Note 73 — Front matter (continued 2)

Burns, in his autobiographical letter to Dr. Moore (August 2, 1787), says, in reference to The History of Sir William Wallace, one of his first books: "The story of Wallace poured a Scotch prejudice in my veins, which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." The reader will by this time have noticed Carlyle's carelessness about small points.