The Economist (US), January 9th, 1999
A true Hogmanay cheer went up in Scotland at the republication of Sir Walter Scott's ``Journal'' (Canongate, K12.99), one of the most delightful and moving works of autobiography and hitherto virtually unavailable. The ``Journal'' covers only the last seven years of Scott's life, but it is a revealing record of a writer so influential he had become almost an uncrowned monarch and someone to whom the Scots often looked spontaneously for leadership. The character of the man illuminates every page, with his courage, robust sense and humanity. One critic said of an earlier edition that he had ra...
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