, it will be difficult to provide him a suitable successor.
