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 ISO ARTISTS AND AUTHORS they do not find in it the skeleton of what is called an artistic or scientific literary plan. It is impossible, in the limited range of this article, even to name the several works, many of them of great importance, of the last half of his life. With his assiduous industry, so assiduous that he was never satisfied, perhaps, unless he was at work, he edited an art journal, Kunst und Alterthum, from 1816 to 1828. In a thousand methods of publication he sent out poems, dramas, novels, and pamphlets. He had the satisfaction of knowing that Europe and America regarded him as the first author of his time. Goethe married, in 1806, Christiana Vulpius, who had been employed as a servant in his family. She died in the year 18 16. He seems to have really la- mented her death. His old age was serene. The jubilee of his arrival in Weimar was celebrated with great enthusiasm, on November 7, 1825. All through the last years of his life he was receiving tokens of admiration from all parts of the world. They gratified his vanity, and satisfied his pride. He died on March 22, 1832. His last words have been well remembered. "More light I" <^WP <* &^k SIR WALTER SCOTT By W. C Taylor, LL.D. (1771-1832) T 1 he life of an author who took no ac- tive part in public affairs, but sent forth from his own fireside those marvels of imagination which have afforded delight and instruction to millions, furnishes inter- est of a different kind from the biographies of those whose names are associated with great events. We look more to the man than to his age ; we endeavor to trace the circumstances by which his mind was moulded and his tastes formed, and we feel anxious to discover the connection between his literary and his personal his- tory and character. There have been few authors in whose career this connection was more strongly apparent than in Sir Walter Scott ; his life is, to a great extent, identified with his writings, and this appears to be, the source of that feel SCOTT IN CHILDHOOD.