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diff --git a/42062-h/42062-h.htm b/42062-h/42062-h.htm index f21457a..57aeeb9 100644 --- a/42062-h/42062-h.htm +++ b/42062-h/42062-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>The Project Gutenberg e-Book of Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott Bart., Vol. 4; Author: John Gibson Lockhart.</title> <link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover-page.jpg"> @@ -73,44 +73,7 @@ table {border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; font-size: 90%; </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, -Volume 4 (of 10), by John Gibson Lockhart - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10) - -Author: John Gibson Lockhart - -Release Date: February 10, 2013 [EBook #42062] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIR WALTER SCOTT *** - - - - -Produced by D Alexander, Christine P. Travers and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42062 ***</div> <div class="center"> <p>Large Paper Edition</p> @@ -189,7 +152,7 @@ Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net <p>XXVII. Insanity of Henry Weber. — Letters on the Abdication of Napoleon, etc. — Publication of Scott's Life and Edition of Swift. - — Essays for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica. — + — Essays for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica. — Completion and Publication of Waverley. 1814 <span class="ralign5"><a href="#page100">100</a></span></p> @@ -800,7 +763,7 @@ Rokeby, he proceeded in the composition of the romance:—</p> with three half-bound volumes of a novel in her hand. Not having it in my power to alleviate her woes, by offering her either a part or the whole of my own couch.—"<cite>Transeat</cite>," quoth I, "<i lang="la">cum - cæteris erroribus</i>."</p> + cæteris erroribus</i>."</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page16" name="page16"></a>(p. 16)</span> I am delighted with your Cumberland admirer,<a id="footnotetag7" name="footnotetag7"></a><a href="#footnote7" title="Go to footnote 7"><span class="smaller">[7]</span></a> and give him credit for his visit to the vindicator of Homer; but you @@ -1057,7 +1020,7 @@ part in the business advocated by Dr. Brunton:—</p> the modern Methodists have adopted, but merely that solemnity and peculiarity of diction, which at once puts the reader and hearer upon his guard as to the purpose of the poetry. To my Gothic ear, - indeed, the <i lang="la">Stabat Mater</i>, the <i lang="la">Dies Iræ</i>, and some of the other + indeed, the <i lang="la">Stabat Mater</i>, the <i lang="la">Dies Iræ</i>, and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church, are more solemn and affecting than the fine classical poetry of Buchanan; the one has the gloomy dignity of a Gothic church, and reminds us instantly of the @@ -2131,7 +2094,7 @@ agents had done the like in London."</p> Constable was that he should forthwith take entirely to himself the stock, copyright, and future management of the Edinburgh Annual Register. Upon examining the state of this book, however, Constable -found that the loss on it had never been less than £1000 per annum, +found that the loss on it had never been less than £1000 per annum, and he therefore declined that matter for the present. He promised, however, to consider seriously the means he might have of ultimately relieving them from the pressure of the Register, and, in the mean @@ -2142,8 +2105,8 @@ De Foe's novels in twelve volumes—of a collection entitled Tales of the East in three large volumes, 8vo, double-columned—and of another in one volume, called Popular Tales—about 800 copies of The Vision of Don Roderick—and a fourth of the remaining copyright of -Rokeby, price £700. The immediate accommodation thus received -amounted to £2000; and Scott, who had personally conducted the +Rokeby, price £700. The immediate accommodation thus received +amounted to £2000; and Scott, who had personally conducted the latter part of the negotiation, writes thus to his junior partner, who had gone a week or two earlier to London in quest of some similar assistance there:—</p> @@ -2209,13 +2172,13 @@ similar assistance there:—</p> <p>I was aware of the distinction between the <em>state</em> and the <em>calendar</em> as to the latter including the printing-office bills, and I summed and docked them (they are marked with red ink), but - there is still a difference of £2000 and upwards on the calendar + there is still a difference of £2000 and upwards on the calendar against the business. I sometimes fear that, between the long dates of your bills, and the tardy settlements of the Edinburgh trade, some difficulties will occur even in June; and July I always regard with deep anxiety. As for loss, if I get out without public exposure, I shall not greatly regard the rest. - Radcliffe the physician said, when he lost £2000 on the South Sea + Radcliffe the physician said, when he lost £2000 on the South Sea scheme, it was only going up 2000 pair of stairs; I say, it is only writing 2000 couplets, and the account is balanced. More of this hereafter. Yours truly,</p> @@ -2293,7 +2256,7 @@ close at once with a very capricious person," as the only reason that could have induced him to make up his mind to sell the whole copyright of an as yet unwritten poem, to be entitled The Nameless Glen. This copyright he then offered to dispose of to Constable for -£5000; adding, "this is considerably less in proportion than I have +£5000; adding, "this is considerably less in proportion than I have already made on the share of Rokeby sold to yourself, and surely <span class="pagenum"><a id="page58" name="page58"></a>(p. 58)</span> that is no unfair admeasurement." A long correspondence ensued, in the course of which Scott mentions The Lord of the Isles, @@ -2418,7 +2381,7 @@ younger partner.</p> apprehension is clear, both because in the calendar these bills were rated two months lower, and because, three days before, you wrote me an enigmatical expression of your apprehensions, instead - of saying plainly there was a chance of your wanting £350, when I + of saying plainly there was a chance of your wanting £350, when I would have sent you an order to be used conditionally.</p> <p>All I desire is unlimited confidence and frequent correspondence, @@ -2428,7 +2391,7 @@ younger partner.</p> shall have equally timeous notice. Omit no exertions to procure the use of money, even for a month or six weeks, for time is most precious. The large balance due in January from the trade, and - individuals, which I cannot reckon at less than £4000, will put + individuals, which I cannot reckon at less than £4000, will put us finally to rights; and it will be a shame to founder within sight of harbor. The greatest risk we run is from such ill-considered despatches as those of Friday. Suppose that I had @@ -2551,7 +2514,7 @@ in the paltry little public house, as nearly as possible in the style usual in his own lordly mansions. The ducks and geese that had been dabbling three or four hours ago in the village pond were now ready to make their appearance under numberless disguises as -<i lang="fr">entrées</i>; a regular bill-of-fare flanked the noble Marquis's +<i lang="fr">entrées</i>; a regular bill-of-fare flanked the noble Marquis's allotted cover; every huckaback towel in the place had been pressed to do service as a napkin; and, that nothing might be wanting to the mimicry of splendor, the landlady's poor remnants of crockery and @@ -2572,7 +2535,7 @@ thus answered it:—</p> <p class="adresse">TO MR. JOHN BALLANTYNE.</p> <p class="date"><span class="smcap">Penrith</span>, August 10, 1813.</p> - <p><span class="smcap">Dear John</span>,—I enclose you an order for £350. I shall remain at + <p><span class="smcap">Dear John</span>,—I enclose you an order for £350. I shall remain at Rokeby until Saturday or Sunday, and be at Abbotsford on Wednesday at latest.</p> @@ -2582,7 +2545,7 @@ thus answered it:—</p> James's comforts. I cannot observe hitherto that the printing-office is paying off, but rather adding to its embarrassments; and it cannot be thought that I have either means - or inclination to support a losing concern at the rate of £200 a + or inclination to support a losing concern at the rate of £200 a month. <span class="pagenum"><a id="page66" name="page66"></a>(p. 66)</span> If James could find a monied partner, an active man who understood the commercial part of the business, and would superintend the conduct of the cash, it might be the best for all @@ -2608,7 +2571,7 @@ Scott had wished it to be, Constable, on considering it, at once assured them, that to go on raising money in driblets would never effectually relieve them; that, in short, one or both of the companies must stop, unless Mr. Scott could find means to lay his -hand, without farther delay, on at least £4000; and I gather that, +hand, without farther delay, on at least £4000; and I gather that, by way of inducing Constable himself to come forward with part at least of this supply, John Ballantyne again announced his intention of forthwith abandoning the bookselling business altogether, and @@ -2681,14 +2644,14 @@ second of them received, be set down as determining the crisis of excepting a part of the price of Abbotsford, which I am to retain for four years. So that, literally, I have no claims upon me unless those arising out of this business; and when it is - considered that my income is above £2000 a year, even if the + considered that my income is above £2000 a year, even if the printing-office pays nothing, I should hope no one can possibly be a loser by me.</p> <table class="floatleft" border="0" cellpadding="0" summary="Income."> <tr> <td>Clerkship,</td> -<td class="right">£1300</td> +<td class="right">£1300</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sheriffdom,</td> @@ -2712,7 +2675,7 @@ second of them received, be set down as determining the crisis of </tr> <tr> <td> </td> -<td class="right">£2100</td> +<td class="right">£2100</td> </tr> </table> @@ -2731,7 +2694,7 @@ second of them received, be set down as determining the crisis of Prince Regent, offering me the laureateship in the most flattering terms. Were I my own man, as you call it, I would refuse this offer (with all gratitude); but, as I am situated, - £300 or £400 a year is not to be sneezed at upon a point of + £300 or £400 a year is not to be sneezed at upon a point of poetical honor—and it makes me a better man to that extent. I have not yet written, however. I will say little about Constable's handsome behavior, but shall not forget it. It is @@ -2762,7 +2725,7 @@ Ballantyne:—</p> <div class="quote"> <p>After some meditation, last night, it occurred to me I had some title to ask the Duke of Buccleuch's guarantee to a cash account - for £4000, as Constable proposes. I <span class="pagenum"><a id="page70" name="page70"></a>(p. 70)</span> have written to him + for £4000, as Constable proposes. I <span class="pagenum"><a id="page70" name="page70"></a>(p. 70)</span> have written to him accordingly, and have very little doubt that he will be my surety. If this cash account be in view, Mr. Constable will certainly <em>assist us</em> until the necessary writings are made @@ -2772,7 +2735,7 @@ Ballantyne:—</p> daily, "that <em>if</em> the sums I count upon <em>are</em> forthcoming, the results must be as I suppose." But—in a week—the scene is changed, and all I can do, and more, is inadequate to bring about - these results. I protest I don't know if at this moment £4000 + these results. I protest I don't know if at this moment £4000 <em>will</em> clear us out. After all, you are vexed, and so am I; and it is needless to wrangle who has a right to be angry. Commend me to James.</p> @@ -2783,14 +2746,14 @@ Ballantyne:—</p> <p>Having explained to the Duke of Buccleuch the position in which he stood—obliged either to procure some guarantee which would enable -him to raise £4000, or to sell abruptly all his remaining interest +him to raise £4000, or to sell abruptly all his remaining interest in the copyright of his works; and repeated the statement of his personal property and income, as given in the preceding letter to James Ballantyne—Scott says to his noble friend:—</p> <div class="quote"> <p>I am not asking nor desiring any loan from your Grace, but merely - the honor of your sanction to my credit as a good man for £4000; + the honor of your sanction to my credit as a good man for £4000; and the motive of your Grace's interference would be sufficiently obvious to the London Shylocks, as your constant kindness and protection is no secret to the world. Will your Grace consider @@ -2842,7 +2805,7 @@ for from the generous kindness and manly sense of his character.</p> <p><span class="smcap">My dear Sir</span>,—I received yesterday your letter of the 24th. I shall with pleasure comply with your request of guaranteeing the - £4000. You must, however, furnish me with the form of a letter to + £4000. You must, however, furnish me with the form of a letter to this effect, as I am completely ignorant of transactions of this nature.</p> @@ -3159,13 +3122,13 @@ affair is as follows:—</p> you live, as Paddy says, to rule over us, and to redeem the crown of Spenser and of Dryden to its pristine dignity. I am only discontented with the extent of your royal revenue, which I - thought had been £400, or £300 at the very least. Is there no + thought had been £400, or £300 at the very least. Is there no getting rid of that iniquitous modus, and requiring the <em>butt</em> in kind? I would have you think of it; I know no man so well entitled to Xeres sack as yourself, though many bards would make a better figure at drinking it. I should think that in due time a memorial might get some relief in this part of the - appointment—it should be at least, £100 wet and £100 dry. When + appointment—it should be at least, £100 wet and £100 dry. When you have carried your point of discarding the ode, and my point of getting the sack, you will be exactly in the situation of Davy in the farce, who stipulates for more wages, less work, and the @@ -3231,7 +3194,7 @@ man, and not as a milch-cow!"</p> <p>The difficulties of the Ballantynes were by this time well known throughout the commercial circles not only of Edinburgh, but of London; and a report of their actual bankruptcy, with the addition -that Scott was engaged as their surety to the extent of £20,000, +that Scott was engaged as their surety to the extent of £20,000, found its way to Mr. Morritt about the beginning of November. This dear friend wrote to him, in the utmost anxiety, and made liberal offers of assistance in case the catastrophe might still be @@ -3264,9 +3227,9 @@ he had ever acknowledged, in the concerns of the Messrs. Ballantyne.</p> <p>I have been able to redeem the offspring of my brain, and they are like to pay me like grateful children. This matter has set me a-thinking about money more seriously than ever I did in my life, - and I have begun by insuring my life for £4000, to secure some + and I have begun by insuring my life for £4000, to secure some ready cash to my family should I slip girths suddenly. I think my - other property, library, etc., may be worth about £12,000, and I + other property, library, etc., may be worth about £12,000, and I have not much debt.</p> <p>Upon the whole, I see no prospect of any loss whatever. Although @@ -3341,7 +3304,7 @@ introduced, as belonging to the same state of feeling:—</p> <p>It is proper to mention that, in the very agony of these perplexities, the unfortunate Maturin received from him a timely -succor of £50, rendered doubly acceptable by the kind and judicious +succor of £50, rendered doubly acceptable by the kind and judicious letter of advice in which it was enclosed; and I have before me ample evidence that his benevolence had been extended to other struggling brothers of the trade, even when he must often have had @@ -3449,7 +3412,7 @@ miscellaneous communications:—</p> as the over-use of any one limb of our body gradually impoverishes the rest. I shall be anxious to hear that you have played <cite>Malvolio</cite>, which is, I think, one of your - <i lang="fr">coups-de-maître</i>, and in which envy itself cannot affect to + <i lang="fr">coups-de-maître</i>, and in which envy itself cannot affect to trace an imitation. That same charge of imitation, by the way, is one of the surest scents upon which dunces are certain to open. Undoubtedly, if the same character is well performed by two @@ -3563,7 +3526,7 @@ miscellaneous communications:—</p> obliged to you for condensing the narrative, by giving us only those striking scenes which you have shown to be <span class="pagenum"><a id="page92" name="page92"></a>(p. 92)</span> so susceptible of poetic ornament, and leaving to imagination the - says I's and says he's, and all the minutiæ of detail which might + says I's and says he's, and all the minutiæ of detail which might be proper in giving evidence before a court of justice. The truth is, I think poetry is most striking when the mirror can be held up to the reader, and the same kept constantly before his eyes; @@ -3632,7 +3595,7 @@ miscellaneous communications:—</p> <p>We are here almost mad with the redemption of Holland, which has an instant and gratifying effect on the trade of Leith, and - indeed all along the east coast of Scotland. About £100,000 worth + indeed all along the east coast of Scotland. About £100,000 worth of various commodities, which had been dormant in cellars and warehouses, was sold the first day the news arrived, and Orange ribbons and <em>Orange Boven</em> was the order of the day among <span class="pagenum"><a id="page94" name="page94"></a>(p. 94)</span> @@ -3691,7 +3654,7 @@ miscellaneous communications:—</p> <p>I am very glad if anything I have written to you could give pleasure to Miss Edgeworth, though I am sure it will fall very short of the respect which I have for her brilliant talents. I - always write to you <i lang="fr">à la volée</i>, and trust implicitly to your + always write to you <i lang="fr">à la volée</i>, and trust implicitly to your kindness and judgment upon all occasions where you may choose to communicate any part of my letters.<a id="footnotetag41" name="footnotetag41"></a><a href="#footnote41" title="Go to footnote 41"><span class="smaller">[41]</span></a> As to the taxing men, I must battle them as I can: they are worse than the great Emathian @@ -3706,7 +3669,7 @@ miscellaneous communications:—</p> <span class="pagenum"><a id="page96" name="page96"></a>(p. 96)</span> at Abbotsford. I trust to pay the whole establishment a Christmas visit, which will be, as Robinson Crusoe says of his glass of rum, "to mine exceeding refreshment." All Edinburgh have - been on tiptoe to see Madame de Staël, but she is now not likely + been on tiptoe to see Madame de Staël, but she is now not likely to honor us with a visit, at which I cannot prevail on myself to be very sorry; for as I tired of some of her works, I am afraid I should disgrace my taste by tiring of the authoress too. All my @@ -3822,7 +3785,7 @@ celebration:—</p> <p class="chaptitle">INSANITY OF HENRY WEBER. — LETTERS ON THE ABDICATION OF NAPOLEON, ETC. — PUBLICATION OF SCOTT'S LIFE AND EDITION OF SWIFT. — ESSAYS - FOR THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. — COMPLETION + FOR THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. — COMPLETION AND PUBLICATION OF WAVERLEY</p> <p class="chapdate">1814</p> @@ -4303,23 +4266,23 @@ prove the most popular of all his friend's writings.<a id="footnotetag53" name=" forthwith copied by John Ballantyne, and sent to press. As soon as a volume was printed, Ballantyne conveyed it to Constable, who did not for a moment doubt from what pen it proceeded, but took a few days -to consider of the matter, and then offered £700 for the copyright. +to consider of the matter, and then offered £700 for the copyright. When we recollect what the state of novel literature in those days was, and that the only exceptions to its mediocrity, the Irish Tales of Miss Edgeworth, however appreciated in refined circles, had a -circulation so limited that she had never realized a tithe of £700 +circulation so limited that she had never realized a tithe of £700 by the best of them—it must be allowed that Constable's offer was a liberal one. Scott's answer, however, transmitted through the same -channel, was that £700 was too much, in case the novel should not +channel, was that £700 was too much, in case the novel should not be successful, and too little in case it <span class="pagenum"><a id="page115" name="page115"></a>(p. 115)</span> should. He added, -"If our fat friend had said £1000, I should have been staggered." +"If our fat friend had said £1000, I should have been staggered." John did not forget to hint this last circumstance to Constable, but the latter did not choose to act upon it; and he ultimately published the work, on the footing of an equal division of profits between himself and the author. There was a considerable pause between the finishing of the first volume and the beginning of the second. Constable had, in 1812, acquired the copyright of the -Encyclopædia Britannica, and was now preparing to publish the +Encyclopædia Britannica, and was now preparing to publish the valuable Supplement to that work, which has since, with modifications, been incorporated into its text. He earnestly requested Scott to undertake a few articles for the Supplement; he @@ -4327,7 +4290,7 @@ agreed—and, anxious to gratify the generous bookseller, at once laid aside his tale until he had finished two essays—those on Chivalry and the Drama. They appear to have been completed in the course of April and May, and he received for each of them—as he did -subsequently for that on Romance—£100.</p> +subsequently for that on Romance—£100.</p> <p>The two next letters will give us, in more exact detail than the author's own recollection could supply in 1830, the history of the @@ -4548,7 +4511,7 @@ a second edition.</p> and ingenious dissenting clergyman, who has collected a library and medals of some value, and brought up, I believe, sixteen or seventeen children (his wife's ambition extended to twenty) upon - about £150 a year—I say I wish, for all these reasons, you could + about £150 a year—I say I wish, for all these reasons, you could get me among your wealthy friends a name or two for the enclosed proposals. The price is, I think, too high; but the booksellers fixed it two guineas above what I proposed. I trust it will be @@ -4681,10 +4644,10 @@ follows:—</p> light—an old tower, and much in the form of a border-keep, with a beacon-grate on the top. It is to be abolished for an oil revolving-light, the grate-fire only being ignited upon the - leeward side when the wind is very high. <em>Quære</em>—Might not the + leeward side when the wind is very high. <em>Quære</em>—Might not the grate revolve? The isle had once a cell or two upon it. The vestiges of the chapel are still visible. Mr. Stevenson proposed - demolishing the old tower, and I recommended <em>ruining</em> it <i lang="fr">à la + demolishing the old tower, and I recommended <em>ruining</em> it <i lang="fr">à la picturesque</i>—<i>i. e.</i>, demolishing it partially. The island might be made a delightful residence for sea-bathers.</p> @@ -4743,7 +4706,7 @@ follows:—</p> which, to the northwards, changes from a bold and rocky to a low and sandy character. Along the bay of Belhelvie, a whole parish was swallowed up by the shifting sands, and is still a desolate - waste. It belonged to the Earls of Errol, and was rented at £500 + waste. It belonged to the Earls of Errol, and was rented at £500 a year at the time. When these sands are passed the land is all arable. Not a tree to be seen; nor a grazing cow, or sheep, or even a labor-horse at grass, though this be Sunday. The next @@ -4833,7 +4796,7 @@ follows:—</p> sick to answer. Towards morning, calm (comparative), and a nap.</p> <p>"<i>3d August</i>.—At sea as before; no appearance of land; proposed - that the Sheriff of Zetland do issue a <i lang="la">meditatione fugæ</i> warrant + that the Sheriff of Zetland do issue a <i lang="la">meditatione fugæ</i> warrant against his territories, which seem to fly from us. Pass two whalers; speak the nearest, who had come out of Lerwick, which is about twenty miles distant; stand on with a fine breeze. About @@ -4859,9 +4822,9 @@ follows:—</p> drunken riotous sailors from the whale-vessels. It seems these ships take about 1000 sailors from Zetland every year, and return them as they come back from the fishery. Each sailor may gain - from £20 to £30, which is paid by the merchants of Lerwick, who + from £20 to £30, which is paid by the merchants of Lerwick, who have agencies from the owners of the whalers in England. The - whole return may be between £25,000 and £30,000. These + whole return may be between £25,000 and £30,000. These Zetlanders, as they get a part of this pay on landing, make a point of treating their English messmates, who get drunk of course, and are very riotous. The Zetlanders themselves do <em>not</em> @@ -4983,14 +4946,14 @@ follows:—</p> from on board the Greenlanders. The Zetlanders are, however, so far provident, that when they enter the navy they make liberal allowance of their pay for their wives and families. Not less - than £15,000 a year has been lately paid by the Admiralty on this + than £15,000 a year has been lately paid by the Admiralty on this account; yet this influx of money, with that from the Greenland fishery, seems rather to give the means of procuring useless indulgences than of augmenting the stock of productive labor. Mr. Collector Ross tells me that from the King's books it appears that the quantity of spirits, tea, coffee, tobacco, snuff, and sugar, imported annually into Lerwick for the consumption of - Zetland, averages at sale price, £20,000 yearly, at the least. + Zetland, averages at sale price, £20,000 yearly, at the least. Now the inhabitants of Zetland, men, women, and children, do not exceed 22,000 in all, and the proportion of foreign luxuries seems monstrous, unless we allow for the habits contracted by the @@ -5243,7 +5206,7 @@ follows:—</p> <p>"I have gleaned something of the peculiar superstitions of the Zetlanders, which are numerous and potent. Witches, fairies, etc., are as numerous as ever they were in Teviotdale. The latter - are called <em>Trows</em>, probably from the Norwegian <i>Dwärg</i> (or + are called <em>Trows</em>, probably from the Norwegian <i>Dwärg</i> (or <i>dwarf</i>) the D being readily converted into T. The dwarfs are the prime agents in the machinery of Norwegian superstition. The <em>trows</em> do not differ from the fairies of the Lowlands, or @@ -5375,7 +5338,7 @@ follows:—</p> door, in Latin, now much defaced:—</p> <p class="center smcap"> - 'PATRICIUS ORCHADIÆ ET ZETLANDIÆ COMES. A. D. 1600.<br> + 'PATRICIUS ORCHADIÆ ET ZETLANDIÆ COMES. A. D. 1600.<br> CUJUS FUNDAMEN SAXUM EST, DOMUS ILLA MANEBIT<br> STABILIS: E CONTRA, SI SIT ARENA, PERIT.'</p> @@ -5512,7 +5475,7 @@ follows:—</p> keeping the weather-gage, struck, and sustained damage. The rock is visible at low water, and is still called the Unicorn, from the name of Kirkaldy's vessel. Admire Mr. Mowat's little farm, of - about thirty acres, bought about twenty years since for £75, and + about thirty acres, bought about twenty years since for £75, and redeemed from the miserable state of the surrounding country, so that it now bears excellent corn; here also was a hay crop. With Mr. Turnbull's it makes two. Visit Mr. Ross, collector of the @@ -5612,7 +5575,7 @@ follows:—</p> irregularly, the sweep of the cone being different on the different sides.</p> - <p>"It is said by Torfæus that this fort was repaired and + <p>"It is said by Torfæus that this fort was repaired and strengthened by Erlind, who, having forcibly carried off the mother of Harold, Earl of the Orkneys, resolved to defend himself to extremity in this place against the insulted Earl. How a @@ -5782,7 +5745,7 @@ follows:—</p> same which we left in Quendal Bay, and about the arrival of which we found them anxious. An equal space of rich land on the Fair Isle, situated in an inland county of Scotland, would rent for - £3000 a year at the very least. To be sure it would not be + £3000 a year at the very least. To be sure it would not be burdened with the population of 250 souls, whose bodies (fertile as it is) it cannot maintain in bread, they being supplied chiefly from the mainland. Fish they have plenty, and are even @@ -6123,7 +6086,7 @@ but, as well as a second and smaller round tower, it is quite ruinous. A suite of apartments of different sizes fills up the space between these <span class="pagenum"><a id="page164" name="page164"></a>(p. 164)</span> towers, all now ruinous. The building is said to have been of great antiquity, but was certainly in a -great measure reëdified in the sixteenth century.</p> +great measure reëdified in the sixteenth century.</p> <p>"Fronting this castle or palace of the Bishop, and about a gun-shot distant, is that of the Earl of Orkney. The Earl's palace was built @@ -6193,7 +6156,7 @@ initials, and the motto I have noticed. He bears the royal arms James V.) quarterly, with a lymphad or galley, the ancient arms of the county. This circumstance was charged against him on his trial.<a id="footnotetag74" name="footnotetag74"></a><a href="#footnote74" title="Go to footnote 74"><span class="smaller">[74]</span></a> I understand the late Mr. <span class="pagenum"><a id="page166" name="page166"></a>(p. 166)</span> Gilbert Laing Meason -left the interest of £1000 to keep up this cathedral.</p> +left the interest of £1000 to keep up this cathedral.</p> <p>"There are in the street facing the cathedral the ruins of a much more ancient castle; a proper feudal fortress belonging to the Earls @@ -6303,7 +6266,7 @@ are nine vessels lying here at present) has been an object of attention with Government.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page169" name="page169"></a>(p. 169)</span> "Went ashore after dinner, and visited the fort, which is -only partly completed: it is a <i lang="fr">flêche</i> to the sea, with eight guns, +only partly completed: it is a <i lang="fr">flêche</i> to the sea, with eight guns, twenty-four pounders, but without any land defences; the guns are mounted <i lang="fr">en barbette</i>, without embrasures, each upon a kind of movable stage, which stage wheeling upon a pivot in front, and @@ -6450,7 +6413,7 @@ hope of reaching Stromness till we have the assistance of the evening tide. The channel now seems like a Highland <span class="pagenum"><a id="page173" name="page173"></a>(p. 173)</span> loch; not the least ripple on the waves. The passage is narrowed, and (to the eye) blocked up by the interposition of the green and apparently -fertile isle of Græmsay, the property of Lord Armadale.<a id="footnotetag78" name="footnotetag78"></a><a href="#footnote78" title="Go to footnote 78"><span class="smaller">[78]</span></a> Hoy +fertile isle of Græmsay, the property of Lord Armadale.<a id="footnotetag78" name="footnotetag78"></a><a href="#footnote78" title="Go to footnote 78"><span class="smaller">[78]</span></a> Hoy looks yet grander, from comparing its black and steep mountains with this verdant isle. To add to the beauty of the Sound, it is rendered lively by the successive appearance of seven or eight whaling @@ -6477,9 +6440,9 @@ Davies' Straits whalers, as Lerwick is for the Greenlanders. Betwixt the vessels we met yesterday, seven or eight which passed us this morning, and several others still lying in the bay, we have seen between twenty and thirty of these large ships in this remote place. -The opposite side of Stromness Bay is protected by Hoy, and Græmsay +The opposite side of Stromness Bay is protected by Hoy, and Græmsay lies between them; so that the bay seems quite land-locked, and the -contrast between the mountains of Hoy, the soft verdure of Græmsay, +contrast between the mountains of Hoy, the soft verdure of Græmsay, and the swelling hill of Orphir on the mainland, has a beautiful effect. The day clears up, and Mr. Rae, Lord Armadale's factor, comes off from his house, called Clestrom, upon the shore opposite @@ -6612,8 +6575,8 @@ the island is very thinly inhabited; in fact, we only saw two or three little wigwams. After tea we walked a mile farther, to a point where the boat was lying, in order to secure the advantage of the flood-tide. We rowed with toil across one stream of tide, which set -strongly up between Græmsay and Hoy; but, on turning the point of -Græmsay, the other branch of the same flood-tide carried us with +strongly up between Græmsay and Hoy; but, on turning the point of +Græmsay, the other branch of the same flood-tide carried us with great velocity alongside our yacht, which we reached about nine o'clock. Between riding, walking, and running, we have spent a very active and entertaining day.</p> @@ -6669,7 +6632,7 @@ had ready for such occasions, and seemed greatly delighted and surprised with the amount of our donation, as everybody gave her a trifle, our faithful Captain Wilson making the regular offering on behalf of the ship. So much for buying a wind. Bessy Millie's -habitation is airy enough for Æolus himself, but if she is a special +habitation is airy enough for Æolus himself, but if she is a special favorite with that divinity, he has a strange choice. In her house I remarked a quern, or hand-mill.—A cairn, a little higher, commands a beautiful view of the bay, with its various entrances and islets. @@ -6730,9 +6693,9 @@ has acquired the name of the Old Man of Hoy, and is well known to mariners as marking the entrance to the Mouth. The other jaw of this mouth is formed by a lower range of crags, called the Burgh of Birsa. The access <span class="pagenum"><a id="page181" name="page181"></a>(p. 181)</span> through this strait would be easy, were -it not for the Island of Græmsay, lying in the very throat of the +it not for the Island of Græmsay, lying in the very throat of the passage, and two other islands covering the entrance to the harbor -of Stromness. Græmsay is infamous for shipwrecks, and the chance of +of Stromness. Græmsay is infamous for shipwrecks, and the chance of these <em>God-sends</em>, as they were impiously called, is said sometimes to have doubled the value of the land. In Stromness, I saw many of the sad relics of shipwrecked vessels applied to very odd purposes, @@ -7056,14 +7019,14 @@ billows chuck up and down as a child tosses a ball. The walk from thence to the Cape was over rough boggy ground, but good sheep pasture. Mr. —— Dunlop, brother to the laird of Dunlop, took from Lord Reay, some years since, a large track of sheep-land, including -the territories of Cape Wrath, for about £300 a year, for the period +the territories of Cape Wrath, for about £300 a year, for the period of two-nineteen years and a life-rent. It is needless to say that the tenant has an immense profit, for the value of pasture is now understood here. Lord Reay's estate, containing 150,000 square acres, and measuring eighty miles by sixty, was, before commencement -of the last leases, rented at £1200 a year. It is now worth £5000, +of the last leases, rented at £1200 a year. It is now worth £5000, and Mr. Anderson says he may let it this ensuing year (when the -leases expire) for about £15,000. But then he must resolve to part +leases expire) for about £15,000. But then he must resolve to part with his people, for these rents can only be given upon the supposition that sheep are generally to be introduced on the property. In an economical, and perhaps in a political point of @@ -7074,7 +7037,7 @@ out several hundred families who have lived under him and his fathers for many generations, and the swords of whose fathers probably won the lands from which he is now expelling them. He is a good-natured man, I suppose, for Mr. A. says he is hesitating -whether he shall not take a more moderate rise (£7000 or £8000), and +whether he shall not take a more moderate rise (£7000 or £8000), and keep his Highland tenantry. This last war (before the short peace), he levied a fine fencible corps (the Reay fencibles), and might <span class="pagenum"><a id="page190" name="page190"></a>(p. 190)</span> have doubled their number. <em>Wealth</em> is no doubt <em>strength</em> @@ -7247,7 +7210,7 @@ cutter, he mistook it, as has often happened to us, for an armed vessel belonging to the revenue, which the appearance and equipment of the yacht, and the number of men, make her resemble considerably. He was much disappointed when he found we had nothing to do with the -tribute to Cæsar, and begged us not to undeceive the natives, who +tribute to Cæsar, and begged us not to undeceive the natives, who were so much irritated against him that he found it necessary to wear a loaded pair of pistols in each pocket, which he showed to our Master, Wilson, to convince him of the perilous state in which he @@ -7467,7 +7430,7 @@ of his own loch, though we were speedily convinced it was not that which we had been recommended to examine. It had no peculiar merit excepting from its neighborhood to a very high cliff or mountain of precipitous granite; otherwise, the sheet of water does not equal -even Cauldshiels Loch. Returned and reëmbarked in our boat, for our +even Cauldshiels Loch. Returned and reëmbarked in our boat, for our guide shook his head at our proposal to climb over <span class="pagenum"><a id="page202" name="page202"></a>(p. 202)</span> the peninsula which divides the two bays and the two lakes. In rowing round the headland, surprised at the infinite number of sea-fowl, @@ -7649,7 +7612,7 @@ been recent, if one can judge from the fresh appearance of those relics. I brought off, in spite of the prejudices of our sailors, a skull, which seems that of a young woman.</p> -<p>"Before reëmbarking, we visit another cave opening to the sea, but +<p>"Before reëmbarking, we visit another cave opening to the sea, but of a character widely different, being a large open vault as high as that of a cathedral, and running back a great way into the rock at the same height; the height and width of the opening give light to @@ -7926,7 +7889,7 @@ see the house of Torloisk, so very thick was the haze, and we were a good deal puzzled how and where to achieve a landing; at length, espying a cartroad, we resolved to trust to its guidance, as we knew we must be near the house. We therefore went ashore with our -servants, <i lang="fr">à la bonne aventure</i>, under a drizzling rain. This was +servants, <i lang="fr">à la bonne aventure</i>, under a drizzling rain. This was soon a matter of little consequence, for the necessity of crossing a swollen brook wetted me considerably, and Erskine, whose foot slipped, most completely. In wet and weary plight we reached the @@ -8199,7 +8162,7 @@ touch of the picturesque farther than their massive walls and columns may afford. Near the chapel of Dunstaffnage is a remarkable echo.</p> -<p>"Reëmbarked, and, rowing about a mile and a half or better along the +<p>"Reëmbarked, and, rowing about a mile and a half or better along the shore of the lake, again landed under the ruins of the old castle of Dunolly. This fortress, which, like that of Dunstaffnage, forms a marked feature in this exquisite landscape, is situated on a bold @@ -8443,7 +8406,7 @@ navigation both shoally and intricate. Called a council of war; and after considering <span class="pagenum"><a id="page228" name="page228"></a>(p. 228)</span> the difficulty of getting up to Derry, and the chance of being wind-bound when we do get there, we resolve to renounce our intended visit to that town. We had hardly put the -ship about, when the Irish Æolus shifted his trumpet, and opposed +ship about, when the Irish Æolus shifted his trumpet, and opposed our exit, as he had formerly been unfavorable to our progress up the lake. At length, we are compelled to betake ourselves to towing, the wind fading into an absolute calm. This gives us time enough to @@ -8628,7 +8591,7 @@ strong, and the wind rising at the same time, makes us somewhat apprehensive for our boat, <span class="pagenum"><a id="page233" name="page233"></a>(p. 233)</span> which had returned to attend D. and S. We observe them set off along the hills on foot, to walk, as we understand, to a bay called Carskey, five or six miles off, but -the nearest spot at which they can hope to reëmbark in this state of +the nearest spot at which they can hope to reëmbark in this state of the weather. It now becomes very squally, and one of our jibsails splits. We are rather awkwardly divided into three parties—the pedestrians on shore, with whom we now observe Captain Wilson, @@ -8786,7 +8749,7 @@ six weeks, I have recovered only one, and <span class="pagenum"><a id="page238" the leisure of the yacht, in verse. The strong and easy heroics of the first section prove, I think, that Mr. Canning did not err when he told him that if he chose he might emulate even Dryden's command -that noble measure; and the dancing anapæsts of the second show that +that noble measure; and the dancing anapæsts of the second show that he could with equal facility have rivalled the gay graces of Cotton, Anstey, or Moore. This epistle did not reach the Duke of Buccleuch till his lovely Duchess was no more; and I shall annex to it some @@ -9376,17 +9339,17 @@ terms as before, for a third of 1000 copies. This third edition was published in October, and when a fourth of the like extent was called for in November, I find Scott writing to John Ballantyne, "I suppose Constable won't quarrel with a work on which he has netted -£612 in four months, with a certainty of making it £1000 before the +£612 in four months, with a certainty of making it £1000 before the year is out;" and, in fact, owing to the diminished expense of advertising, the profits of this fourth edition were to each party -£440. To avoid recurring to these details, I may as well state at +£440. To avoid recurring to these details, I may as well state at once, that a fifth edition of 1000 copies appeared in January, 1815; a sixth of 1500 in June, 1816; a seventh of 2000 in October, 1817; an eighth of 2000 in April, 1821; that in the collective editions, prior to 1829, 11,000 were disposed of; and that the sale of the current edition, with notes, begun in 1829, has already reached 40,000 copies. Well might Constable regret that he had not ventured -to offer £1000 for the whole copyright of Waverley!</p> +to offer £1000 for the whole copyright of Waverley!</p> <p>I must now look back for a moment to the history of the composition.—The letter of September, 1810, was not the only piece @@ -9519,8 +9482,8 @@ this time gone to Canada as paymaster of the 70th regiment:—</p> incidents and descriptions of scenery you may see—particularly with characters and traits of manners. I will give it all the cobbling that is necessary, and, if you do but exert yourself, I - have not the least doubt it will be worth £500; and, to encourage - you, you may, when you send the MS., draw on me for £100, at + have not the least doubt it will be worth £500; and, to encourage + you, you may, when you send the MS., draw on me for £100, at fifty days' sight—so that your labors will at any rate not be quite thrown away. You have more fun and descriptive talent than most people; and all that you want—<i>i. e.</i>, the mere practice of @@ -9530,7 +9493,7 @@ this time gone to Canada as paymaster of the 70th regiment:—</p> he, and may therefore face Colville of the Dale. You may believe I don't want to make you the author of a book you have never seen; but if people will, upon their own judgment, suppose so, - and also on their own judgment give you £500 to try your hand on + and also on their own judgment give you £500 to try your hand on a novel, I don't see that you are a pin's-point the worse. Mind that your MS. attends the draft. I am perfectly serious and confident that in two or three months you might clear the cobs. I @@ -9619,7 +9582,7 @@ not to be omitted:—</p> he entertained so just and so high an opinion of your eminence in the management of both, as to have strong apprehensions of any comparison which might be instituted betwixt his picture and - story and yours; besides, that there is a richness and <i lang="fr">naïveté</i> + story and yours; besides, that there is a richness and <i lang="fr">naïveté</i> in Irish character and humor, in which the Scotch are certainly defective, and which could hardly fail, as he thought, to render his delineations cold and tame by the contrast. "If I could but @@ -9861,7 +9824,7 @@ I ever heard.</p> <p><a id="footnote32" name="footnote32"></a> <b><a href="#footnotetag32">32</a></b>: John Ballantyne had embarked no capital—not a shilling—in the business; and was bound by the contract to limit -himself to an allowance of £300 a year, in consideration of his +himself to an allowance of £300 a year, in consideration of his <em>management</em>, until there should be an overplus of profits!—(1839.)</p> @@ -9930,7 +9893,7 @@ therefore be the sleep, and henceforward undisturbed the ashes, of this unhappy prince.... His attachment to a particular form of worship was in him conscience, for he adhered to the Church of England ... when by giving up that favorite point he might have -secured his reëstablishment; and in that sense he may be justly +secured his reëstablishment; and in that sense he may be justly considered as a martyr, though his early political errors blemish his character as King of England."—<cite>Familiar Letters</cite>, vol. i. p. 288.]</p> @@ -9958,7 +9921,7 @@ it.</p> VIRUM SUMMI INGENII<br> SCRIPTOREM ELEGANTEM<br> POETARUM SUI SECULI FACILE PRINCIPEM<br> - PATRIÆ DECUS<br> + PATRIÆ DECUS<br> OB VARIA ERGA IPSAM MERITA<br> IN CIVIUM SUORUM NUMERUM<br> GRATA ADSCRIPSIT CIVITAS EDINBURGENSIS<br> @@ -10152,7 +10115,7 @@ said that the King's mood was considerably heated against him by some ill-chosen and worse written Latin inscriptions with which his father and himself had been unlucky enough to decorate some of their insular palaces. In one of these, Earl Robert, the father, had given -his own designation thus: 'Orcadiæ Comes <em>Rex</em> Jacobi Quinti +his own designation thus: 'Orcadiæ Comes <em>Rex</em> Jacobi Quinti Filius.' In this case he was not, perhaps, guilty of anything worse than bad Latin. But James VI., who had a keen nose for puzzling out treason, and with whom an assault and battery upon Priscian ranked @@ -10573,382 +10536,6 @@ you.</p> corrected (e.g.: 3 s instead of 2, etc.). 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