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MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
ing Counsel
for Prisoners in cases of Felony. Your review of the Bumpists destroys them,
but it is tremendously long for such a subject. I cannot tell what the Scotch
market may require, but Bumpology has always been treated with great contempt
among men of sense in England, and the machinery you have employed for its
destruction will excite surprise; though everybody must admit it is extremely
well done.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850)
Scottish barrister, Whig MP, and co-founder and editor of the Edinburgh
Review (1802-29). As a reviewer he was the implacable foe of the Lake School of
poetry.
Title:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855).
Electronic Edition:
Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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