CHAPTER I.
ANCESTRY, PARENTAGE, AND CHILDHOOD.
Sir Walter Scott was the first literary man of a great
riding, sporting, and fighting clan. Indeed,
his father—­a Writer to the Signet, o...
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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 le...
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Sir Walter Scott
Richard Holt Hutton