Robert Stephen Rintoul bill". After publishing and managing the affairs of "The Spectator" for more than thirty years, he sold it shortly before his death. Robert Stephen Rintoul Robert Stephen Rintoul (1787 – 22 April 1858) was a British journalist. He was born at Tibbermore, Perthshire, in 1787, and educated at the Aberdalgie parish school. After serving his apprenticeship to the printing trade he became the printer and subsequently the editor of the "Dundee Advertiser". In 1826 he went to London where he was editor of "The Atlas" before, in July 1828 with the assistance of friends, founding "The Spectator". In this publication
The Outlook (British magazine) The Outlook (British magazine) The Outlook (sometimes just Outlook) was a British weekly periodical, sometimes described as a "review" and sometimes as a "political magazine". The strapline ran on from the title, thus "The Outlook: In Politics, Life, Letters, and the Arts". It has been described as the successor to the avant-garde "New Review", which had been established in 1889 by W. E. Henley and published works by writers such as Joseph Conrad, Henry James and H. G. Wells before closing in December 1897 due to low circulation figures. Following the resignation of Henley as editor of the "New Review"