“As my partners in the ‘Literary Gazette,’ I think it right to apprise you that I have joined Mr. Buckingham in the new literary journal, the ‘Athenæum.’
“I have determined on adopting this step in consequence of the injustice done to my authors generally (who are on the liberal side), by the ‘Literary Gazette.’ I cannot any longer consent to see my best authors unfairly reviewed, and my own property injured, and often sacrificed to the politics of that paper.
“At the same [time] I may state, that the step I am now taking does not seem to be likely to injure the sale of the ‘L. G.’ The ‘Athenæum’ will be published on another day in the week; it will address persons of other politics, and, when likely to he treated with impartiality in the ‘L. G.,’ early copies shall be supplied to both publications on the same day, leaving it to chance which shall anticipate the other in its notices of them.
