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Books of special value and gift books, when the giver wishes it, are not allowed to circulate. Readers are asked to re- port all cases of books marked or' mutilated. Do not deface books by marks and writing. A. ]UkZ.±. u Cornell University Library Z8802 .T48 + Descriptive catalogue of the writings of 3 1924 029 644 659 olin Overs H\ Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029644659 BULLETIN OF THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA NUMBER 1 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WRITINGS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT BY JOHN THOMSON PHILADELPHIA NOVEMBER, 1898 Copyright, 1898, BY The Free Library of Philadelphia. PRINTED BY J. E. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE WRITINGS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT BULLETIN NUMBER 1 OF The Free Library of Philadelphia PREFACE /^^^HERE is no question connected with the building up and I I administration of a free library that is more difficult of solution than how to make the greatest number of books accessible to the general reader. A student or a bibliophile, by reason of the variety of his reading and the gradually developed habit of con- sulting books of reference, rarely fails to find in a library not only the works or volumes which will most aid him in the study on which he may be engaged at the time, but his very habit of browsing amongst books will assist him in discovering in the library (however large) the volumes which will most facilitate his pursuit of knowledge and give to him the greatest delight. There are, however, regular students and persistent readers in a library to whom the mere abundance of material which a large library affords proves a hindrance, from the want of a sufficient number of literary sign-posts indicating the road of knowledge over which certain sections of books will carry them. This leads to the thought that there are many sorts of catalogues which should be ac- cessible in public libraries. Without a great dictionary catalogue covering the whole possessions of a library, the institution would be practically a tractless desert. This, therefore, is indispensable in every 5 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS library ; but there are many by-roads of knowledge which require more detailed description than is possible to be found in the best prepared dictionary catalogue, however numerous the cross-references, or how- ever careful the analytical work of the cataloguer. It is hoped that the preparation and issue from time to time of some descriptive catalogues of important series of works may prove of use, and by way of experi- ment it is proposed to publish as the Bulletin of the Free Library OF Philadelphia, at irregular periods, a series of descriptive catalogues of collections of works such as have been published from time to time by important bibliographical societies, enterprising publishers, or book-loving collectors. There is no person who has been in the habit of using a public library who cannot speak with a certain amount of authority as to the value of the publications of the Roxburghe, Shakes- peare, Cheetham, Scottish Text, Philobiblon, Surtees, and Early Eng- lish Text, Societies. He will speak favourably of John Russell Smith's " Library of Old Authors," " The Chronicles and Memorials of Great "Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages," published under the direction of the Master of the Rolls in England, the Vienna " Jahr- "buch," and many similar works; but who would say that the gen- eral reader in any free library had not much information to acquire which would be most useful to him if the contents of those works could be presented to him in an analytical form, readily accessible. It is proposed, therefore, to make an attempt to supply that want, and in order to render the Free Library Bulletins as generally useful as may be, they will be issued in parts, and an index added to each mono- graph. In this first number is given a descriptive catalogue of the writings of Sir Walter Scott, as published in that writer's " favourite "edition," in ninety-eight volumes. While this author's poems and novels are familiar to every English-speaking person, there is a re- siduum of nearly fifty volumes of other writings by Sir Walter which are practically unknown to a majority of readers. In the second number the series of works described will be the " Library of Old Authors." The mass of works published and known as "The Rolls Series" now numbers over two hundred and fifty volumes, and is being peri- SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS odically continued. Without a general index and without the means of concentrating attention upon the contents of each particular volume by some such publication as the present, the works rescued from the manuscript rooms of the British Museum, the Bodleian and other great libraries of the world, become the working tools of only a very limited number of readers, and a mass of invaluable literary material, gathered together at great cost and with much labour, dealing with an infinite variety of subjects concerning different countries and far dis- tant periods of time, is practically lost. The writer had occasion some years ago in pursuit of professional business to make a descriptive cata- logue of about one hundred and fifty volumes of the Rolls Series. The notes describing them and those describing Sir Walter Scott's writings were originally drawn as a part of a proposed descriptive cata- logue of the Irvington Library of the late Jay Gould, Esq. In under- taking the present Bulletin it seemed a pity to lose the benefit of a long but pleasant labour, the full end of which was not obtained, owing to the death of Mr. Gould. Application was made to that gentleman's eldest daughter. Miss Helen Gould, and with great courtesy she placed at the disposal of the Trustees of the Free Library of Philadelphia the manuscript catalogue as far as it had been completed by the writer while he was engaged as private librarian to Mr. Gould. It is hoped that various notes describing other large series of works which form part of Mr. Gould's library, and copies of which have been acquired for the Free Library of Philadelphia, will from time to time be printed. The descriptive catalogue of "The Rolls Series" is nearly ready, and will form Number Three of the Bulletin. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE WRITINGS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT Scott, (Sir) Walter (1771-1832), Works of. Robert Cadell: Edinburgh. 98 vols. Post 8vo. This is an Edition frequently called the "Author's Favourite Edition," and com- prises the following sets of works : Vols. "Waverley Novels .48 Poetical Works 12 Miscellaneous Prose Works 28 Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott ; or. Life by Lockhart . 10 . It was originally published by Cadell, of Edinburgh, in 1830. These volumes are uniformly printed and bound. This Edition of the Novels is embellished with "the Steel Plates belonging to " the original Edition [of Novels] in 48 volumes." The Poetical Works have a fine series of illustrations by the celebrated J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), to whom the subjects " were pointed out by Sir W. Scott when " that great artist visited him at Abbotsford in the autumn of 1830." The Miscellaneous Prose Works include many which had not been previously collected or printed with the author's name, and the whole is " arranged (as nearly " as possible) in chronological order, thus illustrating the course of the author's " studies and exertions." They also are illustrated by Turner. The Life of Sir Walter is written by his son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart (1794- 1854). Sir Walter Scott's method as an author was to rise at five and commence work at six, so that by breakfast, between nine and ten, " he had done enough" (to use his own language) "to break the neck of the day's work." After breakfast he would work for two hours more, and by noon he was, as he used to say, "his own man." At one, unless going on a distant excursion, — on which occasions he started after breakfast, — he would go out riding, and an inflexible rule was to answer every letter he received that same day, unless the subject required research. In this way he kept pace with an enormous correspondence in a way simply marvellous when it is remem- bered that in twenty-five years he published twenty-five novels, several short tales, 9 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS twelve volumes of " Tales of a Grandfather," besides the " History of Scotland from "the time of Macbeth to 1760," the "History of France," "Biographies of the " Novelists," the " Life of Napoleon" in nine volumes, and reviews and contributions to periodicals almost innumerable. The Introductions to Scott's Novels are rarely read now, and could certainly not be written by a modern romancer; but more pleasant bibliographical gossip can hardly be fancied. As an illustration, the Introduction to " Quentin Durward" (Nov. xxxi., pp. XXV. -Ixx.) may well be quoted, describing a visit paid to an imaginary French nobleman at the " Chateau de Hautlieu" and a dinner which would warm the heart of the veriest gourmet, followed by a pleasant account of a visit by Doctor Thomas Frognall Dibdin to inspect the library, and relates his lamentations over the books that were destroyed, his bibliomaniacal joy over what remained, with some amusing thrusts at the skill with which an account of them was included in his well- known " Catalogues of Books." For convenience, the works and several articles included in this addition are given below in alphabetical order. The year after each work gives the date of its original publication. This, however, is "tentative" only, as even in Lockhart's " Life" one year will be given in the body of the work and another in the Chronological List of the author's works. The differences, however, are hardly material, and rarely amount to more than the substitution of one year for the next preceding or following. The several series of " Novels," " Poetical Works," " Miscellaneous Prose Works," and " Life" are indicated by the abbreviations " Nov.," " Po.," " Pr.," and " L.," respectively. The Roman numerals indicate volumes, the Arabic numbers refer to pages. Abbot, The. 2 vols. (1820) .... Nov. xx. and xxi. This is a Sequel to " The Monastery," and the events are laid in 1568, etc., in the reign of Elizabeth. The scenery and events described in " The Abbot," concerning Melrose Abbey, Holyrood Palace, and Lochleven will always make this novel an enjoyable book. The principal historical personages introduced are Mary Queen of Scots, the Earls of Morton and Murray, Mar- garet Erskine Lady of Lochleven, Catherine Seyton, Lords Herries, Lindesay, Ruthven, and others. Sir W. Scott felt that " The Monastery" was not received with the favour accorded to his other works : therefore when he "... had lost one shaft, " He shot another of the self-same flight, " The self-same way, with more advised watch "To find the other forth." The Notes contain a much larger amount of information as to the escape of Queen Mary, contrived by the son of the keeper, than is to be found in the ordinary histories. " The Abbot" was a favourite with Sir Walter, and certainly the famous Lochleven and its Castle are glorious pictures as described by this master of pen-painting. 10 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS AiKiN, John (1747-1822): Vocal Poetry; or, A Select Collec- tion OF English Songs. (1810) . . Pr. xvii. 133 Two editions of this Collection were brought out almost simultaneously : one by Mr. Evans, the bookseller, and the other by the original editor himself. This is a review of both, published in the Quarterly Review for May, 1810. See Evans. Amadis de Gaul : Poetical Version by Rose, William Stewart. (1803) ....... Pr. xviii. 40 See Rose. Amadis de Gaul ; Prose Version by Southey, Robert. (1803) Pr. xviii. i See Southey. Ancient English Metrical Romances, selected by Ritson, Joseph. (1806) ....... Pr. xvii. 16 See Ritson. Anecdote of School Days .... Nov. i., xci.-xcvi. See Scott, Thomas. Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots, etc. (1829) Pr. XX. 301 See Ritson. Anne of Geierstein ; or. The Maiden of the Mist. 2 vols. (1829) Nov. xliv. andy\Y. This romance relates to the Battle of Nancy, January 1, 1474, and the years 1474-7 in the reign of Edward IV. It afforded the novelist an " oppor- " tunity of contrasting the wild nature and simple manners of the Swiss "patriots with the feudal splendour of the Court of Burgundy." Among the historical personages introduced are : Arnold Biederman, the chief magistrate of the Canton of Unterwalden ; Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy; John de Vere, Earl of Oxford; Margaret of Anjou; Ren6, the troubadour King of Provence ; and the secret tribunal of " The Holy Vehme." Antiquary, The. 2 vols. (1816) . . . Nov. v. a«^vi. This was Scott's third novel. It was " in correcting the proof-sheets of this " novel that Scott first took to equipping his chapters with mottoes of his own "fabrication," and in that device found an inexhaustible mine of home- made quotations from "old play" and "old ballad." Six thousand copies went off in the first six days. The story was published in a time of domestic affliction, the period of Scott's eldest brother's sickness and death. The II SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS oddities and humours of Jonathan Oldbuck, the Antiquary, gave many a reminiscent peep at the antiquarian propensities which characterized the novelist himself throughout life. Scott says that this completed " a series of fictitious narratives intended to " illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods." " ' Waver- " 'ley,' " he continues, " embraced the age of our fathers, ' Guy Mannering' of " our own youth, and the ' Antiquary' refers to the last ten years of the " eighteenth centuiy.' ' This novel was not so well received at first as its two predecessors, " Waver- " ley" and " Guy Mannering," but it soon rose " to equal and, with some "readers, superior popularity." Auchindrane; or, The Ayrshire Tragedy. (1830) Po. xii. 241-362. This dramatic sketch was founded on the details " of the extraordinary case "of John Muir or Mure, of Auchindrane, who was executed a.d. 1611, to " which Sir W. Scott's attention was directed by Pitcairn, who was then about "to pubhsh an account of the case in his 'Criminal Trials.'" The story which is told in prose in the " Preface" is a remarkable account of the crimes and turbulence consequent, at that date, on a pursuit of the " heathen- " ish and accursed practice of Deadly Feud." [Austen, Jane, Novels of. (182 i) . . . Pr. xviii. 209 This review, criticising " Northanger Abbey" and " Persuasion," appeared in No. XLVIII. of the Quarterly for January, 1821, and was inserted in Scott's prose works in error. It was written by Dr. Whately, afterwards Arch- bishop of Dublin. The article written by Scott was published in No. XXVII. of the Quarterly (vol. xiv. pp. 188-201). Scott's article (which is not included in this edition of his writings) was a review on Miss Austen's " Emma," contrasting it with her previous novels " Sense and Sensibility" and " Pride and Prejudice." Mr. Lockhart ex- plains that the archbishop's review was readily accepted as proceeding from Sir Walter's pen, from the fact that the opinions of the two critics agreed thoroughly as to the worth of Miss Austen's books.] Autobiography of Scott, Sir Walter. (1808) . . L. i. 1-84 This fragment, known as the Ashestiel fragment, was written by Sir Walter " in 1808, shortly after the publication of his ' Marmion.' " It gives a clear " outline of his early life down to the period of his call to the Bar, July, " 1792." The Notes also are by Scott. He removed from Lasswade Cottage to Ashestiel, and thence to Abbotsford. Ayrshire Tragedy. (1830) . . . . Po. xii. 241-362 See Auchindrane. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Bage, Robert (1728-1801), Memoir of. (1821-5) . Pr. iii. 441 This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." The author was a paper-maker by trade, and his letters on the troubles arising from taxes and strikes are entertaining. He employed his leisure in writing six novels. The first, " Mount Henneth," was sold to Lowndes for £30, and published in 1781. Miss Catherine Hutton, in some biographical notes on this writer, says, " It is, perhaps, without a parallel in the annals of literature, " that, of six different works, comprising a period of fifteen years, the last " should be, as it unquestionably is, the best." Ballad, Imitations of the Ancient, by Modern Authors. Po. iv. 89-388. See Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Ballad, Imitations of the Ancient: Essay on. (1830) Po. iv. 3-87. This is an essay written twenty-eight years later than the first issue of the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," and " forms a continuation of the ' Re- '" marks on Popular Poetry' " printed in Po. i. 5-91- Ballads, Historical . . . Po. i., 293-428; and ii., 1-245 See Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Ballads, Old, Historical, etc. By Evans, Thomas. Pr. xvii. 119 See Eva s. Ballads, Romantic .... Po. ii., 247-360; and iii. See Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Ballads, Translated or Imitated from the German, etc. Po. vi. 289-359- The following six ballads are here included : Page Battle of Sempach. (1818) 332 First published in Blackwood. Fire King, The. (1801) 319 Written and undertaken for inclusion in Lewis's " Tales of Wonder." Frederick and Alice. (i8or) 327 First published in Lewis's " Tales of Wonder." 13 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Page Noble Moringer, The. (1819) 343 First appeared in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1816 (published in 1819). Wild Huntsman, The. (1796) 3°7 See Wild Huntsman impost), William and Helen. (1796) 291 See Lenore {post). Bannatyne, George (1545 — after 1606). (1823) . Po. xi. 377 This poem (by way of memoir) was written by Sir W. Scott as president of the Bannatyne Club, which was founded in 1822 for the publication or re- print of rare and curious works connected with the history and antiquities of Scotland. Little is known of George Bannatyne. He compiled a MS., preserved in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, known as the " Corpus Poeticum Scotorum," in which he has gathered together "nearly" all the ancient "poetry of Scotland now known to exist." The MS. is in a folio form containing upwards of 800 pages, " very neatly and " closely written." This enormous labour was undertaken by Bannat3me during the time of pestilence in 1568. The dread of infection had induced him to retire into solitude, and " under such circumstances he had the energy " to form and execute the plan of saving the literature of the whole nation, " undisturbed by the general mourning for the dead and general fears of the " living." Bannatyne is more fully dealt with by Scott in his article on Pit- cairn's " Ancient Criminal Trials." [See Pitcaim.) Battles of Talavera, The : A Poem. By Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson. (1809) . . . . Pr. xvii. 291 See Croker. Beresford, Rev. James (i 764-1840): Miseries of Human Life, The. (1806) Pr. xix. 139 See Miseries. Betrothed, The. (1825) Nov. xxxvii. This, with " The Talisman," form Scott's " Tales of the Crusaders." This novel illustrates the social confusion resulting from the long absence of the Crusaders in Palestine. The romance is laid during the wars upon the Welsh Marches, about the year 1187, during the reign of Henry II. of England, at the time Archbishop Baldwin was preaching a crusade. The novel introduces Sir Hugo de Lacy, Archbishop Baldwin, Henry II., Prince John, the Earl of Gloucester, and Richard Coeur de Lion. When the book was all but printed and finished, author, publisher, and printer lost 14 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS heart and determined to cancel the work, and Scott began another story, " The Talisman." But they were unwilling to sacrifice so much labour and pieparation, and the issue of the German fabrication " Walladmor," "which " gave ground for suspicion that a set of the suspended sheets might have "been purloined and sold to a pirate," put an end to all scruples, and Sir Walter completed the two " Tales of the Crusaders," and the brilliancy of "The Talisman" covered whatever deficiencies might otherwise have been prominently recognized in "The Betrothed." Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Novelists and Other Dis- tinguished Persons. (1821-1825) . . Pr. iii. andiv. This is mainly a series of "Lives" written gratuitously as "Prefaces" to a collection called " Ballantyne's Novelist's Library," published in ten volumes in London, 1821. The series was to be printed and published for the sole benefit of John Ballantyne. The "Lives" from that series with others written for magazines here collected are — - Bage, Robert . Pr. iii. 441 Buccleuch and Queensberry, Charles, Duke of . Pr. iv. 297 Byron, Lord . . Pr. iv. 343 Cumberland, Richard . Pr. iv. 191 De Foe, Daniel . . Pr. iv. 228 Fielding, Henry . . Pr. iii. 77 George IIL, King . Pr. iv. 322 Goldsmith, Oliver . . Pr. iii. 231 Johnson, Samuel . . Pr. iii. 260 Johnstone, Charles . Pr. iii. 427 Le Sage, Alain Ren6 . Pr. iii. 390 Leyden, John, M.D. . Pr. iv. 137 Mackenzie, Henry . Pr. iv. I Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann . Pr. iii. 337 Reeve, Clara . Pr. iii. 325 Richardson, Samuel . Pr. iii. 3 Sadler, Sir Ralph . . Pr. iv. 71 Seward, Miss Anna . Pr. iv. 199 Smith, Charlotte . . Pr. iv. 20 Smollett, Tobias . . Pr. iii. 117 Somerville, John, Lord . Pr. iv. 309 Sterne, Laurence . . Pr. iii. 273 Walpole, Horace . . Pr. iii. 299 York, Duke of . Pr. iv. 400 A note on these several "Lives" will be found under the name of the novelist or person whose biography is given by Scott. The publication of the first volume of the " Novelist's Library" took place in February, 1821, but the idea was apparently not prosperous, as with the tenth volume the " Library" was dropped abruptly. Constable offered Sir IS SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Walter £(>ocx) to edit a new edition of the " Library" in twenty-five volumes, to be issued in a more attractive form, with twenty-five volumes of a " Select "Librarj' of English Poetry," but the negotiation was never carried into effect. Scott did not believe that the old novelists could be made to pay in a serial form. Black Dwarf, The. (i8i6) .... Nov. ix. 1-217 This was the first of the two novels forming the first series of " Tales of My "Landlord." Anonymity on anonymity was practised by Sir W. Scott. Not content with reserving as a secret the fact of his authorship of the " Waverley " Novels," he would not permit the " Tales of My Landlord" to appear even as " By the Author of Waverley," and they were published by a new pub- lisher. With this tale begin the Jedediah Cleishbotham series, comprising "The Black Dwarf," "Old Mortality," "The Heart of Midlothian," "The "Bride of Lammermoor," "A Legend of Montrose," "Count Robert of "Paris," and " Castle Dangerous." Again a brilliant success was achieved, and Scott wrote that "Jedediah carried the world before him," and in six weeks nine thousand copies were sold; but "notwithstanding the silence of " the title-page and the change of the publishers, and the attempt which had " certainly been made to vary the style both of delineation and of language, " all doubts whether they were or were not from the same hand with " ' Waverley' had worn themselves out before the lapse of a week." But Scott held up the mask, declaring even to his publisher Murray that he " did "not claim that paternal interest in them which his friends did him the credit "to assign him." The events of "The Black Dwarf" are laid in 1708, in the time of Queen Anne. The prototype of the Dwarf was a David Ritchie, a native of Tweeddale, who was not quite three and a half feet high, of whom many particulars are given, Nov. ix. pp. xvii.-xxvi. The novel was reduced to one volume, having regard to the unpleasant characteristics of the Dwarf, though origi- nally designed to occupy two. BoADEN, James : Kemble, John Philip, Memoirs of the Life of. (1826) Pr. XX. 152 See Kemble. Border Antiquities, Essay on. (1817) . . . Pr. vii. i This formed the Introduction to a richly embellished quarto in two vol- umes, entitled "Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, comprising "Specimens of Architecture, Sculpture, etc." It contains large additions to the information previously embodied in the " Minstrelsy." Braybrooke, Richard, Lord : Pepys, Samuel, Memoirs of. (1826) Pr. XX. 94 See Pepys. 16 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Bridal of Triermain, The ; or, The Vale of St. John : A Lover's Tale. (1813) Po. xi. 1-141 This was published anonymously, and the critics, e.g., the Reviewer of the Quarterly, declared that the diction reminded them of a rhythm and cadence heard before ; " but the sentiments, descriptions, and characters have " qualities that are native and unborrowed." In the opinion of some, the un- known writer equalled if not surpassed the " Great Magician," and lo ! " after " three or four years this and some other works published anonymously turned " out to be the master's own compositions." This poem was written at the same time as the poet was writing " the Important poem ' Rokeby,' a new ex- " periment" in writing two poems at one time, while also editing Swift's works in nineteen volumes. It was intended to publish the two at one time, but this idea was abandoned. At the suggestion of William Erskine, Lord Kinedder, and in order to " mystify," Scott's Preface was " written over" by Erskine with Greek quotations, etc., and the deception succeeded till Scott removed the veil. A sketch of this poem, avowedly written as " an imitation of a living poet," was published in the Edinburgh Annual Register for the year 1809. When separately issued in 1813 it had been completed and largely rewritten. Bride of Lammermoor, The. 2 vols. (1819) Nov. xiii. andxiv. 235-392- This was the first of the two novels forming the third series of " Tales of " My Landlord." This series was written in the paroxysms of great sick- ness, by which most of the friends of the author feared that his life would be sacrificed. The "Bride" was "not only written but published before " Scott was able to rise from his bed," and he assured James Ballantyne, the printer, that " when it was first put into his hands in a complete shape, " he did not recollect one single incident, character, or conversation it con- " tained." He remembered, indeed, the incidents of the story, but " not a " single character woven by the romancer, not one of many scenes and points " of humour, nor anything with which he was connected as the writer of the "work." Commenting on the death of heroines, Scott said, " Of all the murders that " I have committed in that way — and few men have been guilty of more — there " is none that went so much to my heart as the poor ' Bride of Lammermoor ;' " but it could not be helped— it is all true." The novel is founded on events which occurred in the year 1700, in the time of William III., in the history of the Honourable Janet Dalrymple, the daughter of James, first Viscount Stair, and sister of John, first Earl of Stair, who was the chief author of the disgraceful massacre of Glencoe. Her mother was Dame Margaret Ross. Apart from dramatic versions, the capabilities of this story for the stage are exquisitely realized in Donizetti's delightful opera, " Lucia di Lammermoor." 17 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS BUCCLKUCH AND QuEENSBERRY, ChARLES, DuKE OF (1772-1819), Character of the late. (1819) . • Pr. iv. 297 This was published in the Edinburgh Weekly Journal va. 1819. It is a warm-hearted eulogy of a good man who loved his country and won the hearts of all his tenants. In 1817 he abstained from going to London for the season and remained on his estates so as to employ nine hundred and forty-seven persons, exclusive of his regular establishment, on extensive improvements, and in that manner, to afford relief to many poor families in that severe year. Bunyan, John (1628-1688), Life of. By Southey, Robert. (1830) Pr. xviii. 74 See Southey. Burger, Gottfried Augustus (i 747-1 794). Translations of "Lenore" a«flr"THE Wild Huntsman." (1796) Po. vi. 291-318. See Lenore and Wild Huntsman. Burns, Robert (1759-1796), Reliques of. Collected by Cromek, R. H. (1809) Pr. xvii. 242 This was published in the Quarterly Review for l8og. Byron, Lord (i 788-1 824): Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Canto m. (1816) Pr. iv. 3ST This article appeared in the Quarterly Review of October, 1816 (vol. xvi.). It was written at a time when, as Lord Byron said in later years, " all the " world and his wife were trying to trample on him," and it required great courage to speak favourably of the popular scapegoat. Lord Byron fully recognized the service done to him in a letter he wrote to Scott in January, 1822. Byron, Lord : Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ; Canto IV. (1818) Pr. xvii. 337 This splendid recognition of a splendid Canto, fuller "of deep thought "and sentiment though with less of passion" [see page 357) than Cantos I.-III., is amusingly characterized by Sir W. Scott in a letter to Lord Buc- cleuch (see Lockhart's " Life," vol. vi. p. 6) " as one of a series of miscel- " laneous trash" put together for various motives, which he details, the motive for this particular article being " the love of myself, I believe, or, what is the " same thing, the love of ;^loo, which I wanted for some odd purpose." 18 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Byron, Lord, Death of. (1824) . . . . Pr. iv. 343 This was first published in the Edinburgh Weekly Journal oi 1824. Scott on the day the intelligence of Byron's death reached Edinburgh went from the Court of Session to the printing office, and there dictated this article to James Ballantyne, and it was inserted without correction or revisal except by Ballantyne. Caledonian Sketches. By Carr, Sir John. (1809) Pr. xix. 160 See Carr. Caledonians, Picts, and Scots, Annals of. (1829) Pr. xx. 301 See Ritson. Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844): Gertrude of Wyoming. (1809) Pr. xvii. 267 This review appeared in the Quarterly Review for May, 1809. It enforces the two views Sir Walter is known to have very strongly entertained : first, that Campbell was alarmed at his own reputation; and, second, that poetry should not be too carefully and frequently revised and amended. Carr, Sir John (i 772-1832) : Caledonian Sketches. (1809) Pr. xix. 160. This review appeared in the first number of the Quarterly in February, 1809. It opens with an amusing account of an unsuccessful action for libel Sir John Carr had brought against the editor of a satiric work, entitled " My " Pocket-Book," written by Edward Dubois in ridicule of Carr's work en- titled " The Stranger in Ireland." When Scott read the book complained of he first thought the action was not for libel, but for piracy in wholesale appro- priations of other writers' paragraphs. The real cause of action was in the innuendoes of a caricature print used as a frontispiece. Scott hoped that he would not be sued for libel, as his severe review was not, " in the engravers' sense of the word, adorned with "cuts." Castle Dangerous. (1831) Nov. xlvii., 243-466; and xlviii., 1-146. The period of the story is about 1306-7, in the time of Edward I. It is the second of the two stories forming the fourth series of the " Tales of My " Landlord." The incidents are derived from the ancient metrical chronicle of " The Bruce," by Archdeacon Barbour, and from the " History of the Houses " of Douglas and Angus," by David Hume, of Godscroft. They relate to the wars between Edward I., of England, and Bruce, of Scotland. The castle of the Black Douglas was so often " won back by its ancient lords, and with 19 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS "such circumstances of valour and cruelty, that it bears in the north of " England the name of the Dangerous Castle." The novel deals vpith the third capture of the castle from the English. This was Sir W. Scott's last effort in fiction. He had told the outline of the story, in print, many years before in his " Essay on Chivalry." See Pr. vi. p. 36. Chace, The. (1796) Po. ^^. 310 See Wild Huntsman. Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770): Works of. (1804) Pr. xvii. 215. This essay appeared in the Edinburgh Review of April, 1804. The remarks on the extraordinary literary imposture of the Row^ley poems are interesting reading, although many volumes have been written on the subject since Sir W. Scott's review of the first collected edition of this remarkable youth's poems, whose " life and death will be the lasting honour and the " indelible disgrace of the eighteenth century." Some of the principal impostures indulged in by Chatterton are usefully collected at pp. 232—234. Chaucer, Geoffrey, Life of (1328-1400). By Godwin, William. (1804) Pr. xvii. 55 See Godwin. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : Cantos III. and IV. By Byron, Lord. (1816 and 1818) . Pr. iv., 351 j andVx. xvii., 337 See Byron. Chivalry, Essay on. (1818) . . . . . Pr. vi. i In 1812 Constable acquired the copyright of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica," and in 18 14 was preparing to publish a Supplement to that work for which Scott furnished two essays, — those on Chivalry and the Drama. The sub- stance of these essays has since been incorporated with modifications into the text of the " Encyclopedia." This essay is included in the Chronological List of the author's writings under the date of 1 814, but was first published in the Supplement in 1818. The writer received £100 for it. The essayist treats of his subject under three heads : p. 10, the general nature and spirit of the institution of chivalry; p. 49, the special forms and laws of the order; and p. 106, the causes of the decay and extinction of chivalry. Chronicle of Scottish Poetry from the 13TH Century to the Union of the Crowns, with a Glossary. (1803.) See Sibbald. 20 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Chronicle of the Cid : Version by Southey, Robert. (1809) Pr. xviii. 44 See Southey. Chronicles of the Canongate. (1827-28) Nov. xli., 121, 238, 301; xlii., xliii., and xlviu., 147-430. The first series included Mr. Chrystal Croftangry's biographical account of himself, the reputed but imaginary author of these Chronicles, which com- prised " The Highland Widow," " The Two Drovers," and " The Surgeon's " Daughter." The second series consisted of " The Fair Maid of Perth." The introduction to these Chronicles is exceedingly interesting as giving Sir W. Scott's own account of the occasion on which he discarded the in- cognito he had maintained as to his being the author of " Waverley." This account was written soon after his financial ruin. He was a secret partner with Messrs. Ballantyne & Co., the publishers, and on their failure stood in debt to the enormous sum of from ;^l20,ooo to ;^I40,000 — say ^650,000. To pay his debts and retrieve his position he threw off the then almost open secret, and at fifty-five years of age proposed to himself the task of discharging every penny of his debts by writing and publishing even more vigorously than before, were that possible. He sold " Woodstock" for ^£'8228, " The Life of Napoleon" for ;/;'i8,ooo, and before he died had reduced his debts to ;^54,ooo. These were discharged by insurances, ;^22,ooo; cash in hand, ^^2000; and ^£'30,000 advanced on the security of his copyrights, and reimbursed to the lender within a few years of the author's death. No similar story (except perhaps that of General Grant's " Memoirs") can be narrated. In Howitt's "Homes and Haunts" (vol. ii.) it is calculated that Scott's writings produced to the author or to his trustees ^2,222,000. If this is the payment to them, what must have been the amount of money expended for copies of his books by the public ? Chronological List of the Publications of Sir Walter Scott. L. X. 269-276 Chrystal Croftangry : Biographical Sketch of the Imaginary Chronicler of the Three Tales entitled "The High- "land Widow," "The Two Drovers," and "The Sur- " geon's Daughter." . Nov. xli., 1-120; and 2^8-242 For the tales, see each under its proper heading. The sketcli of Chrystal Croftangry's own history forms the introductory story of the first series of the "Chronicles of the Canongate." Mr. Croft- angry is the imaginary editor, and the lady, termed in the narrative Mrs. Bethune Baliol, was " Mrs. Murray Keith, a dear friend of the author's." 21 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Church of Scotland, History of. By Kirkton, Rev. James. (1818) Pr. xix. 213 See Kirkton. Cookery, Receipts in Modern. By Ignotus, and Revised by Dr. A. Hunter. (1805) Pr. xix. 107 This article appeared in the Edinburgh for July, 1805. Sir W. Scott deems that Ignotus and his Doctor friend may have done well to point out the dangers of various temptingly-described and richly- seasoned dishes ; but to describe them and then stigmatize them as " unwhole- " some is only calling for the water-engine after you have set the house on " fire." Cookery, The New Practice of. By Hudson, Mrs., and Donat, Mrs. (1805) Pr. xix. 100 This article appeared in the Edinburgh for July, 1805. The writers were "the present and late housekeepers and cooks" to a Mrs. Hepburn. As the owner or proprietor of these two housekeepers and cooks, she was so amused by the review, that her husband, Sir George Hepburn, a Baron of the Exche- quer in Scotland, gave a great dinner to Mr. Jeffrey and the literati of Edin- burgh ; but, unfortunately, Scott, who had thus " founded' ' the feast, could not be present to test the culinary powers of these ladies. The errata in the cookery-book quoted by Scott (see p. 106) include some amusing items, — e.g., "for linen read lemon;" "for chicken read OTtxon-^' "for half a read three-thirds !" Count Robert of Paris. 2 vols. (1831) Nov. xlvi. and xlvii. 1-241. This novel and its follower, " Castle Dangerous," form the fourth series of "Tales of My Landlord." Soon after the third series, consisting of the "Bride of Lammermoor" and "The Legend of Montrose," had been pub- lished, in 1819, some bookseller advertised a fourth series containing " Ponte- " fract Castle, etc.," and when John Ballantyne advertised in an Edinburgh paper that " Pontefract" was not written by the author of the tales in the first three series, the bookseller impeached Constable's authority, " asserting " that nothing but the personal appearance in the field of the gentleman for " whom Ballantyne pretended to act could shake his belief that he was in the " confidence of the true Simon Pure." The publishers wanted Scott to dis- close himself, but he refused, saying, " Let them publish : that will serve our " purpose better than anything we ourselves can do;" and so it proved, for " Pontefract Castle, etc., " fell stillborn from the press. The story of " Count Robert of Paris" relates to the period when the Cru- saders, under Godfrey of Bouillon, were before Constantinople, during the 22 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS reign of Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Greece, about 1090, in the time of William Rufus. It introduces Alexius Comnenus, Anna Comnena, his daughter and the celebrated writer of the " Alexiad," Godfrey of Bouillon, Hereward, the Empress Irene, Nicanor, Achilles Tatius, and Count Robert of Paris, the French crusader of the blood of Charlemagne. The novel was almost entirely dictated to an amanuensis, as Scott was suffering from a stroke of paralysis. Criminal Trials in Scotland from 1484 to 1684. By Pitcairn, Robert. (1831) Pr. xxi. 199 See Pitcairn. Criticism, Miscellaneous. Pr. xix., 87-367 ; Pr. xx. ; and Pr. xxi., 1-265. Criticism on Novels and Romances . Pr. xviii. ; and Yr. xix., 1-86. Criticism, Periodical . . Pr. xvii., xviii., xix., xx., a^^xxi. Criticism, Poetical Pr. xvii. Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson (1780-1857) : Battles of Tala- vera, The. (1809) Pr. xvii. 291 This is a review of a poem by the well-known editor of " Boswell's " Johnson." It appeared in the Quarterly Review for November, 1809, and enforces Scott's dangerous theory that, to a large extent, the minor arts of composition and versification, such as "hasty expressions and deficient " rhymes, may be disregarded, as Falstaff did the thews and sinews and out- " ward composition of his recruits, provided the heart," which makes the poet as well as the soldier, is right. This is generally regarded as "flat "heresy" and an excuse for carelessness. Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson : Suffolk, Henrietta, Countess OF (1681-1767), Correspondence of. (1824) Pr. xix. 185. This review appeared in the Quarterly for January, 1824. The corre- spondence covered the period 1712-1767. It included a wide list of cele- brated persons. The Countess of Suffolk, better known as Mrs. Howard, was the wife of Mr. Howard (the third son of the fifth Earl of Suffolk), was also the supposed mistress of George II., and afterwards became the wife of the Hon. George Berkeley, youngest son of the second Earl of Berkeley. The letters deal mainly with private affairs, and contradict many of Walpole's un- generous insinuations and allegations against Mrs. Howard. 23 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Cromek, Robert Hartley (1770-1812): Reliques of Burns, Robert. (1809) Pr. xvii. 242 See Burns. CuLLODEN Papers, The. (1816J . . . • Pr. xx. i This review appeared in the Quarterly for January, 1816. The rising of 1745, it must be remembered, had not become, in 1816, a matter of long by- gone history, and the inner story was still a novel matter. The account of clanship and its power furnished a subject on which Scott could write with good will and interestingly. The review contains many bright anecdotes of the Scotch, as (p. 11) where a pigmy Highland chief, warned by a clergyman that it was necessary to forgive an inveterate enemy, and who further sup- ported his argument by the scriptural expression, " Vengeance is Mine, saith "the Lord," received for an answer, accompanied by a deep sigh, "To be "sure, it is too sweet a morsel for a mortal;" and, added the acquiescing penitent, " Well, I forgive him ; but the deil take you, Donald" (turning to his son), " if you forgive him." Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811): John de Lancaster: A Novel. (1809) Pr. xxviii. 138 This appeared in the Quarterly Review for 1809. The novel was written when Cumberland was seventy-six years of age. Cumberland, Richard, Memoir of. (1821-5) . . Pr. iii. 191 This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." This dramatic author and essayist was the grandson of " Bentley, the renowned " critic," who was styled by Goldsmith " The Terence of England, the " Mender of Hearts." He was a very voluminous writer, the following works amongst others being attributed to his pen : two epics, thirty-eight dramatic pieces, three controversial publications, three novels, nine miscella- neous and prose works, besides twenty-three fugitive pieces. His first novel, " Arundel," was written at Brighton in a few weeks, and sent to the press in parcels as he wrote it. Goldsmith, in his epitaph on Cumberland, describes him as, — " A flattering painter, who made it his care " To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. " His gallants are all faultless, his women divine, " And Comedy wonders at being so fine ; ***** " Say, where has one poet this malady caught, " Or, wherefore his characters thus without fault?" Currency, The : Letters from Malagrowther, Malachi. (1826) Pr. xxi. 267-402 See Malagrowther. 24 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Curse OF Kehama. By Southey, Robert. (i8ii) Pr. xvii. 301 See Southey. Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829): Salmonia j or, Days of Fly- FiSHiNG. (1828) Pr. XX. 245 See Salmonia. Death of the Laird's Jock. (1828) . . Nov. xli. 375-385 This was the last of three sketches published in "The Keepsake" for 1828. The period of the story is laid in the year 1600, in the reign of Eliza- beth. It is in the form of a letter to the editor of " The Keepsake" by " The " Author of Waverley." De Foe, Daniel (1661-1731), Memoir of. (1821-5) Pr. iv. 228 This sketch was written by John Ballantyne, the Edinburgh bookseller, to which Sir W. Scott added some critical notices comprising an excellent account (pp. 266-274) of Defoe's scheme to effect a sale of Drelincourt's book on "The Fear of Death," by the invention and addition of "Mrs. " Veal's Apparition." Two appendixes are added, — viz., " Some Account of Alexander Selkirk" (pp. 282-287), and the " Apparition of Mrs. Veal" (pp. 288-296). De Foe's political works occasioned him " much suffering and pecuniary " loss," which he summed up in this couplet : " No man has tasted differing fortunes more, " And thirteen times I have been rich and poor." Demonology and Witchcraft, Letters on. (1830.) These originally formed part of Murray's " Family Library," where copies can be found. They are included in some editions (the one hundred volumes edition, for instance) of Scott's writings to complete the collection of his prose works, but are omitted in this ninety-eight volumes edition. Diary of a Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht to Nova Zembla AND the Lord knows where. (1814) L. iv. 182-370 This is a diary " contained in five little paper books," written in the summer of 1814, describing a six weeks' pleasure voyage, wherein, " according to the " scene and occasion," we have before us " the poet, the antiquary, the magis- "trate, the planter, and the agriculturist, but everywhere the warm yet saga- " cious philanthropist." It is a delightful piece of autobiography. 25 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Discourses, Two Religious. (1828.) See Religious. DoNAT, Mrs. : Cookery, The New Practice OF. (1805) Pr. xix. 100 See Cookery. Doom of Devorgoil, The. (1830) . . . Po. xii. 113-240 This was written for Daniel Terry (1780-1829), of the Adelphi Theatre, London, who was, during many years, on terms of intimacy with Sir W. Scott. The general story of the " Doom of Devorgoil" is founded on an old Scottish tradition, the scene of which lies in Galloway. It did not succeed on the stage. Drama, The, Essay on. (181 9) . . . . Pr. v. 217 This is included in Scott's "Chronological List of Writings" under the year 1814. It was first published in the "Supplement to the Encyclopaedia " Britannica," in 1819. Sir Walter received ^100 for the essay. The essayist treats of his subject under certain broad heads, — e.g. : (p. 221) Grecian theatrical representations; (p. 258) the Roman drama; (p. 266) the modern drama as developed in Italy; (p. 293) the drama in France; (p. 331) the drama in England from the revival of the theatre until the great Civil War; (p. 352) from the Restoration to the reign of Queen Anne ; (p. 365) from the earlier part of the eighteenth century to the time of George the Fourth ; (p. 376) the period of David Garrick, Sheridan, the elder Colman, Mrs. Siddons, Kean, Young, and Miss O'Neil. [See Chivalry.) Dryden, John (1631-1700), The Life of. (1808) . . Pr. i. The " Life and Works of Dryden, with Notes," were published by Scott in eighteen volumes, for which the editor's fee was forty guineas a volume, — i.e., £']$(>. It was reviewed with great praise by Henry Hallam in the Edinburgh Review for October, 1808. A view of Carlisle after J. M. W. Turner by E. Goodall is given as frontis- piece, and a view of the poet's tomb in Westminster Abbey, also after J. M. W. Turner by J. Horsburgh, is added. Durham Garland . . . . . . L. v. 397-408 See Guy Mannering. Ellis, George (1745-1815) : Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances. (1806) Pr. xvii. 16 This is an article published in the Edinburgh Review for 1806, contrasting the " Metrical Romances" edited by Joseph Ritson with those edited by Mr. Ellis. 26 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Ellis, George : Specimens of the Early English Poets. (1804) Pr. xvii. I George Ellis became the friend of Sir W. Scott in the year 1800. The essay from which these remarks are taken appeared in the Edinburgh Review for 1804. English Songs, Vocal Poetry ; or, A Select Collection of. By John Aikin. (1810) . . . . Pr. xvii. 133 See Aikin. Evans, Thomas: Old Ballads, Historical, etc. (1810) Pr. xvii. 119. This was published in the Quarterly Review, May, 1810. It reviews an edition of poems revised by the poet's son, R. H. Evans. The article also criticises Aikin's "Vocal Poetry." dm. This formed the second series of "The Chronicles of the Canongate." The story is laid in Perth and its vicinity in the year 1402 in the time of Henry IV. of England and of Robert III. of Scotland. The story includes the settlement of a feud between two clans by a combat between thirty of their chosen warriors, in King Robert's presence, on Palm Sunday. " The novel " had a favourable reception." The second title arises from the incident that Catharine, the daughter of the old glover of Perth, kisses Henry Smith, while asleep, on St. Valentine's morning, and ultimately marries him. The story introduces amongst other historical personages the Earl of Douglas, Lieu- tenant-General of Scotland ; King Robert the Third ; the Duke of Albany ; and George, Earl of Dunbar and March. 27 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Fairies OF Popular Superstition. (1802 a^^f 1803) Po. ii. 254-336 This essay on elves or fairies forms an introduction to the " Tale of "Tamlane," included among the "Romantic Ballads" in the "Minstrelsy of "the Scottish Border." Sir W. Scott considerably modified some of the views maintained in this early essay from his pen, in his later-written Letter No. IV. on " Demonology," published in 1830. Fatal Revenge ; or, The Family of Montorio. By Maturin, Rev. Charles Robert. (1810) . . . Pr. xviii. 157 See Maturin. Field of Waterloo, The. (1815) . . . Po. xi. 255-291 This was published within four months of the battle of Waterloo, and the profits of the first edition were the author's contribution to the fund raised for the relief of the widows and children of the soldiers slain in the battle. The poem was brought out in a cheap form, and rapidly attained a measure of circulation above what had been reached either by " Rokeby" or " The Lord " of the Isles." Fielding, Henry (1707-1754), Memoir of. (1821-5) Pr. iii. 77-116. This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." This life of " the first of British novelists," or, as Lord Byron termed him, " the " prose Homer of human nature," gives a very good running commentary on the principal works of Fielding. Scott once quoted in a letter a couplet from Fielding's farce " Tumble- " down Dick" which he liked, and he forthwith determined to put it in his "Woodstock" into the mouth of "an old admirer of Shakespeare;" but as Fielding's lines were not written at the period of the novel, he added a note (see " Woodstock," Nov. xl. p. 134) that, observing it in Fielding, " it must, as " it was current in the time of the Commonwealth, have reached the author of " • Tom Jones' by tradition ; for no one," adds Scott, " will suspect the pres- " ent author of making the anachronism." See Lockhart's " Life," vol. viii. pp. 251-52, where is recorded an entry in Scott's diary asserting that he felt assured that it would be easy to swear they were written and that Fielding adopted them from tradition. Fleetwood; or, The New Man of Feeling. By Godwin, Wil- liam. (1805) Pr. xviii. 118 See Godwin. 28 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Fly-Fishing, Days of. By Davy, Sir Humphry. (1828) Pr. xx. 245- See Salmonia. Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter, The. By Monteath, Robert. (1827) Pr. xxi. i See Monteath. Fortunes of Nigel, The. 2 vols. (1822) . Nov. xxvi. and-xyivu.. The plot of the story is woven round the Scottish citizen and goldsmith, George Heriot (1563-1624), who followed James I. to the English capital, acted as the King's Goldsmith and Banker, and was familiarly called Jingling Geordie. He was the founder of the well-known Heriot's Hospital for the education of youth. The romance is laid in London and its vicinity in and about the year 1620, and an excellent account is given of the liberties of Alsatia, as Whitefriars was then called. Among the historical personages introduced are Steenie, the Duke of Buck- ingham; Charles I., as " Baby Charles;" George Heriot; King James I., and various heroes and heroines of Alsatia, the sanctuary of outlaws. The story and notes give much information as to the monstrous murder of Sir Thomas Overbury by Mrs. Turner, with the connivance of the Duchess of Somerset. " Nigel" " was considered as ranking in the first class of Scott's romances." Fragments, Poetical Po. vi. 373-382 These consist of the " Poacher" and a " Song." France, History of. 2 vols. (1830) . . Pr. xxvii. and xxviii. See Tales of a Grandfather. Frankenstein; or. The Modern Prometheus. (1818) Pr. xviii. 250. This review appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for March, i8l8. It is a criticism of Mrs. Shelley's first novel, "A Strange Romance," wild and improbable, and esteemed at first a classic ; but this early judgment on its merits has been considerably modified in later years. Scott, when re- viewing the novel, attributed the authorship to Percy Bysshe Shelley. Fraser, James Baillie (i 783-1856): Kuzzilbash, The: A Tale of Khorasan. (1829) Pr. xviii. 393 This review appeared in the Quarterly for January, 1829. The romance was called "Kuzzilbash," which means the "Red-cap," to designate the Persian soldier, who is so called from that distinguishing part of his uniform. 29 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Froissart (Sir) John (1337 — circa 1400), Chronicles of. By JOHNES, Thomas. (1805) . . . . Pr. xix. 112 This review appeared in the Edinburgh in January, 1805. The edition here reviewed was executed at the Hafod Press, a private printing press established by Mr. Johnes (1749-1816) at his superb residence at Hafod. His " Froissart," followed by " Monstrelet," are too well known to need more than mention. Galt, John (1779-1839): The Omen. (1824) . Pr. xviii. 333 This review appeared in Blackwood for July, 1824. Gait wrote eight or ten novels, principally delineating Scottish life and character, but this is not considered one of his best. George III., King (1738-1820), Memoir of. (1820) Pr. iv. 322 This was published in the Edinburgh Weekly Journal ai February 8, 1820. Gertrude of Wyoming. By Campbell, Thomas. (1809) Pr. xvii. 267. See Campbell. ■ Glossary to Sir Tristrem Po. v. 463-493 Glossary to the Waverley Novels . . Nov. xlviii. 431-492 This is more than a glossary, and contains several interesting old rhymes, and so forth. For example, the " Borrowing-days," or the last three days of March (O.S.), are described as, — " March borrowed frae Aprile " Three days, an' they were ill ; " The first o' them was wind and weet, " The second o' them was snaw and sleet, " The third o' them was sic a freeze " That the birds' legs stack to the trees." This rhyme is quoted (see Nov. xii. 230) in Leyden's edition of the " Com- "playut of Scotland." Another rhyme worthy of remembrance is, — " Neevie— neevie — nee — nack, " Which hand will you tak, " Tak the right, tak the wrang, " I'll beguile you if I can;" which is stated to be a lottery rhyme used among boys while whirling the two closed fists round each other,— one containing the prize, the other empty. 30 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Godwin, William (i 756-1836): Chaucer, Geoffrey, Life of. (1804) Pr. xvii. 55 This is an article from the Edinburgh Review for 1804 on a work by God- win in two volumes, quarto, upon which the writer says (Lockhart's " Life," ii. 177), " I have not either inclination or talents to use the critical scalping " knife, unless, as in the case of Godwin, where flesh and blood succumbed "under the temptation." Of this work "on Chaucer," Scott presumed that the entire edition had been employed by the sapient Government as the " heaviest materials to be come at" and adopted for blocking up " the mouth " of our enemy's harbours." The scalping-knife is amusingly used where (p. 69) he corrects Mr. Godwin, who had blamed Chaucer for " polluting the " portrait of Creseide's virgin character in the beginning of the poem with so "low and pitiful joke as this: " ' But whether that she children had, or none, " ' I rede it not, therefore I let it gone.' " In which lines (as Scott says) Chaucer intended no joke, inasmuch as Cre- seide was a young widow : " And as a widowe was she and alone." Nor does the critic consider it other than a "poor excuse" (p. 70), "after " writing a huge book, to tell the reader that it is but ' superficial work' be- " cause the author came a novice to such an undertaking." He advises Mr. Godwin in future " to read before he writes, and not merely while he is " writing." The whole may be characterized as a " slashing review." Godwin could not properly have made a work of many pages, much less two volumes, on the life of Chaucer, so he padded it with " memoirs of his " [Chaucer's] near friend and kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, " [and] with sketches of the manners, opinions, arts, and literature of England " in the fourteenth century." Godwin, William : Fleetwood ; or, The New Man of Feeling. (1805) Pr. xviii. 118 This appeared in the Edinburgh Review for 1805. It is an outline of the novel, and closes with some reasons for objecting to such a " Man of Feel- " ing" as the despicable hero of this book. GOETZ OF Berlichingen : A Tragedy. (1799) . Po. xiL 443 Monk Lewis negotiated the sale of Scott's version of Goethe's tragedy for ;^25.5.o, with a further payment of a like sum in case of a second edi- tion, but "none was called for until long after the copyright had expired." Goetz was a real character, and was called Iron Hand, having lost his right hand for contravening an ordinance of Maximilian, the grandfather of Charles v., published in 149S, against duelling. "A machine," it is related, "was " made and fitted to his right arm, whence he was called ' Iron Hand.' " 31 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774), Memoir of. (1821-5) Pr. iii. 231. This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." This charming sketch gives too brief an account of one " who touched nothing " that he did not adorn," as Dr. Johnson affirmed in the epitaph placed in Westminster Abbey to Goldsmith's memory. It touches lightly on his acting as a "reader" in the printing-house of Samuel Richardson, and the well known anecdote of Dr. Johnson's selling for him the "Vicar of Wakefield" for £60 when Goldsmith was in trouble with his landlady on account of overdue rent. It gives many a sample of his habits of forgetfulness, as, for instance, when he sallied forth from some apartments he had engaged, he for- got to ask the name or address of the landlady, and could never have re- turned "had he not met the porter who had carried his luggage." This forgetfulness served him in good stead at times, for once when he was going to Leyden, forgetting about his destination, he embarked in a ship which was bound from Leith for Bordeaux, and was fortunately driven into Newcastle-upon-Tyne by stress of weather, where he succeeded in getting locked up in a prison, and on his release found that his ship had sailed. It was wrecked at the mouth of the Garonne, and every soul on board perished. His comedy of the " Good-Natured Man" (1768) ran nine nights. His " She Stoops to Conquer" still retains a place on the stage. The main inci- dent in the latter play, of mistaking a gentleman's residence for an inn, was borrowed from a blunder of the author himself while travelling in Ireland. Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. 2 vols. (1815) Nov. iii. andiv. This was received with eager curiosity, and pronounced by acclamation fully worthy to share the honours of "Waverley." In the spring of l8i6, Daniel Terry, the actor (1780-1828), produced a dramatic version of this novel " which met with great success on the London boards, and still con- "tinues to be a favourite with the theatrical public." The novel was pub- lished " exactly two months after the ' Lord of the Isles' was dismissed from "the author's desk." In Lockhart's "Life" (vol. v. pp. 397-408) is given the ballad from " The Durham Garland," recovered " after Sir W. Scott's "death," which "in fact contains a great deal more of the main fable" of " Guy Mannering" " than the other versions mentioned by the author in his " Introduction." He probably had read it in his boyhood and remembered the purport of it, though its actual words could not just at the time be recalled.— See Lockhart's "Life" (vol. v. pp. 5 and 35, 36). The principal incidents of this story are founded on facts. The two char- acters which live most actively in the memory undoubtedly are " Dominie " Sampson, the stickit minister" and eccentric schoolmaster with a " pro-di- " gi-ous" amount of unapplied learning ; and Meg Merrilies, whose person- ality has been graven on the mind even more deeply than in the novel by the superb acting of Miss Charlotte Cushman. The gipsy on whom the char- 32 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS acter of Meg was founded was well known in the middle of the eighteenth centuiy "by the name of Jean Gordon, an inhabitant of the village of " Kirk Yetholm, in the Cheviot Hills, adjoining the English border." The author adds (Nov. iii. p. 23), " Such a preceptor as Mr. Sampson is supposed " to have been was actually tutor in the family of a gentleman of consider- " able property." The events of the tale are laid in the years 1750-70, in the reigns of George II. and George III. Andrew Crosby, whose portrait hangs in the Parliament Hall, Edinburgh, was the original of the shrewd and witty Counsellor Pleydell. Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England. By Morier, James. (1829) Pr. xviii. 354 See Morier. Halidon Hill. (1822) Po. xii. 1-86 This is a " Dramatic Sketch from Scottish History." Halidon Hill is situ- ate about two miles northwest of Berwick-on-Tweed, England, where, July I9> 1333. 'he English under Edward III. defeated the Scots under the Re- gent Archibald Douglas. The scene utilized by Scott was really Homildou Hill, a height near Wooler in Northumberland, England, where the English under Percy defeated the Scots under Douglas in 1402. The Regent of the play is a purely imaginary character. Messrs. Constable, without seeing the manuscript, offered ;£'looo for the copyright, which was accepted. Scott did not succeed in dramatic composi- tion. Whether he could have done so if he had taken the necessary care and pains is not to the point. His dramatic pieces " would have been long " since forgotten, but that they came from Scott's pen." Harold the Dauntless. (181 7) . . . Po. xi. 143-254 This was published " by the author of the ' Bridal of Triermain' " within less than a month of the publication of "The Black Dwarf" and "Old " Mortality." A sketch of it had been actually printed in 1809 in the Edinburgh Annual Register, avowedly as one of three imitations of " Living "Poets." The comparative failure of this piece resolved Sir Walter that he would "never again adventure in poetry on a grand scale." Scott's own feeling was that " it turned vapid upon his imagination, and he had finished " it at last with hurry and impatience." Again the critics were on a false scent, and the Critical Review styled " Harold" " a tolerably successful imitation of some parts of the style of Mr. " Walter Scott, but, like all imitations, it is clearly distinguishable from the " prototype : it wants the life and seasoning of originality." Blackwood' s criticism on it (sea Po. xi. pp. 252-254) describes it as " one of the closest " and most successful imitations," without being either " a caricature or a " parody, that perhaps ever appeared in any language." This makes amusing reading. In three or four years it was found to be Sir W. Scott's own work. 3 33 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Heart OF Midlothian, The. 2 vols. (1818) Nov. xi., 139-419 ; xii. and xiii., 1-234. This formed the second series of the "Tales of My Landlord." The events are laid in the years 1736-51, in the reign of George 11. , and gather round the noisy scenes of the Porteous Riot in Edinburgh. Porteous was captain of the Edinburgh City Guard, and fired upon the people for a dis- turbance made when a noted smuggler named Wilson was hanged. Porteous was tried for shooting the people illegally, and was himself sentenced to be hanged ; but the people, believing the sentence would not be carried into effect, broke into the prison while Porteous was rejoicing with friends at an antici- pated speedy reprieve, and executed him. The character of Jeanie Deans, the heroine of the storj', had a real prototype in the person of Helen Wal- ker, who walked to London to ask and obtained the pardon of her sister, who was under sentence of death for child murder. They were the daughters of a small farmer in a place called Dalwhairn, in the parish of Irongray, Dumfriesshire. The historical personages, the Duke of Argyle, Queen Caro- line the consort of George II., Porteous, Lady Suffolk, and others, and the strongly marked characters of IWadg^e JVyildfir-e.and the grand Jeanie Deans, lend this story extreme interest. The " Heart of Midlothian" was a name given to the old jail or Tolbooth of Edinburgh. It was taken down in 1817. Sir Walter Scott caused a monument to be erected over the grave of Helen Walker to her memory. The novelist gives (vol. xi. pp. 15 1*-I52*) several particulars of Helen and Isabella Walker, the latter of whom, after being saved by her sister, was married to the person (named Waugh) who had wronged her, and " lived happily for great part of a century, uniformly " acknowledging the extraordinary affection to which she owed her preser- "vation." Helen was never married. Lij^oL_xiii_. at^ pp. 36— 39 are some interesting particulara..Qf. Madge Wildfire. Herbert, The Honourable and Rev. William (i 778-1847): Herbert's Poems. (i8o6) . . . Pr. xvii. 102 This was a review published in the Edinburgh Review for i8o5 upon two volumes of " Miscellaneous Poetry" by Mr. Herbert. The way in which the celebrated " Death Song of Regnar Lodbrog" had become perverted, and the exact contrary of the original had been given in English versions of Scaldic poetry by reason of being translated from Ice- landic into Latin and thence into English, is amusingly shown (p. 104) by apt quotations. Mr. Herbert translated directly from the Icelandic, and so cor- rected many gross blunders. Highland Widow, The. (1827) . . . Nov. xli. 121-237 This tale, laid in the year 1755, in the reign of George II., was derived from the author's friend, Mrs. Murray Keith. " Neither the Highland cicerone " MacLeish, nor the demure waiting-woman, were drawn from imagination." The tale is related "very much as the excellent old lady used to tell the " story," and forms the first of the first series of " Tales of the Canongate." 34 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Hoffmann, Ernest Theodore William (1776-1822), Novels of. (1827) Pr. xviii. 270 Hoffinann's third name is variously given as William, Wolfgang, and Ama- deus. This review appeared in the first number of the Foreign Quarterly for July, 1827. It gives a very interesting account of the author, whose career was both painful and extraordinary. He was one of the " most remarkable and "original of German story tellers."' Carlyle, in 1827, wrote an interesting account of him, now included in his " Critical and Miscellaneous Essays." Hoffmann led an extremely ill-regulated life, and when success had turned his head, he, in disgust with conventionalities, retired to the wine house. " Strangers," says one of his biographers, " came to Berlin to see him in the "tavern. The tavern was his study, his pulpit, and his throne. Here his wit " flashed and flamed like an aurora borealis, and the table was forever in a " roar; and thus, amid tobacco smoke and over coarse earthly liquor, was Hoff- " mann, wasting faculties which might have seasoned the nectar of the gods." His personal courage and literary industry in the last painful years of his life, when suffering a medical martyrdom, are a curious warning how "the most " fertile fancy may be exhausted by the lavish prodigality of its possessor." The three novels criticised by Scott are Hoffmann's " Leben und Nachlass" (1823), " Serapions-Bruder" (1819-26), and " Nachtstucke" (1816). Home, John (17 24-1 808), Life and Works of. By Mackenzie, Henry. (1827) Pr. xix. 283 This long article appeared in the Quarterly for June, 1827. Scott met the author of " Douglas" at Bath, when Home was still a young man, and re- tained many later kindly recollections of him. In writing of this review in his " Diary," Scott says : " Home's works are poorer than I thought them : " good blank verse and stately sentiment, but something lukewarmish, except- " ing Douglas, which is certainly a masterpiece ; even that does not stand the " closet. Its merits are for the stage ; and it is certainly one of the best act- " ing plays going." He adds, " I finished the criticism on Home, adding a "string of Jacobite anecdotes, like that which boys put to a kite's tail." House OF Aspen, The : A Tragedy. (1799) . Po. xii. 363-441 This is a very free " translation from one of the minor dramatists," executed by Scott in 1799, but first published in "The Keepsake" of 1829, "one of " the literary almanacks." Sir W. Scott received ;!^Soo for permission to print this with "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror," "The Tapestried Chamber," and " The Death of the Laird's Jock" in " The Keepsake," but regretted " having "meddled in any way with the toy-shop of literature, and would never do "so again, though repeatedly offered very large sums." {See Life ii. 19, and ix. 208.) 35 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Hudson, Mrs., and Donat, Mrs. : Cookery, New Practice of. (i8os) Pr. xix. loo See Cookery. Hunter, Dr. A. Cookery, Receipts in Modern. (1805) Pr. xix. 107. See Cookery. Ignotus: Cookery, Receipts in Modern. (1805) Pr. xix. 107 See Cookery. Imitations of the Ancient Ballad. By Modern Authors. Po. iv. 89-388. See Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Imitations OF THE Ancient Ballad, Essay ON. (1830) Po. iv. 3-87 See Ballad. Index to Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. L. x. 277-359- Index to Miscellaneous Works . . Pr. xxviii. 283-363 Index to Poetical Works . . . . Po. xii. 563-593 Index^to Publications of Sir Walter Scott. . L. x. 269-276 See Chronological List. Indexes. See Chronological List and Glossary. IvANHOE. 2 vols. (1819) .... Nov. xvi. iZ«(/xvii. The events of this story are laid as far back as 1 194, in the time of Richard I., and apart from the leading interest in such quotable characters as Rebecca and Ivanhoe, Isaac the Jew and Lady Rowena, who does not revel in the tournaments, feudal life, and attractions developed in this story of the Coeur de Lion, Robin Hood, Allan-a-Dale, Friar Tuck, and the treacherous John, the brother and successor of Richard? The publication of " Ivanhoe" marks the most brilliant epoch in Scott's history as the "literary favourite of his " contemporaries." This was Scott's first departure from writing " Scottish "novels." He had a perfect fascination, apparently, for writing anony- mously, and proposed to do so in this instance, but his publishers knew better, 36 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS and as a compromise it was published "by the Author of Waverley." He went to see " Ivanhoe" at the Odion in Paris, and records that it was strange to hear anything like the words which he " then in agony of pain with spasms "in his stomach" dictated to William Laidlaw, at Abbotsford, recited in a foreign tongue and for the amusement of a strange people. " I liltle thought," he adds, " to have survived the completing of this novel." This and the two novels — " The Bride of Lammermoor" and " The Legend of Montrose" — were all written by dictation " through fits of agonizing cramp of the stomach " so acute that Scott could not suppress cries of agony." A fac-simile of a page of the original manuscript of " Ivanhoe" is given in Lockhart's "Life" (vol. vi. p. 175). John de Lancaster : A Novel. By Cumberland, Richard. (1809) Pr. xviii. 138 See Cumberland. JoHNES, Thomas (1748-1816): Froissart, (Sir) John, Chronicles OF. (1805) Pr. xix. lie See Froissart. Johnson, Samuel (1709-1783), Memoir of. (1821-5) Pr. iii. 260 This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." So many anecdotes of the rough manners of this honour to literature have gone the rounds, that it is happy to recall the saying of Oliver Goldsmith, who knew him well : " Johnson, to be sure, has a roughness in his manner, but no man " alive has a more tender heart. He has nothing of the bear but his skin." Sir Walter Scott used to declare {see Lockhart's " Life," vol. iii. p. 269) that he " had more pleasure in reading ' London' and ' The Vanity of Human " ' Wishes' than any other poetical composition he could mention." The last line of manuscript that Scott sent to the press was a quotation from the latter poem. Johnstone, Charles (1720-1800), Memoir of. (1821-5) Pr. iii. 427. This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." John- stone is practically only known as the author of the book " Chrysal ; or. The " Adventures of a Guinea," which is an exposure of the personal and secret history of then living characters, written in imitation of Le Sage's " Devil " on Two Sticks," and aptly described by Dr. Chalmers as " the best scandalous " chronicle of the day." A key to the personages was actually supplied by the author himself to two friends, and it has been published by William Davis in his collection of " Bibliographical and Literary Anecdotes." It was re- printed in Ballantyne's edition, for which Scott wrote this Preface. 37 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Kelly, Michael (1762-1826), Reminiscences of. (1826) Pr. xx. 233- This review appeared in the Quarterly for April, 1826. The laborious way in which Sheridan's "School for Scandal" was written, and the several sketches altered and polished till the superb comedy was evolved, is well known. By way of contrast, Kelly relates (p. 241) that all of the fifth act of " Pizarro" (a translation from Kotzebue) was not actually written when the first night of the new play arrived, and that Sheridan was writing the last part of the play whilst the earlier parts were acting. The review of Kelly the composer is enhanced by the necessary intermingling of extraordinary anecdotes of Kelly's partner and companion, the celebrated and eccentric Sheridan. The tricks of the latter on Kelly were innumerable, and Sheridan " vouches" that Kelly's truest Irish blood showed itself when, having received a dangerous fall on the stage, he exclaimed, " And if I had been killed now, " who was to maintain me for the rest of my life." Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823), Memoirs of the Life of. By BoADEN, James. (1826) . . . . Pr. xx. 152 This review appeared in the Quarterly for April, 1826. Kemble's the- atrical career extended, subject to some minor appearances at ten years of age, from 1776 to 18 17. The Kembles, including Mrs. Siddons, their sister, formed a mighty power on the stage, and Sir Walter has given a pleasant review of John Philip, with whom and Mrs. Siddons he was on terms of con- siderable friendship. The review has many bright anecdotes. Mrs. Siddons, we are told by Lockhart in a note (Lockhart's " Life," vol. iii. p. 214), often, in familiar table-talk, fell into the use of blank verse, and " Scott (who was a " capital mimic) often repeated her tragic exclamation to a footboy during a " dinner at Ashestiel, — " ' You've brought me water, boy, — I asked for beer.' " Kenilworth. 2 vols. (182 1) . . . Nov. xxii. awa'xxiii. The success of " The Abbot" and the reception accorded to the story of "Mary, Queen of Scots," made the author desire to bring "her sister and "foe," Elizabeth, into a tale. Constable, the publisher, pressed him to write of the period and subject of " The Armada;" but whilst Scott comforted him by promising to write of Elizabeth, he decided with himself to revert to an old ballad story, entided " Cumnor Hall," which he had stored in his memory for many long years. He even wanted to call the novel by the same name as the ballad, but was dissuaded by Constable, who suggested " Kenilworth," and carried his point against the opinion of John Ballantyne, who told Con- stable that the tale if named " Kenilworth" would "result in its being some- " thing worthy of a kennel." Ballantyne was wrong, and Mr. Cadell relates that Constable's vanity boiled over so much on having his suggestion adopted 38 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS that, in his high moods, he used to stalk up and down his room with his hands beneath his coat-tails, exclaiming, " By Jove ! I am all but the author of the " Waverley Novels." The ballad of " Cumnor Hall," by William Julius Mickle (1734-1788), is to be found in Evans's " Ancient Ballads" (vol. iv. p. 130), and a copy is given in Nov. xxii. pp. xii.-xv. The pathetic and tragical story of "Amy Robsart," and the long list of historical personages and scenes introduced, including Lord Burleigh, the Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth, Walter Raleigh, Shakespeare, the Earl of Sussex, and Richard Varney, swept his novel into the full tide of instantaneous success. The events are laid in 1575, in the time of Elizabeth. A ground plan of Kenilworth Castle is given at the beginning of Nov. xxiii. When now visiting the scanty ruins, which are all that remain of the pile so ruthlessly destroyed by Cromwell, it seems incredible that in its glory, some two hundred and twenty-five years ago only, it could have been the magnifi- cent pile described by Scott. KiRKTON, Rev. James {ob. 1699) : Church of Scotland, History OF THE. (1818) Pr. xix. 213 This review appeared in the Quarterly for January, 1818. Kirkton's " Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland" was edited by Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe from the original manuscript. It only embraces the period between the Restoration and the year 1678, when Kirkton was compelled to fly to Holland. Mr. Sharpe has printed, as an addition, the account of the murder of Archbishop Sharp by James Russell, one of the actors. KuzziLBASH, The : A Tale of Khorasan. By Fraser, James Bail- lie. (1829) Pr. xviii. 393 See Fraser. Lady of the Lake, The. (1810) . . . Po. viii. 1-353 For the copyright of this poem the author received ^^2100, and down to July, 1836, " the legitimate sale in Great Britain was not less than fifty thou- " sand copies." The critics were in " full harmony with each other and with "the popular voice." The review in the Quarterly vi^% \fX)iXs.n by George Ellis, that in the Edinburgh by Jeffrey. It has been well stated that of Scott's principal poems " ' The Lay of the " ' Last Minstrel' is generally considered the most natural and original, " ' Marmion' as the most powerful and splendid, and ' The Lady of the Lake' " as the most interesting, romantic, picturesque, and graceful," as also it is undoubtedly the most read. It is a perfect guide-book to the fairy scene of the Trosachs and Loch Katrine in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. James Ballantyne records in his " Memorandum" the incident of finding 39 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Miss Scott (then quite young) in Sir Walter Scott's library, shortly after the publication of " The Lady of the Lake," when he asked her, " Well, Miss " Sophia, how do you like ' The Lady of the Lake' ?" but received the unex- pected answer, given with perfect simplicity, " Oh, I have not read it; papa " says there's nothing so bad for young people as reading bad poetry." Landscape Gardening [Planter's Guide]. (1828) Pr. xxi. 77 See Steuart, Sir Henry. Lay of the Last Minstrel, The. (1805) . . Po. vi. 1-288 This was the stepping-stone to Sir Walter Scott's great fame. It met with the approval of WilUam Pitt, Charles Fox, and of such critics as Lord Jeffrey, and upwards of forty-four thousand copies were disposed of by the trade be- fore Sir Walter superintended the edition of 1830, to which his biographical introductions were prefixed. He received £i6i).6.o as a share of profits and ;^50o for the copyright, to which the publishers " added ;^ioo in their own " unsolicited kindness." The date of the tale is about the middle of the six- teenth century. It was written "at about the rate of a canto per week. " There was, indeed, little occasion for pause or hesitation, when a trouble- " some rhyme might be accommodated by an alteration of the stanza, or where " an incorrect measure might be remedied by a variation in the rhyme." The original manuscript has not been preserved. Leben und Nachlass. By Hoffmann, Ernest Theodore Wil- liam ....... Pr. xviii. 270 See Hoffmann. Legend of Montrose, A. (1819) . . . . . Nov. xv. This with the " Bride of Lammermoor" formed the third series of " Tales " of My Landlord." The scene is laid in 1645-46, in the reign of Charles I., and was " written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melan- " choly fate of John, Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William, Earl of Airth and "Menteith, and the singular circumstances attending the birth and history of " James Stewart, of Ardvoirlich, by whose hands the unfortunate nobleman" fell, about 1644. The character of Dugald Dalgetty, the soldier of fortune, ranks as a companion picture with the inimitable Bailie Nicol Jarvie. Dal- getty had a prototype in Colonel Robert Monro, who was a member of the Scottish regiment called MacKeyes' regiment, of which he published a his- tory in 1637, describing the expedition with " the worthy Scots Regiment " (called MacKeyes' Regiment) levied in August 1626 and reduced after "the Battaile of Nerling to one Company in September 1634 at Wormes in " the Paltz. To which is annexed the Abridgement of Exercise &c." Lon- don. 1637. Folio. A " correct version" of the slaughter of Lord Kilpont, furnished to Sir W. 40 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Scott while the novel " was passing through the press" by Robert Stewart of Ardvoirlich, a descendant of the James Stewart of the legend, is given, pp. 25-31. Among the historical characters introduced into the novel are : McCallum More the Marquis of Argyle, the Lord Justice General of Scotland, and the Marquis of Montrose. Lenore : Translation from Burger. (1795) • Po. vi. 291 This translation or " imitation from ' Lenore' " was written with the title "William and Helen." It is of great interest, as being among the earliest of Sir Walter's writings, excluding, of course, his school and college efforts. He made a rhymed translation of this in one evening, " beginning his task " after supper and not retiring to bed until he had finished it, having by this " time worked himself into a state of excitement which set sleep at defiance." The translation was published in October, 1 796, with that of " The Wild " Huntsman," also from Biirger, in a thin quarto, " by the request of friends," without any author's name on the title-page. The venture was not pecuni- arily successful, and many copies were consigned to the waste-paper trunk, (5« Po. iv. 55-63.) Le Sage, Alain Ren£ (1668-1747), Memoir of. (1821-5) Pr. iii. 39°- This is one of the "Prefaces" in Ballantyne's "Novelist's Library." Le Sage was a bold and independent man. He was urged to " read" a play before the Duchess of Bouillon, but was unavoidably detained in a law court, and so reached his appointment two hours late. The Duchess received his apology with coldness, and added that he had made the company lose two hours in waiting for his arrival, to which he retorted, " It is easy to make up the loss, " madame ; I will not read my comedy, and you will thus regain the lost time." Without hesitation he left the hotel, and could never be prevailed on to return thither. So when he wrote his celebrated play " Turcaret," which exposed the iniquities of the agents of the revenue, he was offered one hundred thou- sand francs to suppress the piece, but refused the bribe, and the piece was played and proved successful in spite of the cabal raised against it. His " Devil on Two Sticks" and " Gil Bias" will last as long as literature lasts. Leyden, John, M.D. (1775-1811), Memoirs of. (1811) Pr. iv. 137- This was first published in volume iv. of the Edinburgh Annual Register. Sir Walter Scott was very much attached to this remarkable man, whom he never named "but with an expression of regard and a moistening eye." Dr. Leyden was loud and uncouth in manners, with a voice described as " saw- " tones," and accustomed to breathe the " threats of a lion, but possessed of the " heart of a lamb." He was a man of astonishing erudition, and was trained 41 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS for a minister of the Cliurch of Scotland, but took to medicine, and entered the service of the East India Company. He acquired the Sanscrit, Persian, Hindostanee, and other Asiatic languages, and among his other literary efforts contributed to the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border." LocKHART, John Gibson : Scott, Sir Walter, Memoirs of. io vols. (1836) L. i.-x. See Scott. Lord of Ennerdale, The .... Nov. i., Iv.-lxiv. This is a fragment of an " attempt at a tale . . . which was almost in- " stantly abandoned." Lord OF THE Isles, The. (1815) .... Po. x. 1-352 With this Sir Walter decided " to close his poetic labours upon an extended "scale." The sale would have been regarded by most authors a splendid success. Before his poetical works were collected, twelve thousand two hundred and fifty copies were sold ; but the success of " Waverley" and the phenomenal sales of Lord Byron's works at that time convinced him that " since one line had failed he must stick to something else," and in less than two months he published " Guy Mannering." Sir Walter Scott in 1830 wrote of this poem, " The sale of fifteen thousand copies enabled the author to " retreat from the field of poetry with the honours of war." The story opens in the spring of the year 1307, and many of the personages and incidents introduced are (says the author) of historical celebrity. MacDuff's Cross. (1822) Po. xii. 87-111 This first appeared in Joanna BaiUie's " Collection of Poetical Miscel- " lanies," published in 1823. It is a dramatic sketch about the Cross, which was " a place of refuge to any person related to MacDufif within the ninth " degree who, having committed a homicide in sudden quarrel, should reach "this place, prove his descent from the Thane of Fife, and pay a certain " penalty." The shaft of the Cross was destroyed at the Reformation in 1559. The right of sanctuary was granted to the MacDufF of Shakespeare's " Macbeth" for the service he rendered in overthrowing that usurper at the battle of Lumphanan, in Aberdeenshire, August 15, 1057. Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831): Home, John, The Life and Works of. (1827) Pr. xix. 283 See Home. 42 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Mackenzie, Henry, Memoir of. (1821-5) . . Pr. iv. i This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." The author published " The Man of Feeling" anonymously in 1771, and was suc- cessful both in poetry and the drama. He was also the editor of the Mirror and the Lounger, two of the periodicals based on the foundation of the Toiler, etc. The success of the anonymous " Man of Feeling" led a Mr. Eccles, a young clergyman of Bath, to lay claim to its authorship. He transcribed the whole in his own hand, with blottings, interlineations, and corrections. He maintained his assumed right with such plausible pertinacity that Messrs. Cadell and Strachan (Mr. Mackenzie's publishers) found it necessary to un- deceive the public by a formal contradiction. Mr. Eccles was drowned in the Avon whilst bathing, and the Gentleman's Magazine for September, I777> gave an epitaph on this literary impostor, commencing — " Beneath this stone ' The Man of Feeling' lies " Malagrowther, Malachi : Letters to the Editor of the Edin- burgh Weekly Journal on the proposed Change of Currency and Other Late Alterations, as They Af- fect OR ARE intended TO AFFECT, THE KINGDOM OF SCOT- LAND. (1826) Pr. xxi. 267-402 These three letters were addressed to the author's friend, James Ballantyne, the editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, and they appeared in that news- paper in February and March, 1826. They were much discussed, and were answered by the then Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. Croker, but the pro- posed measure, as regarded Scotland, was ultimately abandoned — and that result was universally ascribed to Malachi Malagrowther. The dispute was whether a measure proposed for England should be extended to Scotland, whereby private banks were to be restricted from issuing their own notes as money and limiting the Bank of England to the issue of notes of ;^S value and upwards. Marmion: a Tale of Flodden-Field. (1808) . . Po. vii. The poem opens about the commencement of August, 1 5 13, and closes with the defeat of the Scots under James IV. by the English under the Earl of Surrey on September 9 of the same year. The king and many of the nobles were among the slain. The hero is a fictitious character. This was reviewed by Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review for April, 1 808, with all that critic's able but disagreeable severity. Different opinions on politics and a sense of injury at Jeffrey's hands as a reviewer led to a final separation of Scott from the Edinburgh. Jeffrey himself sent a copy of the review to Scott, and dined at the poet's table a few days later, when Mrs. Scott showed more feeling than her husband had done, for when her guest 43 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS was departing she said, " Well, good-night, Mr. Jeffrey. Dey tell me you " have abused Scott in de Review, and I hope Mr. Constable has paid you "very well for writing it." Sir Walter was paid /1050 for this poem by Constable " very shortly after it was begun, and before he had seen a line of " it." As many as fifty thousand copies of this poem were sold before " Mar- "mion" was included in the first collective edition of Scott's "Poetical " Works." The introductions to the several cantos assume the form of familiar epistles to intimate friends. Lord Byron included Scott and " Marmion" in his " English Bards and " Scotch Reviewers." " And think'st thou, Scott ! by vain conceit, perchance, " On public taste to foist thy stale romance, " Though Murray with his Miller may combine " To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line ? " No ! when the sons of song descend to trade " Their bays are sere, their former laurels fade. " Let such forego the poet's sacred name, " Who rack their brains for lucre, not for fame." This, with more in the same strain, is pretty tolerable fustian from an author who received ;i;^iS)455 fro™ ^^ same Mr. Murray for his own "song" sold to the "trade." By way of frontispiece this volume has a copy of J. M. W. Turner's view of Edinburgh. A fac-simile of a stanza of the poem is given between pp. 218-219. Maturin, Rev. Charles Robert (i 782-1824): Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio (1810) . . Pr. xviii. 157 This review appeared in the Quarterly of 1810. The " Fatal Revenge" was Maturin's first novel, and was " written in a terrific and gloomy style, after " the manner of Monk Lewis, displaying some genius and much bombast, and "strongly dashed with the mysterious colouring of the Castle of Udolpho" in Mrs. Radclifle's novel, " The Mysteries of Udolpho." Both Byron and Scott greatly befriended Maturin. The novel was published under the nom de flume of Dennis Jasper Murphy. Maturin, Rev. Charles Robert : Women ; or, Pour et Contre. (1818) ....... Pr. xviii. 172 Mr. Maturin was an Irishman to the backbone — always in hopes, and un- crushed even by the pursuit of bailiffs. He was an eccentric, and when he sent his play of " Bertram" to Lord Byron asking him to assist him in getting it produced, he sent no address, and Lord Byron had great trouble to find the author. When the " fitt" of composition was on him he used to place a wafer on his forehead, and the family might not then address him till the " fitt" was off. This review appeared in the Edinburgh of 1818. 44 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Metrical Romances, Ancient English, selected by Joseph Rit- SON. (1806) Pr. xvii. 16 See Ritson. Metrical Romances, Specimens of Early English. (1806) Pr. xvii. i6. See Ellis. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. (Introduction dated 1802- 1803) Po. i. 92-291 This formed the original essay prefixed to the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish " Border," as published in 1802. According to Mr. Motherwell, the editor of " Minstrelsy Ancient and " Modem, 1827," the old ballads which appeared for the first time in Scott's collection were forty-three in number. A list of these is given, Po. i. pp. v., vi. In the advertisement to the " Minstrelsy" (Po. i. pp. 3-8), the writer, Mr. J. G. Lockhart, points out that " in the text and notes of this early publication we " can now [1833] trace the primary incident or broad outline of almost every " romance, whether in verse or in prose, which Sir Walter Scott built in after " life on the history or traditions of his country." Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. 4 vols. (1802 and 1803) Po. i. 293-428, ii., iii., andiv. The history of Scott's " Minstrelsy" was a checkered one. The first edition in 1802 of volumes i. and ii. consisted of eight hundred and fifty copies, but his one-half share of the clear profits amounted only to ^78.10. Volume iii. was published in 1803, and before 1820 five further editions of five thousand five hundred copies had been published, and he had received ;^5oo for the copyright. The "Minstrelsy" contains three classes of poems: I. Historical Ballads; II. Romantic Ballads; III. Imitations of the Ancient Ballad by modem authors. The majority of the ballads are accompanied by elaborate accounts of their history and evolution, written by Sir W. Scott. Ten of the ballads are accompanied by the airs which are appended in this edition, being those which Sir W. Scott liked best. " They are transcribed without variation " from the manuscripts in his library." The ten old ballads so distinguished are : Battle of Bothwell Brigg Battle of Otterburn Dick o' the Cow Douglas Tragedy . DowiE Dens o' Yarrow . Glenfinlas 45 . Po. ii. 247 . Po. i. 369 . Po. ii. 63 . Po. iii. I . Po. iii. 151 . Po. iv. 169 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Johnnie Armstrong Po- i- 4^7 Lord Maxwell's Goodnight . . . . Po. ii. 141 True Thomas Po. iv. 117 Wife of Usher's Well Po. iii. 263 The imitations by Sir W. Scott himself are : Cadyow Castle Po. iv. 200 Eve of St. John Po. iv. 183 Glenfinlas Po. iv. 167 Gray Brother, The Po. iv. 218 Thomas the Rhymer (Pt. 3) . . . . Po. iv. 156 War Song of the Edinburgh Light Dragoons Po. iv. 230 Miscellaneous Poems Po. viii. 355-396 This selection consists of the fifteen pieces enumerated belov^f : Page Bard's Incantation (iSio) 357 This was written under the threat of invasion in the autumn of 1804, and was published in the " English " Minstrelsy." Epitaph (1810) 377 First appeared in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1809. It was designed for a monument in Lichfield Cathedral, at the burial-place of the family of Miss Seward. Family Legend, The (1809) 387 This was a prologue to Miss Baillie's play of this name produced at Edinburgh in 1809-10. The prologue was spoken by the author's friend, Mr. Daniel Terry. Farewell to Mackenzie, High Chief of Kintail (1815) 390 This is a translation from the Gaelic. Hunting Song (1809) 370 This first appeared in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1808, and in 1817 was set to a Welsh air in vol. iii. of Thomson's " Select Melodies." Imitation of the Song " Farewell to Mackenzie" . 392 It does not seem clear where this was first published. Maid OF Neidpath (1806) 363 Published in Haydn's " Collection of Scottish Airs," vol. ii. 46 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Page Massacre of Glencoe, The (1814) 382 First published in Thomson's " Select Melodies." Palmer, The (1806) ,61 Published in Haydn's " Collection of Scottish Airs," vol. ii. Resolve, The (1809) ,74 This was written " in imitation of an old English "poem," and appeared in the Edinburgh Annual Register ioT 1808. Return to Ulster, The (1816) 379 First published in G. Thomson's " Collection of Irish " Airs." To A Lady; With Flowers from a Roman Wall . 373 First appeared in vol. ii. of the " English Minstrelsy." Violet, The (1810) 372 First appeared in vol. ii. of the " English Minstrelsy." Wandering Willie (1806) 367 Published in Haydn's " Collection of Scottish Airs," vol. ii. War-Song of Lachlan, High Chief of Maclean . . 395 A translation from the Gaelic. Miscellaneous Prose Works Ixxi.-xcviii. Miseries of Human Life, The. By Beresford, Rev, James. (1806) Pr. xix. 139 This was published in the Edinburgh Review for October, 1806. Lock- hart styles it an "exquisite piece of humour." The cited extracts point to this work being a book full of fun. Among the "school miseries" is in- cluded " seeing the boy who is next above you flogged for a repetition, which " you know you cannot say half so well as he did." He concludes the article with a series of suggested " Reviewer's Groans," which were mainly suggested by Lord Jeffrey, and are offered as a thankoffering for pleasant reading, but hinting how heavy are the sorrows of the critic who wades through good, bad, and indifferent volumes to extract subject for an article, and frequently closes the hide-bound transgressor "with the fruitless apos- " trophe, — " ' Too bad for a blessing, too good for a curse, " ' I wish from my soul thou wert better or worse.' " 47 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS MoLifeRE [Jean Baptiste Poquelin, called'\ (1622-1673). Pr. xvii. 137- This is a review published in the Foreign Quarterly Review for 1828 on Auger's edition of " Moli^re," in nine volumes, published in Paris, 1819-27, and on Taschereau's " Histoire de la Vie et des Ouvrages de Molidre." It gives an excellent epitome, vivaciously viritten, of the long series of works produced by the " prince of the writers of comedy." Monastery, The. 2 vols. (1820) . . . Nov. xviii. and xix. The celebrated ruins of Melrose Abbey are the scene designated in the romance as the " Monastery of St. Mary's of Kennaquhair and its depend- " encies." The events are laid in 1559, etc., in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and among the historical personages introduced are the Earl of Morton and the Earl of Murray, the bastard brother of the Queen. The attempted de- lineation of Euphuism in Sir Piercie Shafton and the unfortunate introduction of the supernatural machinery of the White Lady of Avenel injured the book, and it was probably the least successful of all Scott's novels. Instead of being accounted a well-drawn and humourous character of the period, Sir Piercie was condemned as unnatural and absurd. Sir Walter consoled him- self, however, that " the booksellers did not complain of the result of the " sale of ' The Monastery.' " A prototype of Captain Clutterbuck, the imaginary editor of " The Monas- " tery," having been discovered by Robert Chambers in his " Illustrations of " the Author of Waverley," Sir Walter Scott wrote " that the imaginary editor " had no real prototype in the village of Melrose or its neighbourhood that " ever he saw or heard of," and that the identification of Clutterbuck " with " the neighbour or friend so erroneously identified could never have been " achieved by any one who had read the book and seen the party alluded to." MoNTEATH, Robert : The Forester's Guide and Profitable Planter. (1827) Pr. xxi. i This article appeared in the Quarterly for October, 1827, and the reviewer designates Monteath's work " a useful and interesting treatise." The author writes " after sixteen years' undeviating attention to the raising young planta- " tions of considerable extent upon lands which may be, in general, termed "waste or unimproved," and gives his views in great detail on those points, in "which the expense of planting is chiefly concerned." MoRiER, James (i 780-1 849): Hajji Baba of Ispahan in England. (1829) Pr. xviii. 354 This paper appeared in the Quarterly Review for January, 1829. The novel gives the experiences of a Persian in England, and had a wide popu- larity. Morier, while secretary to the English embassy in Persia, became versed in the Oriental tongues and customs, and, as Scott expressed it, wrote, thought, and spoke much more like an Oriental than an Englishman. 48 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS My Aunt Margaret's Mirror. (1828) . Nov. xli. 289-346 This was the first of three sketches published in the first volume of " The " Keepsake" for 1828. It is " a mere transcript" of a story the author re- membered being struck with in his childhood, as related by a relative who was killed in a fit of insanity by a female attendant who had been attached to her person for half a lifetime. The period of the story is about 1700, in the reign of William III. The infidelity of a husband is disclosed, and the culprit brought to punishment by means of the Magic Mirror. Nachtstucke. By Hoffmann, Ernest Theodore William. (1827) Pr. xviii. 270 See Hoffmann. Napoleon Buonaparte, Life of. 9 vols. (1827) . Pr. viii.-xvi. This is a remarkable monument of good fortune resulting from extraor- dinary industry. It was published in two years after Scott commenced to collect a wagon-load of folios and quartos to aid in the compilation of this work, receiving such piles of volumes as made his library look like an auc- tioneer's sales-room. Lockhart records (vol. ix. p. 117) that (allowing for some journeys abroad to collect facts) "the historical task occupied hardly " more than twelve months, — done in the midst of pain, sorrow, and ruin." The first two editions produced for Scott's creditors the enormous sum of jfl8,ooo. It was written too hastily to be free from inaccuracies as to minor facts of detail, " but no inaccuracy in the smallest degree affecting the " character of the book as a fair record of great events" was delected even by the critics who severely reviewed it, and among whom were Niebuhr and Lord Macaulay. Samuel Rogers, in his " Recollections," states that the Duke of Wellington, as a military critic, declared it was of " no value." It would have been little short of marvellous had a truly great novelist, a great poet, and an admirable antiquarian student proved himself a " great" historian. The work opens with a " preliminary view of the French Revolution." At the end of Pr. vol. x., at pp. 426-427, is given a list of the three hundred and twenty volumes which formed Napoleon's camp library. They were se- lected by the Emperor, and he wrote out the list in his own hand. The vol- umes were in i8mo. It will be observed that " by an original error of the press, which proceeded "too far before it was discovered," the name was "printed with a u — Buona- " parte instead of Bonaparte." Although Sir Walter apologized for this on the ground that Napoleon "always used the last," it seems that the u was used by him in his signature to the contract of marriage between himself and Josephine March 9, 1796, and the omission of the u appears only in docu- ments subsequent to his appointment to the command of the army of Italy. New Man of Feeling : Fleetwood ; or, The. By Godwin, Wil- liam. (1805) . . . . '. . Pr. xviii. 118 See Godwin. 4 49 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS [NoRTHANGER Abbey. By Austen, Jane. (1821) . Pr. xviii. 209 See Austen. The review was written by Archbishop Whately and not by Sir W. Scott.] Occasional Pieces not contained in any Former Edition of Sir Walter Scott's Poetical' Works . . Po. x. 353-380 The selection consists of the eight pieces enumerated below : Page Bold Dragoon, The; or, The Plains of Badajos . . 357 A song written shortly after the Battle of Badajos (April, 1812) for a Yeomanry Cavalry dinner. It is in- cluded in George Thomson's " Collection of Select " Melodies," vol. vi. Carle, Now the King's Come 369 These are " new words to an auld spring," and were published as a broadside. They are an imitation of an old Jacobite ditty written on the appearance in the Frith of Forth of the fleet which conveyed King George IV. to Scotland, in August, 1822. For a' That and a' That 360 This is entitled " a new song to an old tune." It was sung at the first meeting of the Pitt Club, of Scotland, and is printed in the Scot's Magazine for July, 18 14. Lines Addressed to Monsieur Alexandre, the Cele- brated Ventriloquist 363 These are an " Epigram," presented to the ventrilo- quist in 1824 after an exhibition of his "unrivalled "imitations" at Abbotsford. They are printed in the Edinburgh Annual Register of 1824. Lines Addressed to Ranald Macdonald, Esq., of Staffa 255 These are fourteen lines written in the month of August, 1814, in an album kept at the Sound of Ulva Inn. Lines Written for Miss Smith 367 These first appeared in the " Forget-Me-Not" for 1834. Miss Smith (the actress) became Mrs. Bartley. The lines were recited at her benefit at the Edinburgh Theatre, in 1817. 50 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Pharos Loquitur ,ce This is a piece of six lines printed in Stevenson's ac- count of the Bell-Rock Lighthouse (1824) written in an album by Sir "Walter Scott on visiting the lighthouse in 1814. Verses Sung at a Dinner in Honour of the Czar of Russia ,5,. These were composed to be sung after a dinner given by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh to the Grand Duke (afterwards Emperor) Nicholas of Russia and his suite, December 19, 1816. They were adapted to Haydn's air, " God Save the Emperor Francis." The verses are taken from the newspapers of 1816. Old Mortality. 2 vols. (1816) Nov. ix., 219-374; x. and xi. 1-138. This was the companion novel to " The Black Dwarf" in the First Series of the " Tales of My Landlord." " Robert Paterson" (1715-1801) "was a real " personage, and received the name of ' Old Mortality' from having devoted his " life to the renovation of the gravestones of the martyrs of the Covenant." He was bom in 1715, and gradually became crazed with Cameronianism, neglected the commonest prudential duty of providing for his offspring, and wandered about cleaning moss from gravestones and keeping the letters and effigies on them in good condition. His wife and children were wholly unable to disengage him from this course of living, and he continued it till his death in 1 801, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. One of his sons came to Amer- ica in 1776 and settled at Baltimore. In 1869 Messrs. A. & C. Black caused a headstone of freestone to be erected in Carlaverock Churchyard to the old man's memory. Among the characters in the tale should be studied John Burley (or John Balfour, of Kinlock), the leader of the insurgent Covenanters and murderer of Archbishop Sharp, who " gave a scriptural justification for "all his crimes." His death, as told in " Old Mortality," is fictitious. He really escaped to Holland. Peter Poundtext well illustrates the class of preachers whose services caused a considerable schism among the Presbyterians. He was, moreover, an aged pastor, for whom warfare had few charms, " in comparison with a theological " treatise, a pipe, and a jug of ale, which he called his studies." Among the historical characters of this work are the Duke of Monmouth, the natural son of Charles XL, and James Grahame, of Claverhouse, whose character, Scott maintained, had been foully traduced, for " he, who was every inch a soldier " and a gentleman, passed among the Scottish vulgar for a ruffian desperado, " who rode a goblin horse, was proof against shot, and in league with the " Devil." This novel was translated into Italian under the title of " The " Scottish Puritans." The period of the story is about 1679-go, in the reigns of Charles XL, James XX., and of William and Mary. 51 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Omen, The. By Galt, John. (1824) . . . Pr. xviii. 333 See Gait. Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk. (1816) . . . Pr. v. i These were mostly wrilten during Sir W. .Scott's tour on the Continent in 1815, directly after the battle of Waterloo. They are, in fact, " a genuine frag- "ment of the author's autobiography." The letters are addressed to four imaginary persons who have, however, been easily identified. The spinster, Sister Margaret, is " only a slender disguise for the author's Aunt Christian " Rulherfurd." The veteran officer, the Major on half pay, is his elder brother, John Scott. The Laird , Esq., of , is Lord Somerville, long president of the Board of Agriculture, and the minister of the gospel at is Doctor Douglas, of Galashiels. Many of the letters were printed from the identical sheets that reached Melrose through the post. Letter viii. (pp. 99-145) describes the battle of Waterloo in detail. Three editions of 6000, 1500, and 1500 copies were disposed of in the course of two or three years. Pepys, Samuel (i 632-1 703), Memoirs of. By Braybrooke, Rich- ard, Lord. (1826) Pr. xx. 94 This review appeared in the Quarterly for January, 1826. The Diary was written in cipher and lay for one hundred and fifty years in the Pepysian Li- braiy bequeathed by the diarist to Magdalen College, Cambridge, England, before the stenographic characters were deciphered. The Diary comprises the first ten years of Mr. Pepys's official life, extending from January, 1659-60, to May, 1669. The revelation of gossip, scandal, anecdote, art, and life as it really was in the time of Charles II. was a real " discovery," and the popu- larity of this, the first or second best of all " Diaries," will probably stand un- diminished for centuries. At page 149, Sir W. Scott gives a capital outline of the literary " find" of anecdotes, jests, notices of old songs and ballads, and anecdotes of Lely, Faithorne, Holbein, Oliver Cromwell, and Tom Killigrew, with which the " Memoirs" abound. The description of " a run upon Lombard Street in the days of Charles II.," quoted at page 150, seemed to strike the reviewer with much amusement. [Persuasion. By Austen, Jane. (182 i) . . Pr. xviii. 209 See Austen. The review was written by Archbishop Whately, and not by Sir W. Scott.] Peveril OF THE Peak. 3 vols. (1823) Nov. xxviii., xxix., a«^xxx. The novel relates to the period of the pretended Popish Plot, about 1660, in the reign of Charles II. In it we are introduced to Colonel Blood, the 52 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS second Duke of Buckingham, Charles II. and Catherine his Consort, Tom Chiffinch, the well-known minister to Charles's pleasures ; the Countess of Derby, who defended Lathom House against the Roundheads and was Queen of the Isle of Man ; Edward Christian, whose brother had been executed by the Countess of Derby for a political oifence ; Sir Geoffrey Hudson, the dwarf ; Dr. Oates, the discoverer of the pretended Popish Plot, the Duke of Ortnond, and Lord Chief Justice Scroggs. These historical characters, with the pre- tended deaf and dumb attendant, Fenella, and a host of other characters, rather overcrowded the author's canvas. The peculiar laws and state of the Isle of Man are well brought out. The character of Fenella (or Zarah), the daughter of Edward Christian (" a mere creature of the imagination"), a pretended deaf and dumb fairy-like attendant on the Countess of Derby, was suggested by that of Mignon, the Italian girl, in Goethe's " Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship." Pirate, The. 2 vols. (182 1) . . . Nov. xxiv. a«^xxv. The scene of this romance is placed in the Orkney Islands, about the year 1700, in the time of William III. or Queen Anne. The tale is founded on the story of a pirate, named John Gow or Goffe or Smith, who frequented Stromness in 1724-25, and obtained the troth-plight of a young lady of some property only a short time before he was unmasked and, after torture, executed for his many crimes. The wild scenery of the Shetlands is well described. Interesting peeps are given through the old " Udaller," Magnus Troil, and his fair daughters, Minna and Brenda, into the primitive customs of a re- markable place. A "Udaller" is one who holds lands allodially — that is, free from rent or service-tenure, — in other words, he is a freeholder. PiTCAiRN, Robert (1793-1855) : Criminal Trials in Scotland from 1484 TO 1684. (1831) .... Pr. xxi. 199 This article appeared in the Quarterly for February, 1831. The work, in ten parts, bound in four quarto volumes, was published under the auspices of the Bannatyne Club, at Edinburgh, of which Sir W. Scott was the founder and first president. This is " the last piece of criticism that came from the " pen of Sir W. Scott." The opening of this interesting review (pp. 199-225) gives a delightful account of the rise of book clubs and the doings of such giants among book collectors as the Duke of Roxburghe and the Earl of Spencer. He relates in detail the history of the sale of " Paradise Lost" for ;^5 and the subsequent sale of all rights by the bookseller, who was at that time ;^20 out of pocket, for ;^25, with many stories of great interest to bib- liophiles relating to books, and the Roxburghe, Maitland, and Bannatyne Clubs. Planter's Guide, The. By Steuart, Sir Henry. (1828) Pr. xxi. 77. See Steuart. 53 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Planting Waste Lands. (1827) See Monteath. Poetical Fragments See Fragments. Poets, Specimens of the Early English. (1804) See Ellis. Pr. xxi. Po. vi. 373-382 By Ellis, George. . Pr. xvii. I [Pontefract Castle. By the Author of Waverley. This was a forgery {see " Count Robert of Paris"), and is here mentioned simply as a fact of interest in connection with Sir W. Scott's literary career.] Popular Poetry, Essay on. (1830) . . . Po. i. 5-91 This is an introduction to " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," and "in a " cursory manner" goes through the history of English and Scottish poetry. It notices the principal collections which had from time to time been formed of such compositions. " These remarks were first appended to the edition "of 1830." It has eight appendixes. Prose Works, The . Ixi.-xc. Provincial Antiquities of Scotland. (1818) . Pr. vii. 155 These are a series of " topographical and historical essays which originally " appeared in the successive numbers of the splendidly illustrated work called '"Provincial Antiquities of Scotland.'" Scott refused to accept payment for these articles, but when the success of the work was assured, " accepted " from the proprietors some of the beautiful drawings by J. M. W. Turner, " Rev. J. Thomson Callcott, Nasmyth, and other artists which had been pre- " pared to accompany his text." The drawings were placed in the little breakfast room at Abbotsford. The subjects of these essays are : Page Bass Rock, The 438 BoRTHWicK Castle 196 BoRTHwicK Castle (the Great Hall) .... 214 Craigmillar Castle 363 Crichton Castle 157 Dalkeith, Town of 216 DiRLETON Castle 405 Dunbar, Castle of 410 Edinburgh, entrance to Leith Harbor . . .280 Edinburgh, from Braid Hills 247 Edinburgh, from Corstorphine Hill ... . . 275 54 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Edinburgh, from St. Anthony's Chapel . . . 29^6 Edinburgh, from the Calton-Hill . . "276 Edinburgh, from the Glasgow Road . . . .272 Edinburgh, from the Grass Market .... 257 Edinburgh, General Account of . . . . ■ . 226 Edinburgh, Heriot's Hospital from the West Bow . 261 Edinburgh, High Street 24, Edinburgh, Holyrood House 281 Fast-Castle ! ! ! 446 HAWTHORNDEN -gg Innerwick Castle -o- Linlithgow, Palace of ,32 Merchiston Tower ,c8 Regalia of Scotland 298 Roslin Glen ,55 Seton Chapel ,„- Tantallon Castle ^27 QuEEN-Hoo Hall. (1807-1808) . . . Nov. i., Ixv.-xc. Sir W. Scott undertook for Messrs. Murray to arrange for publication some posthumous productions of Mr. John Strutt, of " Horda Angel Cynnan" fame, and finding among that author's papers an unfinished romance entitled " Queen-hoo Hall," Scott undertook to supply " such a hasty" conclusion " as could be shaped out from the story of which Mr. Strutt had laid the "foundation." Chapters iv. and v. by the author of " Waverley" are here given. " Queen-hoo Hall" " was not very successful." QuENTiN DuRWARD. 2 vols. (1823) . . Nov. xxxi. and xxxu. The story is laid at Plessis les Tours, and relates to Louis XI. of France and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, about the year 1470, in the time of Edward IV. of England. When first published it created as great a sensation in France as " Waver- " ley" had done on its first appearance in England. It is one of Scott's most interesting tales, and the general appreciation has been much enhanced by the stage versions of the character of Louis XL , which proved so masterly in the hands of Charles Kean and his successor in the character. Sir Henry Irving. Among the historical personages introduced are John, Cardinal Balue; Charles the Bold; Lord Crawford, the captain of the Archers of the Scottish Guard; De la Marck, the Wild Boar of Ardennes; Philip de Comines; Prin- cess Joan; Prince Louis of Bourbon; the Bishop of Li^ge; the Dauphin, afterwards Louis XII., whose miserable chamber in Plessis is still shown; Galeotti, the astrologer; and Louis XL himself, with his strange surroundings, Oliver, the barber, and Tristan I'Hermite, the hangman. Some of the oubliettes so graphically described by Sir W. Scott, and 55 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS the cage in which the Cardinal de la Balue was confined for eleven years for betraying the king's secrets to the Duke of Burgundy, are still to be seen by the visitors to the old castle of Plessis les Tours. Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann (1764-1823), Memoir of. (1821-5) Pr. iii. 337- This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." Few persons read Mrs. Radcliffe's novels now, and according to W. H. Prescott she was "good for nothing out of the region of the picturesque, except when in " her horrors." Having gained a name by her " Romance of the Forest," she was paid ;^500 for her "Mysteries of Udolpho," and ;^8oo for "The "Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitent: A Romance." Leigh Hunt, in his " Men, Women, and Books," says that the authoress's poems are unworthy of her romances. In the latter she was " the mighty " magician of Udolpho ;" in her verses she is " a tinselled nymph in a panto- " mime, calling up commonplaces with a wand." Mr. Edward Cheney, in conversation with Sir W. Scott, maintained {see Lockhart's " Life," vol. x. p. 193) that "the Utopian scenes and manner " of Mrs. Radcliffe's novels captivated the imagination more than the most "laboured descriptions or the greatest historical accuracy." Redgauntlet. 2 vols. (1824) . . . Nov. XXXV. and xxxvi. The story relates to a conspiracy formed by Sir Edward Hugh Redgauntlet about 1770, in the time of George III., on behalf of the exiled Charles Edward Stuart, then above forty years of age. The refusal of the prince to dismiss Miss Walkinshaw, his mistress, is made a pivot of the story, which is mainly in the form of letters. Scott at first wanted to call it " Herries," but at last yielded to the persuasions of Constable and Ballantyne, and changed the name to " Redgauntlet." Lockhart remarks {see "Life," vol. vii. p. 214) that "with posterity, " assuredly this novel will yield in interest to none of the series ; for it con- " tains, perhaps, more of the author's personal experiences than any other of "them, or even than all the rest put together." Reeve, Clara (1725-1803), Memoir of. (1821-5) . Pr. iii. 325 This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." It is difficult to see why Clara Reeve's tales were selected for the "Novelist's " Library," or why, if such authoresses were selected, it should be wondered that no demand existed for copies of the reissue. Her principal work was " The Old English Baron," first published as " The Champion of Virtue : "A Gothic Story." She received ;^io for the copyright. It was avowedly written in imitation of Walpole's " Otranto," of which romance the authoress termed her own novel " the literary offspring," but, as Walpole remarked, " it was wholly reduced to reason and probability," and so probable in its incidents " that any trial for murder at the Old Bailey would make a more 56 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS " interesting story." It is as forgotten as her volume of " Poems," 1769, " published for subscribers," who do not appear to have made a profitable in- vestment. Religious Discourses, Two. (1828.) These are two discoui-ses written by Sir Walter for Mr. Huntley Gordon (1796-1868) under peculiar circumstances. They are included in some editions of Scott's writings to complete his prose works, but not in the one now under description. Mr. Gordon was acting as amanuensis for the novel- ist, but purposing to enter the Scotch ministry. He was much distressed about two trial sermons he had to prepare. The novelist said, " You get on " with your work, and I will prepare your sermons," and two days later he handed to Mr. Gordon the manuscripts of these sermons. In the end Mr. Gordon wrote two for himself, feeling conscientious scruples about preaching those prepared by another, and passed the dreadful ordeal with success. The kindliness of Scott's action was not diminished. Reliques of Burns: Collected by Cromek, R. H. (1809) Pr. xvii. 242. See Bums. Richardson, Samuel (1689-1 761), Memoir OF . . Pr. iii. 3-76 This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." Rich- ardson has been called " the founder of the English domestic novel." He was addicted as a boy to letter writing, and his novels were all written in the form of letters. His principal writings were "Pamela; or. Virtue Rewarded," " Clarissa Harlowe; or. The History of a Young Lady," and the " History of " Sir Charles Grandison." RiTSON, Joseph (1752-1803): Ancient English Metrical Ro- mances, SELECTED BY JoSEPH RiTSON. (1806) Pr. Xvii. 16 This is an article published in the Edinburgh Review for 1806, contrasting the " Metrical Romances" edited by George Ellis with those edited by "the " ingenious but whimsical and crabbed antiquarian," Mr. Ritson. RiTSON, Joseph: Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots, ETC. (1829) Pr. XX. 301 This review appeared in the Quarterly for July, 1829. It criticises a post- humous publication of Ritson, of whom and by whom probably harder words were bandied between reviewers and reviewed than by or concerning any other writer in the English language. He lived in a state of bitter and unremitted warfare with beefsteaks and Revelation, his best friends, and half the letters in the alphabet. Much of his pedantry and ill-judged language may be ex- cused on the ground that his mind was diseased. He died insane. 57 SIR. WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Rob Roy. 2 vols. (181 7) .... Nov. vii. ««^- "i- 273- This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballantyne's " Novelist's Library." It is largely composed of the autobiographical memorandum left by Sterne. Sterne was a terrible plagiarist, and in his " Tristram Shandy" laid many great authors under contribution. He is styled by Dr. Ferriar " a ruthless plun- " derer of other men's goods." Horace Walpole thought him tiresome; Goldsmith styled him " a dull fellow ;" Hazlitt declared that " his works only "consist of morceaux, — of brilliant passages;" and Thackeray wrote that "he was a great jester, not a great humourist." But plagiarist or not, his " Tristram Shandy" and " Sentimental Journey" will hold their place in literature for centuries. Sterne has personified himself in many ways in the " Parson Yorick," but, as Scott remarks, " there are shades of simplicity thrown into the character of 'Yorick' which did not exist in that of Sterne." Dr. Slop has been iden- tified with Dr. Burton, of York, who published a treatise on midwifery in 1751. Steuart, Sir Henry {pb. 1836): Planter's Guide, The; or, A Practical Ess.\y om the Best Method of giving Immedi- ate Effect to Wood, by the removal of Large Trees AND Underwood. (1828) . . . . Pr. xxi. 77 This article appeared in the Quarterly for March, 1828. In Scott's diary is entered the remark, " Sir Henry Steuart is lifted beyond the solid earth by "the effect of his book's success; but the book well deserves it." This was upon transplanting a tree, " which was performed with great ease." Suffolk, Henrietta, Countess of, Correspondence of : Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson. (1824) . . Pr. xix. 185 See Croker. Surgeon's Daughter, The. (1827) . . Nov. xlviii. 147-43° This was the third tale of the First Series of the " Chronicles of the Canon- "gate," but afterwards styled "part of the Second Series" of those Chroni- cles. The story relates to the period of 1750-70, in the reigns of George II. and George III. The story of the principal incident was narrated to Sir Walter by his friend, Mr. Train. The villany of the pretended lover who 69 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS for bribes could decoy an innocent maiden to India to be a concubine in the harem of Tippoo Saib is founded on fact. The crime was fortunately pre- vented at the last moment, and the perfidious lover was killed in the affray that arose on the rescue of the betrayed maiden. Swift, Jonathan, D.D. (1667-1745), Memoirs of. (1814) Pr. ii. This was published in " The Works of Jonathan Swift, with Notes and " a Life," in nineteen volumes. For this undertaking Constable paid Scott the munificent sum of ;£'i50o. The object of Sir W. Scott in this Life seemed to be to recognize and dwell upon the superb and enormous talents of his author, and to overlook, or at least deal gently with, the foibles and worse traits of the dean's character, which arose, to what extent can never be ascer- tained, from the inscrutable and unexplained disease that marred his life from the time when he celebrated his early birthdays by reading, on each recur- ring festival, the lamentation of Job, as to the day when it was said in his house that a man-child was born, to the end when his life was quenched in helpless idiocy. Lord Jeffrey, in his review of this Life, complained that the bad side of the dean's life was too sparingly dealt with. Would that the majority of biographers were willing to write with the lenient thoughts of Sir W. Scott. The volume has a frontispiece and title, a portrait of the dean, and a view of Swift's monument in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Tales of a Grandfather : France, History of. 2 vols. (1830) Pr. xxvii.-xxviii. These tales were, like the Scottish Stories, addressed to John Hugh Lock- hart, Sir Walter's grandson. The history of France is only brought down to 1414, when Henry V. of England had just succeeded to the English throne, and who " breathed nothing at his accession save invasion against his "neighbours," and who fought the memorable battle of Agincourt in the fol- lowing year, 1415. Tales of a Grandfather: Scotland, History of. 5 vols. (1827- 29) ........ Pr. xxii.-xxvi. Characteristically of Sir W. Scott, the day he finished the " Life of Napo- " leon" he conceived the idea of writing these stories on the history of Scotland " somewhat in the manner of Croker's on that of England." They were writ- ten for his invalid grandson, affectionately nicknamed Hugh Littlejohn, Esquire. The lad was at that time so far restored to health that he was able to sit on his pony again, and the great author rode daily among the woods with his Hugh Littlejohn (the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart) and told the tale, thus ascertaining that it suited the comprehension of boyhood before he reduced it to writing. Sir Walter took great delight in the wild times in which, at least, there could be " no fear of want of interest, no lassitude," in the days described, — 70 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS " For treason, d'ye see, " Was to them a dish of tea, " And murder, bread and butter." The reception of these tales by the public " was more rapturous than that " of any one of his works since ' Ivanhoe.' " These tales were published in three series of three volumes each,— the Hrst series in 1827, the second in 1828, and the third in 1829. The period covered in them ranges from Mac- beth to 1760, " when the two sister nations had become blended together in " manners as well as political ties." John Hugh Lockhart, to whom these tales were addressed, predeceased his grandfather on the 15th of December, 1831, in the eleventh year of his age. Tales OF My Landlord. Third Edition. (1817) . Pr. xix. i This review appeared in the Quarterly for January, 1817. It was " prompted "by the appearance of a series of essays in a religious magazine (The Chris- "tian Inslrucior)," in which Dr. Thomas McCrie " bitterly impugned the " views given of the Scotch Covenanters in the ' Waverley Novels.' " The ma- terials of this article were in part collected by William Erskine, Lord Kinned- der, but the manuscript, " now in the possession of Mr. Murray, is entirely in "the handwriting of Sir Walter himself." It is believed that Erskine wrote " the critical estimate of the ' Waverley Novels' which it embraces, although " for the purpose of mystification Scott had taken the trouble to transcribe the " paragraphs in which that estimate is contained." (Lockhart's " Life," vol. V. p. 174O The article is doubly interesting, as showing the clever way in which the author could write in pursuance of his determined love for ano- nymity. It refers to the transatlantic report circulated at that time that the "Waverley Novels" were acknowledged by Sir Walter's brother Thomas to have been written by the latter. The last paragraph is described by Lockhart as one " over which a misanthrope might have chuckled." " In this article," Scott says, are contained " illustrations of the novels" with which he supplied his accomplished friend, who took the trouble to write the review. In it will be found the original of Meg Merrilies and one or two other per- sonages of the same cast of character. Talisman, The. (1825) Nov. xxxviii. This and " The Betrothed" constitute " The Tales of the Crusaders." The romance is laid in the time of Richard I., about the year 1 193, during the truce with Saladin which preceded the abandonment of the crusade that had been led by Richard. " The Talisman" was a pebble possessing medicinal properties, and belonged to Saladin. He kept it in a silken purse. It was dipped into a goblet of water, that was then given to a patient to drink and be cured. Among the historical characters introduced are Queen Berengaria, King Richard's consort; Philip Augustus of France; Richard Coeur de Lion; Saladin ; and the Earl of Salisbury, King Richard's bastard brother ; Conrade of Montserrat; and Sir Thomas Multon, the faithful follower of King Richard. 71 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Tapestried Chamber, The; or, The Lady in the Sacque. (1828) Nov. xli. 347-373 This was the second of three sketches published in " The Keepsake" for 1828. Sir W. Scott heard the story from Miss Anna Seward. It is a story of the year 1780, in the reign of George III. Taschereau, Jules Antoine (1801-1874) : Histoire de la Vie et DES CEuvRES de Moliere . . . Pr. xvii. 137 See Molidre. Theatrical Fund Dinner . . . Nov. xli., xxxv.-Ixxiii. This gives an account of the dinner at Edinburgh at which the anonymity of Sir W. Scott was finally abandoned, and at which he stated in emerging nominis umbra that "he was the 'Author of Waverley,' " and that "when " he said he was the author, he was the total and undivided author, for, with " the exception of quotations, there was not a single word that was not de- " rived from himself or suggested in the course of his reading." Thomas the Rhymer Nov. i., xli.-liv. This is a fragment of a romance which was to have been thus entitled. It was " the first attempt at romantic composition by an author who has" — he is writing thirty years later — "since written so much in that department." Scott abandoned the idea, as the " legend would have formed but an unhappy " foundation for a prose story, and must have degenerated into a mere fairy "tale." {See Po. iv. 110-166, aKaTTristrem.) Thornton, Colonel Thomas {ob. 1823): A Sporting Tour THROUGH THE NORTHERN PaRTS OF ENGLAND AND GrEAT Part of the Highlands of Scotland. (1805) Pr. xix. 87 This review appeared in the Edinhcrgh for January, 1805. It is full of humour, and makes great fun over the fact that through this tour " scarcely "a Gaelic name is properly spelled." The nature of Thornton's tour did not strike the reviewer as deserving elaborate description, but he pleads that if the good colonel desired to tell the details it would only be justifiable if told over a good table and a flowing bowl. The sporting tourist sets out many bills of fare (notably one at p. 93), and Sir Walter affirms he would listen to Colonel Thornton over such a spread, but apparently not otherwise. Todd, Rev. John (1763-1845): Spenser, Edmund (1553-1598), Works of. (1805) Pr. xvii. 80 This was published in the Edinburgh Review for 1805. The reviewer enters his protest against a growing liking for variorum editions of great authors, in which the original author suffers by the mass of unsympathetic and 72 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS contradictory views taken by those who stand as " five to one," and leave the poet crushed by the mere number of his commentators. As Sir W. Scott says, the editors of variorum editions express their regard for the author as the Gauls showed their gratitude, " who overwhelmed with " their bucklers the virgin to whom they were indebted for the conquest of a "city." Tristrem, Sir: A Metrical Romance of the Thirteenth Cen- tury. (1804) Po^ Sir W. Scott never wavered in the belief that the " Sir Tristrem" of the Auchinleck manuscript was virtually if not actually the production of Thomas the Rhymer, Laird of Erceldoune, in Berwickshire, who flourished at the close of the thirteenth century. It was originally intended to include this in the " Minstrelsy," but it grew too bulky as Notes and Appendices were gath- ered together, and it was published as a separate work, of which Sir Walter retained the copyright. Second and third editions were published in 1806 and 181 1. The copies in these editions numbered respectively one hundred and fifty, seven hundred and fifty, and one thousand. After that it was in- cluded in the collective editions of Scott's works. The writer is sometimes called Lermont or Learmont, and sometimes " The " Rhymer." Erceldoune is a village in Berwickshire, a small distance from Melrose. There are many romances founded on the story of " Sir Tristrem," such as "Le Roman de Tristan" and " Iseult." The Auchinleck manuscript is a large and curious collection of romances made up of forty-four different pieces of poetry. " The date of the manuscript cannot possibly be earlier " and does not seem to be much later than 1330, at least eighty years after the " romance of ' Sir Tristrem' had been composed." In appendix No. iv. (pp. 107-127) is given a short account of the forty- four pieces. The manuscript is a thick quarto, containing three hundred and thirty-four leaves. Some of the forty-four pieces are mere fragments, but others are works of great length. The romance of " Tristrem" was No. 37, and occupies nineteen leaves, but the " Conclusion" is wanting. K facsimile of the commencement of " Sir Tristrem" faces page 139. The romance is in three fyttes, or acts, and Sir W. Scott has written a " Conclusion" (pp. 309-316) in imitation of the ancient " Rhymer," whoever he was, which " must always be admired as a remarkable specimen of skill " and dexterity." "Thomas the Rhymer" survived in authorship mainly from his having been reputed to be a prophet and " a guide to the mysterious halls beneath "the Eildon Hills." He was called True Thomas from his prophecies enunciated after a three years' residence in perfect happiness with the Queen of Faery in Fairyland. His prophecies related to things that were to happen in the wars between England and Scotland. It is much disputed whether " Sir Tristrem" was written by him. The poem is followed by a description and abstract (pp. 317-353) of two ancient fragments of French metrical romances on the subject of " Sir 73 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS "Tristrem" and an account (pp. 355-367), by Mr. Henry Weber, of the Ger- man romances founded on the story of " Sir Tristrem." The volume closes with notes (pp. 369-462) and a glossary (pp. 463-493). On this writer, see also Po. iv, pp. HO-166. Two Drovers, The. (1827) . . . Nov. xli. 238-288 This is the second story of the first series of " Chronicles of the Canon- gate." The period of the story is 1765, in the time of George III. This tale Sir Walter learned from " an old friend, the late George Constable, of Wal- " lace-Craigie, near Dundee, whom he has already introduced to his readers "as the original Antiquary of Monkbarns." He had been "present at the " trial at Carlisle, and seldom mentioned the venerable judge's charge to the "jury without shedding tears." The old Scottish feeling of honour led to the taking a life for a blow, and when the punishment of the gallows had to be met the response made was, " I give a life for the life I took, and what "more can I do?" Tytler, Patrick Fraser (i 791-1849): Scotland, History of. Vol- umes i. and. ii. (1829) .... Pr. xxi. 152 This review appeared in the Quarterly for November, 1829. This history was Mr. Tytler's principal work. It was published in nine volumes, 1828-43, and has a high reputation. Mr. Tytler was Professor of Universal History and Roman Antiquities at Edinburgh, and was afterwards created Lord Woodhouselee. Vision of Don Roderick, The. (i8ii) . . Po. ix. 355-440 This poem was written and published between April and July of 1811. It was a year in which subscriptions were taken up in aid of the Portuguese suf- ferers by the Bonaparte wars carried on upon the soil of that unfortunate coun- try, and Scott wrote this poem as his subscription, and the "immediate pro- "ceeds were forwarded to the London Board." It was afterwards inserted in the second volume of the Edinburgh Annual Register, Vocal Poetry; or, A Select Collection of English Songs. By John Aikin (i8io) Pr. xvii. 133 See Aikin. [Walladmor : A Romance. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. (1824.) The romance entitled as above was a forgery (see Nov. xxxvii. p. xxix., and Lockhart's " Life," vol. vii. p. 385) . It appeared at Leipsic in the German lan- guage, not as what it really was, a German novel, written by a German novel- 74 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS ist, but as a translation from an English original by Sir W. Scott. Worse re- mained behind, for in that unhappy September, 1824, not only was the reading world not blessed with a " Waverley Novel," but instantly the forgery had been published in Germany the earliest copy was secured for the London Magazine, and De Quincey in " a few hours" reviewed it, quoting three pas- sages out of its one thousand pages. By " pure accident," he tells us, " he " had stumbled upon almost every passage in the whole course of the thousand "pages which could be considered tolerable." The review pleased the pub- lishers, and De Quincey was promptly commissioned to translate the whole book, and it was to be ready for the public " inside a month." De Quincey's account of l)is translation into English of this German trash and of his alterations of the "almighty nonsense," of which "nine hundred " and fifty, to say the very least, of its thousand pages consisted," is as humour- ous, in the truest' sense of the word, as anything he ever wrote. The three " corpulent German volumes collapsed- into two English ones of rather con- " sumptive appearance."] Walpole, Horace (i 716-1797), Memoir of. (1821-25) Pr. iii. 299. This is one of the " Prefaces" in Ballahtyne's " Novelist's Library." Lord Orford, or, as he elected to be called, Horace Walpole, is probably best known by his letters. Macaulay says of him that " serious business was a trifle to "him, and trifles were his serious business." Sir W. Scott remarks that his most famous work, " Otranto," is remarkable as the first modern attempt to "found a tale of amusing fiction upon the basis of the ancient romances of " chivalry." It was ushered into the world in 1764 as " a translation by Wil- " Ham Marshall from the Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, a sort of anagram or "translation of the author's own name." The secret of authorship was dis- closed in the second edition. In a letter dated March 9, 1763, the author states that he " completed the tale in less than two months," doing away with the popular legend that it was written in eight days. Waterloo, The Field of. (1815) . . . Po. xi. 255-291 See Field of Waterloo. Waverley. 2 vols. (1814) Ykov.\. and\\. This was commenced in 1805, but laid aside after chapter vii. was written on an unfavourable opinion expressed by William Erskine. In 1810 the frag- ment was submitted to James Ballantyne, but he expressed very great doubts as to its probable success, and it was "forthwith laid aside again." In 1814 it was taken up once more, and the last two volumes of the original edition, which was in three volumes, were written in three weeks. Prescott has described it as " Shakespeare in prose." It was, as is well known, published anonymously, but " Jeffrey at once offered to make oath that it was Scott's." 75 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Scott obstinately determined to keep the authorship a secret, and answered one of John Ballantyne's expostulations on the subject of " the secret" thus (see " Life," vol. iv. p. 1 79) : " No, John, I will not own the book, — " I won't, you Piccaroon. " When next I try St. Grubby's brook, " The A. of Wa shall bait the hook,— " And flat-fish bite as soon " As if before them they had got " The worn-out wriggler, Walter Scott." The sale of forty thousand copies was attained by 1 829, and, says Lockhart, well might Constable regret that he had not ventured to make up his offer of ;^7oo to ;^looo for the whole copyright of " Waverley," at which sum the author had been willing to trade. Fortunately for the latter, he netted several thousands instead of one by the over- caution of the publisher. The author confesses that the tale " was put together with so little care that " he cannot boast of having sketched any distinct plan of the work." It re- lates to the insurrection in the Stuart interest led by Charles Edward in 1745. The novel was dedicated by a " postscript which should have been a "preface" to the "Scottish Addison, Henry Mackenzie, by an unknown ad- "mirer of his genius." This was the celebrated Mackenzie (1745-1831), the author of " A Man of Feeling," that writer's most successful work. The precautions taken to preserve the anonymity of Sir Walter are very curious. The original manuscript was transcribed under the publisher's eye by confidential persons, so that the author's handwriting never passed into the printing-room, and to that end double proof-sheets were regularly printed off, and the alterations made by the author were copied by Mr. Ballantyne, the publisher, by his own hand, upon the second proof-sheet, for the use of the printers, who in that way did not see the author's handwriting. Scott's only reason for so long keeping up the secret was " by saying " with Shylock that such was my humour." The secret was well main- tained, although known, says Sir W. Scott, " to not less than twenty "persons." The particulars concerning the original secret and its avowal are contained in the " General Preface" to " Waverley" (Nov. i. pp. xx.-xl.) and the " In- "troduction to the 'Chronicles of the Canongate' " (Nov. xli. pp. iii.-lxxiii.). "People" (writes James T. Fields) "who died prior to the 7th of July, " 1S14, were unfortunate in one respect if no other, for on that day was pub- "lished the first of the 'Waverley' romances. A world without Scott's " novels in it must have been rather a lean place to live in surely, and we can " never quite estimate the dulness and vacuity of a globe which existed before " that immortal story-teller was boru into it." Sir Walter was forty-three years of age when he published " Waverley." 76 SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WRITINGS Wild Huntsman, The : Translation from Burger . Po. vi. 307 This is " a translation, or, rather, an imitation of the • Wilde Jager' of " the German Poet Burger." {See " Lenore.") It was originally published in 1796, and was then entitled " The Chace." Witchcraft, Demonology and, Letters on. (1830.) See Demonology. Women ; or. Pour et Contre. By Maturin, Rev. Charles Rob- ert. (1818) Pr. xviii. 172 See Maturin. WOODHOUSELEE, LoRD. See Tytler. Woodstock ; OR, The Cavalier. 2 vols. (1826) Nov. xxxix. a«(/xl. The romance is laid at the royal lodge of Woodstock and its vicinity in the time of the Commonwealth after the battle of Woodstock, " A Tale of "the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty One." Much interesting information as to Woodstock is to be found in Hone's " Every-Day Book," quoted largely from a tract entitled " The Genuine History of the Good Devil of " Woodstock, famous in the world, in the year 1649, ^""^ never accounted for " or at all understood to this time." The novel is filled with historical personages, — e.g., Joshua Bletson, one of the commissioners for the sequestration of Woodstock ; the Duke of Buck- ingham, Charles II., Lord Clarendon, Oliver Cromwell, Colonel Desborough, General Harrison, and Sir Hemy Lee, the ranger of Woodstock. Sir W. Scott was writing this novel when his failure occurred. He deter- mined to meet his losses bravely, and wrote a chapter a day whilst his bank- ruptcy was being arranged, and completed it on the sixty-ninth day after his ruin was announced. In vol. xxxix. are given copies of two original pamphlets which contain a full account of the phenomena at Woodstock in 1649, — namely, the Wood- stock Scuffle (pp. xxiii.-xxxv.) and the Just Devil of Woodstock (pp. xxxvi.- Ixiv.). They were written in ridicule of the contractors or Parliament com- missioners who went to sell the late king's lands, etc., at Woodstock. York, Frederick, Duke of (1763-1827), Memoir of. (1827) Pr. iv. 400. This was published in the Edinburgh Weekly Journal of January 10, 1827. The Duke of York was the second son of George III. He was commander- in-chief of the British forces for many years, and introduced many valuable reforms into the service. It relates with great care the consequences of the duke's liaison with Mrs. Clarke, his retirement from the high office of com- mander-in-chief in 1809, and his recall to that eminent position in iSli which he occupied with distinction till the time of his death. 77 INDEX. PAGE lO lO lO 26 17 Abbot, th^ favourite with Scott . sequel to Monastery . Abbotsford, drawings in breakfast room at . library described removal to Scott dictates Ivanhoe at Turner's visit to Abbreviations explained . Abstract of Eyrbiggia-Saga Achilles Tatius, see Tatius. Adelphi Theatre, Terry plays Doom of Devorgoil at . Aikin, John, published Vocal Po- e"7 II, Airth and Menteith, William, Earl of, in Legend of Montrose . . 40 Albany, Murdoch, second Duke of, in Fair Maid of Perth . . 27 Robert, first Duke of, in Fair Maid of Perth . . .27 Albyn's Anthology, Songs written for ..... 64, 65, 65 Alexiad . . . . . .23 Alison, Sir Archibald, criticism of Mrs. Charlotte Smith . . .63 AUan-a-Dale, in Ivanhoe . . .36 Almanack, " The Keepsake" a lit- erary 35 Alsatia, heroes and heroines of, in Fortunes of Nigel . . .29 name for Whitefriars . . 29 sanctuary of outlaws . . 29 PAGE . II . II • 67 Miss Amadis de Gaul, version by Rose by Southey .... Saintsbury on . Ancient Ballad, Essay on Imitations of the Imitations of, see Minstrelsy. Ancient English Metrical Romances II, 57 Anecdote of Duchess of Bouillon and Le Sage . of Jeffrey and Scott's Marmion of Kelly by Sheridan of Lady of the Lake and Scott .... of Maturin and his "fitt" . of Mrs. Scott and Jeffrey . of Mrs. Siddons at Ashestiel of school days . of Scott and sermons for Gordon . on translating Lenore of Sheridan on Kelly Anecdotes, Jacobite, added to criti cism of Home of the Scotch in CuUoden Papers 24 Anjou, Margaret of, in Anne of Gei- erslein . . . . . . Ii Annals of Caledonians, etc. 11, ig, 57 of Picts, etc. of Scots, etc. . Anne of Geierstein . Queen, period of. Dwarf . in The Pirate Mr 13 41 43 38 40 44 43 38 II 57 41 38 35 II, 19, 57 II, 19, 57 II Black 16 . . S3 79 INDEX Anonymity : Eccles claims authorship of Man of Feeling . . . -43 Jeffrey, Lord, asserts author- ship of Waverley . . .75 Man of Feeling (Mackenzie) published anonymously . . 43 of Harold the Dauntless . . 33 of Horace Walpole's Otranto . 75 of Scott 16 of the Black Dwarf . . .16 Scott admits himself " Author of "Waverley" . . .72 conceals authorship of Bridal of Triermain . . .17 desire for anonymity . . 36 discards . . . .21 great precautions to preserve 76 love for . . . .71 reason for maintaining . 76 verses denying authorship of Waverley . . .76 trouble over Pontefract Castle . 22 Antiquary, The . . . .11 George Constable the original of 74 Jonathan Oldbuck the Antiquary 12 mottoes by Scott . . .11 period of . . . . .12 popularity of . . . II, 12 Antiquities, Essay on Border . .16 Apparition, Mrs. Veal's, invented by De Foe 25 Appeal, The, tragedy by John Gait . 65 Archers of Scottish Guard in Quentin Durward . . . . .55 Ardvoirlich, in Legend of Montrose 41 Argyle, Archibald, eighth Earl and Marquis of, in Legend of Mon- trose . . . . .41 third Duke of, in Heart of Mid- lothian . . . . .34 John, second Duke of, in Heart of Midlothian . . .34 Armada, The, Scott declines to write about . . . . . .38 80 Arundel, first novel of Richard Cum- berland 24 Ashestiel fragment, described . .12 Mrs. Siddons at . . .38 removal to . . . .12 Aspen, The House of, see House. Astrologer, The . . . .32 Auchindrane 12 Auchinleck, curious manuscript of, described 73 Auger, L. S., edition of Molifire by . 48 Aunt Margaret's Mirror, My . . 49 Austen, Jane . . . . .12 review of novels of . . .12 Author of Waverley, see Anonymity. Author's favourite edition . . 9 Autobiography of Scott . . .25 Avenel, The White Lady of, in The Monastery . . . . .48 Ayrshire Tragedy, The . . .12 " Baby CHARLES," in Fortunes of Nigel 29 Badajos, Plains of . . . .50 Bage, Robert, Catherine Hutton on . 13 Memoir of . . . 13, 15 Bailie Nicol Jarvie, see Jarvie. Baillie, Joanna, MacDuff's Cross in Poetical Miscellanies of . .42 Scott's prologue to play of . 46 Baldwin, Archbishop, in The Be- trothed 14 Balfour, John, of Kinlock, in Old Mortality 51 Baliol, Mrs. Bethune, in Chrystal Croftangry's Biography . . 21 was Mrs. Murray Keith, Scott's friend . . . . .21 Ballad, Essay on Imitations of the Ancient 13 See Minstrelsy. Ballads from the German, etc. . .13 Historical, see Minstrelsy. Old, Historical, see Evans. Romantic, see Minstrelsy. INDEX Ballantyne & Co.,tlieir failure involves Scott . . . . .21 James, and Bride of Lammermoor 17 his talk with Miss Scott . 40 Malagrowther's letters ad- dressed to . . .43 Scott's article on Byron's death . . . . ig unfavourable opinion of Waverley . . .75 John, denies Scott's interest in Pontefract Castle . . 22 objects to title of Kenil- worth . . , .38 Prefaces, for his sole benefit 15 pun on the title of Kenil- "worth .... Scott's verses to, upon Wa- verley .... writes sketch of De Foe Ballantyne's Novelist's Library con- tains : Memoir of Bage, Robert . of Cumberland, Richard of Fielding, Henry . of Goldsmith, Oliver . of Johnson, Samuel . of Johnstone, Charles of Le Sage, A. R. of Mackenzie, Henry of Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann of Reeve, Clara of Richardson, Samuel of Smollett, Tobias . of Sterne, Laurence . of Walpole, Horace . Balloch, Donald, in Pibroch of Don- ald Dhu .... Baltimore, son of Old Mortality set ties in . Balue, Cardinal John de la, in Quen- tin Durward Bank-notes, issue of Bannatyne Club, Pitcairn's Trials pub- lished through . . . .53 Bannatyne Club, Scott president of . The, written for anniversary Dinner . George .... Barbour, Archdeacon Bard's Incantation, in Miscellaneous Poems ..... Bartley, Mrs., formerly Miss Smith (the actress) Bass Rock, The ... Bath, Scott meets Home at Battle of Badajos, in The Bold Dra goon .... of Bothwell Brigg, in Min- strelsy .... of Flodden-Field . of Halidon Hill of Lumphanan of Marston Moor of Nancy .... of Nerling, in Legend of Mont- rose .... of Otterburn, in Minstrelsy of Sempach of Waterloo . . 28, 52 of Woodstock . of Wooler Battles between Edward 1. and Bruce, in Castle Dangerous of Talavera . . .14. on the Welsh Marches Bell-Rock Lighthouse, Scott's lines on visiting .... Bentley, Richard, Goldsmith styles him " The Terence of Eng- " land" grandfather of Richard Cumber- land Berengaria, Queen, in The Talisman Beresford, Rev. James, see Miseries of Human Life. Berkeley, Hon. George . Berlichmgen, Goetz of, see Goetz. Bertram, play by Maturin Berwick-on-Tweed . . . . PACK ■ 14 64 H 19 46 50 54 35 5° 45 43 33 42 58 II 40 45 13 64 77 33 19 23 14 51 24 24 71 23 44 33 81 INDEX PAGE Betrothed, The . . . .14 one of the Tales of Crusaders . 14 Biederman, Arnold, in Anne of Geier- stein . . . . . -11 Bills of Fare, in Thornton's Sporting Tour 72 Black Douglas, Castle of, in Castle Dangerous . . . . .19 Black Dwarf, The . . . .16 companion to Old Mortality . 5 1 designed for two volumes . .16 discovery of authorship of .16 first of the Tales of My Land- lord 16 in Jedediah Cleishbotham series 16 period of Queen Anne . . 16 published a month before Harold the Dauntless . . .33 Ritchie, David, the prototype of 16 success of . . . . .16 Black, Messrs. A. & C, erect a head- stone to Old Mortality . .51 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Battle of Sempach published in 13 on Gait's " The Omen" (Scott) . 30 on Harold the Dauntless . review of Frankenstein in . Bletson, Joshua, in Woodstock Blood, Colonel, in Peveril of the Peak Boaden, James, memoirs of Kemble, John Philip . . . . 16, 38 Bold Dragoon, The, in Occasional Pieces ...... Book Clubs, rise of, described by Scott Booksellers and The Monastery Bordeaux, Goldsmith leaves Leith for Border Antiquities, Essay on . additional to the Minstrelsy Borrowing-days, in Glossary to Waverley Novels . . . ,30 Borthwick Castle . . . .54 Bothwell Brigg, Battle of, in Min- strelsy 45 Bouillon, Duchess of, in Memoir of Le Sage . . . .41 Godfrey of, see Godfrey of Bou- illon. Braybrooke, Richard, Lord, see Pepys. Bribe offered to Le Sage to suppress his play " Turcaret" . . .41 Bridal of Triermain, The . .17 published anonymously . .17 sketch of, published in 1809 . 17 written simultaneously with Rokeby, etc 17 Bride of Lammermoor, The . .17 in Jedediah Cleishbotham Series 16 in third series of Tales of My Landlord . . . 17, 22 opera by Donizetti . . .17 period of . . . . .17 written during Scott's illness . 37 Bruce, Robert, in Castle Dangerous . 19 Bruce, The, Castle Dangerous de- rived partly from . . . .19 Buccleugh, Charles, Duke of . 15, 18 banner of House of, at great foot-ball match . . .67 Scott's letter to, on his review of Byron 18 Buckingham, first Duke of, called " Steenie" by James I. . 29 in Fortunes of Nigel . . 29 second Duke of, in Peveril of the Peak . . .53 in Woodstock . . .77 Bunyan, John, Life (Southey) . 18, 67 see Southey. verses on his authorship of Pil- grim's Progress . . .68 Buonaparte, see Napoleon. Burger, Gottfried Augustus . . 18 Burgundy, Court of, in Anne of Geier- stein . . . . ,11 see Charles the Bold. 82 INDEX Burleigh, Lord, in Kenilworth . 39 Burley, John, in Old Mortality . 51 Bums, Robert, Reliques of . .18 Burton, Dr., identified as Sterne's Dr. Slop . . . . .69 Byron, Lord . . . . 15, 20 and Sir W. Scott . . . i8 article on his death . . .19 Childe Harold: Canto III. . 18 Ornto IV. . . .18 difficulty of, in discovering author of Bertram . . .44 friendship for Maturin . . 44 on Scott . . . . .44 phenomenal sale of works of . 42 praises Fielding . . .28 Rokeby (Scott) and Childe Harold appear simultaneously 58 LADELL & STRACHAN, Messrs., publish Man of Feeling Cadell, Robert .... describes Constable's pride naming Kenilworth Cadyow Castle, in Minstrelsy . Cage in which Cardinal de la Balue was confined Caledonian Sketches Caledonians, etc.. Annals of, see Annals. Callcott, Rev. J. Thomson, drawings by Campbell, Thomas, alarmed at his own reputation his Gertrude of Wyoming Canongate, Chronicles of the . contain Chrystal Croftangry's autobiography Fair Maid of Perth forms second series of . . . 21, first series includes the Highland Widow . . . ■ Surgeon's Daughter . Two Drovers Canongate, Chronicles of the, inter- esting introduction . .21 reputed author is Chrystal Croft- angry 21 Carlaverock Churchyard, headstone of Old Mortality in . . .51 Carle, Now the King's Come, in Oc- casional Pieces . . . .50 Carlisle, view of, by Goodall after Turner . . . . . .26 Carlyle, Thomas, on Hoffmann . 35 Caroline, Queen, in Heart of Midlo- thian 34 Carr, Sir John . . . . .19 his action for libel against Du- bois . . . . .19 his Caledonian Sketches . . 19 Carterhaugh, Song on foot-ball match at 67 Castle Dangerous . . . .19 in fourth series of Tales of My Landlord . . -19, 22 in Jedediah Cleishbotham Series 15 outline first given in Essay on Chivalry . . . .20 period of Edward I. . . .19 Scott's last novel . . .20 wars between Edward I. and Bruce . . . . .19 where derived from . . .19 Castle of Otranto, imitated by Clara Reeve 56 Castle Pontefract, see Pontefract. Catherine, glover's daughter, in Fair Maid of Perth . . .27 Queen of Charles II., in Peveril of the Peak . . . .53 Cavalier, The, see Woodstock. Chace, The, see Wild Huntsman, The. Chalmers, Dr., on Johnstone's Chrysal 37 Chambers, Robert, discovers proto- type of Captain Clutterbuck . 48 Illustrations of the Author of Waverley, by . . .48 83 INDEX Champion of Virtue, first title of Old English Baron . . . .56 Charlemagne ancestor of Count Rob- ert of Pans . . . . .23 Charles I., in Fortunes of Nigel . 29 period of, in Legend of Mon- trose . - . . .40 Charles II., Euke of Monmouth a natural son of . . .51 in Woodstock . . . .77 period of, in Old Mortality . 51 in Peveril of the Peak 52 Charles Edward Stuart, Prince, in Redgauntlet . . . .56 in Waverley . . . .76 Rob Roy a partisan of . .58 Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, in Anne of Geierstein . . 11 in Quentin Durward . . .55 secrets of Louis XL betrayed to 56 Chateau de Hautlieu . . . lo Chatterton, Thomas, impostures of . 20 Works of . . . . .20 Chaucer, Geoffrey, Godwin's criti- cism of . . . . .31 see Godwin. Cheney, Edward, on Mrs. Ann Rad- cliffe . . . . . .56 Cheviot Hills in Guy Mannering . 33 Chiffinch, Tom, m Peveril of the Peak 53 Childe Harold, reviews of Cantos III. andlN 18 Chivalry, Essay on . . . .20 a companion to Essay on Drama 20 remuneratiun for, £,\oo . , 20 Christian, Edward, in Peveril of the Peak 53 Christian Instructor, The, attacks on Scott in . . . . .71 Chronicle of Scottish Poetry . 20, 62 of the Cid . . . 21, 68 Chronicles of Sir John Froissart . 30 of the Canongate, see Canongate. 37 21 22 68 77 57 77 51 S3 53 53 84 Chronological List of Publications of Scott Chrysal, an imitation of Devil on Two Slici 37 sells Vicar of Wakefield for Goldsmith . . . .32 Johnstone, Charles . . . .15 Memoij: of . . . .37 Josephine, her contract of marriage with Napoleon . . . .49 KeAN, CHARLES, plays Louis XL in Quentin Durward . . 5S Keepsake, The, Death of the Laird's Jock in 25 first publishes The House of Aspen 35 My Aunt Margaret's Mirror in . 49 Tapestried Chamber, The, in . 72 Kehama, Curse of, see Southey. Keith, Mrs. Murray, and Scott's High- land Bride 34 Keith, Mrs. Murray, was original of Mrs. Bethune Baliol . . .21 Kelly, Michael, Reminiscences of . 38 Kemble, John Philip, Farewell Ad dress .... his theatrical career . Memoirs of, by Boaden . 16 Kenilworth .... Ballantyne objects to the title Castle, plan of, in novel Constable publishes . name suggested by Constable period of Elizabeth . pun on the name . , Khorasan, A Tale of, see Fraser. Killigrew, Tom, in Pepys's Diary Kilpont, Lord John, in Legend of Montrose .... King's goldsmith and banker in For- tunes of Nigel Kinneder, William Erskine, Lord, see Erskine. Kirk Yetholm, in Guy Mannering . Kirkton, Rev. James Church of Scotland, History of . 39 compelled to fly to Holland . 39 Kotzebue, Pizarro a translation from 38 Kuzzilbash, The . . . .29 65 38 .38 38 38 39 38 38 39 38 52 40 29 33 22 LACHLAN, War-Song of, in Mis- cellaneous Poems ... Lacy, see De Lacy. Lady in the Sacque . Lady of Avenel, The White, in Mon. astery ..... Lady of the Lake, The . compared with Scott's other poems .... Scott receives ^^2100 for . Laidlaw, William, Scott dictated Ivanhoe to . Laird's Jock, Death of the Lammermoor, Bride of, sei Bride of Lammermoor. 47 72 48 39 39 39 37 25 93 INDEX Lancaster, John of Gaunt, Duke of, in Godwin's Chaucer . . .31 Landscape Gardening [Planter's Guide] 40 Lardner's Cyclopaedia, Scott's His- tory of Scotland in . . .60 Lass wade Cottage . . . .12 Lathom House, in Peveril of the Peak 53 Lay of the Last Minstrel, The . . 40 approved by the critics . . 40 compared with Scott's other poems . . . . .39 how written . . . .40 manuscript not preserved . . 40 Leben und Nachlass . . .35 Scott criticizes Hoffmann's . 35 Lee, Sir Henry, in Woodstock . . 77 Legend of Montrose . . .40 in Jedediah Cleishbotham Series l5 in third series of Tales of My Landlord . . .22, 40 period of Charles I. . . .40 written during Scott's illness. . 37 Leicester, Earl of, in Kenilworth . 39 Leith, Goldsmith starts from, for Bor- deaux . . . . . .32 Lely, Sir Peter, in Pepys's Diary . 52 Lenore . . . . . ,41 first publication . . .41 given title of " William and "Helen" . . . .41 translation from Burger . 18, 41 Lermont or Learmont, sometimes called " The Rhymer" . . .73 Le Sage, Alain Ren6 . . .15 Memoir of . . . .41 Letters, Demonology, etc. . . 25 Malagrowther's . . .43 Paul's 52 Leu, Duchesse de Sainte . . .67 Lewis, M. G., his Tales of Wonder . 13 imitated by Maturin . . .44 negotiates sale of Scott's Goetz . 31 popularly known as Monk Lewis 44 Leyden, Goldsmith starts for . . 32 PAGE Leyden, John 15 Complaynt of Scotland quoted . 30 contributor to " Minstrelsy" . 42 enters East India Company . 42 his manners . . . .41 Memoirs of . . . .41 Library, Faculty of Advocates, Edin- burgh . . . . .14 Pepysian, and Pepys . . .52 Liege, Bishop of, in Quentin Durward 55 Life of John Dryden, The . . 26 of Scott by Lockhart . . 9 Lighthouse Yacht, Voyage in . .25 Lindesay, Lord, in The Abbot . . lo Lines in Occasional Pieces to M. Alexandre . . . .50 to Ranald Macdonald . . 50 written for Miss Smith . . 50 Linlithgow, Palace of . . .55 Littlejohn, Hugh . . . .70 Lives written as prefaces . . .15 Lobeira, Vasco de, his edition of Amadis de Gaul . . . .67 Loch Katrine described in Lady of the Lake 39 Lochleven, in The Abbot . . .10 Lady of . . . . .10 Loch Lomond, scene of Rob Roy . 58 Lockhart, J. G., and Miseries of Hu- man Life . . . .47 Life of Scott . . . 9,61 marries Sophia, eldest daughter of Scott . . . .61 on Redgauntlet . . .56 on Waverley . , . .76 on Whately's review of Jane Austen . . . . .12 quotes Scott's diary on Fielding 28 writes advertisement to " Min- "strelsy" . . . .45 Lockhart, John Hugh, dies before his grandfather . . . .71 Tales of Grandfather addressed to 70 Lodbrog, Regnar, Death Song of . 34 94 INDEX PAGE Lombard Street, a run upon, in Pepys's Diary . . . .52 London Magazine secures Walladmor 75 London, scene of Fortunes of Nigel . 29 Lord Justice General of Scotland in Legend of Montrose . . .41 Lord Maxwell's Good-night, in Min- strelsy 46 Lord of Ennerdale, The . . .42 Lord of the Isles, The . . .42 circulation of . . . .28 Guy Mannering published two months after , . . .32 scene opens in year 1307 . . 42 Lottery rhyme used by boys . . 30 Louis XL in Quentin Durward . 55 Charles Kean and Irving play in " Quentin Durward" . 55 Louis XII., the Dauphin, in Quentin Durward Louis of Bourbon, Prince, Durward Lounger, The, edited by Lover's Tale, A Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti Lullaby of an Infant Chief, in Terry's Guy Mannering . Lumphanan, Battle of 55 in Quentin 55 Mackenzie 43 • 17 opera by 17 MaCAULAY, LORD, on Horace Walpole . . . .75 on Scott's Napoleon . . .49 Macbeth, MacDuff in Shakespeare's . 42 McCallum More, in Legend of Mon- trose . . . . . .41 McCrie, Dr. T., attacks Scott's views of Scotch Covenanters . . .71 Macdonald, Ranald, Lines to . .50 MacDuff's Cross . . . .42 shaft of, destroyed in 1559 . 42 MacGregor, Rob Roy, chief of Clan of 58 MacGregor's Gathering, written for Albyn's Anthology . . .66 PAGE IS 43 43 46 35 43 43 76 76 40 66 47 Mackenzie, Henry . edits The Lounger . The Mirror High Chief of Kintail, Fare- well to ... Home, John, Life of Man of Feeling, by . Memoir of . . , the Scottish Addison Waverley dedicated to MacKeyes' Regiment Mackrimmon's Lament sung by High- land emigrants Maclean, War-Song of, in Miscella- neous Poems MacLeish, in The Highland Widow 34 Madge Wildfire, in Heart of Mid- lothian . . . . .34 Magdalen College, Pepysian Library bequeathed to . . . .52 Magic Mirror, in My Aunt Margaret's Mirror . . . . . .49 Maid of Isia, written for Scottish Melodies .... of Neidpath, in Miscellaneous Poems .... of Toro, song by Scott Maiden of the Mist, see Anne of Geierstein ..... Maitland Club Malagrowther, Malachi, Letters of . Man of Feeling, by Mackenzie The New Mannering, Guy, see Guy Mannering. March, George, Earl of Dunbar and, in Fair Maid of Perth . Marck, see De la Marck. Margaret of Anjou, in Anne of Geier- stein . . . . . .11 Marmion : A Tale of Flodden-Field 43 compared with other poems by Scott 39 date of publication of . .12 hero a fictitious character . . 43 period of . . . . .43 66 46 64 11 53 43 43 31 27 95 INDEX Fatal Re- and Scott of Dennis Centre :o lose his PAGE Mavston Moor, battle of . . .58 Mary, Queen of Scots, allowed to hawk . escape of . in The Abbot . Sir Ralph Sadler and Massacre of Glencoe Maturin, Rev. C. R., venge Family of Montorio friendship of Byron for used nam de plume Jasper Murphy Women; or. Pour et Maximilian causes Goetz right hand grandfather of Charles V. Meg Dods, in Saint Ronan's Well Meg Merrilies, in Guy Mannering original of .... played by Miss Charlotte Cush man .... real name Jean Gordon Melrose Abbey, in The Abbot . scene of The Monastery . Menteith, William Earl of and, in Legend ol Montrose Men, Women, and Books, by Leigh Hunt . , 56 Merchiston Tower . . . .55 Merrilies, Meg, in Guy Mannering . 32 Metrical Romances by Ellis and by Ritson II, 57 Minna Troil, in The Pirate . . 53 Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern (Motherwell) . . .45 Historical Ballads . . .45 of the Scottish Border . 13, 45 Fairies of Popular Supersti- tion in . . . .28 imitations of the Ancient Ballad . . . .45 music appended to ten bal- lads . . . .45 59 10 10 59 17 44 44 44 44 44 31 31 59 32 71 32 33 10 Airth 40 96 Minstrelsy, Popular Poetry, an intro- duction to . . . .54 Romantic Ballads . . .45 see Border Antiquities. Mirror, The, Mackenzie editor of . 43 My Aunt Margaret's . . .49 Miscellaneous Criticism . . .23 Poems . . . . .46 Prose Works . . . 9, 47 Miseries of Human Life (Beres- ford) 14,47 Modern Prometheus, The . . 29 Moir, Prof. George, on Charlotte Smith 63 Moli4re [Poquelin, Jean Baptiste] . 48 Monastery, The . . . .48 how received by public . . 10 its sequel was The Abbot . .10 least successful of Scott's novels 48 Melrose Abbey the scene of . 48 period of Queen Elizabeth in . 48 Monastery of St. Mary's of Kenne- quhair . . . . . .48 Monk Lewis, see Lewis, M. G. Monks, The, of Bangor's March . 65 Monmouth, Duke of, in Old Mor- tality 51 Monro, Colonel Robert, in Legend of Montrose . . . . .40 Monstrelet, Chronicles of, edited by Johnes . . . . .30 Monteath, Robert, Forester's Guide, etc 48 Montrose, Duke of, seizes Rob Roy's lands 58 Marquis of, in Legend of Mont- rose . . . . .41 Montserrat, Conrade of, in Talisman 71 Morier, James, Hajji Baba in Eng- land . . . . . .48 Moringer, The Noble . . .14 Morton, Earl of, in The Abbot . 10 in The Monastery . . .48 Motherwell, William, edits Min- strelsy . . . . . .45 INDEX Mottoes to chapters, written by Scott 1 1 Moulton, Louise, describes Scott's library at Abbotsford . , .61 Mount Henneth, by Bage, Robert . 13 Muir, John, in Auchindrane . . 12 Multon, Sir Thomas, in The Talis- man . . . . . .71 Muralto, Onuphrio, pseudonymous author of Castle of Otranto . . 75 Mure, John, see Muir. Murphy, Dennis Jasper, KOOT deplume of Maturin . . . . .44 Murray, Earl of, in The Abbot . . 10 in The Monastery . . .48 Murray, John, Letters on Demonology in Family Library of . .25 Music, ten ballads of Minstrelsy set to 45 My Aunt Margaret's Mirror . . 49 in The Keepsake . . .35 period of William III. . . 49 My Pocket-Book parodies The Stranger in Ireland . . .19 Mysteries of Udolpho, Mrs. Radcliffe received ;^500 for ... 56 N ACHTSTUCKE, Scott criticises Hoffmann's . Nancy, Battle of, in Anne of Geier- stein ..... Napoleon and Josephine . camp library of 320 volumes Life of ... . criticized by Niebuhr Macaulay Scott is paid ;^l8,ooo for . name, how spelled . Nasmyth, drawings by, in Provincial Antiquities of Scotland Neidpath, Maid of, in Miscellaneous Poems ...... Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Goldsmith im- prisoned in . New Man of Feeling 35 49 49 10,49 and • 49 21 49 PAGE New Practice of Cookery, The . 22 Nicanor, in Count Robert of Paris . 23 Nicholas I. of Russia, verses by Scott on 51 Niebuhr on Scott's Napoleon . . 49 Nigel, Fortunes of, see Fortunes of Nigel. Noble Moringer, The . . .14 Nora's Vow, written for Albyn's An- thology . . . . .65 Norman Horseshoe, The, song by Scott 64 Northanger Abbey, review of . .12 Nova Zembla, Diary of a Voyage to 25 Novelists, biographies of . . 10, 15 Novelist's Library, Memoirs as Pre- faces in, 13, 24, 28, 32, 37, 41, 43, 56, 57. 63, 69, 75 Scott refused to edit new edition 16 Novels and Romances, Criticism on . 23 of Hoffmann . . . .35 'ATES, DR., in Peveril of the Peak 53 Occasional Pieces . . . .50 Odeon, Ivanhoe produced at . .37 Oldbuck, Jonathan, in The Antiquary 12 Old English Baron, by Clara Reeve . 56 Old Mortality 5" in Jedediah Cleishbotham series 16 period of Charles II. and his successors . . . .5' published a month before Harold the Dauntless . . .33 Robert Paterson a real person- age 51 translated as "The Scottish " Puritans" . . . .51 Old Play, mottoes from . . .11 Oliver the barber, in Quentin Dur- ward 55 Omen, The, by Gait . . .3° On Ettrick Forest's Mountains Dun . 66 Orford, Lord, preference of, for name of Horace Walpole . . .75 97 INDEX Orkney Islands, scene of The Pirate . 53 Ormond, Duke of, in Peveril of the Peak S3 Osbaldistone, Francis, see Rob Roy. Otranto, Castle of, Scott's estimate of 75 Otterburn, Battle of, in Minstrelsy . 45 Overbury, Sir Thomas, murdered by Mrs. Turner . . . . .29 Oxford, Earl of, see De Vere, John . II lALMER, The, in Miscellaneous Poems . . . . . .47 Palm Sunday, combat on , in Fair Maid of Perth 27 Paltz, The, in Legend of Montrose . 40 Pamela, by Richardson . . .57 Paradise Lost, sale of described . 53 Paterson, Robert, or Old Mortality, a real character . . .5' son of, settled in Baltimore, Md. 51 Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk . .52 great sale of . . . .52 Pepys, Samuel . . . . 16, 52 period of Diary 1659-1669 . 52 Percy defeats Scots at Wooler in 1402 33 Periodical Criticism . . . .23 Persuasion, review of . . .12 Perth, Fair Maid of, see Fair Maid of Perth. Perthshire, in Lady of the Lake . 39 Peveril of the Peak . . . .52 Pharos Loquitur, in Occasional Pieces 5 1 Philip Augustus of France, in The Talisman . . . .71 Philip de Comines, in Quentin Dur- ward 55 Pibroch of Donald Dhu, in Albyn's Anthology 65 Picts, etc.. Annals of, see Annals. Pirate, The . . . . .53 hero, John Gow or Golife or Smith 53 period of William III. and Queen Anne 53 98 Pirate, The, scene laid in Orkney Islands 53 Pitcairn, Robert, Ancient Criminal Trials 12 Criminal Trials in Scotland 23, 53 Pitt Club, For a' That and a' That, sung at the . . . . .50 Pitt, William, approves of Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .40 " Pizarro" written by Sheridan in great haste 38 Plagiarism, Sterne accused of, by Dr. Ferriar Plains of Badajos, The, in Occa- sional Pieces. Planter, Forester's Guide and Profit- able .... Planter's Guide . . . 40, Planting of Waste Lands Plessis les Tours, Dauphin's miser- able chamber in scene of Quentin Durward Pleydell, Counsellor, in Guy Man- nering ..... Poacher, in Poetical Fragments Poetical Criticism Fragments Works Poetry, Popular, Essay on Scaldic, by Herbert . Select Library of English, pro- posed . . . . .16 Poets, Specimens of Early English, see Ellis. Pontefract Castle, advertised as by " Author of Waverley" . 22,54 a forgery . . . . .22 Ballantyne denies Scott's author- ship of . . . . .22 failure of 22 Poole praises Southey's account of the Cid 68 Popish Plot, Pretended, in Peveril of the Peak . . . . .52 Popular Poetry, Essay on . . 54 69 SO 48 69 55 55 33 29 23 29 9 54 34 INDEX Popular Superstition, Fairies of Poquelin, Jean Baptiste, called Mo- lidre ..... Porteous, Captain of Edinburgh City Guard .... trial and death of Porteous Riot, in Heart of Midlothian Poundtext, Peter, in Old Mortality Preface to Bridal of Triermain Prescott, W. H., describes Waverley as " Shakespeare in Prose'" on Ann Radcliffe Pride and Prejudice reviewed by Scott Profitable Planter, The . Prometheus, The Modern Prose Works, The ... 9 Provence, King of, in Anne of Geier- stein . Provincial Antiquities of Scotland . Scott refuses payment for . PAGB 28 48 34 34 34 S> 17 75 S6 29 54 II 54 54 Q JUARTERLY REVIEW on Bat- tles of Talavera . . .23 on Boaden's Kemble . . 38 on Braybrooke's Pepys . .52 on Bridal of Triermain . .17 on Campbell's Gertrude of Wy- oming . . . . -19 on Carr's Caledonian Sketches . 19 on Childe Harold, Canto III. . 18 Canto IV 18 on Countess of Suffolk's Corre- spondence . . . .23 on Cromek's Burns . . .18 on Cumberland's novel, John de Lancaster . . . -24 on Evans's Old Ballads, etc. . 27 on Eraser's Kuzzilbash . . 29 on Hajji Baba in England . 48 on Jane Austen's Novels . .12 on Kirkton's Church of Scotland 39 on Lady of the Lake . .39 on Mackenzie's Life of Home . 35 Quarterly Review on Maturin's Fatal Revenge . . . .44 on Monteath's Forester's Guide 48 on murder of Archbishop Sharp 62 on Pitcairn's Criminal Trials on Reminiscences of Michael Kelly .... on Ritson's Annals of the Cale- donians, etc. . on Sir Humphry Davy's Sal monia .... on Southey's Bunyan Chronicles of the Cid Curse of Kehama on Steuart's Planter's Guide on Tales of My Landlord on The Culloden Papers . on Tytler's History of Scotland on Vocal Poetry Scott's article on Jane Austen Whately's article on Jane Austen Queen-hoo Hall, by John Strutt completed by Scott . not a success Queensberry, Duke of Buccleuch and .... 15, 18, Quentin Durward great success of, in France introduction to . scene laid at Plessis les Tours, about 1470 . Quest of Sultan Solimaun 53 38 57 60 67 68 68 69 71 24 74 II 12 12 55 55 55 67 55 10 55 67 R ADCLIFFE, ANN, Memoir of 15.56 Raleigh, Sir Walter, in Kenilworth . 39 Rebecca, in Ivanhoe . . .36 Receipts in Modern Cookery . . 22 Redgauntlet 5^ period about 1770 . . . 5^ Sir Edward Hugh Redgauntlet in 56 Scott wants to call it " Herries" 56 Reeve, Clara, Memoir of . . IS, 5^ 99 INDEX Regalia of Scotland Regnar Lodbrog, Death Song of Religious Discourses, Two Reliques of Burns . Remarks on Popular Poetry Remuneration for Byron's Poetry, Essay on Chivalry, p^ioo . Romance, ;£^loo the Drama, ;^I00 Goetz of Berlichingen, ^^26.5. Halidon Hill, ;^iooo House of Aspen, etc., £s°° Lady of the Lake, ^£'2100 Lay of the Last Minstrel. 2769.6.0 Life of Dryden, ;^7S6 of Napoleon, ;ifl8,ooo of Swift, ;^ISOO Marmion, ;^lo5o Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ;^78.IO.O Mount Henneth (Bage), £^0 Mysteries of Udolpho (Rad' cliffe), ;fsoo . Old English Baron (Reeve) ;^IO . . . . Paradise Lost (Milton), £i stories in The Keepsake . Story of Lady Vane in Peregrin< Pickle (Smollett) . The Italian (Radcliffe), ;^8oo Vicar of Wakefield (Goldsmith) ;^6o . . . . Woodstock, ^8228 . Writings of Scott, |2,222,ooo Ren6 of Provence, in Anne of Geier- stein ..... Resolve, The, in Miscellaneous Poems Return to Ulster, The, in Miscellane ous Poems .... Richard I. in Ivanhoe in The Betrothed in The Talisman 55 34 57 18 "3 44 20 58 26 31 33 35 39 40 26 21 70 44 45 13 56 56 53 35 63 56 32 21 21 57 32 57 16 Richardson, Samuel, founder of Eng- lish domestic novel Goldsmith acts as " reader" in printing-house of . Memoir of . . . iSi Ritchie, David, prototype of the Black Dwarf .... Ritson, Joseph, Ancient English Met- rical Romances . . n, 57 Annals of Caledonians, etc. II, 19, 57 Metrical Romances contrasted with Ellis's . . . .26 Robert III., time of, in Fair Maid of Perth 27 Robin Hood, in Ivanhoe . . .36 of Scotland, Rob Roy so called 58 Rob Roy 58 autobiography of Francis Os- baldistone . . . .58 dramatized on London stage . 58 scene laid during rebellion of 1715 58 Robsart, Amy, heroine of Kenilworth 39 Rogers, Samuel, on Scott's Napoleon 49 Rokeby 58 circulation of . . . 28, 58 fourth of Scott's principal poems 58 near Greta Bridge, in Yorkshire 58 time shortly after Marston Moor, 1644 written simultaneously with Bridal of Triermain Romance, A Strange, criticized Essay on . of the Forest (Mrs. Radcliffe) . Romances, Ancient English Met- rical . . . .11 Criticism on Novels and . Romantic Ballads, see Minstrelsy. Rose, William Stewart, Amadis de 58 17 29 58 56 57 23 Gaul .... Roslin Glen . Ross, Dame Margaret Rowena, Lady, in Ivanhoe Rowley poems ii>59 • 55 • 17 • 36 . 20 INDEX PAGE Roxburghe Club . . - .53 Roxburghe, Duke of, Scott writes about . . . . . .53 Rufus, William, period of Count Robert of Paris . . . .23 Russell, James, murders Archbishop Sharp 39 Ruthven, Lord, in The Abbot . . 10 OADLER, SIR RALPH, Memoir of 15.59 Sage, Le, see Le Sage. Saint Cloud . . . . .65 Saint John, Eve of, in Minstrelsy . 46 Vale of 17 Saint Mary's of Kennaquhair, in the Monastery . . . . .48 Saint Ronan's Well . . . .59 scene laid about 1800 . . 59 Saintsbury on Amadis de Gaul . 67 Saint Valentine's Day . . .27 Saladin, in The Talisman . .71 Sale Room, The . . . 65, 66 Salisbury, Earl of, bastard brother of Richard I., in The Talisman . 71 Salmonia . . . - . -60 Sampson, Dominie, in Guy Manner- ing . . ■ . • -32 Scaldic Poetry translated by Herbert 34 School Days, Anecdote of . 11,60 School for Scandal, labour in writing 38 Scotland, and wars with England, in Castle Dangerous . . .19 Bannatyne Club publishes works on 14 Complaynt of, Leyden's, quoted 30 Douglas, Earl of, Lieutenant- General of . . ■ -27 History of . .10, 60, 70, 74 Kirkton's Church of . 22, 39, 60 Leyden, Dr. John, trained for Church of . . ■ -42 Lord Justice General of, in Le- gend of Montrose . . -41 Scotland, manners of, in Antiquary . 12 Pitcairn's Criminal Trials in 23, 53 poetry of, preserved by Banna- tyne 14 proposed change of currency in 43 Provincial Antiquities of . regalia of . Robert III. of, in Fair Maid of Perth visit of George IV. to Scots, etc., Annals of, see Annals. Scot's Magazine .... Scott, John, identified with old Major in Paul's Letters .... Scott, Mrs., displeasure of, with Jef- frey Scott, Sophia, anecdote of, by Ballan- tyne ..... marries J. G. Lockhart Scott, Thomas, and Sir W. Scott reported "Author of Waverley " Novels" . . .61, Scott, (Sir) W., a capital mimic adds matter to Ballantyne's Me^ moir of De Foe admiration of, for Grahame of Claverhouse . for Johnson's " London" for Johnson's " Vanity of " Human Wishes" . and dinner by Sir George Hep burn .... and his grandson, "Hugh Lit " tlejohn, Esquire" anonymity, see Anonymity, attributes authorship of Frank- enstein to Shelley . Autobiography of in Diary of Voyage in Lighthouse Yacht . in Paul's Letters Bannatyne Club founded by, and first president of buried at Dryburgh . called Great Magician 54 55 27 50 50 52 43 40 61 60 71 38 25 SI 37 37 70 29 12 25 52 53 61 17 INDEX Scott, (Sir) W., Cheney, Edward, and Scott on Mrs. Radcliffe . .56 copyrights as a security . .21 criticism of workmanship in printing . . . .62 death of, described . . '61 of eldest brother . .11 debts, how paid . . .21 domestic troubles of . . .11 dramatic pieces, why unsuccess- ful 33 early life of . . . .12 earnings as estimated by Howitt 21 editions of his works . . 9, 25 enthusiastic over dramatic ver- sion of Rob Roy . . . SS estimate of Miss Seward's poetry 62 failure occurred while writing Woodstock . friendship for Dr. Leyden . for George Ellis . for Maturin for Mrs. Murray Keith for Mrs. Siddons for Terry, the actor . for the Kembles . illness while writing Bride Lammermoor . Count Robert of Paris Ivanhoe .... Legend of Montrose . Napoleon . , . . Johnson quoted in last line of Scott's writings literary production . . 9, 61 Matilda in Rokeby an early love of. . . . meets Home at Bath . Memoirs of (Lockhart) method as an author . monument erected by, to Helen Walker . mottoes in his novels Mr. Train gave Scott main in- cident in Surgeon's Daughter 69 77 41 27 44 21 38 32 38 of 17,37 • 23 • 37 ■ 37 • 49 37 Scott, (Sir) W., objects to hero of Godwin's Fleetwood . . 31 on death of Bride of Lammer- moor . . . . .17 on Dominie Sampson, in Guy Mannering . . . .33 on Dubois's " My Pocket-Book" 19 on expressions and rl.ymes in poetry 23 on his review of Lord Byron . 18 on stone circles like Stonehenge 27 origin of material for romances of 45 poetry, his theories about . 19, 23 portrait as frontispiece to Saint Ronan's Well . . .59 praise of Lord Somerville . . 64 published Waverley at age of forty-three . . . .76 ruin described . . . .21 rule as to correspondence . . 9 separation from The Edinburgh Review . . . .43 Terry, Daniel, intimate with . 26 troubles compared with General Grant's . . . . .21 Scottish Border, Minstrelsy of the, 13, 45 Scottish Collection (Thomson) con- tains four pieces . . 65, 66, 67 Scottish History, Halidon Hill, a dra- matic sketch from . . .33 Scottish Poetry, Chronicle of . 20, 62 Scottish Puritans, The, Old Mortality translated into Italian as . .51 Scroggs, Lord Chief Justice, in Pev- eril of the Peak . . . .53 Search after Happiness, The, in The Sale-Room . . . . .67 Select Collection of English Songs . u Select Library of English Poetry pro- posed . . . . . .16 Selkirk, Alexander, Some Account of, by De Foe . . . .25 Sempach, Battle of . . . .13 Sense and Sensibility, criticized by Scott . . . . . .12 INDEX Serapiims-Biuder, Scott criticizes Hoffmann's 35 Seton Chapel . . . . .55 Seward, Anna, Memoir of . 15, 62 Poetical Works . . .62 relates to Scoit story of the Tapestried Chamber . . 72 Seyton, Catherine, in The Abbot . lo Shaftun, Sir Piercie, in The Monas- tery 48 Shakespeare, an old admirer of, in Wondsloik . . . .28 in Kenilworih . . . .39 right of sanctuary granted to MacDuff . . . .42 Sharp, Archbishop, murder of by James Rus>ell . . . .39 Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, edits Kirkton's Church of Scotland . 39 She Stoops to Conquer, main incident happened to Goldsmith . . 32 present popularity of . . .32 Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein first novel of . . . - .29 Shelley, Pccy B., Scott attributes Frankenstein to . . . .29 Sheridan, R. B., care in writing " School for Scandal" . . 38 in Kelly's Reminiscences . . 38 Sibbald, J., Chronicle of Scottish Poetry 62 Siddons, Mrs., friendship of Scott for 38 Mrs. Henry, speaks Scott's Epi- logue to Gait's Appeal . . 65 Sister Margaret, in Paul's Letters, really Scott's aunt . . . 5^ Smith, Charlotte, Memoir of . 15,63 Smith, Henry, in Fair Maid of Perth 27 Smith, Miss, Lines Written for . . 50 Smith, or Gow or Goffe, hero of The Pir.te S3 Smollett, T. G., describes himself and friends in his characters 63 Smollett, T. G., his contributions to Modern Universal History . 63 Memoir of . . . 15, 63 Snsefells in Eyrbiggia-Saga . . 27 Somerset, Duchess of, connives at murder of Sir Thomas Over- bury . . . . .29 in Fortunes of Nigel . . 29 Somerville, John, Lord, character of the late. . . .15, 64 his favourite studies . . .64 identified as the Laird in Paul's Letters . . . . .52 Song by Scott for Pitt Club of Scot- land . . . . ,67 in Poetical Fragments . . 29 on occasion of great football match . . . . .67 Songs and Miscellanies . . .64 Southey, Robert, Amadis de Gaul 11, 67 Chronicle of the Cid . . 21, 68 Curse of Kehama . . .68 life of Bunyan . . . 18, 67 Scott reviews Amadis de Gaul 59, 67 Spencer, Earl of . . . .53 Spenser, Edmund . . . .72 Sporting Tour, A . . . .72 Stair, James, Viscount . . .17 Stair, John, Earl of . . . .17 Steenie, Duke of Buckingham, in Fortunes of Nigel . . .29 Stennis 27 Sterne, Laurence, criticized by Dr. Ferriar and others . . 69 identifies himself with Yorick . 69 Memoir of . . . IS, 69 Steuart, Sir Henry, Planter's Guide . 69 Stewart, James, in Legend of Mont- rose . . . ■ • -40 Stewart, Robert, and the Legend of Montrose 41 Stickit minister, in Guy Mannering . 32 Stonehenge 27 Strange Romance, A . . .29 103 INDEX Stranger in Ireland, The, parodied by Dubois . . . . .19 Stromness, in The Pirate . . .53 Strutt, John, posthumous productions of 55 Suffolk, Henrietta, Countess of. Cor- respondence . . . .23 Suffolk, Howard, third son of fifth Earl of 23 Suffolk, Lady, in Heart of Midlothian 34 Sultan Solimaun, Quest of . .67 Sun upon the Weidlaw Hill, The . 67 Superstition, Fairies of Popular . 28 Surgeon's Daughter, The . . 69 founded on fact . . .70 in Chronicles of the Canongate . 21 period of George II. and George III 69 Surrey, Thomas, Earl of, in Marmion 43 Sussex, Earl of, in Kenilworth . 39 Swift, Jonathan, edited while writing two poems . . . .17 Memoirs of . . . .7° Swiss patriots, in Anne of Geierstein II T. ALA VERA, Battles of .14, 23 Tale of Khorasan, A . . .29 of Tamlane . . . ,28 Tales of a Grandfather, History of France ... 10, 29, 70 great popularity of . . ■ .71 History of Scotland . . .70 Tales of Crusaders, Betrothed and Talisman . . . 14, 71 the two completed at one time . I J Tales of My Landlord . . .71 Black Dwarf . . . .16 Bride of Lammermoor . 17, 22 Castle Dangerous . . 19, 22 Count Robert of Paris . . 22 Heart of Midlothian . . 34 Legend of Montrose , . 22, 40 Old Mortality . . . .51 published anonymously . .16 Tales of My Landlord, publisher of . 16 spurious fourth series adver- tised 22 Tales of Wonder, by Lewis . .13 Talisman, The . . . .71 a pebble belonging to Sala- din 71 begun while writing Betrothed . 15 companion to Betrothed . 14, 71 time of Richard I. . . .71 Tamlane, Tale of . . . .28 Tantallon Castle . . . .55 Tapestried Chamber, The . . 72 in The Keepsake . . 35, 72 period of George III. . . 72 story related to Scott by Miss Seward . . . .72 Taschereau, J. A., edition of Molidre by 48 Tatius, Achilles, in Count Robert of Paris . . . . . .23 Tatler, The, imitated by The Mirror and The Lounger . . .43 Terry, Daniel, Doom of Devorgoil written for . . . .26 produces Guy Mannering on the stage 32 Scott's prologue to Family Le- gend spoken by . . .46 Thackeray, William M., on Sterne . 69 Theatrical Fund Dinner . . .72 Thomas the Rhymer . . .72 called True Thomas . . 73 in Minstrelsy . . . .46 Scott's belief as to " Sir Tristrem' ' and 73 Thomson, George, Irish Airs of . 47 Scottish Airs of . . .47 Select Melodies of . . 46, 50 Thornton, Colonel Thomas, Sporting Tour . . . . . .72 To a Lady, in Miscellaneous Poems . 47 Todd, Rev. John, Spenser's Works . 72 Tolbooth of Edinburgh . . .34 Triermain, Bridal of, see Bridal. 104 INDEX Tristan and Iseult, founded on Sir Tristrem . . . . .73 Tristan I'Hermite in Quentin Dur- ward . . . . . .55 Tristrem, Sir, A Metrical Romance . 73 Glossary to . . . .30 Troil, Brenda, in The Pirate . . 53 Magnus, in The Pirate . . 53 Minna, in The Pirate . .53 Trosachs described in the Lady of the Lake . . . . .39 Troubadour, The, from collection of French Songs . . . .67 True Thomas, a name of Thomas the Rhymer . . . .73 in Minstrelsy . . . .46 Tuck, Friar, in Ivanhoe . . .36 Tumble-down Dick quoted in Wood- stock . . . . . .28 Turcaret, play by Le Sage . .41 Turner, J. M. W., drawings in Pro- vincial Antiquities . . 54 frontispiece to Life of Dryden by E. Goodall, after . . 26 to Marmion by . . .44 illustration of Dryden's tomb by J. Horsburgh after . . 26 illustrations to Poetical Works . 9 Turner, Mrs., murders Sir Thomas Overbury . . . . .29 Tweeddale, native place of David Ritchie 16 Two Drovers, The . . . .74 in Chronicles of the Canongate 21 period of King George III. . 74 Religious Discourses . .57 Tytler, Patrick Fraser . . .74 his History of Scotland . . 74 UdALLER, A, described . .53 Ulster, The Return to, in Miscella- neous Poems . . . .47 Unterwalden, Canton of, in Anne of Geierstein . . . . .11 Usher's Well, Wife of, in Minstrelsy . 46 V ALENTINE'S DAY, SAINT; or, Fair Maid of Perth . . .27 Vale of St. John ; or. Bridal of Trier- main . . . . , .17 Vanity of Human Wishes, Scott's ad- miration for . . . -37 Varney, Richard, in Kenilworth . 39 Veal, Apparition of Mrs., invented by De Foe . . . . .25 Vehme, The Holy, in Anne of Geier- stein . . . . . .11 Vere, see De Vere. Verses in Honour of Czar Nicholas I. in Occasional Pieces . .51 Vicar of Wakefield sold for Gold- smith by Dr. Johnson . . .32 Violet, The, in Miscellaneous Poems 47 Vision of Don Roderick, The . . 74 proceeds of sale given in charity 74 Vocal Poetry, by John Aikin . .11 by Thomas Evans . . .11 Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht . 25 w. ALKER, HELEN, given a mon ument by Scott prototype of Jeanie Deans Walker, Isabella, in Heart of Mid- lothian .... marries person named Waugh Walkinshaw, Miss, in Redgauntlet mistress of Charles EdwardStuart 56 Walladmor, a forgery . . .74 a German fabrication . .15 and De Quincey . . .75 appears at Leipsic as by the Au- thor of Waverley . . .74 secured by London Magazine . 75 Walpole, Horace . . . .15 as to Mrs. Howard . . .23 Memoir of . . . 15. 75 on Clara Reeve's imitation of his Otranto . . . .56 on poetry of Misses Seward and Williams . . . .62 34 34 34 34 56 105 INDEX Walpole, Horace, thinks Sterne tire- some . . . . . .69 Wandering Willie in Miscellaneous Poems . . . . .47 War-Song of Lachlan, in Miscellane- ous Poems . . . .47 of the Edinburgh Light Dra- goons, in Minstrelsy . . 46 Waste Lands, Planting of . .48 Waterloo, battle of, described in Paul's Letters . . .52 Dance of Death, written on terri- ble slaughter at . . .64 Field of, published four months after battle . . .28 see Field of Waterloo. Waverley . . . . .75 Erskine's unfavourable opinion of 75 Guy Mannering declared equal to 32 Illustrations of Author of, by Robert Chambers . . .48 period of . . . . .12 published anonymously . . l6 success of . . . 12, 42 Weber, Henry, writes of German ro- mances founded on Sir Tristrem . Wellington, Duke of, on Scott's Na- poleon ..... Welsh Marches, wars upon, in Be- trothed Welsh Melodies contain The Monks of Bangor's March Westminster Abbey, Johnson's epi- taph to Goldsmith in . .32 tomb of Dryden in . . .26 Whately, Dr., review of Jane Aus- ten's novels . . . . .12 Whitefield, Dr. John, and The Foray 65 Whitefriars called Alsatia in 1620 . 29 White Lady of Avenel, The, in The Monastery . . . . .48 Wife of Usher's Well, in Minstrelsy . 46 74 49 • 14 66 PAGE Wild Boar of Ardennes, The, in Quentin Durward . . .55 Wild Huntsman . 14, 18, 77 first entitled, " The Chace" . 77 published with Lenore . . 41 translation from Burger . . 77 William IH., in Bride of Lammer- moor 17 in The Pirate . . . .53 period of, in My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 49 William and Helen . . .14, 41 first entitled Lenore . . .41 William and Mary, period of Old Mortality 51 Wilson, a smuggler named, hanged . 34 Witchcraft, Letters on Demonology and 25 Women ; or, Pour et Contra . . 44 Woodhouselee, Lord, Patrick Fraser Tytler created . . .74 see Tytler. Woodstock . . . . .77 battle of, in Woodstock . . 77 Good Devil of . . . .77 has subtitle, " The Cavalier" . 77 Just Devil of . . . .77 note on Scott's quotation from Fielding . . . .28 price paid for, ^8228 . . 21 ranger of, in Woodstock . . 77 Scuffle, pamphlet on . . .77 Wooler, scene of battle in 1402 . 33 Wormes, in Legend of Montrose . 40 Wyoming, Gertrude of, see Campbell, Thomas. Yarrow, dowie dens o', in Minstrelsy . . . . .45 York, Frederick, Duke of, and Mrs. Clarke . . . . .77 Memoir of . . . 15, 77 io5 \ \ *^ I /'■■ 'f p m- 1 '>■;■- \.- /