bulky volumes of State trials, he will find copious illustrations of the curious practice referred to. But surely enough illustration has been given of how full Scott was of old Scotch law and of old Edinburgh life; he did not drag those subjects into his page, rather you fancy he restrained himself. I turn now from Saddletree to Peter Peebles, one of the best-drawn figures in all the Waverley gallery. Peter is a man of some little education and ability, and he does not make the mistakes that the other does; nay, he uses legal terms quite correctly. No finer picture of the ruined demented suitor was ever drawn; he is comical enough at times, and plays strange pranks, and yet there is no exaggeration. There is no touch of caricature as there is in the legal sketches of Dickens. Peter Peebles is a real creature of flesh and blood, as real as Bailie Nicol Jarvie or Jeanie and Davie Deans, and he is not all comic; there is a note of tragedy and pathos subdued, yet distinct. distinct. What could be finer than the speech he makes to Joshua Geddes, the Quaker, about his splendid position in occupying the attention of the Lords of Session for so many hours and days, and then the reflection on the ruin litigation has brought upon him, so that at times he rues ever having gone to law, though he is sure his hearer will scarce believe this when he considers the great renown and credit he has acquired? I will not attempt here to furnish a glossary of Peter's law terms; enough has been said for the purpose of illustration. And it would be wearisome to discuss the minor references, such as the trial and execution of Fergus Mac-Ivor at Carlisle in Waverley, the examination and torture of McBriar before the Privy Council in Old Mortality, the portrait of Lord Stair as Sir William Ashton in The Bride of Lammermoor. I will only note that Scott was interested in the legal antiquities of other countries besides Scotland. The strange system of the law of the forest under which huge tracts of England were administered for centuries is referred to in Ivanhoe, and the scene in the same novel where the hero comes forward as the champion of Rebecca reminds us of the picturesque wager of battle, which, having lain dormant for centuries, was so strangely revived in 1817 in the case of Mary Ashford, and only got its legal quietus two years later; and as one might expect, the right of sanctuary, one of the most curious parts of old English law, could not fail to attract our author's notice. Indeed, the picture of Alsatia in The Fortunes of Nigel contains perhaps the only passages in modern English literature which keep alive to the general reader the memory of one of the strangest of those old customs. Abbotsford- INDEX Collection, 28, 32; description, 67, Correspondence with Scott, 22, 43, Abingdon, Earl of, and Kenilworth, 166 Adam, Chief Commissioner at Blair- Adam, Dr., 7, 143 Adelphi Theatre, Scott at, 256 Alexander, Czar, and Scott, 99, 100 Visits Scott, 140; accompanies Scott Alnwick Castle, Scott visits, 274 Apennines, Scott in the, 327 Protector of Rob Roy, 125; in Heart Ashestiel, Scott removes to, 42 Bailie of Jerviswood, trial of, 346 Tragedies of, 60; correspondence with Printers for Scott, 36; Scott's con- Ballantyne, James- Printer of the Minstrelsy, 36; Scott the Isles, 87; relates Scott's estimation Chief partner in the Border Press, 58; Beaconsfield, Earl of, visit to Abbots- ford, 231 "Beardie." See Scott, "Beardie" Belsches, Williamina— and Scott, 14-22; marriage of, 21; Bell, the anatomist, 28 Bell Rock Lighthouse, 84 Bergen-op-Zoom, fortress of, 96 Biggar town, inhabitants greet Scott, 314 Biggleswade, Scott visits, 255 Birmingham, 261 Black, Messrs., III Blackford Hill, in Marmion, 52 Blackwood, Messrs.- and The Black Dwarf, 116; publish Blair-Adam, Scott visits, 161, 254 Blake, 229 Blarney, Scott visits, 226 Bodleian Library, Oxford, 261 Boswell, James, 140 Boswell, Sir Alexander, and Scott, 140 120 Bowhill in Marmion, 50 Bowness, Bay of, Regatta at, 230 Brasenose College, Scott's rooms at, 261 Brewster, Sir David, friendship with Bridge of Sighs, Scott visits, 328 Broadfoot, Mr., original of "Jedediah Brown, Lucky, 8 Brown, Mrs., Scott lodges with, 252, 261 and Scott, 29, 44, 75, 122; home of, ing of, 319-20 Buchan, Earl of, and Scott, 143-4 Burghley, Scott visits, 255 Burke, French Revolution, 242 Burley, murderer of Archbishop Sharpe, 112 Burney, Fanny (Mme. D'Arblay)— Meets Scott, 259; Scott calls on, 293 Campsie Lynn, 287 Canning, George- Scott meets, 61, 229, 260; regatta on Canongate Churchyard, Edinburgh, 169 Carlton House, Scott at, 81, 93 on Scott, 128; opinion of Cromwell, Cauldshiels Loch, purchased by Scott, 104 Chalk Farm, duel at, 168 Chantrey, Sir Francis, busts of Scott, Charlecote Hall, 289 Charles X. of France, speaks to Scott, Charles XII. of Sweden, 163 Cheney, Sir John, armour of, at Abbots- Chiefswood, Scott's affection for, 171 Claverhouse. See Dundee, Viscount Friendship with Scott, 13, 37, 76, 139; Cockburn, Sir George, journal of, found Coke of Norfolk (Earl of Leicester), 293 Coleridge, Christabel, 46, 83; Scott Comines, Chronicler, 200 Congreve, Sir William, rockets of, at Constable, Archibald— Publishes Marmion, 54; Scott's alien- |