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Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

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in the "Library of English Classics."] [Footnote 12: Chesterton, _Varied Types_, pp.

161-2.] [Footnote 13: The fact that Scott was a Clerk of the Court of Sessions is remembered less frequently than the fact that he had business complications.

But this employment of his, which could be undertaken only by a lawyer, occupied a large proportion of his time during twenty-four years.

He once wrote, "I cannot work well after I have had four or five hours of the court, for though the business is trifling, yet it requires constant attention, which is at length exhausting." (_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol.

III, p.


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