writers, the originators of those thoughts often remaining unknown.
Perhaps _One_, out of many thousand authors, survives into an immortality.
The manner and the taste change. The armor and falchion of old give place
to the new weapons of modern warfare--less weighty, but perhaps as
trenchant. We praise the old authors, but we do not read them. The Soul of
Antiquity seems to survive only in its proverbs, which contain the very
essence of wisdom.




CHAPTER VI.

_London Magazine.--Contributors.--Transfer of Magazine.--Monthly Dinners
and Visitors.--Colebrook Cottage.--Lamb's Walks.--Essays of Elia: Their
Excellence and Character.--Enlarged Acquaintance.--Visit to Paris.--Miss
Isola.--Quarrel with Southey.--Leaves India House.--Leisure.--Amicus
Rediviuus.--Edward Irving._



The "London Magazine" was established in January, 1820, the publishers
being Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and its editor being Mr. John
Scott, who had formerly edited "The Champion" newspaper, and whose
profession was exclusively that of a man of letters. At this distance of
time it is impossible to specify the authors of all the various papers
which gave a tone to the Magazine; but as this publication forms, in fact,
the great foundation of Lamb's fame, I think it well to enter somewhat
minutely into its constitution and character.