Excerpt from Memoirs of a Literary Veteran, Vol. 2 of 3: Including Sketches and Anecdotes of the Most Distinguished Literary Characters From 1794 to 1849 The author's success as a poet.-letters from Sir Wal ter Scott. - My return to Edinburgh, and assumption of the advocate's gown. - Lady Grange's letters from St. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.