. Backgrounds of literature. THE LAND OF SCOTT THE LAND OF SCOTT. R. LANG has said that, of-ten as it has been his for-tune to write about Sir Wal-ter Scott, he has never satdown to do so without asense of happiness and ela-tion. It is, he writes, asif one were meeting a dear friend, or at leastwere to talk with other friends about him. Thisemotion is so strong, no doubt, because the nameand memory and magic of Sir Walter areentwined with ones earliest recollections ofpoetry, and nature, and the vines and hills ofhome. It is easy, and of late years it has beena kind of literary convention, to
. Backgrounds of literature. THE LAND OF SCOTT THE LAND OF SCOTT. R. LANG has said that, of-ten as it has been his for-tune to write about Sir Wal-ter Scott, he has never satdown to do so without asense of happiness and ela-tion. It is, he writes, asif one were meeting a dear friend, or at leastwere to talk with other friends about him. Thisemotion is so strong, no doubt, because the nameand memory and magic of Sir Walter areentwined with ones earliest recollections ofpoetry, and nature, and the vines and hills ofhome. It is easy, and of late years it has beena kind of literary convention, to emphasize thedefects in Scotts work; its loose and often awk- 249 THE LAND OF SCOTT ward construction, the verbosity of the style, thelack of selection and the consequent overcrowd-ing of the story, the carelessness of a born ra-conteur who has more incidents at commandthan he can wisely use. These faults are soobvious that it is unnecessary to recall is, however, something humorous in thepatronizing attitude of a little group of verymodern, deft, ex
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