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The Monthly Review - Softcover

Ralph Griffiths

 
9780371555569: The Monthly Review

Synopsis

The Monthly Review. This May 1804 issue is a wide-ranging literary and scholarly periodical opening with front matter, errata, and a long contents table, followed by reviews of recent books across history, poetry, travel, science, and biography. It surveys works such as Coates’s History of Reading; Cambridge, Cambridge’s Works; Pelew Islands supplement (Hockin); Mrs. Crespigny’s Letters to Her Son; Kenney’s Society and the Poems; Recreations in Mathematics; Broughton’s Picturesque Views in North Wales; The Forester and Tyter’s Voyage Home from the Cape; An English Harmony of the Four Evangelists; Memoirs and Opinions of Sir John Eardley Wilmot. The issue presents biographical sketches, critical exegesis, and moral and epistemic evaluations, with a tone that blends scholarship and virtue. It emphasizes antiquarian scholarship, biography, moral instruction, and popular science, and aims to inform educated readers about recent publications, assess merit, and situate works within broader cultural, historical, and moral contexts.

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