OF

A LITERARY VETERAN;

INCLUDING

SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES

OF

THE MOST DISTINGUISHED LITERARY CHARACTERS

FROM 1794 TO 1849.

BY

R. P. GILLIES.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1851.

CONTENTS TO VOL. III.

CHAPTER I.

Dinner at Leipsig.-Evening spent with Hofrath Müll-

ner at Weissenfels.-Interview with Goethe at Weimar.

CHAPTER II.

Erfurt, Gotha, Fulda.-Eccentricities at Gelnhausen.-

Life at Frankfort-on-the-Mayne.-Dr. C. F. Becker.-

Swedish Literature.-Capt. Äkenthal

CHAPTER III.

Homeward route by the Rhine.-Life in Holland.-

Voyage from Rotterdam.-Return to Edinburgh.-Mr.

J. G. Lockhart.-The Ettrick Shepherd.-James Gray,

author of "Cona." William Scott Irving. Cottage

at Lasswade. - Recollections of John Galt. Professor

Tennant.-Captain Thomas Hamilton.-Patrick Fraser

Tytler.

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CHAPTER IV.

Life at Lasswade.-George the Fourth.-Dalkeith

House.-Melville Castle.-Character of the late Glen-

garry. Contrast afforded by a modern Highland Chief.-

General David Stewart of Garth

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CHAPTER V.

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Book-making, and the literary market.-Sir Walter

Scott.-Comparison of those times with the present.—

"Blackwood's Magazine, " 1822 and 1850.-Praise of

Oehlanschläger's "Correggio"

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CHAPTER VI.

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Life at Edinburgh.-Sir William Hamilton. Mr.

John C. Colquhoun.-M. Alexandre Vattemar.-Bishop

Cameron.-The Laird of Pitfoddles

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CHAPTER VII.

The city in "the panic."-Sir Walter Scott's Diary

Effects of "the panic" in various quarters.-My own

troubles. Conduct of relations and friends.-Meetings

with Sir Walter Scott.-His good advice, kindness, and

generosity

109

CHAPTER VIII.

Recollections of the late Lord Carnarvon.-His letters

to the author

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CHAPTER IX.

Further notices of "the panic."-Sir Walter Scott in

1826.-Letter from him to the author.-His "Life of

Napoleon."-Pecuniary troubles.-The "Foreign Quar-

terly Review."-The author's first visit to London.—

Recollections of Dr. Maginn

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CHAPTER X.

Return to Edinburgh —The trust-deed.—Res angustæ

domi.-Removal to London.-A home there difficult to

find.-The "Foreign Quarterly Review."-Edinburgh

revisited.—Mrs. Dempster-Somewhat of the marvellous.

-Loss of MSS.-Abbotsford

CHAPTER XI.

Era of Shadowism.—Autumn in London.-Literary

Income-Recollections of Thomas Campbell

CHAPTER XII.

Sir Egerton Brydges.-Visit to Lee Priory.-Renewed

troubles.-Dictum of Mr. Rogers.—London attorneys.——

Recollections of Haydon

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CHAPTER XIII.

A new novel.-Mr. Halls.-General Macdonell.-Hur-

ley and a prison scene. - John Wharton, M.P.—Sir

Edwin Bayntun Sandys, of Missenden Park

CHAPTER XIV.

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Continued warfare. - Anecdote of a mortgage.—Mr.

Thomas Roscoe.-Dr. Bowring.-Sir James Mackintosh 234

CHAPTER XV.

Prolonged troubles.-Richter's failure.-Again home-

less. Mr. Wentworth Beaumont.-Various migrations.

-Efforts to procure the abolition of the law of arrest for

debt

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