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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:1NVEST1GAT1ON CERTAIN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE WAVERLET NOVELS. THE OBIMNAL COMMUNICATION TO " NOTES AND QUERIES. " It has often seemed to me, and I believe to others, that the' seventy-four volumes of the Waverley Novels could hardly have been the work of Sir Walter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:1NVEST1GAT1ON CERTAIN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE WAVERLET NOVELS. THE OBIMNAL COMMUNICATION TO " NOTES AND QUERIES. " It has often seemed to me, and I believe to others, that the' seventy-four volumes of the Waverley Novels could hardly have been the work of Sir Walter Scott's pen exclusively. People have latterly whispered that Alexander Dumas and Mr. G.P.R. James receive, sub rosa, considerable assistance in their Novel manufactures. The interesting ' Tales of the O'Hara Family,' which some thirty years ago excited a marked sensation in literary circles, were, until quite recently, believed to owe their popularity entirely to John Banim. A memoir of Mr. Banim, at present appearing in the Irish Quarterly Review, informs the public that his brother Michael, ex-Mayor of Kilkeuny, wrote ' Crohoore of the Bill Hook,' the Croppy,'-in fact, some of the very best of the O'Hara Tales.f Recent memoirs of Hannah More assure us that Bishop Porteous flung his masculine thought and sense into her famous novel of ' Coelebs in Search of a Wife.' Sir Walter Scott had a brother who died in America, on Valentine's Day, 1823, singularly endowed with literary taste and talent. There is little known of him; and, except by a few personal friends, he was, even at Sir Walter Scott's death, forgotten. Various accounts which have reached me from time to time, decidedly warrant M.E. de Saint Maurice Cabany, Perpetual Director General of the " Socie'te des Archivistes de France," in a letter to the author apropos to the above article, writes:-" Ce que vous dites d'Alexandra Dumas, au debut de vos articles est vrai: son principal collaborates a e"te" M. Auguste Maquet; mais Dumas etait si essential a la vitalite de ces cenvres que depuis que, Maquet Books, Literary Collections~~General, Who-Wrote-the-Waverley-Novels-Being-an-Investigation-Into-Certain-Mysterious-Circumstances-Attending-Their-Production-and-an-Inquiry-Into~~William-John-Fitzpatrick, 999999999, Who Wrote the Waverley Novels?; Being an Investigation Into Certain Mysterious Circumstances Attending Their Production, and an, William John Fitzpatrick, 1152116924, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781152116924

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:1NVEST1GAT1ON CERTAIN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE WAVERLET NOVELS. THE OBIMNAL COMMUNICATION TO " NOTES AND QUERIES. " It has often seemed to me, and I believe to others, that the' seventy-four volumes of the Waverley Novels could hardly have been the work of Sir Walter Scott's pen exclusively. People have latterly whispered that Alexander Dumas and Mr. G. P. R. James receive, sub rosa, considerable assistance in their Novel manufactures. The interesting ' Tales of the O'Hara Family,' which some thirty years ago excited a marked sensation in literary circles, were, until quite recently, believed to owe their popularity entirely to John Banim. A memoir of Mr. Banim, at present appearing in the Irish Quarterly Review, informs the public that his brother Michael, ex-Mayor of Kilkeuny, wrote ' Crohoore of the Bill Hook,' the Croppy,'—in fact, some of the very best of the O'Hara Tales.f Recent memoirs of Hannah More assure us that Bishop Porteous flung his masculine thought and sense into her famous novel of ' Coelebs in Search of a Wife.' Sir Walter Scott had a brother who died in America, on Valentine's Day, 1823, singularly endowed with literary taste and talent. There is little known of him; and, except by a few personal friends, he was, even at Sir Walter Scott's death, forgotten. Various accounts which have reached me from time to time, decidedly warrant M. E. de Saint Maurice Cabany, Perpetual Director General of the " Socie'te des Archivistes de France," in a letter to the author apropos to the above article, writes:—" Ce que vous dites d'Alexandra Dumas, au debut de vos articles est vrai: son principal collaborates a e"te" M. Auguste Maquet; mais Dumas etait si essential a la vitalite de ces cenvres que depuis que, Maquet Books Books ~~ Literary Collections~~ General Who-Wrote-the-Waverley-Novels-Being-an-Investigation-Into-Certain-Mysterious-Circumstances-Attending-Their-Production-and-an-Inquiry-Into~~William-John-Fitzpatrick General Books LLC Title: Who Wrote the Waverley Novels? Being an Investigation Into Certain Mysterious Circumstances Attending Their Production, and an Inquiry Into the Literary Aid Which Sir Walter Scott May Have Received From Other Persons Publisher: London, E. Wilson Publication date: 1856 Subjects: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.<