The number of the Review which contained the paper on Coleridge, was
the last which was published during my proprietorship. In the spring of
1840 I made over the Review to Mr. Hickson, who had been a frequent and
very useful unpaid contributor under my management: only stipulating
that the change should be marked by a resumption of the old name, that
of Westminster Review. Under that name Mr. Hickson conducted it for ten
years, on the plan of dividing among contributors only the net proceeds
of the Review, giving his own labour as writer and editor gratuitously.
Under the difficulty in obtaining writers, which arose from this low
scale of payment, it is highly creditable to him that he was able to
maintain, in some tolerable degree, the character of the Review as an
organ of radicalism and progress. I did not cease altogether to write
for the Review, but continued to send it occasional contributions, not,
however, exclusively; for the greater circulation of the Edinburgh
Review induced me from this time to offer articles to it also when I had
anything to say for which it appeared to be a suitable vehicle. And the
concluding volumes of “Democracy in America,” having just then come
out, I inaugurated myself as a contributor to the Edinburgh, by the
article on that work, which heads the second volume of the
“Dissertations.”
Note from KBJ: This concludes the penultimate chapter.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 