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The author used group of asterisks (*****) to replace names.

 


 

 

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT
BART.

BY

JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART

IN TEN VOLUMES
VOLUME I

Editor's arm.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
MCMI

COPYRIGHT, 1901
BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Six Hundred Copies Printed
Number,

Walter Scott in 1777

Walter Scott in 1777
From the miniature by Kay, in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE (p. v)

Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., whichdivides with Boswell's Life of Johnson the honor of leading alllives of English men of letters, was first published in seven volumesin 1837-1838. A second edition, with some corrections, some slightrevisions, and a few additions, mostly in the form of notes, waspublished in 1839, and this has remained ever since the standardedition. Later, in 1848, Lockhart prepared, at the request of thepublishers of that work, a condensation of his magnum opus, and tookthat occasion to add a few facts bearing upon the Life which hadoccurred since the original publication, and a few comments which itwould not have been in good taste to make in the first instance.Throughout his original work, Lockhart, with all his openness ofspeech, yet refrained from certain personal references, the subjectsof which were too recent for remark, and he concealed many names underthe disguise of initials.

Since the edition of 1839 there have been many issues of this greatwork on both sides of the Atlantic. As late as 1861, Messrs. Ticknorand Fields, predecessors of the present publishers of the work, issuedan edition in nine volumes, and took occasion to insert some materialfrom Lockhart's abridgment. They prefaced the edition, which theydedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne, with a brief sketch of Lockhart.

Neither (p. vi) these publishers nor any others, so far as we know,have ever done more than reprint the original work, save for theslight modification just mentioned. Meanwhile for the past sixtyyears, and more especially during the past twenty years, a crowd ofbooks has been published throwing light on Lockhart's great subject.Memoirs, reminiscences, editions of Scott's writings, literarystudies, articles in reviews and magazines have added materially toour knowledge not only of Scott, but of many others of the personageswho throng the chapters of Lockhart's work. Lockhart h

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