Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

CHAPTER VI.
CHRISTOPHER NORTH.
DESCENDANT OF MONTROSE — ELECTION TO THE MORAL PHILOSOPHY
CHAIR— FIRST CONNECTION WITH 'MAGA'—AN ATTACK ON COLERIDGE
— CHARLES Lloyd's unfortunate poem — a publisher's injured
AFFECTIONS — A SENSITIVE CRITIC — ONSLAUGHT ON THE "MAN OP
feeling"— THE ETHICS OF REVIEWING — LEIGH HUNT'S THREATENED
LIBEL—THE PUBLISHER VISITS ELLERAY—WORDSWORTH ASSAULTED IN
THE 'NOCTES'—AN INDIGNANT " JACKASS "—THE GIANT UNNERVED
AN AMPLE APOLOGY FOR A BAD JOKE — AN AUTHOR'S GOOD RESOLU-
TIONS — SENTIMENTAL PASSAGES BETWEEN THE PROFESSOR AND THE
PUBLISHER — "not EDITOR BUT FRIEND" — MORE SENTIMENT — MRS
HEMANS—THOMAS AIRD—RECOLLECTIONS OP A VISIT TO THE PROFESSOR.
It is doubtful which of the two young men, whose
eager co-operation and delighted seizure upon an in-
strument as new as it was effective with which to
move the world gave Blackwood's project immediate
force and energy, was the more important to that
great undertaking and to himself. It is evident,
however, that at the first start it was Lockhart who
was more immediately prominent, though Wilson soon
became the chief influence and more constant worker,
—at once the prop and the plague, as will be seen, of
Magazine and publisher. Though he was the very
impersonation of irregularity, careless prodigality of
strength, and want of system, he had the great
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