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Excerpt from Literary Studies, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Prefatory Memoir, Edited by Richard Holt Hutton Another remarkable and curiously balanced sort consists in the misplacement of quotation marks, either crediting Bagehot with the writing of others or vice versa; there are, I think, just the same number of each. For instance, a half-page of Lady Louisa Stuart's is printed as his own in the article on Mary Wortley Montagu; a half-page of Lord Mahon in that 'on William Pitt; several lines of Lord Macaulay in Lombard Street (mangled as usual); and there are one or two more. On the other hand, he partially requites Lady Louisa with a couple of lines, and gives some to Le Marchant in the sketch of Lord Althorp and to Catlin in Economic Studies, and there are other instances. Again, the number of cases where the sense is exactly inverted by the misplacement of negatives or the reversal of the place of alternatives in a sentence is something incredible; I have kept no exact account, but there must be well toward twenty in the five volumes. A few of these have been changed outright (and noted in the table of alterations); but in general, attention has been called to them in foot-notes. 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.

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