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Scott's own 'autobiographic fragment, ' printed in Lockhart's first volume, has made other accounts of his youth mostly superfluous, even to a day which persists in knowing better about everything and everybody than it or they knew about themselves. No one ever recorded his genealogy... Read Full Overview

Reproduction of the original: Sir Walter Scott by George Saintsbury

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

To the very probable remark that 'Another little book about Scott is not wanted, ' I can at least reply that apparently it is, inasmuch as the publishers proposed this volume to me, not I to them. And I believe that, as a matter of fact, no 'little book about Scott' has appeared... Read Full Overview

"Sir Walter Scott" from George Saintsbury. English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur (1845-1933).