ABSTRACT
Godwin, Lives of .. . Philips (1815); review by James Mackintosh, Edinburgh Review, XXV (Oct. 1815), 485-501. Mackintosh’s praise of Godwin’s fiction encouraged the author to publish new editions of Caleb Williams and St. Leon in 1816. Note, on pages 488-489, Mackintosh’s virtual confession of his own mean motives in his earlier attack on Godwin’s ideas. The information on Milton’s grandson Caleb Clarke and his children, born in Madras, was garnered, no doubt, while Mackintosh served as a judge in India (1804-1811). Mackintosh’s remonstrance to Cambridge University (pp. 498-501) came out of his settled political philosophy, non-Jacobin and antirepublican, but strongly “constitutional” in the British meaning of the term.
