If you read anything much at all about the Victorian era, you've undoubtedly come across references to The Edinburgh Review , a quarterly published between 1802 and 1929. The Wikipedia entry on The Edinburgh Review calls it "one of the most influential British magazines of the 19th century." Having easy access to the issues of this periodical is one of the many benefits of an online service such as Google Books . And if we're only interested in the issues published in the 19th century, there should be no copyright issues. So let's type "Edinburgh Review" into Google Books and see what we get. Google Books indicates 22,136 hits, but here's the top of the first page: Many of these hits are apparently books and reprints with the words "Edinburgh Review" in their titles. But to get to the actual issues of the magazine requires a trick: You need to click "More editions" in the first hit. Here's what you get: This actually looks encouraging: Despite the uniform date of 1929 — curiously Read More...