ABBOT, the, published, 296.
Abbotsford, purchase of, 178. Re-
moval to, 190. Plantations at, 190.
Flitting to, 190. House-heating of,
283. Open house at, 303. Com-
pleted, and Christmas-party at, 347.
A large hotel, where persons did not
pay, 381. Cost of, 394. Description
of, 396-405. Present heir of, 281.
Abbotsford hunt, 74.

Adam, Dr., of the High School, 33.
Death, 37.

Adolphus, John Leycester, notice of,
318. Letters on authorship of Wa-
verley, 319-324. Death, 318.
Aiken, Letitia, reads Taylor's transla-
tion of Lenore at Dugald Stewart's,
79.

-Lucy, letter from, 80.
Album-verses by Scott, 129, 248.
Allibone, Dr. J. A., his Dictionary
quoted from, 206, 263, 266.
Angling, Scott's dislike to, 75.

Anne of Swansea, Minerva-press nov-
elist, 207.

Annesley peerage, the, 228.
Antiquary, the, 245.

Arago, the astronomer, his opinion of
Lord Brougham's French, 73.
"Ariosto of the North," Scott so des-
ignated by Byron, 189.
Armory at Abbotsford, 400.

Ashestiel in Selkirkshire, Scott's re-
moval to, 118.

Autographs, value of, over-estimated,

474.

Is

Ballantyne, James, Scott's school-
fellow at Kelso, 40. His skill in
verbal criticism, 103 et passim. Es-
tablishes a newspaper at Kelso, 103.
Prints twelve copies of Scott's bal-
lads, 104. Prints the Border Min-
strelsy at Kelso, 114. Established
as a printer in Edinburgh, 116.
Scott lends him money, 122.
admitted as a secret partner, 133.
Has a share in Scott's publishing-
house, 152. Private social readings
from Scott's works in the press, 160.
His reply to Miss Edgeworth's
letter on Waverley, 217. Marriage
with Miss Hogarth, 281. Editor of
Edinburgh Weekly Journal, 289.
Death, 451.

John, nominal head of Scott's
publishing-house, 152. Memoir of
Daniel Defoe by, 153. Opens auc
tion-rooms in Edinburgh, 276. Pro-
jects the Novelists' Library, 308.
Death of, 311.

Bannatyne Club, 342.

Bedrooms in Abbotsford, comforts of,

Britton, John, anecdote by, 462.
Brougham, Lord. 72. A great novel-
reader. 202. Peculiar shape of his
head, 461.

Bullock, George, death of, 277. Cast
of Shakspeare's Monument, 462.
Burns, Robert, his meeting with Scott,
51. They are opposed in politics, 54.
His son at Abbotsford, 439.
Byron, Lord, his opinion of Scott's
recitation, 24. His first rhymes, 37.
Letter to Scott, 158. Scott's inti-
macy with, 239. Last meeting with
Scott, 244. Bequeaths mourning.
ring to Scott, 268. Death, 345.
Tribute to the memory of, 345. De-
scription of, by Sir T. Lawrence,
472.

C.

Cadell. Robert, publisher, 160. Re-
established in business, 387. Clears
off Scott's debts, 407. Suggests the
Opus Magnum, 417. Death, 451.
Campbell, Thomas, predicts the suc-
cess of the Lay, 131.
Canning, George, 113.

Cards, a pair of, at Abbotsford, 76.
Carlisle Castle, Fergus Mac Ivor's
dungeon shown there, 215.
Carpenter, Charlotte Margaret, her
personal attractions, 88. Original
of Di Vernon, 88. Her family his-
tory, 89. Her love-letters to Scott,
91. Mystery about, 92. Marriage,
94.-See Lady Scott.
Chantrey, Sir Francis, his busts of

Scott, 298. Portrait-sketch by, 458.
Charles X. at Holyrood, appeal for,

Cockburn, Mrs., author of the Flow-
ers of the Forest, describes Scott's
precocity, 30.

Lord, on Scottish drinking-habits,
157.
Coleridge, S. T., the metre of his
Christabel, 107.

Conquest of Granada written by
Scott at the age of sixteen, and
burned, 62.

Constable, Archibald, publishes Mar
mion, 138. Refuses to pay a thou-
sand pounds for Waverley, 209.
Employs Scott to write three essays
for Encyclopædia Britannica, 210.
Suggests the title of Rob Roy, 256.
First purchase of Scott's copyrights,
285. Second ditto, 330. Gives a
thousand pounds for Halidon Hill,
the work of two rainy mornings,
334. Third purchase of copyrights,
343. Projects a cheap miscellany,
349. His decline and fall, 379.
Death, 451.

George, at Preston-Pans, 27.
Cooper, J. F., Scott's opinion of his
Pilot, 272.

Coutts, Miss, at Abbotsford, 268.
Crabbe, Rev. George, imitation of,

176.

481

Waverley, 216. Her long-lost letter
to the unknown author, 217-221.
Accompanies Scott through Ire-
land, 354. At Fermoy, 366.
Edinburgh Review, Scott contributes
to, 118.

Elizabeth, Queen, pen-portrait of, 309.
Ellis, George, editor of Specimens

of the Early English Poets, 113.
English novel invented by Richard-
son and Fielding, 204.

Erskine, William, Scott's early friend,
101. Bridal of Triermain attributed
to, 186. Death of, 332.

F.

Fair Maid of Perth, the, 419.
Fergusson, Adam, his account of the
meeting of Burns and Scott, 53. In
the lines of Torres Vedras, 171.
Appointed keeper of the Scottish
Regalia, 277. Knighted, 338.

Professor, visited by Burns and
Scott, 53. At the battle of Fon-
tenoy, 54.

Fermoy, Scott at, 360.

Fifteen, the (Lords of Session), 48.
Forbes, Sir William, of Pitsligo, mar-

ries Miss Leslie, Scott's first love, 85.
Fox, Charles James, his pronuncia-
tion of French, 74. Compliments
M. G. Lewis on the Monk, 100.
Fraser, Luke, teacher in the High
School, 32.

Freneau, Philip, Scott borrows a line
from, 145.

G.

Gardiner, Col., slain at Preston-Pans,
26.

Gell, Sir William, 443.

George IV., his visit to Scotland,
336-38. Entertains Scott at Wind-
sor, 389. Death of, 428. - See
Prince Regent.

Giant's Causeway seen, 193.
Gibson, John, his reminiscences, 380.
Trustee to Scott's estate, 385.
Gilfillan, Rev. George, scandalous
anecdote in his Life of Scott, 92.
Gilsland, Scott's visit to, 87. Meets
Miss Carpenter at, 88. The Pop-
ping-Stone at, 90.

Gleig, Rev. G. R., his article on Scott
in Quarterly Review, 427.
Goethe, translation from, 82.

Pub-

lished in London, 96. Correspond-
ence with, 414. Death of, 443.
Goodrich, S. G., 272.

Gourgaud, Gen., objects to Life of
Napoleon, 412.

Heart of Mid-Lothian published, 281.
Heber, Reginald, his prize-poem on
Palestine, 117.

318.

Richard, Adolphus's letters to,
Hemans, Mrs., at Abbotsford, 401.
Hermand, Lord, reads from Guy Man-
nering on the bench, 231.
Hermitage Castle, sketch of, 115.
Highland Widow, the, 415,

Hogg, James, his idle talk on Lady
Scott's parentage, 93. His first
meeting with Scott, 112. Free and
easy manners, 120. His remarkable
history, 120. Writes first sketch of
the Chaldee MS., 279. Anecdote of,
286.

Holland, Lord, his criticism on Old
Mortality, 250.

Home, John, author of Douglas,

takes Scott to the theatre at Bath,
22. Present when he met Burns, 53.
House of Aspen, the, 419.
Howitt, William, his estimate of
Scott's earnings, 393.

Hugh Littlejohn (John Hugh Lock-
hart), 310.

Hunnewell, James F., his Lands of
Scott quoted, 89. Description of
the Popping-Stone at Gilsland, 90.

I.

Ireland, visit to, 351.

Irving, John, Scott's first college
friend, 41.

Washington, his Knickerbocker,
258. Visits Abbotsford, 261.
Italy, Scott embarks for, 441.
Ivanhoe published, 294.

J.

Jeffrey, Francis, first meets Scott, 61.
Favorably reviews Lay of the Last
Ministrel, 131. Severe criticism on

Marmion, 143. Rebuff from Mrs.
Scott, 144. Lady of the Lake
favorably noticed, 144; and Waver-
ley, 216.
Jobson, Miss Janet, of Lochore, 347.
Married to Capt. Scott, 348.

K.

Keith, Mrs., of Ravelstone, 31.
Kemble, John Philip, declines to put
the House of Aspen on the stage,
97. Intimacy with Scott, 156.
Kenilworth, 308.

Killarney, banner at, 354.

L.

Laidlaw, William, his first meeting
with Scott, 111. Living at Kaeside,
256. Blackwood's Magazine, Scott
writes for, 277. Scott's letters to,
383. Returns to Kaeside, 424. Death,

451.

Langhorne, Burns affected by quota-
tion from, 52.

Lardner, Dr., on ocean steam naviga-

tion, 422. History of Scotland
written for, 422.

Lasswade cottage, 96. The willow-
arch by moonlight, 99.
work at, 100.

Literary

Lay of the Last Minstrel published,
122. Its origin, 123.

Legend of Montrose, 283.

Lenore, translation of, printed, 81.
Leslie, C. R., paints Scott's portrait at
Abbotsford, 269.

Lewis, Matthew Gregory, author of
the Monk, 100. Meets Scott, 101.
Leyden, Dr. John, 102. Introduced
to Scott, 110. His career in India,
111. Scott's Memoir of, 111. Anec-
dote of, 111.

Library at Abbotsford, 401.
Lockhart, John Gibson, notice of, 278.
Contributes to the Chaldee MS.
and the Noctes, 279. Author of
Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, 280.
Scott's biographer, 280. Marries
Miss Scott, 300. Residence at Chiefs-
wood, 304. Visits Ireland, 351-367.
Editor of Quarterly Review, 369.
Removal to London, 370. Death, 451.

John Hugh, Scott's grandson,
310. Death, 450.
Lord of the Isles published, 193.
Quoted from by O'Connell. 195.
Lyndhurst, Lord, a great novel-reader,
202.

M.

McCrie, Dr. Thomas, assails Scott's
exhibition of the Covenanters, 253.
Mackay the actor at Theatrical-fund
Dinner, 411.

Maclise, Daniel, sketches portrait of
Scott, 357; in Fraser's Magazine,
358.

Mac Ivor, Fergus, his dungeon in
Carlisle Castle, 215.

Mackenzie, Henry, author of the Man
of Feeling, 55. First Scottish nov
elist, 205.

R. Shelton, first meeting with
Sir Walter in Ireland, 359; in Lon.
don, 367.

Malachi Malagrowther's letters on
paper-money, 391.

Malta, Scott at, 442.

Marmion published, 139. Byron's sat-
ire upon, 141. Rejected Addresses,
parody upon, 142. Severely reviewed
by Jeffrey, 143.

Mary Stuart. Queen of Scots, in the
Abbot, 297. Posthumous portrait
of at Abbotsford, 398.

Mathews, Charles, the comedian, ac
companies Scott to Kenilworth, 245.
Meadowbank, Lord, discloses the au-
thorship of Waverley, 410.
Melrose unvisited, 129.
Minerva-press novels, 207.
Monastery, the, 295.

Monk, the, prurient romance by M. G.
Lewis, commended by C. J. Fox,

100.

Mons Meg restored to Edinburgh,

483

Noblesse de la robe, Chancellor D'A-

guesseau upon, 48. Its status in

England, 98.

vites him to Carlton House, 199.
Scott his guest, 235.-See George
IV.

0.

O'Connell, anecdote of, 70. A great
novel-reader, 202. His regret for
his brother's rudeness to Scott, 356.
Old Mortality published, 250.
Opus Magnum, the, projected, 418.
Success of, 421.

Orkney Islands visited, 192.

P.

Painting, Scott's incapacity for, 467.
Panic of 1825, 378. Effect on Scott's
fortune, 379.
Paper lords, 56.

Parodies by the brothers Smith,
Paulding, and Colman, 198.
Patterson, Robert, the original of Old
Mortality, 251. Remarkable for-
tunes of his descendants, 252.
Paulding, J. K., parodies,

Lay of

--

the Scotch Fiddle, and Jokeby, -
198.

Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk, 243.
Peebles, poor Peter, 69.

Percy, Dr., editor of Reliques of An-
cient Poetry, 113.

Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, by
Lockhart, 280.

Peveril of the Peak, 340.
Pharos loquitur, 248.
Pirate, the, 329.

Pitt, William, his admiration of the
Lay, 132.

Platoff, Hetman of the Cossacks, 244.
Plays founded on the poems and nov-
els, 475.

Poacher, the, imitation of Crabbe, 176.
Pocts as readers,- Scott, Coleridge,

Southey, Moore, Lover, Byron,
Dickens,-23-25.

Porter, Jane, her Scottish Chiefs
written long after Waverley was
begun. 206.

Prince Regent of England, his appre
ciation of Scott's genius, 188. In-

Purdie, Tom, installed as grieve, 121.
Anecdote of, 326. Takes Scott's ad-
vice, 376. Death of, 423.
Purgstall, Countess of, 81.

Q.

Queenhoo Hall finished by Scott, 146.
Quentin Durward, 341.

R.

Radcliffe, Mrs., her Mysteries of Udol-
pho first sensational romance, 205.
Raeburn, Henry, the painter, knight-
ed, 338.

Reading at breakfast, 56.
Redgauntlet, 344.

Regalia of Scotland found, 277.
Rejected Addresses, parody on Mar-
mion, 142.

-

Religious Discourses, 418.
Reliquiæ Trottosienses, - Catalogue
of Abbotsford Museum and Library,
-435.

Richardson, Samuel, first English
novelist, 204.

Robertson, Lord, 461.

Rob Roy, title suggested by Constable,
256. Published, 273.
Rokeby, 186.

Rome, residence at, 443.
Rosebank bequeathed to Scott, 118.
Roxburgh Club, 342.

Roxburghshire, boyish wanderings
through, 36.

Rutherford, Professor, Sir Walter's
grandfather, 16.

Christian, Scott's aunt, her ad-
vice not to write a third great poem,
160.

S.

St. Andrew's, the Silent City, 84.
St. Ronan's Well, 343.

Sandy-Knowe, residence of Sir Wal-
ter's grandfather, 17.

SCOTT, Sir Walter, Baronet.