Famous Scots Series
THOMAS CARLYLE. By Hector C. Macpherson. ALLAN RAMSAY. By Oliphant Smeaton. HUGH MILLER. By W. Keith Leask. JOHN KNOX. By A. Taylor Innes. ROBERT BURNS. By Gabriel Setoun. THE BALLADISTS. By John Geddie. RICHARD CAMERON. By Professor Herkless. SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON. By Eve Blan...
In attempting to embrace within the compass of a single novel the one hundred and thirty years or so of his period, the author of _Ringan Gilhaize_ was certainly assaying a very...
4. Part 4Through life the subject of this sketch was unfortunate; nor has posthumous justice redressed the balance in his favour. His fellow-countrymen and fellow-craftsmen, Scott and Sm...
3. Part 3'The amazing rapidity with which he wrote, caused him too often to delay his work to the very last moment, so that he almost always wrote under compulsion, and every second of t...
8. Part 8Here as elsewhere, too, he freely repeats himself. Aird has named _The Deserted Churchyard_ as Moir's highest imaginative piece. But Aird is no critic, and description was not M...
2. Part 2A detailed history of the stormy first years of the new publication, however piquant and racy it might be made, forms no part of our present scheme. Suffice it to remind the rea...
7. Part 7In 1830 he published _Lawrie Todd_, a tale of life in the backwoods, which, with _Bogle Corbet, or The Emigrants_, (1831), was founded upon fact, and designed by the author to s...
10. Part 10As _The Inheritance_ represents the meridian of the writer's powers, so _Destiny_ represents their decline--not because there are not some as good things, or very nearly as good...
1. Part 1THOMAS CARLYLE. By Hector C. Macpherson. ALLAN RAMSAY. By Oliphant Smeaton. HUGH MILLER. By W. Keith Leask. JOHN KNOX. By A. Taylor Innes. ROBERT BURNS. By Gabriel Setoun. THE B...
9. Part 9Its success at home can surprise no one, for never before had the idiosyncrasies of Scottish society been so vigorously pourtrayed. As has already been seen, the means adopted f...
5. Part 5It had now become imperative that he should exert himself, and having, as one may say, nothing better to do on his return from the Continent, he resumed the labours of the pen....
11. Part 11As has been already indicated, Scott's principal literary gift lay in his power of presentation--his power, that is, of putting simply, sufficingly, and without redundancy, a sc...
12. Part 12Cyril Thornton is the scion of an old county family, who, at a very early age, has the misfortune accidentally to kill his elder brother. His father's affection is in consequenc...