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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (3)
The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart - 3 Author:Walter Scott Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1834 Original Publisher: R. Cadell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where yo... more »u can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ADVERTISEMENT. The following Biographical and Critical Sketches -- for they claim no more important name -- were written for the purpose of serving as prefaces to a Collection called Ballan- tyne's Novelist's Library ; l a work undertaken hy the late Mr John Ballantyne, bookseller in Edinburgh, a person whom no one knew without being desirous to oblige him. It was carried on after his death by Messrs Huiist and Robinson of London, for the benefit, in some measure, of Mrs Ballantyne, but is for the present suspended. It has since been thought advisable to publish the Preliminary Notices in the present connected form. It may be necessary to observe, that the Lives do not lay claim to the meeit of much research, being taken from the most accessible materials; and that the Critical Opinions are such as have i [Published in 10 volumes, royal 8vo. London, 1821,« less