ABSTRACT
The LONDON REVIEW (1808–1809), a quarterly imitator and would-be challenger of the Edinburgh Review, was edited by the aging dramatist Richard Cumberland (1732–1811) and had as contributors London professional men like James and Horace Smith, Henry Crabb Robinson, and Horace Twiss. The bankruptcy of Samuel Tipper, publisher of the London Review, hastened the demise of the journal after four numbers (two volumes). Cumberland attempted to set a new trend by identifying the author of each review, and the failure of his experiment may have helped fix the tradition of anonymity in reviewing.
