Excerpt from Refutation of the Mistatements and Calumnies Contained in Mr. Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart Respecting the Messrs. Ballantyne In acting upon these convictions of duty, however, they are aware that they have done so under several disadvantages. They have no pretensions whatever to enter into literary strife with Mr Lockhart; and they cannot stoop to engage in a mere war of words, respecting matters which must be judged and de cided by the evidence of facts and documents alone. They are also fully sensible that, if Mr Ballantyne had been still alive, he would have defended him self with far greater ability, and a much more intimate knowledge of the complex transactions they have been called on to unravel, than they. 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.