'It would be wrong, therefore, to deduct less than a half-hour from Scott's estimate, for even the oldest pupils in our highest schools, leaving five hours as the limit of real mental effort for them, and reducing this for all younger pupils very much further.

In Scott's time, however, the fashion was different, and the popularity of his poems became almost universal.

Scott's correspondence must have been enormous, for his postage bills amounted to £150 per annum, besides the aid he received from franks, which with his natural economy he made no scruple in liberally using.

The illness and death of Scott's beloved wife, but four short months after his commercial disaster, was a profound grief to him; and under the exhausting pressure of incessant work during the five years following, his bodily power began to fail,so that in October, 1831, after a paralytic shock, he stopped all literary labor and went to Italy for recuperation.

At first he tells us "that Mr. Pigott, the curate of St. Mary's, Nottingham, hearing what was the bent of his religious opinions, sent him, by a friend, Scott's Force of Truth, and requested him to peruse it attentively, which he promised to do.

This determination produced "Waverly," whose success gave birth to Scott's desire to be numbered among the landed gentry of the country.

CHAPTER XII VARIOUS PUBLICATIONSCHARLES MATURINS.T. COLERIDGELEIGH HUNT Scott's "poor Irish friend Maturin," referred to in the previous chapter, was a young Irish clergyman, who was under the necessity of depending upon his brains and pen for the maintenance of his family.

The Scott's spleenwort, on the dedication page, is reprinted from Clute's "Our Ferns in Their Haunts.

Mr. Scott's valuable library was at my service; his keen brain challenged my opinions, probed my assertions, and suggested phases of thought hitherto untouched.

"SCOTT'S BIBLE: Judges, iv, 21.

In Scott's Bible, and several others, the word is "leaped."

[The Jacobean and Caroline poets, especially Donne and Cowley, require considerable allowance to be made on Scott's judgment by those who are not familiar with them.

[Scott's account of the marriage is incorrect in one or two particulars, and incomplete in others.

Through the air to Alaska; or, Ted Scott's search in Nugget Valley, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud.

Walter Scott's American guest.

Through the air to Alaska; or, Ted Scott's search in Nugget Valley, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud.

Danger trails of the sky; or, Ted Scott's great mountain climb, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams and Edna C. Squier.

[Footnote: American State Papers, IV., 131, Scott's Report, June 28, 1791.] Raid of Wilkinson.

Scott's Novels!

in 1685. EDIE OCHILTREE, a character in Scott's "Antiquary.

[Footnote 13: The curious may consult, for savage words for 'dreams,' Mr. Scott's Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language, s.v. 'Lots,' or any glossary of any savage language.]

The best test of British and American military qualities, both for men and weapons, was Scott's battle of Chippawa.

All his life was spent within about two miles of the place of his birth, and most of it on the Big Elk creek at what was known while he owned them, as "Scott's Mills."

We were going on a coach to Richmond with Julia and her husband, and another American girl, and then Julia's husband was going to row us up the Thames to Hampton Court for tea, and they were all going to dine with us at Scott's when we got home.

In estimating, therefore, the ground of Scott's pre-eminence in romance we must absolutely rid ourselves of the notion that romance or adventure are merely materialistic things involved in the tangle of a plot or the multiplicity of drawn swords.