Excerpt from Footsteps of Scott But if the range of genius is to delimit the Country of Sir Walter, t all the inspir ation of his own, his native land were sufficient for such a Master. True to the old moss-trooping traditions, we should find ourselves making sundry raids a cross the Border: into the central England of Ivanhoe, for instance; into the Warwick shire of Kem'lworth - the richest of all the English counties in literary association; into the Derbyshire of Peveril of the Peak; into the Oxfordshire of W'oodstock, and the fascinating London of The Fortunes of Nigel. Nor would one omit the Welsh Borderland of The Betrothed, or the Isle of Man, where Julian Peveril Opened out his whole heart to the beautiful Alice Bridgerth. Neither, from the stand point of our author's productiveness, does this terminate the scope of his Country. 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 techlogy 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.