The Provost

Complete and unabridged, with 37 full-page plates by David Wilkie, John Constable and George Morland. Provost Pawkie of Gudetown tells, in his own words and with complete self-satisfaction, how he rose to be chief magistrate and what he did with the office — every stroke of it corrupt and every word of it plausible. Galt failed at business on three continents, founded the Canadian town of Guelph, ...