Word: claver
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Stevenson, a little romantic, but a perfect little romantic, has not equaled himself with the great romantics, Scott and Dumas, in trying to paint upon his canvas any famous figure of history. Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has dared Sir Watter and "Old Mortality" by placing Grahame of Claver-house in his scene. Stevenson, a perfect little romantic, has given us, notably in "The Master of Ballantrae," marvels of last-century English, shrewdly touched with lowland Scotch; Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has garnished what purports to be, in "The Raiders," a plain narrative of eighteenth century prose...