CONTENTS

OF VOLUME THIRD.

CHAPTER XVI.

PAGE

Dryden - Critical Pieces -- Edition of Slingsby's Memoirs,

&c. — Marmion begun – Visit to London - Ellis - Rose

-Canning - Miss Seward – Scott Secretary to the Com-

mission on Scotch Jurisprudence — Letters to Southey,

&c. -- Publication of Marmion —Anecdotes — The Edin-

burgh Review on Marmion ...................1806-1808,

CHAPTER XVII.

Edition of Dryden published - and criticised by Mr Hal-

lam- Weber's Romances - Editions of Queenhoo-Hall;

Captain Carleton's Memoirs; The Memoirs of Robert

Cary, Earl of Monmouth; The Sadler Papers ; and the

Somers' Tracts - Edition of Swift begun - Letters to

Joanna Baillie and George Ellis on the affairs of the Pen-

insula - John Struthers - James Hogg - Visit of Mr

Morritt - Mr Morritt's Reminiscences of Ashestiel -

Scott's Domestic Life............. ...........1808,

68

PAGE

CHAPTER XVIII.

Quarrel with Messrs Constable and Hunter — John Ballan-

tyne established as a Bookseller in Edinburgh - Scott's

Literary Projects – The Edinburgh Annual Register, &c.

-Meeting of James Ballantyne and John Murray-Mur-

ray's visit to Ashestiel — Politics - The Peninsular War

- Project of the Quarterly Review – Correspondence

with Ellis, Gifford, Morritt, Southey, Sharpe, &c. —

1808-1809, 116

CHAPTER XIX.

Case of a Poetical Tailor condemned to death at Edinburgh

- His Letters to Scott - Death of Camp_Scott in Lon-

don - Mr Morritt's description of him as “a Lion” in

Town - Dinner at Mr Sotheby's - Coleridge's Fire, Fa-

mine, and Slaughter — The Quarterly Review started -

First Visit to Rokeby — The Lady of the Lake begun

Excursion to the Trossachs and Loch Lomond - Letter

On Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers — Death

of Daniel Scott -- Correspondence about Mr Canning's

Duel with Lord Castlereagh — Miss Baillie's Family Le.

gend acted at Edinburgh - Theatrical Anecdotes - Kem-

ble — Siddons - Terry – Letter on the Death of Miss

Seward ............................................1809-1810,

177

CHAPTER XX.

Affair of Thomas Scott's Extractorship discussed in the House

of Lords - Speeches of Lord Lauderdale, Lord Melville,

&c. - Lord Holland at the Friday Club - Publication

of the Lady of the Lake — Correspondence concerning

Versification with Ellis and Canning - The Poem criti-

cised by Jeffrey and Mackintosh - Letters to Southey

and Morritt — Anecdotes from James Ballantyne's Me-

moranda...........

........1810,

230
CHAPTER XXI.

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First Visit to the Hebrides — Staffa — Skye - Mull — Iona,

&c.— The Lord of the Isles projected - Letters to Joanna

Baillie – Southey — and Morritt....................1810, 271

CHAPTER XXII.

Life of Miss Seward — Waverley resumed — Ballantyne's

Critique on the First Chapters of the Novel — Waverley

again laid aside - Unfortunate Speculations of John Bal.

lantyne & Co.; History of the Culdees — Tixall Poetry;

Beaumont and Fletcher — Edinburgh Annual Register,

&c.—Scott's Essay on Judicial Reform — His scheme of

going to India - Letters on the War in the Peninsula —

Death of Lord President Blair — and of Lord Melville -

Publication of the Vision of Don Roderick — The Inferno

of Altisidora, &C................................1810-1811,

297

CHAPTER XXIII.

New Arrangement concerning the Clerks of Session -

Scott's first purchase of land — Abbotsford ; Turn-again,

&c. — Joanna Baillie's Orra, &c. — Death of James

Grahame — and of John Leyden.....................1811, 333

CHAPTER XXIV.

The Poem of Rokeby begun — Correspondence with Mr

Morritt - Death of Henry Duke of Buccleuch - George

Ellis — John Wilson — Apprentices of Edinburgh --

Scott's “ Nick-Nackatories” - Letter to Miss Baillie on

the Publication of Childe Harold — Correspondence with

Lord Byron ....

.....1811-1812, 367

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.

CHAPTER XVI.

Dryden- Critical Pieces-- Edition of Slingsby's

Memoirs, &c.—Marmion begun— Visit to London--Ellis - Rose - Canning - Miss Seward -Scott Secretary to the Commission on Scotch Jurisprudence -- Letters to Southey, &c. - Publication of Marmion - Anecdotes — The Edinburgh Review on Marmion.

1806–1808.

During the whole of 1806 and 1807, Dryden continued to occupy the greater share of Scott's literary hours; but in the course of the former year he found

VOL. III.