North American Review, The

North American Review, The (1815–1939, 1963–), Boston magazine, founded as an outgrowth of The Monthly Anthology, was edited by William Tudor, with the assistance of E.T. Channing, R.H. Dana, Sr., and others, as a quarterly literary, critical, and historical review on the order of its English contemporaries, with the purpose of achieving a greater national scope than any previous American magazine. It was nevertheless scholarly and was closely affiliated with Harvard and Boston Unitarianism. Among its early contributions were Bryant's Thanatopsis (1817) and To a Waterfowl (1818). Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, and J.G. Palfrey, as later editors, continued the magazine's high standards, but were more inclined toward history than belles lettres. The Review later became a monthly and included among its editors C.E. Norton, Lowell, Henry Adams, and H.C. Lodge. Among its contributors were Emerson, Irving, Longfellow, Parkman, E.P. Whipple, Motley, Holmes, Howells, Boyesen, Whitman, Clemens, and Henry James. It moved to New York City (1878), where, separated from the Brahmin atmosphere, it plunged into a maelstrom of contemporaneity, becoming concerned with the latest political and social movements. At the turn of the century, it had a diverse list of authors, including Tolstoy, D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck, H.G. Wells, Alan Seeger, Bryan, James Bryce, Clemens, Howells, and Henry James. After World War I, circulation diminished greatly and the magazine became again a quarterly. It was revived as a quarterly in 1963, published by Cornell College of Iowa, now named the University of Northern Iowa.