[Samuel Johnson] engaged also to superintend and contribute largely to another monthly publication, entitled " THE LITERARY MAGAZINE, OR UNIVERSAL REVIEW," the first number of which came out in May this year. What were his emoluments from this undertaking, and what other writers were employed in it, I have not discovered. He continued to write in it, with intermissions, till the fifteenth number; and I think that he never gave better proofs of the force, acuteness, and vivacity of his mind, than in this miscellany, whether we consider his original essays, or his reviews of the works of others. The " Preliminary Address” to the public, is a proof how this great man could embellish with the graces of superior composition, even so trite a thing as the plan of a magazine. –James Boswell, Life of Johnson.