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Neil Munro, Scott and Stevenson
Anyone reading Neil Munro’s John Splendid or The New Road will be struck by their resemblance to, respectively, Scott’s Montrose and Stevenson’s Kidnapped. This is not to accuse Munro of plagiarism – he was too good a writer and too honest a man for that and, in any case, the points of difference are of as much importance as those of similarity. Scott portrayed the Marquis of Argyll as a sadistic, war-mongering poltroon and Holy Willie (he allowed that the marquis was not devoid of learning and culture so the resemblance to some present-day politicians was not complete).
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