Mr.Murray, under whose auspices our _magnum opus_ issued for a few months from Albemarle Street, began to suspect that we might be eclipsing the _Quarterly Review_.

No such eclipse had been foretold; and Mr.Murray, being no great astronomer, was at a loss to know whether, in the darkness that was but too visible, we were eclipsing the _Quarterly_, or the _Quarterly_ eclipsing us.

We accordingly took our pen, and erased his name from our title-page, and he was once more happy.

Under our present publishers we carry everything before us in London." Mr.Murray took no notice of this statement, preferring, without any more words, to be quit of his bargain.
It need scarcely be added that when Mr.Blackwood had got his critics and contributors well in hand--when his journal had passed its frisky and juvenile life of fun and frolic--when the personalities had ceased to appear in its columns, and it had reached the years of judgment and discretion--and especially when its principal editor, Mr.John Wilson (Christopher North), had been appointed to the distinguished position of Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh--the journal took that high rank in periodical literature which it has ever since maintained..