Perhaps the book would make a good article in the _Review_.

Can you get me "Gaytoun's Festivous Notes on Don Quixote"?
I think our friend Ballantyne is grown an inch taller on the subjects of the "Romances." Believe me, dear Sir, Yours very truly, Walter Scott.
Gifford is much pleased with you personally.
_John Murray to Mr.Scott_.
_November_ 19, 1808.
"Mr.Gifford has communicated to me an important piece of news.

He met his friend, Lord Teignmouth, and learned from him that he and the Wilberforce party had some idea of starting a journal to oppose the _Edinburgh Review_, that Henry Thornton and Mr.[Zachary] Macaulay were to be the conductors, that they had met, and that some able men were mentioned.

Upon sounding Lord T.as to their giving us their assistance, he thought this might be adopted in preference to their own plans....

It will happen fortunately that we intend opening with an article on the missionaries, which, as it will be written in opposition to the sentiments in the _Edinburgh Review_, is very likely to gain that large body of which Wilberforce is the head.