ABSTRACT

XIX (April 1818), 204–08. The author was John Wilson Croker, First Secretary of the Admiralty, a scholar, a poet, and a mainstay of the Quarterly: see Hill Shine and Helen C. Shine, The Quarterly Review under Gifford (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1949), pp. 61–62. The issue in which the review appeared was published in Sept. 1818 (ibid., p. 60).