SIR WALTER SCOTT AND JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

Remarks by Patrick Killough
to the 2007 Convention
of the Venerable John Henry Newman Association
Pittsburgh Holiday Inn

Friday August 10   8:30 - 9:20 a. m.

FOOTNOTE # 12


(12) Newman on Scott in THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY (1852)

For the paucity of Classic English writers who are Catholic, see Svaglic, 1982, p. 229. For Walter Scott as part of the English vernacular, see, p.  234. For Scott's style as non-ornamental:  Svaglic, 1982, p. 210. For Scott on examiners who ask unfair questions:  ibid., p. 269.