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NOTICES OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.


With Five Engravings:

1. ABBOTSFORD, (_from the Garden_.)
2. THE ARMOURY.
3. THE POET'S STUDY.
4. PORTRAIT--(_from the last painting_.)
5. DRYBURGH ABBEY.


[Illustration: ABBOTSFORD, (FROM THE GARDEN, see page 247.)]


Sir Walter Scott was the third son of Walter Scott, Esq., Writer to
the Signet, in Edinburgh, and Anne, daughter of Dr. John Rutherford,
Professor of Medicine in the University of the above city. His
ancestry numbers several distinguished persons; though the well-earned
fame of Sir Walter Scott readers his pedigree comparatively