The complete online text of Sir Walter Scott by Richard Holt Hutton.

Richard Holt Hutton, who spoke to two generations of English readers with a calm, authoritative voice in the liberal London weekly the Spectator, was a philosophically educated mid-Victorian man of letters who committed his voluminous writings to two rel...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Critical Commentary The problem in Scott criticism is to explain the decline of the fame and critical reputation of the Waverley Novels since the highwater mark during the nineteenth century. Once Scott was regarded as the greatest English novelist-above Fielding, Jane...

Abstract: This study examines the personal account books of Sir Walter Scott, the world-renowned Scottish author, a topic not explored before by Scott scholars or accounting historians. It sets the account books in the context of Scott's accounting education and experience, which took...

It must have snowed a lot in 16th-century Scotland.In Chas Rader-Shieber's new production of Rossini's "La Donna del Lago" at the New York City Opera, snow falls often on characters outside a dreary brick castle, bathed much of the time in aqua light. But when...

The land that gave the world Robert Burns also has the dubious honor of producing the "world's worst poet." Now fans of the hapless William McGonagall are campaigning to put him in the pantheon of Scottish literary greats.The late 19th century poet's work is so...