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FAMOUS SCOTS SERIES
THOMAS CARLYLE. By Hector C. Macpherson.
ALLAN RAMSAY. By Oliphant Smeaton.
HUGH MILLER. By W. Keith Leask.
JOHN KNOX. By A. Taylor Innes.
ROBERT BURNS. By Gabriel Setoun.
THE BALLADISTS. By John Geddie.
RICHARD CAMERON. By Professor Herkless.
SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON. By Eve Blantyre Simpson.
THOMAS CHALMERS. By Professor W. Garden Blaikie.
JAMES BOSWELL. By W. Keith Leask.
TOBIAS SMOLLETT. By Oliphant Smeaton.
FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By G. W. T. Omond.
THE “BLACKWOOD” GROUP. By Sir George Douglas.
NORMAN MACLEOD. By John Wellwood.
SIR WALTER SCOTT. By Professor Saintsbury.
KIRKCALDY OF GRANGE. By Louis A. Barbé.
ROBERT FERGUSSON. By A. B. Grosart.
JAMES THOMSON. By William Bayne.
MUNGO PARK. By T. Banks Maclachlan.
DAVID HUME. By Professor Calderwood.
WILLIAM DUNBAR. By Oliphant Smeaton.
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. By Professor Murison.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. By Margaret Moyes Black.
THOMAS REID. By Professor Campbell Fraser.
POLLOK AND AYTOUN. By Rosaline Masson.
ADAM SMITH. By Hector C. Macpherson.
ANDREW MELVILLE. By William Morison.
JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER. By E. S. Haldane.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCE. By A. F. Murison.
JAMES HOGG. By Sir George Douglas.
THOMAS CAMPBELL. By J. Cuthbert Hadden.
GEORGE BUCHANAN. By Robert Wallace.
SIR DAVID WILKIE. By Edward Pinnington.
THE ERSKINES, EBENEZER AND RALPH. By A. R. MacEwen.
THOMAS GUTHRIE. By Oliphant Smeaton.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE. By T. Banks Maclachlan.
THE ACADEMIC GREGORIES. By Agnes Grainger Stewart.
JOHNSTON OF WARRISTON. By William Morison.
HENRY DRUMMOND. By James J. Simpson.
PRINCIPAL CAIRNS. By John Cairns.
VISCOUNT DUNDEE. By Louis A. Barbé.
VISCOUNT DUNDEE
BY
: LOUIS
A : BARBÉ
FAMOUS
•SCOTS•
•SERIES•
PUBLISHED BY
OLIPHANT ANDERSON
& FERRIER EDINBVRGH
AND LONDON
The designs and ornaments of this
volume are by Mr Joseph Brown,
and the printing is from the press of
Messrs Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh.
TO
MY SONS
LOUIS AND ADRIEN
CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
FAMILY, BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE 9
CHAPTER II
THE COVENANT AND THE COVENANTERS 21
CHAPTER III
DISPERSING THE CONVENTICLERS 36
CHAPTER IV
REJECTED ADDRESSES 59
CHAPTER V
MATTERS CIVIL, MILITARY AND MATRIMONIAL 73
CHAPTER VI
THE KILLING TIME 95
CHAPTER VII
UNDER KING JAMES 110
CHAPTER VIII
BEFORE THE STRUGGLE 125
CHAPTER IX
THE HIGHLAND CAMPAIGN 141
VISCOUNT DUNDEE