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.

      Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales,
      and romances of the author of Waverley. 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1833.

Autobiography of Sir Walter Scott.  Philadelphia, 1831.  Anderson, in his bibliography of Scott, gives this as a supposititious work, but with the exception of the title it is genuine, for it is simply the piecing together of Scott’s introductions to his novels.

1830
  Tales of a Grandfather.  Third series.

  The Doom of Devorgoil, and Auchindrane or The Ayrshire Tragedy.

  Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to J.G.  Lockhart,
  Esq.  London. (The Family Library.)

Other editions:  New York, 1845; London, 1868 and 1876, (illustrated by Cruikshank); London 1884, with an introduction by Henry Morley.  Included in the 30 vol. edition of the Miscellaneous Prose works, but not in the 28 vol. edition.

  Poems, with prefaces by the author. 11 vols.  Introductory Remarks on
  Popular Poetry (prefixed to Minstrelsy, Vol.  I) and Essay on Imitations
  of the Ancient Ballad (prefixed to Minstrelsy, Vol.  III).

      These essays were printed in 1830 and attached to the edition of
      the poems then on sale.  They were first regularly included in the
      edition of 1833.

  The History of Scotland. (Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopedia.) 2 vols. 
  London. [Not in the Miscellaneous Prose Works.]

1831
  Tales of a Grandfather.  Fourth series.  History of France.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., including a Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell, Esq.  New edition with numerous anecdotes and notes by The Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, M.P.... 10 vols.  London. [Scott wrote and signed the notes for the Tour to the Hebrides.]

  Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald, for
  the murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise’s regiment of
  foot.  June, A.D. 1754.  Edinburgh.

“To the members of the Bannatyne Club, this copy of a trial, involving a curious point of evidence, is presented, by Walter Scott.”  There is an introduction of 11 pages, giving the story of the crime, and bringing together instances from literature and history of the evidence of ghosts being cited in trials.  That is the “curious point of evidence” referred to.  The proceedings of the court are then reprinted without annotation.

1832
  Tales of my Landlord.  Fourth series: 
    Count Robert of Paris. 
    Castle Dangerous.

1848
  Two Bannatyne Garlands from Abbotsford.

This little book was prepared for members of the Bannatyne club by the secretary, D. Laing.  It contains two ballads—­of which one is ancient and one a modern imitation written by Robert Surtees—­annotated by Scott.

1889

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