Old Time "reviewing."

The first age of the great modern reviews and magazines was an age of kicks and rough horseplay. Party spirit ran high under the regency, and literary criticism, so f ar from being the "disinterested" affair which Matthew Arnold demands, vras avowedly run upon political lincs. Libel suits and challenges rained upon magazine editors. Jeffrey and Moore went throngh the f orms of a duel. The Chaldee manuscript had to be suppressed in the second edition, and cost Mr. Blackwood a thousand pounds as it was. Agtriered persons lay in wait for editors in fhe street. Thus one Mr. Douglas, of Glasgow,who tiad been roughly handled in "Maga," carne to Edinburgh and horsewhipped Blackwood, and was in turn beaten by Blackwood, who had re-enf orced himself meanwhile with a cudgel and with the