Caroline McCracken-Flesher, a UW English professor and director of the Center for Global Studies, co-edited a new book, titled “Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward.” The book considers the ways in ...

THE GOLDEN HAND (501 pp.]—Edith Simon—Putnam ($4). It takes something more than the drugstore magic of the ordinary historical novel to wake the dead. Once in a long while a writer finds the ...

Whatever you need for memorable narrative verse, whatever you want for reading aloud, whatever you hope for thrilling romantic tales, you won’t find much better than the poem by Sir Walter Scott (1771 ...

THE publication entire of the journal of Sir Walter Scott, 1 though liberal use of it was made by Lockhart, offers the great advantage that the reader, being interrupted by no comment save that of the ...

‘No,’ said the lady in the bus, — she had to speak rather loud to make herself heard above the din of the traffic, — ‘No, I used to like Scott as a child, but I never read him now.’ ‘I don t suppose ...

With an unbroken publication record since 1905, The Modern Language Review (MLR) is one of the best known modern-language journals in the world and has a reputation for scholarly distinction and ...