ABSTRACT
The MONTHLY REVIEW (1749–1845) was the most stable and most respectable of the reviews that had grown up in the eighteenth century. Ralph Griffiths, who had founded the Monthly in 1749, remained its editor until his death in 1803, when the editorship passed to his son George Edward Griffiths. The younger Griffiths, until he sold the journal in 1825, continued the same policies of integrity and even-handedness for which the Monthly had always been noted, but he failed to change with the times. By 1815 the Monthly Review seemed old-fashioned and stodgy beside the newer quarterly reviews like the
