CHAPTER CII

It appeared by this will that the Leddy had, with the exception of a few inconsiderable legacies to the rest of her family, and a trifling memorial of her affection to our friend Walkinshaw, bequeathed all to her daughter, at which that lady, with the greatest propriety, burst out into the most audible lament for her affectionate mother, and Dirdumwhamle, her husband, became himself so agitated with grief, that he was almost unable to proceed with the reading of the affecting document. Having gradually mastered his feelings, he was soon, however, able to condole with Mrs. Charles Walkinshaw upon the disappointment she had, no doubt, suffered; observing, by way of consolation, that it was, after all, only what was to have been expected; for the Leddy, the most kind of parents, naturally enough considered her own daughter as the nearest and dearest of all her kith and kin.

During this part of the scene we happened inadvertently to look towards Walkinshaw, and were not a little shocked to observe a degree of levity sparkling in his eyes, quite unbecoming such a sorrowful occasion; and still more distressed were we at the irreverence with which, almost in actual and evident laughter, he inquired at Dirdumwhamle the date of the paper.

It was found to have been made several years before, soon after the decease of poor Walter.

‘Indeed!’ said Walkinshaw pawkily; ‘that’s a very important circumstance, for I happen to have another will in my pocket, made at Edinburgh, while the Leddy was there at my marriage, and the contents run somewhat differently.’

The tears of the Lady of Dirdumwhamle were instantaneously dried up, and the most sensitive of Lairds himself appeared very much surprised; while, with some vibrating accent in his voice, he requested that this new last will and testament might be read.

Sorry are we to say it, that, in doing so, Walkinshaw was so little affected, that he even chuckled while he read. This was, no doubt, owing to the little cause he had to grieve, a legacy of five guineas, to buy a ring, being all that the Leddy had bequeathed to him.

This second will, though clearly and distinctly framed, was evidently dictated by the Leddy herself. For it began by declaring, that, having taken it into her most serious consideration, by and with the advice of her private counsel, Mr. Frazer of Glengael, whom she appointed executor, she had resolved to make her last will and testament; and after other formalities, couched somewhat in the same strain, she bequeathed sundry legacies to her different grandchildren,--first, as we have said, five guineas, as a token of her particular love, to Walkinshaw, he standing in no need of any further legacy, and being, over and moreover, indebted to her sagacity for the recovery of his estate. Then followed the enumeration of certain trinkets and Robin Carricks, which were to be delivered over to, and to be held and enjoyed by, Mary, his sister. To this succeeded a declaration, that her daughter Margaret, the wife of Dirdumwhamle, should enjoy the main part of her gathering, in liferent, but not until the Laird, her husband, had paid his debt of nature, and departed out of this world; and if the said legatee did not survive her husband, then the legacy was to go to Mrs. Charles Walkinshaw, the testatrix’s daughter-in-law. ‘As for my two grateful grandchildren, Walkinshaw Milrookit, and Robina his wife,’ continued the spirit of the Leddy to speak in the will, ‘I bequeath to them, and their heirs for ever, all and haill that large sum of money which they still stand indebted to me, for and on account of bed, board, and washing, of which debt only the inconsiderable trifle of one thousand pounds was ever paid.’

The testing clause was all that followed this important provision, but the will was in every respect complete, and so complete also was the effect intended, that young Milrookit and his wife Robina immediately rose and retired, without speaking, and Dirdumwhamle and his lady also prepared to go away, neither of them being seemingly in a condition to make any remark on the subject.

* * * * *

Such is the natural conclusion of our story; but perhaps it is expected that we should say something of the subsequent history of Walkinshaw, especially as his wife has brought him nine sons,--‘all male heirs,’ as Dirdumwhamle often says with a sigh, when he thinks of his son and Robina having only added daughters to the increasing population of the kingdom. But Walkinshaw’s career as a soldier belongs to a more splendid theme, which, as soon as ever we receive a proper hint to do so, with ten thousand pounds to account, we propose to undertake, for he was present at the most splendid achievements of the late universal war. His early campaigns were not, however, brilliant; but, in common with all his companions in arms during the first years of that mighty contest, he still felt, under the repulses of many disasters, that the indisputable heroism of the British spirit was never impaired, and that they were still destined to vindicate their ancient superiority over France.

These heroic breathings do not, however, belong to our domestic story; and, therefore, all we have to add is, that, as often as he revisited his patrimonial home on leave of absence, he found the dinnering of his friends in the royal city almost as hard work as the dragooning of his foes. Since the peace, now that he is finally settled at Kittlestonheugh with all his blushing honours thick upon him, the Lord Provost and Magistrates have never omitted any opportunity in their power of treating him with all that distinction for which, as a corporation, they are so deservedly celebrated. Indeed, there are few communities where there is less of the spirit of ostracism, or where a man of public merit is more honoured by his fellow-citizens, than in Glasgow. Therefore say we in fine,--

LET GLASGOW FLOURISH!

GLOSSARY

_a’_, all.

_aboon_, above.

_ae_, one.

_ahint_, behind.

_aiblins_, perhaps.

_ail_, illness.

_ain_, own.

_airt_, direction.

_ajee_, crooked.

_alloo_, allow.

_almous_, charitable, alms.

_an_, if.

_Andrew Ferrara_, name for a sword.

_anent_, about.

_argol bargol_, bandy words, haggle.

_atweel_, well.

_aught_, possession, property.

_auld_, old, eldest.

_ba’_, ball.

_bachle_, old shoe.

_bailie_, city magistrate.

_bairnswoman_, nurse.

_bakes_, biscuits.

_banes_, bones.

_barming_, interest.

_barrow’t_, borrowed.

_bars_, boars.

_bawbee_, halfpenny.

_bawkie_, birds, bats.

_because_, cause, reason.

_beild_, shelter, refuge.

_bein_, _bien_, comfortable, well-provided.

_beltane_, May-day fair.

_belter_, blows repeated.

_belyve_, by and by.

_ben_, into the inner room of a house.

_benweed_, coarse grass.

_betherel_, _betheril_, beadle.

_big_, _biggit_, build, built.

_bir_, force.

_birling_, spending.

_birr_, sound emitted by anything flying forcibly with noise.

_bit_, small.

_black-aviced_, of a dark complexion.

_blae_, blue.

_blate_, shy, bashful.

_blethers_, foolishness.

_blithes-meat_, homely entertainment, generally of bread and cheese, given after the birth of a child.

_blob_, honey.

_bob_, dance.

_book_, record in the books of the kirk-session, for publication of the banns.

_boynes_, tubs.

_brae_, side of a hill.

_braw_, beautiful, fine.

_breeks_, breeches.

_bress_, chimney-piece.

_broo_, liking.

_brous_, race at a country wedding.

_bubbly-jock_, turkey-cock.

_buckie deevil’s_, wicked imp.

_buff nor stye_, neither one part nor another.

_bumming_, buzzing.

_buss_, kiss.

_but_, into the outer room of the house.

_by common_, _by the common_, out of the common.

_by hand and awa_, out of hand.

_by ordinare_, out of the ordinary.

_bye-word_, proverb.

_callan_, lad.

_canny_, lucky, cautious.

_caption and horning_, legal arrest.

_carritch_, catechism.

_cast_, aid; _cast out_, fall out, quarrel; _cast the glaiks_, deceive.

_cauld_, _cauldrife_, cold, chilling.

_causey_, path, street.

_cess_, tax.

_change-house_, small public-house.

_chapin_, quart.

_chapse_, choose.

_cheatrie_, cheating.

_chucky-stanes_, small pebbles.

_chumley-lug_, chimney-corner.

_claes_, clothes.

_clap_, stroke.

_clash_, tittle-tattle, gossip.

_claught_, clutched.

_claut_, blow.

_clavering_, _clavers_, _clishmaclavers_, wordy nonsense.

_claw_, clause.

_cleckit_, brought forth.

_cleeding_, _cleiding_, clothing.

_clocks_, beetles.

_clunk_, noise of liquor shaken in a barrel.

_cockernony_, gathering of a woman’s hair in a knot.

_cod_, pillow.

_coft_, bought.

_cognos’t_, recognized.

_concos mancos_, _concos montis_, &c., = non compos mentis, not of a right mind.

_condescend upon_, specify particulars of.

_conjunct_, _conjunk_, conjoined.

_cook_, manage dexterously.

_coom_, _coomy_, begrime, dirty.

_coothy_, _couthy_, genial, kindly.

_cottar_, cottager.

_cowp_, overturn.

_cracks_, familiar talks.

_craighling_, coughing.

_creel_, basket.

_crown-o’-the-causey_, middle of a street.

_croynt awa’_, shrivelled up.

_crunkly_, rumpled.

_cry_, be in labour.

_cuff_, back part.

_cuif_, simpleton.

_curdooing_, love-making.

_cut_, a certain quantity of reeled yarn.

_daff_, sport.

_daud_, thrash.

_dawty_, fondling.

_deacon_, head-man.

_deaved_, deafened.

_’deed_, indeed.

_dee’t_, died.

_deil_, devil; _deil-be-licket_, nothing.

_deleerit_, delirious.

_den_, hide.

_devaul_, _divaul_, leave off.

_ding_, drive, push.

_dinna_, do not.

_dirl_, tingle, ring.

_dispone_, allot, dispose.

_dividual_, individual.

_divor_, bankrupt, beggar.

_dochter_, daughter.

_docken_, dock herb.

_doddered_, decaying.

_doddy_, sulky.

_dodrums_, doldrums, melancholy.

_dods_, fit of sulkiness.

_doited_, crazed, in dotage.

_doo_, dove.

_doolie_, sorrowful.

_door-cheek_, door-post.

_dorts_, sulky.

_douce_, sensible.

_dourness_, stubbornness.

_dow_, be able.

_dowf_, melancholy.

_dowie_, languid.

_drammatical_, dramatic.

_drammock_, meat, pulp.

_draughty_, artful.

_dree_, endure.

_dreigh_, wearisome.

_drook_, drench.

_drumly_, thickly.

_Dumbarton youth_, a person beyond thirty-six years of age.

_dure_, hard.

_dwinlet_, dwindled.

_dwin’t_, pined away.

_dyke_, ditch.

_ee_, _een_, eye, eyes.

_eik_, eke, addition.

_eild_, time of life.

_ends and awls_, all one’s effects.

_erles_, earnests.

_ettle_, try; _ettling of pains_, pains of trying.

_even_, compare, equal.

_even down_, right down.

_excambio_, exchange.

_expiscate_, fish out by inquiry.

_expone_, explain.

_eydent_, busy.

_faik_, abate.

_fand_, found.

_farl_, cake.

_far’t_, _well_, _ill_, good, bad-looking.

_fash_, _fasherie_, trouble, vex, vexation.

_fash your thumb_, trouble.

_fasson_, fashion.

_feart_, afraid.

_feckless_, frail.

_fey_, mad, as if with the doom of death on him.

_fin’_, find.

_firlot_, a measure.

_flannen_, flannel.

_fleech_, coaxing, wheedling.

_flichtering_, flying.

_flit_, remove from one house to another.

_Florentine pie_, large pie.

_flyte and flights_, scolding and fine ways.

_foistring_, shilly-shallying.

_forbears_, ancestors.

_forbye_, besides.

_forenent_, opposite, in front of.

_forton_, fortune.

_fou’_, foolish, drunk.

_freats_, omens, superstitious observances.

_frush_, brittle.

_frush green kail-custock-like_, as brittle as the pith of colewort.

_fyke_, _fykerie_, whim, trouble.

_gaberlunzie_, beggar.

_gae_, _gaun_, go, going.

_gairest_, greediest.

_gait_, _gate_, way, method.

_galravitch_, romping, rioting.

_gane by himsel_, gone beside himself.

_gar_, _gart_, make, made.

_garsing_, wandering.

_gauger_, agent.

_gausey_, jolly-looking.

_gausie_, bowl.

_gavaulings_, revellings.

_gear_, stuff, possession.

_geck_, toss the head.

_geni_, genius, special vein.

_genty_, neat, genteel.

_get_, _gett_, child.

_gethering_, gathering; income.

_gie_, _gied_, give, gave.

_gin_, if.

_girns_, snarls.

_glaikit jocklandys_, inconsiderate persons.

_glaiks_, rays.

_gleds_, kites.

_gloaming_, twilight.

_glooms_, frowns.

_gore_, strip of cloth.

_gouden_, golden.

_gouk_, fool.

_goun_, gown.

_gowan_, daisy.

_gowls_, noise of the wind.

_gratus_, gratis.

_green_, long.

_greet_, cry.

_groat_, coin worth an English fourpence.

_grumphie_, pig.

_gruntel_, snout.

_gudedochter_, daughter-in-law.

_gudefather_, father-in-law.

_gudesister_, sister-in-law.

_gumpshion_, sense.

_gushet_, piece let into garment.

_hag_, hew.

_haggis_, pudding made of the pluck, &c., of a sheep, with oatmeal, suet, onions, &c., boiled inside the animal’s maw.

_hain_, be penurious.

_hainings_, earnings.

_hairst_, harvest.

_halver_, halves.

_hansel_, present.

_hap_, warm garment.

_happing_, covering.

_harigals_, the pluck.

_harl_, trail.

_harns_, brains.

_hateral_, heap.

_haudthecat_, advocate.

_haverel_, foolish, nonsensical person; _havering_, _havers_, nonsensical talk.

_heck_, hay-rack in a stable.

_heckle_, flax-dressing comb.

_heere_, a certain quantity of reeled yarn.

_hempy_, rogue worthy of hanging.

_heritable_, heritable bond.

_herry_, _herri’t_, harry, harried.

_hesp_, hank.

_het_, face, heart.

_hirpling_, limping.

_hobbleshaw_, uproar, hubbub.

_hoggar_, stocking-foot.

_hogget_, hogshead.

_horse-couper_, horse-dealer.

_host_, cough.

_howkit_, dug.

_humlet_, humbled.

_ilk_, _ilka_, each, every.

_illess_, harmless.

_implement_, full performance.

_income_, used in reference to illness.

_indoss_, endorse.

_infare_, feast at the reception of bride into her new home.

_infeftment_, investment with property.

_ingons_, onions.

_intil_, to.

_intromit_, interfere.

_jams_, projections.

_jawp_, splash of mud.

_jealouse_, guess, suspect.

_jimp_, leap.

_jink_, turn suddenly.

_jo_, _joe_, sweetheart.

_jook_, bow, dodge.

_kail_, cabbages; soup made from them.

_kail-yard_, kitchen-garden.

_ken_, know.

_kern_, peasant, boor.

_kintra_, country.

_kirk_, church.

_kirk and a mill, mak a_, do what one likes.

_kist_, box, chest.

_kithing_, appearance.

_kittle_, generate; ticklish.

_knowe_, hillock.

_kyteful_, belly-full.

_lade_, mill-race.

_laft_, loft.

_lair_, stick or sink in mire.

_lameter_, cripple.

_lang-kail_, coleworts not shorn.

_lang look_, long way off.

_lang-nebbit_, long-nosed.

_lave_, rest.

_leafu’ lane, by one’s_, quite solitary and alone.

_leddy_, lady.

_leet_, list.

_leil_, loyal.

_lilt_, sing cheerfully.

_linty_, linnet.

_lippen_, look confidently.

_lippy_, bumper.

_little-gude_, the devil.

_loan_, open place near a farm.

_loup_, leap.

_loupen-steek_, dropped stitch.

_low_, blaze, flame.

_lown_, calm, still.

_lucky_, an elderly woman.

_lug_, ear.

_mailing_, farm.

_mair_, more.

_marrow_, equal.

_marrowed_, partnered.

_maun_, must.

_mawkins_, hares.

_meal-pock_, meal-bag.

_mean_, be condoled with.

_meikle_, much.

_mento mori_, i. e. memento mori, remember thy death.

_mess or mell_, mix or meddle.

_midden_, dunghill.

_mim_, demure.

_minny_, mother.

_mint_, give a hint or sign.

_misleart_, unmannerly.

_moiling_, drudging.

_morn, the_, to-morrow.

_moully_, for want of using.

_muckle_, much, large.

_mudge_, stir.

_mutchkin_, pint.

_na_, no, not.

_nabal_, nabob.

_nane_, not.

_near-be-gawn_, narrow, stingy.

_neest_, next.

_neives_, _nieves_, fists.

_neuk_, corner.

_new-kythed_, newly shown.

_no_, not.

_non compos mentis_, not of a right mind.

_novelle_, novel.

_oe_, grandchild.

_o’ercome of the spring_, burden of the song.

_ony_, any.

_or_, ere.

_ouer_, _oure_, over.

_ourie_, shivering.

_outstrapolous_, obstreperous.

_overly_, too much.

_paction_, agreement.

_panel_, prisoner at the bar of a criminal court.

_partan_, crab.

_past-ordinar_, extraordinary.

_pat_, pot.

_pawkie_, _pawky_, sly, artful.

_pendicle_, pendant.

_penure_, stingy.

_percep_, perceived.

_pile_, grain.

_plack_, copper coin worth one-third of a penny.

_plane-stanes_, pavement.

_playock_, child’s toy.

_plenishing_, furniture for a house.

_ploy_, sport.

_polonies_, polonaise, woman’s dress.

_pook_, pull.

_poortith_, poverty.

_pourie_, cream-pot.

_preces_, chairman.

_precognition_, preliminary examination.

_pree_, taste.

_prigging_, beating down.

_prin_, pin.

_provice_, provost.

_puddock_, frog.

_pursuer_, prosecutor.

_quean_, hussy.

_quirk_, quibble, trick.

_rabiator_, bully, robber.

_ram-race_, running headlong with bent head.

_ramstam_, forward, incautious.

_randy_, disorderly.

_rant_, noise, make a noise.

_ream_, cream.

_redde_, advise, warn, beg.

_reelie_, reel, Highland dance.

_remede_, _remeid_, remedy.

_respondent_, _respondenting_, defendant, defending.

_reverence_, power.

_riant_, smiling.

_rig-and-fur gamashins_, ribbed leg-protectors.

_rippet_, small uproar.

_riving_, tearing.

_rookit and herrit_, rooked and harried.

_roos_, roast.

_roupit_, exposed for auction.

_routing_, bellowing.

_roynes_, rinds.

_rug_, tear.

_rung_, heavy stick.

_sae_, so.

_sauly_, sally.

_saut_, salt.

_sauvendie_, knowledge, understanding.

_scaith_, harm.

_scantling_, draft.

_scart_, scratch.

_scog_, shelter.

_scoot_, term of utter contempt.

_scried_, drinking-bouts.

_scrimpit_, penurious.

_scud_, beating.

_sederunt and session_, sitting of a court.

_seek, no to_, not far to find.

_session, on the_, on the parish.

_shank_, handle.

_shawps_, shells.

_sho’elt_, shovelled.

_shoo_, push away.

_shoogle_, shake.

_sib_, related.

_sic_, such.

_sicker_, sure.

_sin’_, since.

_skailing_, dismissing.

_skeigh_, proud.

_skelp_, beat.

_skews_, oblique parts of the gable.

_sklater_, slater.

_slaik_, slabber.

_smeddum_, powder.

_smiddy_, smithy.

_smoor’t_, smothered.

_smytcher_, impudence, term for a child.

_snaws_, snows.

_sneck-drawer_, artful fellow.

_snod_, trim.

_snood_, ribbon for binding the hair.

_snooled_, broken in spirit.

_sonsy_, jolly.

_sooking_, sucking.

_soopit_, swept.

_soople_, souple.

_sosherie_, enjoyment.

_sough_, sigh.

_sourrocks_, leaves of the sorrel.

_speat_, full flood.

_speer_, ask.

_spree_, frolic.

_sprose_, boast.

_spyniel_, a quantity of spun yarn.

_steek_, close.

_stirk_, young bullock.

_stoor_, dust.

_stot_, a young bull.

_stoup_, measure.

_straemash_, kick-up.

_stricts_, exact letter.

_stroop_, spout.

_sumph_, softy.

_suspection_, suspicion.

_swap_, exchange.

_swattle_, swallow.

_sweert_, averse.

_syde_, long.

_syne_, ago; _sin’ syne_, since then.

_tae_, toe.

_ta’enawa_, changeling.

_taigling_, delaying.

_tak tent_, take care.

_tansie_, yellow-flowered herb.

_tap o’ tow_, head of flax, easily kindled; so, of a choleric person.

_tavert_, senseless.

_tawpie_, _tawpy_, ill-conditioned, awkward, _esp._ of a girl.

_taws_, whip.

_tead_, toad.

_teetles_, titles.

_telt_, told.

_terrogation_, inquiry.

_thir_, these.

_thole_, endure.

_thrangerie butt and ben_, constant work all through the house.

_thraw_, turn.

_thrawn_, obstinate.

_threep_, maintain stoutly, threaten.

_throughgality_, frugality.

_tilt_, _till’t_, to it.

_tirl at the pin_, work at the latch.

_tocher_, dowry.

_tod_, fox.

_toom_, empty.

_tot_, total.

_touzle_, rough caressing.

_tow_, flax.

_towt_, passing fit.

_traike_, last.

_trance-door_, door from the passage to the kitchen.

_trig_, neat.

_trotcosey_, garment to cover the neck and shoulders.

_trow_, know.

_trump_, Jew’s harp.

_tuggit_, pulled.

_tumphy_, dumpish person, dullard.

_twa_, two.

_twa-three_, two or three.

_tweesh_, betwixt.

_tynes_, loses.

_unco_, something out of the common.

_unco-like_, strange.

_uncos_, news.

_virl_, ring round the end of a cane.

_wabster_, weaver.

_wadset_, reversion.

_waff_, passing wave.

_waling_, choosing.

_wally-wae_, lament.

_wamling_, rolling.

_ware_, expend.

_warrandice_, warrant.

_warsle_, _warslet_, wrestle, wrestled.

_wastrie_, wastefulness.

_wat_, wot, know.

_waur_, worse.

_wean_, child.

_wee_, small.

_whang_, large slices.

_whaup_, curlew.

_wheen_, few.

_wheest_, be silent.

_whilk_, which.

_whin-bush_, ragstone.

_whir_, whiz.

_windlestrae_, grass.

_wise_, will, advise.

_wissing_, wishing.

_wizent_, wizened.

_wrang_, wrong.

_wrangeously_, wrongly.

_writer to the Signet_, solicitor.

_wud_, mad.

_wuddy_, halter.

_wull_, will.

_wyte_, blame.

_wytid wi’_, accused of.

_yett_, gate.

_yill_, ale.

_yird_, _yirden_, earthy.

_yocket_, yoked, married.

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~Arnold (Matthew).~ Poems. Introduction by Sir A. T. QUILLER-COUCH. (85)

~Aurelius (Marcus).~ The Thoughts. A new translation by JOHN JACKSON. (60)

~Austen (Jane).~ Emma. Introduction by E. V. LUCAS. (129)

~Bacon.~ The Advancement of Learning, and the New Atlantis. Introduction by Professor CASE. (93)

Essays. (24)

~Barham.~ The Ingoldsby Legends. (9)

~Blackmore (R. D.).~ Lorna Doone.

~Borrow.~ The Bible in Spain. (75)

Lavengro. (66)

The Romany Rye. (73)

~Brontë Sisters.~

~Charlotte Brontë.~ Jane Eyre. (1)

Shirley. (14)

Villette. (47)

The Professor, and the Poems of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Introduction by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON. (78)

~Emily Brontë.~ Wuthering Heights. (10)

~Anne Brontë.~ Agnes Grey. (141)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (67) #/

~Brown (Dr. John).~ Horae Subsecivae. Introduction by AUSTIN DOBSON. (118)

~Browning (Elizabeth Barrett).~ Poems: A Selection. (176)

~Browning (Robert).~ Poems and Plays, 1833-1842. (58)

Poems, 1842-1864. (137)

~Buckle.~ The History of Civilization in England. 3 vols. (41, 48, 53)

~Bunyan.~ The Pilgrim’s Progress. (12)

~Burke.~ Works. 6 vols.

Vol. I. General Introduction by Judge WILLIS and Preface by F. W. RAFFETY. (71)

Vols. II, IV, V, VI. Prefaces by F. W. RAFFETY. (81, 112-114)

Vol. III. Preface by F. H. WILLIS, (111)

~Burns.~ Poems. (34)

~Butler.~ The Analogy of Religion. Edited, with Notes, by W. E. GLADSTONE. (136)

~Byron.~ Poems: A Selection. (180)

[_In preparation_

~Carlyle.~ On Heroes and Hero-Worship. (62)

Past and Present. Introduction by G. K. CHESTERTON. (153)

Sartor Resartus. (19)

The French Revolution. Introduction by C. R. L. FLETCHER. 2 vols. (125, 126)

The Life of John Sterling. Introduction by W. HALE WHITE. (144)

~Cervantes.~ Don Quixote. Translated by C. JERVAS. Introduction and Notes by J. FITZMAURICE-KELLY. 2 vols. With a frontispiece. (130, 131)

~Chaucer.~ The Canterbury Tales. (76)

~Chaucer.~ The Works of. From the text of Professor SKEAT. 3 vols. Vol. I (42); Vol. II (56); Vol. III, containing the whole of the Canterbury Tales (76)

~Cobbold.~ Margaret Catchpole. Introduction by CLEMENT SHORTER. (119)

~Coleridge.~ Poems. Introduction by Sir A. T. QUILLER-COUCH. (99)

~Cooper (T. Fenimore).~ The Last of the Mohicans. (163)

~Cowper.~ Letters. Selected, with Introduction, by E. V. LUCAS. (138)

~Darwin.~ The Origin of Species. With a Note by GRANT ALLEN. (11)

~Defoe.~ Captain Singleton. Introduction by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON. (82)

Robinson Crusoe. (17)

~De Quincey.~ Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. (23)

~Dickens.~ Great Expectations. With 6 Illustrations by WARWICK GOBLE. (128)

Oliver Twist. (8)

Pickwick Papers. With 43 Illustrations by SEYMOUR and ‘PHIZ.’ 2 vols. (120, 121)

Tale of Two Cities. (38)

~Dufferin (Lord).~ Letters from High Latitudes. Illustrated. With Introduction by R. W. MACAN. (158)

~Eliot (George).~ Adam Bede. (63)

Felix Holt. Introduction by VIOLA MEYNELL. (179)

Romola. Introduction by VIOLA MEYNELL. (178)

Scenes of Clerical Life. Introduction by ANNIE MATHESON. (155)

Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob. Introduction by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON. (80)

The Mill on the Floss. (31)

~Emerson.~ English Traits, and Representative Men. (30)

Essays. First and Second Series. (6)

~English Essays.~ Chosen and arranged by W. PEACOCK. (32)

~English Essays, 1600-1900 (Book of).~ Chosen by S. V. MAKOWER and B. H. BLACKWELL. (172)

~English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin.~ Chosen and arranged by W. PEACOCK. (45)

~English Songs and Ballads.~ Compiled by T. W. H. CROSLAND. (13)

~Fielding.~ Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. Introduction and Notes by AUSTIN DOBSON. 2 Illustrations. (142)

~Galt (John).~ The Entail. Introduction by JOHN AYSCOUGH. (177)

~Gaskell (Mrs.).~ Introductions by CLEMENT SHORTER.

Cousin Phillis, and other Tales, etc. (168)

Cranford, The Cage at Cranford, and The Moorland Cottage. (110) The ‘Cage’ has not hitherto been reprinted.

Lizzie Leigh, The Grey Woman, and other Tales, etc. (175)

Mary Barton. (86)

North and South. (154)

Ruth. (88)

Sylvia’s Lovers. (156)

Wives and Daughters. (157)

~Gibbon.~ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. With Maps. 7 vols. (35, 44, 51, 55, 64, 69, 74)

Autobiography. Introduction by J. B. BURY. (139)

~Goethe.~ Faust, Part I (with Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus). Translated by JOHN ANSTER. Introduction by A. W. WARD. (135)

~Goldsmith.~ Poems. Introduction and Notes by AUSTIN DOBSON. (123)

The Vicar of Wakefield. (4)

~Grant (James).~ The Captain of the Guard. (159)

~Hawthorne.~ The Scarlet Letter. (26)

~Hazlitt.~ Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Introduction by R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON. (124)

Sketches and Essays. (15)

Spirit of the Age. (57)

Table-Talk. (5)

Winterslow. (25)

~Herbert (George).~ Poems. Introduction by ARTHUR WAUGH. (109)

~Herrick.~ Poems. (16)

~Holmes (Oliver Wendell).~ The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. (61)

The Poet at the Breakfast-Table. Introduction by Sir W. ROBERTSON NICOLL. (95)

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. Introduction by Sir W. ROBERTSON NICOLL. (89)

~Homer.~ Iliad. Translated by Pope. (18)

Odyssey. Translated by Pope. (36)

~Hood.~ Poems. Introduction by WALTER JERROLD. (87)

~Horne (R. Hengist).~ A New Spirit of the Age. Introduction by WALTER JERROLD. (127)

~Hume.~ Essays. (33)

~Hunt (Leigh).~ Essays and Sketches. Introduction by R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON. (115)

The Town. Introduction and Notes by AUSTIN DOBSON and a Frontispiece. (132)

~Irving (Washington).~ The Conquest of Granada. (150)

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Introduction by T. BALSTON. (173)

~Jerrold (Douglas).~ Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures, Mr. Caudle’s Breakfast Talk, and other Stories and Essays. Introduction by WALTER JERROLD, and 90 Illustrations by KEENE, LEECH, and DOYLE. (122)

~Johnson.~ Lives of the English Poets. Introduction by ARTHUR WAUGH. 2 vols. (83, 84)

~Keats.~ Poems. (7)

~Keble.~ The Christian Year. (181)

[_In preparation_

~Lamb.~ Essays of Elia, and The Last Essays of Elia. (2)

~Lesage.~ Gil Blas. Translated by T. SMOLLETT, with Introduction and Notes by J. FITZMAURICE-KELLY. 2 vols. (151, 152)

~Longfellow.~ Evangeline, The Golden Legend, &c. (39)

Hiawatha, Miles Standish, Tales of a Wayside Inn, &c. (174)

~Lytton.~ Harold. With 6 Illustrations by Charles Burton. (165)

~Macaulay.~ Lays of Ancient Rome; Ivry; The Armada. (27)

~Machiavelli.~ The Prince. Translated by LUIGI RICCI. (43)

~Marcus Aurelius.~ See Aurelius.

~Marlowe.~ Dr. Faustus (with Goethe’s Faust, Part I). Introduction by A. W. WARD. See Goethe.

~Marryat.~ Mr. Midshipman Easy. (160)

The King’s Own. With 6 Illustrations by WARWICK GOBLE. (164)

~Mill (John Stuart).~ On Liberty, Representative Government, and the Subjection of Women. With an Introduction by MRS. FAWCETT. (170)

~Milton.~ The English Poems. (182)

[_In preparation_

~Montaigne.~ Essays. Translated by J. FLORIO. 3 vols. (65, 70, 77)

~Morris (W.).~ The Defence of Guinevere, The Life and Death of Jason, and other Poems. (183)

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~Motley.~ Rise of the Dutch Republic. Introduction by CLEMENT SHORTER. 3 vols. (96, 97, 98)

~Palgrave.~ The Golden Treasury. With additional Poems, including FITZGERALD’S translation of Omar Khayyám. (133)

~Peacock (W.).~ English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin. (45) Selected English Essays. (32)

~Poe (Edgar Allan).~ Tales of Mystery and Imagination. (21)

~Porter (Jane).~ The Scottish Chiefs. (161)

~Reid (Mayne).~ The Rifle Rangers. With 6 Illustrations by J. E. SUTCLIFFE. (166)

The Scalp Hunters. With 6 Illustrations by A. H. COLLINS. (167)

~Reynolds (Sir Joshua).~ The Discourses, and the Letters to ‘The Idler.’ Introduction by AUSTIN DOBSON. (149)

~Rossetti (Christina).~ Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and other Poems. (184)

[_In preparation_

~Rossetti (D. G.).~ Poems and Translations, 1850-1870. (185)

[_In preparation_

~Ruskin.~ (_Ruskin House Editions, by arrangement with George Allen and Sons._)

‘A Joy for Ever,’ and The Two Paths. Illustrated. (147)

Sesame and Lilies, and The Ethics of the Dust. (145)

Time and Tide, and The Crown of Wild Olive. (146)

Unto this Last, and Munera Pulveris. (148)

~Scott.~ Ivanhoe. (29)

Lives of the Novelists. Introduction by AUSTIN DOBSON. (94)

Poems. A Selection. (186)

[_In preparation_

~Shakespeare.~ Plays and Poems. With a Preface by A. C. SWINBURNE and general Introductions to the several plays and poems by EDWARD DOWDEN, and a Note by _T. Watts-Dunton_ on the special typographical features of this Edition. 9 vols.

Comedies. 3 vols. (100, 101, 102)

Histories and Poems. 3 vols. (103, 104, 105)

Tragedies. 3 vols. (106, 107, 108)

~Shelley.~ Poems. A Selection. (187)

[_In preparation_

~Sheridan.~ Plays. Introduction by JOSEPH KNIGHT. (79)

~Smith (Adam).~ The Wealth of Nations. 2 vols. (54, 59)

~Smollett.~ Travels through France and Italy. Introduction by THOMAS SECCOMBE. (90)

~Sophocles.~ The Seven Plays. Translated by the late LEWIS CAMPBELL. (116)

~Southey (Robert).~ Letters. Selected, with an Introduction and Notes, by MAURICE H. FITZGERALD. (169)

~Sterne.~ Tristram Shandy. (40)

~Swift.~ Gulliver’s Travels. (20)

~Tennyson (Lord).~ Poems. (3)

~Thackeray.~ Book of Snobs, Sketches and Travels in London, &c. (50)

Henry Esmond. (28)

Pendennis. Introduction by EDMUND GOSSE. 2 vols. (91, 92)

~Thoreau.~ Walden. Introduction by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON. (68)

~Tolstoy.~ Essays and Letters. Translated by AYLMER MAUDE. (46)

Twenty-three Tales. Translated by L. and A. MAUDE. (72)

~Trollope.~ The Three Clerks. Introduction by W. TEIGNMOUTH SHORE. (143)

~Virgil.~ Translated by DRYDEN. (37)

~Watts-Dunton (Theodore).~ Aylwin. (52)

~Wells (Charles).~ Joseph and his Brethren. With an Introduction by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, and a Note on Rossetti and Charles Wells by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON. (143)

~White (Gilbert).~ History of Selborne. (22)

~Whittier.~ Poems. A Selection. (188)

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~Wordsworth.~ Poems: A Selection. (189)

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Transcriber's note:

There are many inconsistently-hyphenated words in the text, as well as inconsistent use of apostrophes to indicate ellipsis, and of punctuation in dialogue.

The following apparent mistakes have been corrected:

p. 78 "Hae," changed to "‘Hae,"

p. 105 "its rocking" changed to "it’s rocking"

p. 111 "mysteries" changed to "mysteries."

p. 115 "frae him." changed to "frae him.’"

p. 147 "Mr Keelevin" changed to "Mr. Keelevin"

p. 163 "waitscoat" changed to "waistcoat"

p. 231 "has feathers." changed to "has feathers.’"

p. 281 "accede," changed to "accede,’"

p. 433 "meddle" changed to "meddle."

The following possible mistakes have not been changed:

p. 61 for her--It’s

p. 68 left--But

p. 193 culated

p. 242 expatrioted

p. 358 Aberdeenawa