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About the period of my writing the above essays, he says, in his easy manner,
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Elia, a collection of essays immortal as the language, full of quaint and tender thoughts and gleaming with cross-lights of humour as shot silk does with interchanging colours. In 1821, when the first editor was shot in a duel, the _London Magazine_ fell into the hands of Messrs. Taylor & Hessey, of No. 93; but they published the excellent periodical and gave their
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Cockney School, as the Scotch Tories chose to call them), was sharply attacked in the _London_. Fiery and vindictive Lockhart flew at once up to town, and angrily demanded from Mr. Scott, the editor, an explanation, an apology, or a meeting. Mr. Scott declined giving an apology unless Mr. Lockhart would first deny that he was editor of _Blackwood_. Lockhart refused to give this denial, and retorted by expressing a mean opinion of Mr. Scott's courage. Lockhart and Scott both printed contradictory versions of the quarrel, which worked up till at last Mr. Christie, a friend of Lockhart's, challenged Scott; and they met at Chalk Farm by moonlight on February 16th, at nine o'clock at night, attended by their seconds and surgeons, in the old business-like, bloodthirsty way. The first time Mr. Christie did not fire at Mr. Scott, a fact of which Mr. Patmore, the author, Scott's second, with most blamable indiscretion, did not inform his principal. At the second fire Christie's ball struck Scott just above the right hip, and he fell. He lingered till the 27th. It was said at the time that Hazlitt, perhaps unintentionally, had driven Scott to fight by indirect taunts.
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I don't pretend, Hazlitt is reported to have said,
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Table Talk, many dramatic articles, and papers on Beckford's Fonthill, the Angerstein pictures, and the Elgin marbles--pages wealthy with thought. Lamb contributed in three years all the matchless essays of
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Elia. Mr. Thomas Carlyle, then only a promising young Scotch philosopher, wrote several articles on the
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Life and Writings of Schiller. Mr. de Quincey, that subtle thinker and bitter Tory, contributed his wonderful
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Confessions of an Opium-Eater. That learned and amiable man, the Rev. H.F. Cary, the translator of Dante, wrote several interesting notices of early French poets. Allan Cunningham, the vigorous Scottish bard, sent the romantic
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Tales of Lyddal Cross and a series of papers styled
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Traditional Literature. Mr. John Poole--recently deceased, 1872--(the author of _Paul Pry_ and that humorous novel,
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Little Pedlington, which is supposed to have furnished Mr. Charles Dickens with some suggestions for
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Pickwick ) wrote burlesque imitations of contemporaneous dramatic writers--Morton, Dibdin, Reynolds, Moncrieff, &c. Mr. J.H. Reynolds wrote, under the name of Henry Herbert, notices of contemporaneous events, such as a scene at the Cockpit, the trial of Thurtell (a very powerful article), &c. That delightful punster and humorist, with pen or pencil, Tom Hood, sent to the _London_ his first poems of any ambition or length--
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Lycus the Centaur, and
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The Two Peacocks of Bedfont. Keats,
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and Montgomery, both contributed poems. Sir John Bowring, the accomplished linguist, wrote on Spanish poetry. Mr. Henry Southern, the editor of that excellent work the _Retrospective Review_, contributed
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The Conversations of Lord Byron. Mr. Walter Savage Landor, that very original and eccentric thinker, published in the extraordinary magazine one of his admirable
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Imaginary Conversations. Mr. Julius (afterwards Archdeacon) Hare reviewed the robust works of Landor. Mr. Elton contributed graceful translations from Catullus, Propertius, &c. Even among the lesser contributors there were very eminent writers, not forgetting Barry Cornwall, Hartley Coleridge, John Clare, the Northamptonshire peasant poet; and Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet. Nor must we omit that strange contrast to these pure-hearted and wise men,
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Janus Weathercock