, etc.
('ibid.', p. 249).]
[Footnote 2: George Edward Griffiths (circ. 1769-1829), son of Ralph
Griffiths, who founded, owned, and published the 'Monthly Review', and
boarded and lodged Oliver Goldsmith as a contributor, succeeded to the
management of the 'Review' on the death of his father in 1803. He edited
it till 1825, when he sold the property. He lived at Linden House,
Turnham Green. Francis Hodgson wrote for the 'Monthly Review', and,
March 2, 1814, he writes to Byron,
"I have already read a review of Safie in the 'British Critic', and
will undertake it in the 'Monthly' if Griffiths, with whom I am in
very bad odour from my late shameful idleness, will allow me. Oh that
you would write a good smart critique of something to get both
'yourself and me' in high repute at Turnham Green!!!!"
In Byron's 'Detached Thoughts' occurs the following passage:
"I have been a reviewer. In the 'Monthly Review' I wrote some articles
which were inserted. This was in the latter part of 1811. In 1807, in
a Magazine called 'Monthly Literary Recreations', I reviewed
Wordsworth's trash of that time.
"Excepting these, I cannot accuse myself of anonymous Criticism (that
I recollect), though I have been 'offered' more than one review in our
principal Journals."
In the Bodleian Library is a copy of the 'Monthly Review', in which
Griffiths has entered the initials of the authors of each article. Two
articles from the 'Review', attributed to Byron on this authority, are
given in Appendix I.
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