RICHARD H. HUTTON.
PREFATORY NOTE.
CONTENTS.
SIR WALTER SCOTT. CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY, PARENTAGE, AND CHILDHOOD.
CHAPTER II. YOUTH CHOICE OF A PROFESSION.
CHAPTER III. LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER IV. EARLIEST POETRY AND BORDER MINSTRELSY.
CHAPTER V. SCOTT'S MATURER POEMS.
CHAPTER VI. COMPANIONS AND FRIENDS.
CHAPTER VII. FIRST COUNTRY HOMES.
CHAPTER VIII. REMOVAL TO ABBOTSFORD, AND LIFE THERE.
CHAPTER IX. SCOTT'S PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE BALLANTYNES.
CHAPTER X. THE WAVERLEY NOVELS.
CHAPTER XI. MORALITY AND RELIGION.
CHAPTER XII. DISTRACTIONS AND AMUSEMENTS AT ABBOTSFORD.
CHAPTER XIII. SCOTT AND GEORGE IV.
CHAPTER XIV. SCOTT AS A POLITICIAN.
CHAPTER XV. SCOTT IN ADVERSITY.
CHAPTER XVI. THE LAST YEAR.
CHAPTER XVII. THE END OF THE STRUGGLE.