Church review . his royal hospi-tality. Walter Scott stood without arival as the greatest writer of his Byron began to rise as astar of portentous magnitude. Never-theless, Scott always held undis-puted sway as the one who had revolu-tionized the writing of history by theintroduction of the imaginative andpicturesque elements. He created thehistorical novel, and it is generallyadmitted that no one since the days ofShakespeare so vitalized character ashe did. His earliest productions car-ried with them such an aroma of freshcreation that he soon became the liter-ary idol of all British
Church review . his royal hospi-tality. Walter Scott stood without arival as the greatest writer of his Byron began to rise as astar of portentous magnitude. Never-theless, Scott always held undis-puted sway as the one who had revolu-tionized the writing of history by theintroduction of the imaginative andpicturesque elements. He created thehistorical novel, and it is generallyadmitted that no one since the days ofShakespeare so vitalized character ashe did. His earliest productions car-ried with them such an aroma of freshcreation that he soon became the liter-ary idol of all British hearts. Addedto his immense popularity as a writ-er was a natural endowment of socialqualities of the highest order. He wel-comed his guests with the cordiality ofone who had no other occupation thanthat of a lordly host. The pilgrimsto his genius reached even enormousnumbers every summer, and he wouldnot have it otherwise. He evinced anopen wish, so peculiar to children, tohave his friends come often and stay. SCOTTS PRIVATE STUDY AT ABBOTTSFORD. long. The appointments of his house-hold were all on a generous plan. Thehouse had been constructed accordingto plans of his own devising and underhis immediate supervision. The inter-ior decorations for the most part areexact reproductions of the choicestcarvings found in Melrose there are pieces of rare tapestryand ancient armor, valuable old pictur sand cabinets, enough to supply the cas-tle of any lord in the land. Scottsgreat desire was to found a familythrough whom would be perpetuatedthe theimes and objects that had beenthe well-springs of his endeavoring to accomplish thischerished desire he became encumberedwith an enormous debt, for the pay-ment of which he worked so heroically,and yet failed piteously to ever meet itentirely. The notion prevailed gener-ally that Scott was immensely wealthy,and so he rated himself when he found- ed Abbottsford, and up to the terriblefinancial crash of 1826-27. H
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