Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

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CHAPTEE VIII.
WILLIAM MAGINN.
A BRILLIANT YOUTH—THE TYPICAL IRISHMAN—RALPH TUCKETT SCOTT
A FACILE CONTRIBUTOR—AN ANONYMOUS LIBELLER—THE LESLIE TRIAL
—A REPENTANT SATIRIST OP KEATS—COMPLIMENTED BY CHRISTOPHER
—THE PUBLISHER DECLINES TO "SWALLOW BLARNEY"—A CRITICISM
OP 'don JUAN'—O'DOHERTY'S first APPEARANCE IN THE SALOON
A JOYOUS RECEPTION—DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND— "LITTLE CROPTY "
— IRISH DIPLOMACY — HOW THE MARTIN LIBEL WAS DROWNED IN
CHAMPAGNE—COLBURN AND HIS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE—CRITICISM
OP 'MAGA' by A CANDID FRIEND— THEODORE HOOK— AN EXPERT'S
VIEWS ON PUPPING THE PUBLISHER'S EULOGY OF MAGINN'S STYLE
CAPTAIN SHANDON LOCKHART'S EPITAPH,
Mr Blackwood, however, was too wise a man to
build his faith solely upon two supporters, even so
loyal and with such almost incredible power of production
as that possessed by Lockhart and Wilson
indeed the record of these early years of the Magazine
is one continued strain of effort on his part to collect
around him, and to secure for his undertaking, the
assistance of every man of note whom he happened
to come across. It is a fact which a young writer
finds it very difficult to understand, that publishers
and editors, those dreaded dispensers of literary
patronage, door-keepers of the temple of fame, are
often just as anxiously on the outlook for new work-
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