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
XXXI. [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]