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MEMOIR OF 
the ground of it being intended to include 
biographical articles to the work, which Mr 
Sraellie 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. Karnes'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 Moral-, 1774. 
