I know well that you may say that unless good men will review there will be no good reviews.

And this is true.

Would you not do more good by an occasional review in some well-established review, than by giving up much time to the editing, or largely aiding, if not editing, a review which from being confined to one subject would not have a very large circulation?
But I must return to the chief idea which strikes me--viz., that it would lessen the amount of original and perennial work which you could do.

Reflect how few men there are in England who can do original work in the several lines in which you are excellently fitted.

Lyell, I remember, on analogous grounds many years ago resolved he would write no more reviews.