The intimate life of Sir Walter Scott

Archibald Stalker

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SCOTT.
: SIR WALTERAT GREAT MENPEEPS
GRIERSON.ELIZABETHBy
in Colour.With Illustrations
full-page
With Artistic Cover.crown 8vo.Large square
Britain" Series."BeautifulABBOTSFORD.
in Colour.With Illustrations
full-page
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THE SCOTT COUNTRY.
Rev. W. S. CROCKETT.By
and aNEW 162 IllustrationsEDITION, Map.containing
SCOTT.LIFE OF SIR WALTER
G. LOCKHART.By J.
NEW With IllustrationsEDITION, Abridged. full-page
in and Black and White.Colour
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1921f/fCONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION ..... i
II. FATHER AND MOTHER...... 4
III. BOYHOOD AND YOUTH . . . . . . 16
IV. FIRST LOVE ....... 26
V. LADY SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD . . . . -34
VI. INTERESTING PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH SCOTT
. . 42
VII. THE PERSONALITY OF SIR WALTER . . . .62
VIII. THE OF SIR WALTER . .(continued) 77
IX. THE CHILDREN . . . . . . .84
X. FAMILY LIFE AT ABBOTSFORD . .
. . .98
XI. TOM THE FRIEND AND TYRANTPURDIE, . . .121
XII. A DAY AT ABBOTSFORD . .
. . 129
XIII. THE BALLANTYNES AND THE BUSINESSES . . . 144
XIV. THE AND THE
.(continued] 154
XV. SCOTT AS A LITERARY MAN . . . . .163
XVI. His SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VIEWS . .
. .174
XVII. THE 1826DISASTER OF .....
192
INDEX
205NOTE
on Sir Walter's Father and Mother hasTHE chapter
in The Cornhill that on TomMagazine;appeared
inPurdie has been Chambers's Journal,published
and that on Sir Walter's First Love in The Scots
Pictorial.
I with the of thethanks,acknowledge, permission
and Editors of the three toProprietors magazines
theserepublish chapters.
A. S.
EDINBURGH,
ist January 1921.
viiiTHE INTIMATE LIFE OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT
ICHAPTER
BY INTRODUCTIONWAY OF
isTHERE have been Lives of thereScott,many though only
one which is Lockhart's and the number of
; consideringLife,
and the fact that is a hundred sincethose Lives it nearly years
Sir Walter the natural of the twentieth centuriondied, inquiry
" What is there new to about Scott ? Is thereis, say anything
"
new ?
There a deal that has neverbeenis, indeed, great interpreted
and there is still more that has never received thebefore, yet
it deserves but there is another consideration.
;emphasis
Readers of books are alive who remember the time whenyet
it was still considered ridiculous to take Sir Walter's own
estimate of his value. Year the world hasliterary by year
been round to his of and those whocoming way thinking, go
to now on the he created on Tweed cangaze bright landscape
with him in his estimate of the tasks he didjoin profound
"
oaks will outlast laurels."My my
But because his are and becausejust long poems uninspired,
after a hundred have admitted the truth of hispeople years
" "
that what he called his bow-wow method ofopinion big
was to become there is roomintolerable,writing prose apt
for a new estimate of Sir Walter. After let theall, literary
what books are a small and this wassay affair,they please,
Sir Walter's as well as mine. Architecture,opinion sculpture,
have and sublimities that ... Atmusic, profundities any
life is more than Sir Walter's haverate, books, and, though
iSCOTTOF SIR WALTERINTIMATE LIFE2 THE
his life,of theirlost a deal freshness, joyous personalgood
a consecutive narrative,told ashas never before beenwhich
is theThata shade of its justificationhas lost not brightness.
of this book.
is not theis new. Itof Sir WalterFor this presentation
of last andin the booksof him that is century,givenpicture
but it is athe ofbe in 2020,it unsatisfactory eyesmay
and shadowsthat contains lightstwentieth-century portrait
This is theinobscure or absent representations.previous
first love has been discussed withthat hisfirst too,time,
taken the trouble toand that hascommon sense, anyone
thedetails of Scott's involved connection withmaster the
failure.business firms and with their
too often that SirIt cannot be too much oremphasised
a deal more of his of hisWalter life, friends,dailythought great
than of his own orand books,sports, plantings jokes anybody's
his shouldelse. it is not that booksAccordingly surprising
not have the stuff of endurance in on the otherthem, nor,
it his life has his mostis wonderful thathand, daily provided
when he wrote theLockhart, Scott,satisfying story. Life of
"
called himself the of these and substanti-compiler pages,"
he The book is of Scott'sally spoke truly. chiefly composed
letters and some of Lockhart's own reminis-journal, though
cences are lifelike and poignant.
is noThere other in our to touch itbiography language
the Samuel Boswell'sofexcept surpassing Diary Pepys.
if one omits some too details of our dearestJohnson, meagre
has seemed to me rather for the book-Oliver, always verbiage
worm than the substance of a oflife, though masterpiece
The Scott is Scott's best book. Hepresentation. Life of
lived it and he wrote a that I canit, story hardly imagine
or ScotlandEngland of.growing weary
I have few of the best-known stories told orrepeated by
about but some of these ancientScott, favourites have been
essential to the of his intimate life. Muchpresentation
material has been found in andfootnotes, asides, stray places
that reveal accident the and substance of the house-by spirit
while all thehold, mental of the writer is concentratedenergy
on the elaboration of matters of andgravity unimportance.