The "Analytical Review" offered its readers access to a wide variety of works. In July 1789, when the Bastille fell, the "Analytical" reviewed "The Rural Economy of Gloucestershire", "Life of Thomas Chatterton", "Transactions in Bengal", "Military Operations on the Coromandel Coast", "Poetry and Music of the Italian Opera", and "Histoire Politique de la Revolution en France". The journal also laid provocative facts before the public to prompt them to think and, if necessary, to take action, although it claimed not to advocate one viewpoint over another. For example, when philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke issued his politically controversial "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790), the "Analytical Review" reviewed it extensively, as well as the many responses to it, such as Wollstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790), "Vindiciae Gallicae" (1791) by James Mackintosh, and "Rights of Man" (1791) by Thomas Paine. However, the majority of the excerpts that the reviewers chose to publish came from the rebuttals to Burke's work.