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214.: THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY FOR SEPTEMBER 1833 EXAMINER, 8 SEPT., 1833, P. 567 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXIII - Newspaper Writings August 1831 - October 1834 Part II [1831]

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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY FOR SEPTEMBER 1833

EXAMINER, 8 SEPT., 1833, P. 567

The fourth of Mill’s favourable notices of Fox’s periodical (see Nos. 198, 200, and 207) is headed “The Monthly Repository for September [n.s. VII]. Edited by W.J. Fox”; references are to this volume. The review, in the “Literary Examiner,” is described in Mill’s bibliography as “A notice of the Monthly Repository for Septbr. 1833, in the Examiner of 18th [sic] Sept. 1833” (MacMinn, p. 34). In the Somerville College set of the Examiner, it is listed as “Notice of the Monthly Repository for September” and enclosed in square brackets.

this excellent periodical maintains its reputation. It continues to pursue unflinchingly the same lofty purposes, and with the same high range of merit in the execution. The best articles in the present number are those entitled “Characteristics of English Aristocracy,” [pp. 585-601,] and “A stray chapter of the Autobiography of Pel. Verjuice, with the Episode of the Dried Font.” [Pp. 623-44.] From the former we have marked several passages to be extracted in another department of our paper.¹ Pel. Verjuice is full of the poetry of narrative and description, with occasional touches of profound observation and reflection. We rejoice to meet for the first time in the pages of this work, the author of “Corn Law Rhymes,” and of other poems of still greater merit.² We regard this as an indication that the character and merits of the Repository are becoming more generally known among those for whom, above all others, it is designed, the single-hearted and ardent reformers. The many have so few periodical writers on their side, that they cannot too highly value one who, like the editor of this work, stands almost unrivalled among those few.

[1 ]In “Notabilia,” with a comment by Mill, given below as No. 215. For the other instalments of “Pel. Verjuice,” see No. 207, n5.

[2 ]“Famine in a Slave Ship,” p. 602. The author was Ebenezer Elliot (1781-1849), self-educated poet and tradesman, known as the “Corn Law Rhymer” because of his Corn Law Rhymes (London: Steill, 1828).