I came to know about “The Lyon in Mourning” through reading a 3-volume printed version published by the Scottish History Society in 1895-96. In December of 2019, I saw the actual manuscript at the ...

THANKS to its sense of form and powers of consolidation, eighteenth-century England is one of the great eras or cultures that seem fairly possible to encompass. Civilized, urbane, we say of it; or, ...