[Review of the Edinburgh Review for June 1827; Part Two of Two]

First published Edinburgh Saturday Post, 4 August 1827, p. 103. Reprinted Tave, pp. 41–54 (with attribution, pp. 54–9). This second half of De Quincey’s critique of the latest Edinburgh Review has many signs of authorship, including allusions to Falstaff, Hamlet, and Othello, and quotations from Cowper and Wordsworth, all of which would be typical of De Quincey, but untypical of the Scottish journalists who were his colleagues at the Post. Although the subject-matter is political, De Quincey writes with customary wit and verve, and with a perspective that seems more literary than political.