Chapter I: Front Matter

[Frontispiece: Sir Walter Scott]

THE COUNTRY OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT

BY
CHARLES S. OLCOTT

_Author of George Eliot: Scenes and People of Her Novels_

ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
BY THE AUTHOR

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY CHARLES S. OLCOTT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published September 1913

TO

MY WIFE

THE COMPANION OF MY TRAVELS
TO WHOSE SYMPATHETIC COOPERATION I AM
INDEBTED FOR MUCH OF THE MATERIAL
THIS BOOK
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. The 'Making' of Sir Walter
II. The Lay of the Last Minstrel
III. Marmion
IV. The Lady of the Lake
V. Rokeby
VI. The Bridal of Triermain
VII. The Lord of the Isles
VIII. Waverley
IX. Guy Mannering
X. The Antiquary
XI. The Black Dwarf
XII. Old Mortality
XIII. Rob Roy
XIV. The Heart of Midlothian
XV. The Bride of Lammermoor
XVI. A Legend of Montrose
XVII. Ivanhoe
XVIII. The Monastery
XIX. The Abbot
XX. Kenilworth
XXI. The Pirate
XXII. The Fortunes of Nigel
XXIII. Peveril of the Peak
XXIV. Quentin Durward
XXV. St. Ronan's Well
XXVI. Redgauntlet
XXVII. Tales of the Crusaders
XXVIII. Woodstock
XXIX. The Fair Maid of Perth
XXX. The Chronicles of the Canongate and Other Tales
The Highland Widow
The Two Drovers
The Surgeon's Daughter
Anne of Geierstein
Count Robert of Paris
Castle Dangerous
XXXXI. A Successful Life

Index

ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of Sir Walter Scott . . . . . . Frontispiece
Photogravure from an engraving by William Walker of a painting
by Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., 1822.

Smailholm

Kelso Abbey

The Popping Stone

Lasswade Cottage

Map Of Scotland
Showing localities of Scott's writings

St. Mary's Loch

Branksome Hall

Melrose Abbey

Ashestiel

Entrance to Norham Castle

Llndisfarne Abbey

Tantallon Castle

Loch Achray

Cambusmore

Glenfinglas

Stirling Castle

Brackenbury Tower, Barnard Castle

The Valley of the Tees
From Barnard Castle

The Valley of St. John
Showing Triermain Castle Rock

Turnberry Castle, Coast of Ayrshire

Grandtully Castle

Doune Castle
From the Teith

Ullswater
Waverley's retreat after the defeat of the Chevalier

Caerlaverock Castle

Edinburgh from the Castle

Auchmuthie

The Black Dwarf's Cottage

Craignethan Castle (Tillietudlem)

Crichope Linn

Chillingham Castle

Loch Lomond from Inversnaid

St. Anthony's Chapel

Crichton Castle

Loch Lubnaig

Map of England
Showing Localities of Scott's writings

Castle of Ashby de la Zouch

The Buck-Gate
Entrance to the Duke of Portland's estate, Sherwood Forest

The Avenue of Limes, Sherwood Forest

Interior of Fountains Abbey

Coningsburgh Castle

Cathcart Castle

Leicester's Buildings, Kenilworth

Cæsar's Tower, Kenilworth

Entrance to Warwick Castle

Mervyn's Tower, Kenilworth

Lerwick, Shetland

A Crofter's Cottage, Orkney

Sumburgh Head, Shetland

Scalloway, Shetland

The Standing Stones of Stennis

Stromness, Orkney

Map of London
Showing localities of Scott's writings

The Pack-Horse Bridge, Haddon Hall

The Saxon Tower, Isle of Man

The Tweed and Eildon Hills

Scott's Tomb, Dryburgh

Hoddam Castle

Powis Castle, Wales

Godstow Priory
Burial-place of 'The Fair Rosamond'

Loch Tay

House of the Fair Maid of Perth

Abbotsford

Scott Monument, Edinburgh

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