This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... characters and ongoings of the Court of Session were hourly day by day beneath our Poet's eyes. Angellier, in his for a Frenchman semi-miraculous Burns, has worked in mainly from Fergusson's 'Rising' and 'Sitting' of the Session, the 'Daft Days, ' 'Leith Races, ' and other vernacular poems, a finely realistic picture ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... characters and ongoings of the Court of Session were hourly day by day beneath our Poet's eyes. Angellier, in his for a Frenchman semi-miraculous Burns, has worked in mainly from Fergusson's 'Rising' and 'Sitting' of the Session, the 'Daft Days, ' 'Leith Races, ' and other vernacular poems, a finely realistic picture of the then streets of Edinburgh, whilst the etchings of John Kay and Walter Geikie enable us to see the very 'form and pressure' of the scenes and to realise how true as any Dutch painter to the life are Fergusson's presentations. But the very brilliance and animation of the after-poetry makes it, so to say, de trop to return on his wage-earning employment. That employment, as must by this time be recognised, was miserably inferior to Fergusson's abilities and culture, but the daily spectacle of his slaving and impoverished mother left him no choice. And so with the exception of a few months at similar duties in the Sheriff-Clerk's office, which as soon as possible he left from being distressed by the perpetual issuing there of executions of sale, the Commissary-Clerk's office proved to be his stated and only source of regular bread-winning. I say 'regular, ' as meaning certain, because in addition Mr. Abercrombie and others were accustomed to employ him in copying legal and other papers of his and their private practice. What his salary or weekly wage in the Commissary-Depute's office was, I have failed to discover; but I am about to produce pathetic documentary proof of the financial meagreness of recompense for his extra-copying and writing of letters, etc., for any who applied. He began his duties for Mr. Abercrombie by making a fair transcript--just as he had done with Professor William Wilkie's lectures--of the great official Register, id
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