Edinburgh 13 Gt Stuart St
Feb 14. 1871
My Dear Sir
Do you mean that the N. British Review is going to cease publication? If so I am very sorry to hear it for it is a very good review.
I think Mr Smiths article in No 104 of the Review, on “Assyrian Annals” is an excellent one, and full of new information.
The great expense of printing is a very unfortunate circumstance for literature
Since you think the funds of the Society would not support a Journal at first, would it not be a good plan to publish Proceedings? These could appear at irregular intervals – Many societies publish them, often very few pages at a time, and many times a year, reserving their bulkier papers for their transactions, only published once or twice a year. 09758
If the Society published Proceedings some of these might be lithographd <sic> at little expence compar’d with printing. Hieroglyphical papers are best lithographed, as Chabas has done. It avoids all the expense of woodcuts, and the great trouble of correcting the press when the hieroglyphics are complicated and the Printer is not intelligent I have received from Mr Smith the continuation of his work – 32 pages. It is a very excellent work and a great credit to the Museum and to English scholarship.
Believe me Dear Sir Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot