28 MEMOIR OF 



the ground of it being intended to include 

 biographical articles to the work, which Mr 

 Smellie considered inconsistent with its title as 

 a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. This plan 

 was, however, adopted, and the edition extended 

 to ten volumes. 



He then engaged, in 1773, in conjunction with 

 the celebrated Dr Gilbert Stuart, in a new 

 monthly periodical work, called the Edinburgh 

 Magazine and Review, which was commenced in 

 October that year. This work was conducted 

 with very considerable talent,, but with so much 

 irritability of temper and personal abuse, that it was 

 found necessary to give it up, after having reached 

 forty-seven numbers, in August, 1776. There is 

 no doubt that the principal blame of these defects 

 rested with Dr Stuart, but we fear Mr Smellie 

 cannot be entirely acquitted of some share in them* 

 The following reviews were written by Mr Smellie. 



1. Kames's Sketches of the History of Man, 

 Art. III. 



2. A small part of Lord Monboddo on the 

 Origin and Progress of Language. 



3. Revelation, the most effectual means of 

 civilizing and reforming mankind ; a sermon, by 

 Robert Henry, D. D. 1773. 



4. Worthington's Scripture Theory of the 

 Earth, 1774. 



5. The Druids' Monument, a tribute to the 

 memory of Dr Goldsmith, by the Author of the 

 Cave of Morar, 1774. 



