The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 20, No. 571 (Supplementary Number) by Various
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Redgauntlet 3 1824
Tales of the Crusaders 4 1825 Woodstock 3 1826 Chronicles of the Canongate 2 1st ser. 1827 Chronicles of the Canongate 3 2nd ser. 1828 Anne of Gerstein 3 1829 Tales of My Landlord 4 4th ser. 1831 Making in all, 73 volumes, within 17 years. (Those marked * were alone perfect.) MISCELLANEOUS WORKS. To particularize Sir Walter's contributions to periodical literature would occupy considerable space. He wrote a few papers in the early numbers of the _Edinburgh Review_, and several in the _Quarterly Review_, especially during the last ten volumes of that journal, of which his son-in-law, Mr. Lockhart, is the accredited editor. Sir Walter likewise contributed the articles Chivalry, Drama, and Romance to the sixth edition of the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_. _Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk_, the fruits of Sir Walter's tour through France and Belgium, in 1815, were published anonymously; and the _Field of Waterloo_, a poem, appeared about the same time. We may also here mention his dramatic poem of _Halidon Hill_, which appeared in 1822; and two dramas, _the Doom of Devergoil_ and _Auchindrane_, in 1830--neither of which works excited more than temporary attention. Sir Walter likewise contributed a _History of Scotland_, in two volumes, to Dr. Lardner's _Cabinet Cyclopaedia_, in 1830; and in the |
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