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Excerpt from The Life Letters of Theodore Watts-Dunton, Vol. 2 John Nichol never conquered the belief that the English critic was Slow to do the Scotsman justice, although watts-dunton did his utmost to disabuse him of the idea. There is nothing, my dear fellow, he would say, nothing whatsoever in the idea that a Scotsman does not fight on equal terms with the Eng lishman in the great literary cockpit of London. As a matter of fact, I'm strongly of Opinion that the Scot tish cock is really longer in spur and beak than the Eng lish cock: depend upon it, Nichol, he can more than take care of himself. 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.