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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT

• Chap.

• Memoir of the Early Life of Sir Walter Scott, written by himself.1
• Illustrations of the Autobiographical Fragment. — Edinburgh. — Sandy-Knowe. — Bath. — Prestonpans. 1771-1778.51
• Illustrations of the Autobiography continued. — High School of Edinburgh. — Residence at Kelso. 1778-1783.78
• Illustrations of the Autobiography continued. — Anecdotes of Scott's College Life. 1783-1786.104
• Illustrations continued. — Scott's Apprenticeship to his Father. — Excursions to the Highlands, etc. — Debating Societies. — Early Correspondence, etc. — Williamina Stuart. 1786-1790.116
• Illustrations continued. — Studies for the Bar. — Excursion to Northumberland. — Letter on Flodden Field. — Call to the Bar. 1790-1792.149
• First Expedition into Liddesdale. — Study of German. — Political Trials, etc. — Specimen of Law Papers. — Bürger's Lenore translated. — Disappointment in Love. 1792-1796.169
• Publication of Ballads after Bürger. — Scott Quartermaster of the Edinburgh Light Horse. — Excursion to Cumberland. — Gilsland Wells. — Miss Carpenter. — Marriage. 1796-1797.227

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• Walter Scott in 1777
  From the miniature by Kay, in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
• Dr. Alexander Adam
  From the painting by Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A., in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
• Walter Scott ("Beardie"),
  Great-grandfather of Sir Walter Scott
  After the painting at Abbotsford.
• Walter Scott, W. S.,
  Father of Sir Walter Scott
  After the painting at Abbotsford.
• Williamina Stuart
  From the miniature by Richard Cosway, R. A. By permission of the Century Co.
• Scott's Father's House, 25 George's Square, Edinburgh.
  From a photograph.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
OF
JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART

John Gibson Lockhart was born in the manse of Cambusnethan, July 14, 1794. His father, the Rev. John Lockhart, was twice married, and of the children of his first wife only one, William, the laird of Milton-Lockhart, reached manhood. The second Mrs. Lockhart was Elizabeth, the daughter of the Rev. John Gibson, minister of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, and that clergyman's namesake was her eldest child. "Every Scottishman has his pedigree," says Scott in his fragment of Autobiography, and there is no lack of interest in the honorable one of his son-in-law, from the days of Simon Locard of the Lee, in the county of Lanark, who was knighted by Robert the Bruce, and after his king's death sailed with the good Lord James Douglas, who was bearing his master's heart to the Holy Land,—the heart which Locard rescued from the Moors, when Douglas fell fighting in Spain, and brought back to Scotland with Lord James's body. Then the Locards added to their armorial bearings a heart within a fetterlock, and took the name of Lockhart. From Sir Stephen Lockhart of Cleghorn, a man of note in the court of James III., was descended Robert Lockhart of Birkhill, who fought for the Covenant, and led the Lanarkshire Whigs at the battle of Bothwell Brig.

William Lockhart, the Covenanter's grandson, married Violet Inglis, the heiress of Corehouse. The Rev. John Lockhart was the younger of their two sons. From his father Lockhart seems to have inherited his scholarly tastes, while in person he appears to have resembled his mother; to both he was always the most affectionate and devoted of sons. His warmth of feeling, even in childhood, as well as his constitutional reserve, is shown by his intense suffering at the loss of a younger brother and sister, who died within a few days of each other. He did not weep like the rest of the children, or show other sign of emotion, but fell seriously ill, and was long in recovering from the shock. From the first he was a delicate child, and the removal of the family from country to town, when he was in his second year, probably did not tend to strengthen him. Dr. Lockhart became minister of the College Kirk in Glasgow, and his son in due time entered the High School there. In after-years his schoolmates remembered him as a very clever, but hardly a diligent boy. Though frequently absent from illness (one of these childish maladies caused the deafness in one ear from which he suffered), he always kept his place at the head of his class. "He never seemed to learn anything when the class was sitting down," wrote a fellow-pupil, "and on returning after one of his illnesses, he of course went to