Gifford continued to edit the _Review_ for many years, until and long after its complete success had become assured.
The following extract, from a letter of Southey's to his friend Bedford, describes very happily the position which Mr.Murray had now attained.
"Murray offers me a thousand guineas for my intended poem in blank verse, and begs it may not be a line longer than "Thomson's Seasons"! I rather think the poem will be a post obit, and in that case, twice that sum, at least, may be demanded for it.

What his real feelings may be towards me, I cannot tell; but he is a happy fellow, living in the light of his own glory.

The _Review_ is the greatest of all works, and it is all his own creation; he prints 10,000, and fifty times ten thousand read its contents, in the East and in the West.

Joy be with him and his journal!".