 The subject thus discussed in the great northern journal for July 1812, was taken up by its powerful southern rival, and in the "Quarterly Review" of July 1813, appeared a critique, in which the reviewers, in their admiration of John Knox, seem to have allowed their well-known devotedness to Episcopacy and Toryism for the time to go to sleep.After expressing their admiration that the Scottish reformer should have found a better biographer than had yet fallen to the lot of even John Calvin and Martin Luther, they thus characterise the literary merits of the work