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Sartain’s Union Magazine’s Review of the 1849 Boston Edition of Hume’s History

“BOOK NOTICES. HUME’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND,” Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art, vol. 6, no. 4 (April 1850), p. 308.

Anonymous

Published in Philadelphia for its first numbers, in 1850 Sartain’s Union Magazine was edited in New York by Mrs. Caroline M. Kirland (1801–64), who, the daughter of bookseller and publisher Samuel Stansbury, was also an author of a range of material. On her, see Dorthy Anne Dondore’s entry in DAB, vol. 5, pp. 430–1. On Sartain’s, see API, p. 198. This short piece was the lead notice.

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BOOK NOTICES.

HUME’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Messrs. Phillips & Sampson, of Boston, in issuing the sixth and last volume of their excellent edition of Hume, announce that it will be followed by an edition of Gibbon, in the same popular and commendable style. For sale by J. W. Moore, Philadelphia.