The world: historical and actual . shows him to have been a master of exquisiteprose. It has been said that Shakspeare gave us theBible of secular literature and Burns its hymn-book. Sir Walter Scott is thesecond great name in Scot-tish literature. Burns em-ployed the provincialismsof his country in his songs,while Scott wrote the pureEnglish, but in both hispoetry and his novels heshowed himself to be aloyal Scotchman. He wasborn in 1771 and died in1832. He was educated at Edinburgh was raised to the peerage in 1820 in recognitionof his literary services. In the domain of the hi
The world: historical and actual . shows him to have been a master of exquisiteprose. It has been said that Shakspeare gave us theBible of secular literature and Burns its hymn-book. Sir Walter Scott is thesecond great name in Scot-tish literature. Burns em-ployed the provincialismsof his country in his songs,while Scott wrote the pureEnglish, but in both hispoetry and his novels heshowed himself to be aloyal Scotchman. He wasborn in 1771 and died in1832. He was educated at Edinburgh was raised to the peerage in 1820 in recognitionof his literary services. In the domain of the his-torical novel he has never been equaled. Scotland can boastgreat eminence in met-aphysics. The phi-losophers Hume, Reidand Hamilton wereScotchmen. But thegreatest of Scotlandssons, after Burns andScott, was ThomasCarlyle, critic and his-torian. In him are seenthe strength and acute-ness which characterize the nation. He was born in1795 and died in 1881. He spent manyyears in Lon-don, but never ceased to be a thorough SIR WALTER SCOTT.
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