Index to the London Magazine

<p>This book was originally published in 1978. <em>The London Magazine</em> is briefly told in the accomplisments and failures of its four editors and during the fourteen months of his editorship 1820-21 John Scott succeeded in establishing the <em>London</em> as one of the finest literary periodicals of the nineteenth century. John Taylor the second editor maintained the high quality of the magazine by securing many excellent writers. But by the end of 1825 the first year of Henry Southern's editorship the magazine had lost most of its distinguished writers. When Charles night began editing the <em>London</em> in 1828 its great period was already a memory. This book presents a brief history of the magazine alongside the index.</p>