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- ↑ "Cover." The National Review 1, no. 1 (Mar, 1883). ProQuest.
- Hutcheson, John A. (1989). Leopold Maxse and the National Review, 1893–1914: right-wing politics and journalism in the Edwardian era. New York: Garland Publishing Inc. ISBN 0-8240-7818-7.
