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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20020926
Author:MARK SMITH

IT was the most famous journal of the 19th century and helped secure Edinburgh's reputation as one of the world's leading centres of learning and the arts.

The Edinburgh Review featured essays from some of the greatest figures of the age such as Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Carlyle.

But there was outrage from historians today after it emerged that the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Review is to pass unmarked in the Capital.

Instead it has been left to Glasgow to commemorate the date with an international event held earlier in the summer.

Historian Geoffrey Carnall, who has written ...

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