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...their birth, ancestry, and early life. Emerson, the well-bern and liberally-trained, descendant of a long line of New England ministers, belonged definitely to the class of gentle-folk. Carlyle, although he was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and became the chief English man of letters, was a Scottish peasant by birth, and remained in some ways a peasant to the last. Emerson's life, by temperament and by circumstances, was one of almost unbroken peace and calm. Carlyle's experience was full of storm and trouble...
...seats in Sever 11 were again taken on the occasion of Mr. Copeland's lecture last evening on Stevenson, Mr. Barrie, Mr. Crocket, and "Ian Maclaren." The lecture began with a brief comparison of the contemporary Scottish renaissance, with past triumphs,- much greater past triumphs,- of the northern kingdom over the English public...
...GOOD THING; push it along. Lecture on Scottish song and story. Mr. Donald Macdonald, Highland piper, open for engagements. Well received at Cornell, Princeton, Yale, Rochester Amherst and Williams. Address postal, 2 Whitmore St., Boston. Terms moderate...
...GOOD THING; push it along. Lecture on Scottish song and story. Mr. Donald Macdonald, Highland piper, open for engagements. Well received at Cornell, Princeton, Yale, Rochester Amherst and Williams. Address postal, 2 Whitmore St., Boston. Terms moderate...
...published "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," a collection of ballads and traditions from which he drew much of the material for his later works. His first great poem, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," was published in 1805. This was very successful and at once raised Scott to prominence. For the next two years he was at work in writing a life of Dryden and in publishing an edition of his works. In 1808 appeared "Marmion." In this Scott is at his best, he has a truly romantic subject, and his wonderful faculty of invention is at its height...