He is editor of the _Quarterly Review_, and was not a little surprised and pleased to hear that it was reprinted with us, which I told him, with an indirect allusion to the review of 'Inchiquen's United States.'....

He carried me to a handsome room over Murray's book-store, which he has fitted up as a sort of literary lounge, where authors resort to read newspapers, and talk literary gossip.

I found there Elmsley, Hallam, Lord Byron's 'Classic Hallam, much renowned for Greek,' now as famous as being one of his lordship's friends, Boswell, a son of Johnson's biographer, etc., so that I finished a long forenoon very pleasantly." [Footnote: "Life, Letters, and Journal of George Ticknor," i.

48.] The following letter and Ticknor's reference to Gifford only confirm the testimony of all who knew him that in private life the redoubtable editor and severe critic was an amiable and affectionate man.
_Mr.Gifford to John Murray_, JAMES STREET, _October_ 20, 1814.
My DEAR SIR, What can I say in return for your interesting and amusing letter?
I live here quite alone, and see nobody, so that I have not a word of news for you.

I delight in your visit to Scotland, which I am sure would turn to good, and which I hope you will, as you say, periodically repeat.