“Perhaps the chief innovation [of the paper] was the independence of the contributors. [The writers] were free to speak their minds... [Another] striking feature of the new journal was the introduction of political economy” (Faustus, A Detailed Catalogue of Recently Acquired Literary Journals).

“Chalmers' writings in the Edinburgh Review and elsewhere were probably the most important single channel whereby the tenets of utilitarianism and political economy were mediated to the evangelical world."

“Occasional contributors [included] Walter Scott, William Wilberforce, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Carlyle,...William Hazlitt...and Macaulay" (The Wellesley Index).