Norman Macleod

FAMOUS SCOTS SERIES
The following Volumes are now ready —
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



The designs and ornaments of this volume are by Mr. Joseph Brown, and the printing from the press of Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh.
My cordial gratitude is due to Mr. William Isbister—’best of smokers’—for allowing me (and that with so good a spirit) to quote from the Memoir of Norman Macleod . The present piece will not have been written in vain, as the saying is, if it sends readers to that entertaining quarry.
I have also to thank Mr. J. C. Erskine, Hope Street, Glasgow (’Be calm, Erskine’), for furnishing me with certain letters never before published, specimens of which will be found in the text.
The extracts from the Queen’s books are made with Her Majesty’s gracious permission.