CHAPTER XLI.
Decease of the Review--Homer Himself--Bread and Cheese--Finger and Thumb--Impossible to Find--Something Grand--Universal Mixture--Some Other Publisher.
Time passed away, and with it the review, which, contrary to the publisher's expectation, did not prove a successful speculation.

About four months after the period of its birth it expired, as all reviews must for which there is no demand.

Authors had ceased to send their publications to it, and, consequently, to purchase it; for I have already hinted that it was almost entirely supported by authors of a particular class, who expected to see their publications foredoomed to immortality in its pages.

The behaviour of these authors towards this unfortunate publication I can attribute to no other cause than to a report which was industriously circulated, namely, that the review was low, and that to be reviewed in it was an infallible sign that one was a low person, who could be reviewed nowhere else.

So authors took fright; and no wonder, for it will never do for an author to be considered low.