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Excerpt from John Stuart Blackie: A Biography Blackie's, for reminiscences and anecdotes of im portance to the presentation of his individuality; to Sir Theodore Martin, for greatly esteemed interest and suggestions; to the executors of the late Mr J. A. Froude, and to many others, for their kind permission to quote from letters written to Professor Blackie; to the executors of the late Sheriff Nicolson, for their kind permission to make quotations from his poems; to Mr David Douglas, for furnishing statistics of publications; and, finally, to Mr Black wood, for his unwearied interest and encouragement during the progress of the biography. The writer has taken advantage of the present edition to revise the whole very carefully; to make use of the many valuable suggestions to which the circulation of its earlier editions gave rise; and to correct slips in the original work. 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 technology 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.