Grant, James [1822 - 1887] - The SATURDAY REVIEW: Its Origin and Progress: Its Contributors and Character With Illustrations of the Mode in Which It is Conducted. Being a Supplement to His "History of the News-paper Press" in Three Volumes.

London: Darton and Co. 42, Paternoster Row, 1873. 1st Edition. Disbound, lacking covers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. iv, [5] - 84 pp. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4" Herein Grant launches a vigorous exposure of the Saturday Review for its 'heartless' and 'savage' attacks on the many authors who have been or might be 'crushed and discouraged' by them. Pp 21-30 address their assault on Dickens - 'the most strenuous and persevering attempt which the Saturday Review ever made to run down and destroy a rising author. The Saturday Review accused Dickens of ignorance, sentimentality, bad plots, unmitigated dullness and even labeled him a liar. And the effect of Dickens..? "His reputation rose to a height .. far surpassing that which any author of the second half of the present century has attained, while his works have met with a circulation greatly exceeding, perhaps, the sale of any other author that ever lived." [p. 26]. Age-toning. Slight roll to spine. P. 28 with po pencil marginalia. A VG copy.

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