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Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature

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1967) in which he says: "Kirk's Secret Commonwealth, a curious tract, of about a hundred quarto pages, on Fairy Superstitions and second sight, originally published in 1691, and of which, in 1815, Mr.Scott had caused a hundred copies to be privately printed by the Ballantynes, with additions, a circumstance, I think, not noted by Lockhart." Mr.Lang thinks the book was never printed until 1815.
(See his edition, London, 1893).

This 1815 edition of 100 copies was made, he says, from a manuscript copy preserved in the Advocates' Library, for Longman & Co.

He quotes one of Scott's references to the book, but does not intimate that Scott was the editor.
Memorie of the Somervilles; being a history of the baronial house of Somerville, by James, eleventh Lord Somerville.

2 vols.

Edinburgh.
[Edited by Scott anonymously.] The additions by the editor consist of a short preface and abundant notes.
1816 Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk.


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