Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature eBook

Margaret Ball
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 264 pages of information about Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature.

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature eBook

Margaret Ball
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 264 pages of information about Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature.
The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe.  With a biographical memoir of the author, literary prefaces to the various pieces, illustrative notes, etc., including all contained in the edition attributed to the late Sir Walter Scott, with considerable additions. 20 vols., London, 1840.

      The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel de Foe.  With prefaces
      and notes, including those attributed to Sir Walter Scott. 6
      vols., London, 1854-6. (Bonn’s British Classics.)

      The Rambler, by Samuel Johnson LL.D., with a sketch of the
      author’s life by Sir Walter Scott. 2 vols., London, 187?

1822
  Chronological Notes of Scottish Affairs, from 1680 till 1701; being
  chiefly taken from the diary of Lord Fountainhall.  Edinburgh. [Edited
  by Scott.]

See Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, selected from the manuscripts of Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, bart. 2 vols.  Edinburgh, 1848, printed for the Bannatyne club.  Here Scott’s edition is referred to, and his introduction is reprinted.  The book was re-edited because Scott did not use the original manuscript, but an interpolated transcript, and he had no means for accurately determining the original text.

  Halidon Hill, a dramatic sketch.

  Macduff’s Cross (in Joanna Baillie’s Poetical Miscellanies).

Military Memoirs of the Great Civil War.  Being the military memoirs of John Gwynne; and an account of the Earl of Glencairn’s expedition, as general of His Majesty’s forces, in the highlands of Scotland, in the years 1653 and 1654, by a person who was eye and ear witness to every transaction....  Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott.  His name is not given, but the introduction is dated at Abbotsford.]

      There are some notes, and a short historical introduction.

  Sketch of the Life and Character of the late Lord Kinneder. [Edited by
  Scott.  A postscript says:  “This notice was chiefly drawn up by the
  late Mr. Hay Donaldson.”] Edinburgh.

      Only a few copies were printed, for private distribution.

  The Fortunes of Nigel.

1823
  Peveril of the Peak.

  Quentin Durward.

  St. Ronan’s Well.

1824
  Lays of the Lindsays, being poems by the ladies of the House of
  Balcarras.  Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott, and designed as a contribution
  to the Bannatyne Club, but suppressed after being printed.]

  Redgauntlet.

1825
  Auld Robin Gray; a ballad.  By the Rt.  Honourable Lady Anne Barnard,
  born Lady Anne Lindsay, of Balcarras. [Edited by Scott for the
  Bannatyne Club.]

  Tales of the Crusaders: 
    The Betrothed. 
    The Talisman.

1826
  Letters of Malachi Malagrowther on the Currency. (To the editor of the
  Edinburgh Weekly Journal.) 3 parts.  Edinburgh.

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