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Scott, Sir Walter: Ancestry and parentage, 9, 10; birth, 10; infancy, 11; school and college days, ibid.; apprenticeship, ibid.; friends and early occupations, 12, 13; call to the Bar, 12, 14; first love, 14-16; engagement and marriage, 16; briefs, fights, and volunteering, 17; journeys to Galloway and elsewhere, 18, 19; slowness of literary production and its causes, 20, 21; call-thesis and translations of Bürger, 22; reception of these last and their merit, 23; contributes to Tales of Wonder, 24; remarks on Glenfinlas and The Eve of St. John, 25, 26; Goetz von Berlichingen and The House of Aspen, 26; dramatic work generally, 27, note; friendship with Leyden, Ritson, and Ellis, 28; Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 28-33; contributes to the Edinburgh Review, 33-35; his domestic life for the first seven years after his marriage, 35-37; The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 38-46; partnership with Ballantyne, 46-50; children and pecuniary affairs, 50, 51; Clerkship of Session, 51; politics during Fox and Grenville administration, 52; anecdote of, on Mound, ibid.; Marmion, 52-55; coolness with Edinburgh and starting of Quarterly Review, 55, 56; quarrel with Constable, 56, 57; affair of Thomas Scott's appointment, 58, 59; The Lady of the Lake, 59, 60; The Vision of Don Roderick, 61; Rokeby, 61-63; The Lord of the Isles, 63, 64; The Bridal of Triermain, 64-66; Harold the Dauntless, 66, 67; remarks on the verse romances generally, 67, 68; Waverley, its origin, character, and reception, 69-76; settlement at Abbotsford, 70, 71; danger of Ballantyne & Co., and closer alliance with Constable, 71, 72; yachting tour, 72; Guy Mannering, 77-79; introduced in London to the Regent and to Byron, 79; journey to Brussels, Field of Waterloo, and Paul's Letters, 79; The Antiquary, 80; original mottoes, 81 and note; Old Mortality and Black Dwarf, 81-84; quarrel with Blackwood, 82; Rob Roy, 84, 85; domestic affairs, 85-87; Heart of Midlothian, 87, 88; Bride of Lammermoor and Legend of Montrose, 88-91; attacked by cramp, 84, 86, 89, note; domestic affairs, 91-93; Ivanhoe, 93, 96; The Monastery, 95, 96; The Abbot and Kenilworth, 96, 97; The Pirate, 97, 98; The Fortunes of Nigel, 99; Peveril of the Peak, 100; Quentin Durward, 100, 101; St. Ronan's Well, 101, 102; Redgauntlet, 102, 103; Tales of the Crusaders, 104, 105; domestic affairs, to tour in Ireland, 105, 106; commercial crisis and fall of Constable and Ballantyne, 106, 107; discussion of the facts, 107-114; the Journal, 114-117; death of Lady Scott, 116; Life of Napoleon, 118-121; Woodstock, 121-123; Letters of Malachi Malagrowther, 123; 'Bonnie Dundee,' ibid.; Chronicles of the Canongate, 124-126; Tales of a Grandfather, 126, 127; The Fair Maid of Perth and the 'Magnum Opus,' 128; Anne of Geierstein, 129; declining health, 130; success of the 'Magnum,' ibid.; stroke of paralysis and resignation of Clerkship, 131; Letters on Demonology and Christopher North's criticism, 131, 132; Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous, 133; political annoyances and insults at Jedburgh, 134; last visit of Wordsworth and departure for Italy, 135; sojourn on the Mediterranean, 136; return and death, 137; settlement of debts, ibid.; monuments to Scott, 138; general view of Scott desirable, 139; his physique and conversation, 140; his alleged subserviency to rank, 141, 142; his moral and religious character, 142, 143; his politics, 144; characteristics of his thought, 145-147; his combination of the practical and the romantic, 147; his humour, 148; his feeling, 149; his style, 150; his power of story, 151; not 'commonplace,' 151, 154; comparison with Lyly, 153; final remarks, 155, 156.