Maria Edgeworth, Washington Irving, Leslie, George Ticknor, Haydon, Byron, Moore, Charles Mayne Young, Wordsworth, Crabbe, Lord Cockburn, Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Kemble, and others; while for the later history of the Scott family, the Life of James Hope-Scott has been serviceable. The attentive reader will readily understand that the editor has also gone to numberless books and magazine articles for the proper confirmation of petty facts and the assurance of accuracy.

The

To complete the worth of this edition, the publishers have taken pains to illustrate it abundantly with portraits and other pictures, and to obtain these they have gone as far as possible in every case to the original sources. result is a great English classic of abiding value, faithfully reproduced, and so supplemented by editorial and artistic labor as to be brought up to date in all essential particulars.

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Autumn, 1901.

I. Memoir of the Early Life of Sir Walter Scott,

written by himself

II. Illustrations of the Autobiographical Fragment.

Edinburgh. Sandy-Knowe. Bath.

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tonpans. 1771-1778

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III. Illustrations of the Autobiography continued. -

High School of Edinburgh. - Residence at Kelso.

1778-1783

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IV. Illustrations of the Autobiography continued.-

Anecdotes of Scott's College Life.

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1783-1786. 104

Scott's Apprenticeship

to his Father. - Excursions to the Highlands, etc.

Debating Societies. Early Correspondence,

etc. Williamina Stuart.

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VI. Illustrations continued.

1786-1790 . . .

116

Excursion to Northumberland. Letter on Flod-

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den Field. Call to the Bar. 1790-1792 .

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VII. First Expedition into Liddesdale. Study of

German. Political Trials, etc. - Specimen of

Law Papers.Bürger's Lenore translated.

Disappointment in Love. 1792-1796.

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169

VIII. Publication of Ballads after Bürger. Scott

Quartermaster of the Edinburgh Light Horse.

Excursion to Cumberland. Gilsland Wells.

-Miss Carpenter. Marriage. 1796-1797 227

IX. Early Married Life. Lasswade Cottage.

Monk Lewis. Translation of Goetz von Ber-

lichingen, published. Visit to London.

House of Aspen. Death of Scott's Father.

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First Original Ballads.

Glenfinlas, etc.

Metrical Fragments. -Appointment to the

Sheriffship of Selkirkshire.

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1798-1799 . 265

X. The Border Minstrelsy in Preparation. - Rich-

ard Heber. John Leyden. William Laid-

law. James Hogg. Correspondence with

George Ellis. - Publication of the two first

Volumes of the Border Minstrelsy. 1800-1802.

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XI. Preparation of Volume III. of the Minstrelsy-

and of Sir Tristrem. Correspondence with

Miss Seward and Mr. Ellis. Ballad of the

Reiver's Wedding. Commencement of The.

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Visit to London

and Oxford. Completion of The Minstrelsy

of the Scottish Border. 1802-1803 .

XII. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. — Pro-

gress of the Tristrem and of The Lay of the

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Last Minstrel. - Visit of Wordsworth. Pub-

lication of Sir Tristrem. 1803-1804

XIII. Removal to Ashestiel.

- Death of Captain Rob-

ert Scott. Mungo Park. Completion and

Publication of The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

1804-1805.

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XIV. Partnership with James Ballantyne. Literary

Projects. Edition of the British Poets. - Edi-

tion of the Ancient English Chronicles, etc., etc.

Edition of Dryden undertaken. Earl Moira

Commander of the Forces in Scotland. Sham

Battles. - Articles in the Edinburgh Review. —

Commencement of Waverley. - Letter on Os-

sian. - Mr. Skene's Reminiscences of Ashestiel.

Excursion to Cumberland. Alarm of Inva-

sion. — Visit of Mr. Southey. - Correspondence

on Dryden with Ellis and Wordsworth. 1805 . 421

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XV. Affair of the Clerkship of Session. Letters to

Ellis and Lord Dalkeith. - Visit to London. —

Earl Spencer and Mr. Fox. Caroline, Prin-

cess of Wales. Joanna Baillie. -Appointment

as Clerk of Session. - Lord Melville's Trial.

Song on his Acquittal. 1806.

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NOTE. - The frontispiece portrait of Sir Walter Scott is from the min-
iature by Kay (1777) in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
The reproduction of Ashestiel, which faces the frontispiece, is from the
"Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott," by permission of the publishers.
The portrait of John Gibson Lockhart, page xiii, is after the painting
by Henry W. Pickersgill, R. A.