ABSTRACT
NEW REVIEW; or Monthly Analysis of General Literature, a London review cut to the pattern of the Monthly Review in scope (but with the two-column format that became popular with magazines like Blackwood’s and the New Monthly), lasted for just three volumes during 1813-1814. This early demise has little relation to its value to the modem scholar, for as John O. Hayden notes, it contained an “Index of all the books reviewed, in the numbers of the Reviews and Magazines, published,” and (as the reader can see for himself) the journal provides full bibliographical information on the books it reviews, including mottos, subtitles, format, price and printer. The editor must have been a man with deep bibliographical interests, but he has not yet been identified. Thomas Noon Talfourd contributed one of his early essays to the New Review; otherwise, little seems to be known about the journal, from which we include five reviews of Byron’s works.
