Alexander Macmillan's monthly examined journalism frequently. Anonymity and technology, the London correspondent and the war correspondent, the penny press and its elite siblings all cropped up in Macmillan's.

1. Y., A. [Alexander Macmillan]. “The Quarterly Review on Mr. Tennyson's Maud.” 1 (1859–60): 114–15.

Reacted to a Quarterly review (10/59) by saying that it was not in “the smart and slashing style” that critics often employed to display their own cleverness and hide their lack of insight.

2. Cairns, Rev. John, D.D. “The Late Dr. George Wilson, of Edinburgh.” 1 (1859–60): 199–203.

Obituary of Wilson resurrected his work in a “manuscript weekly newspaper” while at the High School of Edinburgh and his later essays in the British Quarterly Review.

3. Maurice, Rev. F[rederick] D[ension]. “Lord Macaulay.” 1 (1859–60): 241–47.

Rumored that T. B. Macaulay expected anonymity to die in magazines but not newspapers. The Edinburgh Review had “established the <I>WE ascendancy,” but its talented writers, with a new and dashing style of writing, still won renown.

4. Hughes, Thomas. “Italy Resurgent and Britain Looking On.” 1 (1859–60): 494–95.

Envisioned The Times as “a mirror – and a wonderfully sensitive and accurate mirror – of the England of to-day.”

5. Masson, David. “Thomas Hood.” 2 (1860): 315–24.

Recapitulated Hood's journalistic career from the Comic Annual in 1829. After “casual contributions to other periodicals” he scribbled for, then edited the New Monthly Magazine (1841) before launching Hood's Magazine in 1844.