Scott's own 'autobiographic fragment, ' printed in Lockhart's first volume, has made other accounts of his youth mostly superfluous, even to a day which persists in knowing better about everything and everybody than it or they knew about themselves. No one ever recorded his genealogy...
Reproduction of the original: Sir Walter Scott by George Saintsbury
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To the very probable remark that 'Another little book about Scott is not wanted, ' I can at least reply that apparently it is, inasmuch as the publishers proposed this volume to me, not I to them. And I believe that, as a matter of fact, no 'little book about Scott' has appeared...
"Sir Walter Scott" from George Saintsbury. English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur (1845-1933).