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Show Aptly Crltleittd, One of the best criticisms of. Scott's novels was given by an Irish cobbler, as related In the biography of "William "Wil-liam Stokes." Dr Stokes ha often loaned the cobbler odd volumes of Scott to read Walking beside him one day on thq road, the doctor said: "Well, Penny, what did you think of the last book I lint youT" ''if B great book Intlrely, docther, an' Sir "Walter Scott' a thrud historian." "I'm inclined to agree wjth you, replied Dr. Stokes. "But, what do you. mean exactly ex-actly by calling him a truo historian!" "I mane, your honor, he' a throe his-torjan his-torjan because "he makes you loro your kind." |