ABSTRACT
Godwin, St. Leon (1799); Antijacobin Review, V (Jan. 1800), 23–28; (Feb. 1800), 145–153. The extent to which the reviewer is dependent on the text before him is evident from his having adopted Godwin’s own idiosyncratic spelling system of dropping the second consonant from the end of a name like “Dr. Campbel” (p. 23). In the concluding part of the review, there are sneers not only at “philosopher” Godwin, but also at the “Monthly Reviewers” (p. 151) – a sure sign that at this date the Monthly Review still held its preeminence in the trade. Later attacks by lesser journals are likely to be directed at the Edinburgh or Quarterly Review or, still later, at Blackwood’s Magazine.
