ABSTRACT
The LITERARY REGISTER of the Fine Arts, Sciences, and Belles Lettres appeared weekly for fifty-six numbers, July 6, 1822 – July 26, 1823. Like other weeklies following in the wake of the Literary Gazette, this review was issued in both stamped and unstamped editions. (Periodicals printed on tax-stamped paper went through the mails free of charge.) With the issue numbered XLIV, May 3, 1823, the owners and editorial staff of the Literary Register changed, the new editor mildly criticizing his predecessors in a lead article for being so filled with “amiable suavity” and “a prevalent spirit of extreme satisfaction with things as they are” that the review made no enemies but attracted no “attention from those whose attention is worth having” (p. 273).
