Excerpt from John BlackwoodThe able and graceful pen which should have fur nished this memoir is, alas! Laid aside for ever, and the task has fallen to her who was to have aided Oliphant, by supplying a daughter's recollections of the years spent in daily companionship with the sub ject of the narrative, and whose knowledge of his character and aims has grown with her life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.