Hugh Stowell Scott (1863? - 1903) was a novelist who used the pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman. His novels include The Sowers (generally considered his best) (1896), In Kedar's Tents (1897), Roden's Corner (1898), Isle of Unrest (1900), The Velvet Glove (1901), The Vultures (1902), and Barlasch of the Guard (1903). In 1892 he produced "The Slave of the Lamp," which had run serially through the Cornhill Magazine. The Slave of the Lamp is the story of a young London journalist who is familiar with French politics. While visiting in the country he hears of an insurrection in Paris supposedly led by the Jesuits. His boss asks him to be ready to go on the story at any moment. He unexpectedly receives a clue from an Italian guest at the same house as to how the Insurrectionists are getting British rifles."