All the poetry which I reviewed appeared to be published at the expense of the authors.

If I am asked how I comported myself, under all circumstances, as a reviewer--I answer,--I did not forget that I was connected with a Review established on Oxford principles, the editor of which had translated Quintilian.

All the publications which fell under my notice I treated in a gentlemanly and Oxford-like manner, no personalities--no vituperation--no shabby insinuations; decorum, decorum was the order of the day.

Occasionally a word of admonition, but gently expressed, as an Oxford undergraduate might have expressed it, or master of arts.

How the authors whose publications were consigned to my colleagues were treated by them I know not; I suppose they were treated in an urbane and Oxford-like manner, but I cannot say; I did not read the reviewals of my colleagues, I did not read my own after they were printed.