Download or read book Introductions and Notes and Illustrations Vol 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductions, and Notes and Illustrations, Vol. 2: To the Novels, Tales, and Romances, of the Author of Waverley It is well known that the family of Dalrymple, which has produced, within the space of two centuries, as many men of talent, civil and mi litary, and of literary, political, and professional eminence, as any house in Scotland, first rose into distinction in the person of James Dal rymple, one of the most eminent lawyers that ever lived, though the labours of his powerful mind were unhappily exercised on a subject so limited as Scottish Jurisprudence, on which he has composed an admirable work. 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.