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See also:GALT, See also:JOHN (1779-1839) , Scottish novelist, was See also:born at See also:Irvine, See also:Ayrshire, on the 2nd of May 1779. He received his See also:early See also:education at Irvine and See also:Greenock, and read largely from one of the public See also:libraries while serving as a clerk in a See also:mercantile See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. In 1804 he went to See also:settle in See also:London, where he published anonymously a poem on the See also:Battle of See also:Largs.. After unsuccessful attempts to succeed in business Galt entered at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn, but was never called to the See also:bar. He obtained a See also:commission from a See also:British See also:firm to go abroad to find out whether the See also:Berlin and See also:Milan decrees could be evaded. He met See also:Byron and See also:Sir John See also:Hobhouse at See also:Gibraltar, travelled with Byron to See also:Malta, and met him again at See also:Athens. He was afterwards employed by the See also:Glasgow See also:merchant Kirkman See also:Finlay on similar business at Gibraltar, and in 1814 visited See also:France and See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland. His early See also:works are the See also:Life and See also:Administration of See also:Wolsey, Voyages and Travels, Letters from the See also:Levant, the Life of See also:Benjamin See also:West, See also:Historical Pictures and The Wandering See also:Jew; and he induced See also:Colburn to publish a periodical containing dramatic pieces rejected by London managers. These were afterwards edited by Galt as the New British See also:Theatre, which included some plays of his own. He first showed his real See also:power as a writer of fiction in The Ayrshire Legatees, which appeared in See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine in 1820. This was followed in.1821 by his masterpiece—The See also:Annals of tke See also:Parish; and, at See also:short intervals, Sir See also:Andrew See also:Wylie, The See also:Entail, The See also:Steam-See also:Boat and The See also:Provost were published. These humorous studies of Scottish See also:character are all in his happiest manner. His next works were Ringan Gilhaize (1823), a See also:story of the See also:Covenanters; The Spaewife (1823), which relates to the times of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. of See also:Scotland; Rothelan (1824), a novel founded on the reign of See also:Edward III.; The See also:Omen (1825), which was favourably criticized by Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott; and The Last of the Lairds, another picture of Scottish life.
In 1826 he went to See also:America as secretary to the See also:Canada See also:Land See also:Company. He carried out extensive schemes of colonization, and opened up a road through what was then See also:forest See also:country between Lakes See also:Huron and See also:Erie. In 1827 he founded See also:Guelph in upper Canada, passing on his way the township of Galt on the See also:Grand See also:river, named after him by the Hon. See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Dixon. But all this See also:work proved financially unprofitable to Galt. In 1829 he returned to See also:England commercially a ruined See also:man, and devoted himself with See also:great. ardour to See also:literary pursuits, of which the first See also:fruit was Lawrie Todd—one of his best novels. Then came Southennan, a See also:tale of Scottish life in the times of See also:Queen See also:Mary. In 183o he was appointed editor of the See also:Courier newspaper—a See also:post he soon relinquished. His untiring See also:industry was seen in the publication, in rapid See also:succession, of a Life of Byron, Lives of the Players, Bogle See also:Corbet, See also:Stanley See also:Buxton, The Member, The See also:Radical, Eben See also:Erskine, The Stolen See also:Child, his Autobiography, and a collection of tales entitled Stories of the Study. In 1834 appeared his Literary Life and Miscellanies, dedicated by permission to William IV., who sent the author a See also:present of £zoo. As soon as this work was published Galt retired to Greenock, where he continued his literary labours till his See also:death on the 11th of See also:April 1839.
Galt, like almost all voluminous writers, was exceedingly unequal. His masterpieces are The Ayrshire Legatees, The Annals of the Parish, Sir Andrew Wylie, The Entail, The Provost and Lawrie Todd. The Ayrshire Legatees gives, in the See also:form of a number of exceedingly diverting letters, the adventures of the Rev. Dr See also:Pringle and his See also:family in London. The letters are made the excuse for endless See also:tea-parties and meetings of See also:kirk-session in the rural parish of Garnock. The Annals of the Parish are told by the Rev. See also:Micah Balwhidder, Galt'sfinestcharacter. This work (which, be it remembered, existed in MS. before Waverley was published) is a splendid picture of the old-fashioned Scottish pastor and the life of a country parish; and, in See also:rich See also:humour, genuine pathos and truth to nature it is unsurpassed even by Scott. It is a See also:fine specimen of the homely See also:graces of the Scottishdialect, and preserves much vigorous Doric phraseology fast passing out of use even in country districts. In this novel Mr Galt used, for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, the See also:term " Utilitarian," which afterwards became so intimately associated with the doctrines of John See also:Stuart See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill and See also:Bentham (see Annals of the Parish, See also:chap. See also:xxxv., and a See also:note by Mill in See also:Utilitarianism, chap. ii.). In Sir Andrew Wylie the See also:hero entered London as a poor lad, but achieved remarkable success by his shrewd business qualities. The character is somewhat exaggerated, but excessively amusing. The Entail was read thrice by Byron and Scott, and is the best of Galt's longer novels. Leddy Grippy is a wonderful creation, and was considered by Byron equal to any See also:female character in literature since See also:Shakespeare's time. The Provost, in which Provost Pawkie tells his own story, portrays inimitably the jobbery, bickerings and self-seeking of municipal dignitaries in a See also:quaint Scottish See also:burgh. In Lawrie Todd Galt, by giving us the See also:Scot in America, accomplished a feat which Sir Walter never attempted. This novel exhibits more variety of See also:style and a greater love of nature than his other books. The life of a settler is depicted with unerring See also:pencil, and with an See also:enthusiasm and imaginative power much more poetical than any of the author's professed poems.
The best of Galt's novels were reprinted in Blackwood's See also:Standard Novels, to See also:volume i. of which his friend Dr See also:Moir prefixed a memoir.
End of Article: GALT, JOHN (1779-1839)
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