ABSTRACT
1828
An extract from an unsigned article in a series of ‘Sketches of Contemporary Authors’ in the Athenaeum, 11 March 1828, 217–19.
The author was Frederick Denison Maurice, an Anglican divine and miscellaneous writer of the period. In the section previous to the selection below, Maurice praises Scott’s powers of observation and description of external nature; in the passage that follows the selection Scott’s Life of Napoleon is criticized severely.
