BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1902

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter

XVI. Dryden. Critical Pieces. Edition of

Slingsby's Memoirs, etc. Marmion begun.

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Visit to London. - Ellis. Rose.

Canning. Miss Seward. Scott Secretary

to the Commission on Scotch Jurisprudence.

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- Letters to Southey, etc. - Publication of

Marmion. Anecdotes. The Edinburgh

Review on Marmion. 1806-1808 ..

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XVII. Edition of Dryden published, — and criti-

cised by Mr. Hallam. Weber's Romances.

-Editions of Queenhoo-Hall. - Captain

Carleton's Memoirs. The Memoirs of

Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth.

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The Sad-

ler Papers, - and the Somers' Tracts.

Edition of Swift begun. Letters to Joanna

Baillie and George Ellis on the Affairs of

the Peninsula. - John Struthers.

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Hogg. Visit of Mr. Morritt.

ritt's Reminiscences of Ashestiel.

Domestic Life. 1808

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XVIII. Quarrel with Messrs. Constable and Hunter.

John Ballantyne established as a Book-

seller in Edinburgh. Scott's Literary Pro-

jects. The Edinburgh Annual Register,

etc. Meeting of James Ballantyne and

John Murray. Murray's Visit to Ashe-

stiel. - Politics. - The Peninsular War.

Project of the Quarterly Review. - Corre-

spondence with Ellis, Gifford, Morritt,

Southey, Sharpe, etc. 1808-1809.

XIX. Case of a Poetical Tailor condemmed to
Death at Edinburgh. His Letters to Scott.

Death of Camp. · Scott in London.

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Mr. Morritt's Description of him as "A

Lion" in Town. -Dinner at Mr. Sotheby's.

-Coleridge's Fire, Famine and Slaughter.

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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 Legend acted at Edin-

burgh. Theatrical Anecdotes. - Kemble.

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Siddons. — Terry. - Letter on the Death
of Miss Seward. 1809-1810

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XX. Affair of Thomas Scott's Extractorship dis-

cussed in the House of Lords. - Speeches of

Lord Lauderdale, Lord Melville, etc.— Lord

Holland at the Friday Club. Publication

of The Lady of the Lake. Correspondence

concerning Versification with Ellis and Can-

ning. The Poem criticised by Jeffrey and

Mackintosh. Letters to Southey and Mor-

ritt. Anecdotes from James Ballantyne's

Memoranda. 1810

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XXI. First Visit to the Hebrides. Staffa.

Skye. Mull. - Iona, etc. The Lord of

the Isles projected. Letters to Joanna

Baillie Southey and Morritt.

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XXII. Life of Miss Seward.

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Waverley resumed.

Ballantyne's Critique on the First Chap-

ters of the Novel. Waverley again laid

aside. - Unfortunate Speculations of John

Ballantyne and Co.; History of the Culdees;

Tixall Poetry; Beaumont and Fletcher;

Edinburgh Annual Register, etc.; Scott's

Essay on Judicial Reform. - His Scheme of

going to India. Letters on the War in the

Death of Lord President Blair,

- and of Lord Melville. - Publication of