It is ironic that The Cambridge Review, A Journal of
University Life and Thought (hereafter CR)
is rarely, if at all, cited in the New Cambridge
Bibliography of English Literature. The tentativeness of my
statement is a matter of scholarly caution, but the NCBEL's list of periodical abbreviations does not include the CR, and in every instance where I have sought in it a
reference to an article from the CR I have come away
empty-handed. It is not only the compilers of the NCBEL (myself included) who have neglected the journal, for most
other bibliographers, biographers, and editors of the works of this essayist
or that poet have been equally remiss in ignoring essays, poems, reviews,
obituary notices, and miscellaneous information of all kinds to be found
there. The neglect may result from the apparent scarcity of full sets: the
British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals lists
complete runs only in three Cambridge libraries and the British Library, and
the nineteen American holdings recorded by the Union List
of Serials include only one set of all the numbers. By calling
attention to representative pieces from the periodical, I hope to resurrect
interest in the CR—even as it now seems to
have met its final demise.[1]
