What will become of the _Quarterly ?_ ...

Poor Gifford told me yesterday that he felt he _must_ give up the Editorship, and that the doctors had _ordered_ him to do so." Some months later, Barrow wrote to Murray saying that he had seen Gifford that morning: _Mr.Barrow to John Murray_.
_August_ 18, 1823.
"I told him to look out for some one to conduct the _Review_, but he comes to no decision.

I told him that you very naturally looked to him for naming a proper person.

He replied he had--Nassau Senior--but that you had taken some dislike to him.

[Footnote: This, so far as can be ascertained, was a groundless assumption on Mr.Gifford's part.] I then said, 'You are now well; go on, and let neither Murray nor you trouble yourselves about a future editor yet; for should you even break down in the midst of a number, I can only repeat that Croker and myself will bring it round, and a second number if necessary, to give him time to look out for and fix upon a proper person, but that the work should not stop.' I saw he did not like to continue the subject, and we talked of something else." Croker also was quite willing to enter into this scheme, and jointly with Barrow to undertake the temporary conduct of the _Review_.