Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

CHAPTER X.
JOHN GALT—JOHN WILSON CROKER.
GALT THE FOUNDER OF A DISTINCT SCHOOL—HIS APPEARANCE HAILED BY
THE PUBLISHER—CROKER's SENSIBLE CRITICISM—ENCOURAGING LET-
TERS—POPULARITY OP THE ' ANNALS '—A HUMBLE AUTHOR—THE ' LAST
OF THE lairds'—A SCOTCH DEFOE—MOMENTARY INDIGNATION—LIFE
IN CANADA— ' RINGAN GALHAIZE '—FADING HEALTH AND LITERARY
POWERS— THE 'borough'— A DISAPPOINTED CONTRIBUTOR— CROKER
CRITICISES 'MAGA'—HIS EULOGY OF GALT—A CANDID FRIEND.
Perhaps the next contributor of importance, at least
in the early days of the Magazine, was one whose
great temporary reputation, very real while it lasted,
fell for a long time into oblivion,—but is, we hope, . .t^
rising again into a modest revival, to which the pretty^ e-
and popular new edition of his works has lent an im-